Information Science and Technology skip to main content Information Science and Technology About News CS+X AI4science Carver Mead NAF Open Carver Mead NAF submenu About Carver Mead NAF Carver Mead NAF Recipients Applying for a Grant About Carver Mead 2021 Symposium 2019 Symposium CDSP Fellows Programs People Contact Us SearchSearch Menu Close About News CS+X AI4science Carver Mead NAF Open Carver Mead NAF submenu CDSP Fellows Programs People Contact Us Carver Mead NAF Back About Carver Mead NAF Carver Mead NAF Recipients Applying for a Grant About Carver Mead 2021 Symposium 2019 Symposium SearchSearch Information Science and Technology Slide 1 Slide 2 Slide 3 Slide 4 Slide 5 Autoplay Carousel Previous Next In the same way that the printing press heralded the start of the Renaissance and the study of physics helped to foster the Industrial Revolution, technological advances in computation and communication in the 20th century have set the stage for the "Age of Information." Yet, scientific and technological changes are accelerating so fast they are outpacing existing institutions such as schools, media, industry, and government—structures originally designed for the needs of the Industrial Age. The Information Science and Technology (IST) initiative at Caltech is an institute-wide effort that seeks to provide a new intellectual framework enabling ideas from computation and the information sciences to integrate into and transform disciplines across Caltech and beyond, from physics and biology to economics and the social sciences. Caltech has a unique and remarkable history of creating new "CS+X" fields at the interface of the information sciences and diverse areas in science and engineering—it is the place that gave birth to VLSI, quantum computing, DNA computing, synthetic biology, neural networks, algorithmic game theory, computer music, and many more. The goal of the IST initiative is to support and magnify these efforts by bringing together faculty and students from diverse areas on campus for seminars and workshops, creating of unique courses and educational programs in "CS+X", and seeding research and centers in emerging CS+X areas too new to receive support from external grants. [Read more] AI4SCIENCE Initiative at Caltech Center for Autonomous Systems and Technologies Center for Data-Driven Discovery Center for the Mathematics of Information Computational Mathematics + X Community Seismic Network Decision, Optimization, and Learning at California Institute of Technology Institute for Quantum Information and Matter Molecular Programming Project Resnick Sustainability Institute Rigorous Systems Research Group Social and Information Sciences Laboratory California Institute of Technology 1200 East California Boulevard Pasadena, California 91125 Digital Accessibility | Privacy Notice | Site Content Copyright © 2026 | Log In