Wed 1 Feb 2006
The mouthful that was the School of Information Managment and Systems (SIMS) at UC Berkeley has given way to the more vague but shorter:
Or, if you're truly hip, the Berkeley iSchool. Either way I consider it an improvement. We could argue about whether School of Information actually denotes anything useful about what we study (only in the most meta-sense, I'd say), but it's more encompassing than SIMS was, and allies us with the dozen or so other iSchools all over the country. At least we're in it together.
Along with the offiicial name change is a new website, which I happen to think is quite sexy.
The really tricky thing is going to be changing our domain. Some suggestions (with varying degrees of seriousness):
- info.berkeley.edu
- ischool.berkeley.edu
- i.berkeley.edu
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SIMS is dead! Long live the … iSchool? As we've discussed, I strongly dislike the iSchool, but I like the School of Information, and bottom line is the old name was worse.
Guess which two already map to SIMS?
I guess switching domains is just going to be a giant exercise in traffic forwarding. That's probably true of most domain switches… (what do I know??)
Actually, it's probably, at least as far as SoI is concerned, a really minor exercise in traffic forwarding.