Information technology involves an extremely broad area of knowledge, probably as broad as all the experimental sciences, and the tools used in each of its component domains (compilation, cryptology, computer graphics, etc.) are as different as those used in condensed matter physics and cell biology. However, all the branches of I.T. share a certain number of concepts: algorithms, programs and machines.
The Department aims to give all students at the École the basic knowledge that all engineers, civil servants and researchers need, and to provide students who decide to specialise in I.T. with both an overall view of the discipline and an in-depth knowledge of recent developments in their chosen domain.
