Essay para o Ciência sem Fronteiras - Study Objectives

Study Objectives: In an essay of no less than 250 words and no more than 500 words, write a clear and detailed description of your study objectives. Be specific about your field of study and your specialized interests within this field.

I have been studying Information Systems at the Federal Fluminense Institute of Education, Science and Technology (IF Fluminense), one of the best Brazilian institutions, since 2012. This Institute offers great Research opportunities and focuses in technology. Therefore, the course and research projects have provided me some important concepts and a solid base that I need in my career. However, I know that this Institute has its limits and that studying in other university can give me great opportunities. I firmly believe that studying in an American university will provide me more knowledge, more specific interdisciplinary courses and opportunities that are not found in Brazil.
Since High School, I have always been working in research projects. First, I attended a project of the Brazilian Government and the Petrobras Company called Petrobras University, form 2010 to 2012. In this project I studied the renewable energy. At that time I was already studying at IF Fluminense. Now, in the college, I am engaged in a research project called "Integration of a Text-Mining Software to the Moodle Platform", since 2012. In this project I use text-mining to identify the level of Social Presence of the students in educational forums and chats on the Moodle Platform (platform used by IF Fluminense). In this research project I developed the GeraFiles, a software whose main function is help the analyzer software in the process of text-mining, generating the necessary files for it. In this research project I have been studying programming languages and I am fascinated for them. First I worked with the Java language. Now, I am using Javascript associated with others languages like Ajax, PHP, HTML, CSS, XML and MYSQL. In other words, in this research project I have been working with web development and this is the field that interests me the most.
Besides I use web development in my research project, I will also work with this field in my final paper where I will develop a software that analyzes the social presence of the students in a different manner from the manner the software I am currently using in my researches does . This future software will have a web architecture and will be integrated to the Moodle, facilitating the analyses. In this way, it will improve the analyses and will be available for the professors online on the Moodle Platform.
For these reasons, I would like to study subjects that involve web development, Database Management Systems and text mining. But there are others subjects that interests me too much like Artificial Intelligence Techniques and Mobile.
In conclusion, I would like to apply Computer Science to study Text Mining, web development and its uses in educational approaches like social presence. I am really motivated to engage in this program because I strongly believe that it can improve my research and academic skills. Furthermore, it will give me the opportunity of bring new knowledge to Brazil and be better prepared for the labor market and, consequently, help in the development of my country.