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February 2010: Shaping the Future of IT Welcome to the MIS Bulletin, sharing highlights of news, events, people, and partners of the Department of Management Information Systems at The University of Arizona. Enterprise Security Certificate Online Course Starts February 15th.
You know that hackers and cyber-terrorists have pushed corporations to new levels of alert, creating the need for heightened security measures to protect both infrastructure and data. Now you can learn the principles of information assurance and security management while gaining an understanding of how to combat threats, prevent attacks and remedy unanticipated causalities by earning a graduate level Enterprise Security Certificate - 100% online! You'll learn about techniques for assessing risks, safeguarding corporate data and risk assessment principles plus you'll earn a prestigious credential from one of the nation's top universities! The University of Arizona MIS Department’s Enterprise Security Certificate is targeted at business managers and IT professionals interested in security and information assurance. It is ideal for business professionals who must combat potential cyber-threats and attacks that endanger their organizations' data. The certificate covers a broad spectrum of current and emerging IS security, information assurance, enterprise systems, and enterprise system security issues while providing a broad, up-to-date perspective on practices and challenges. [more] MIS Department Scored Two Smash Hits in December
The MIS Department planned, organized and hosted two events in December 2009 - each of which was a HIT! The first event was the department's 35th Anniversary Reception held on December 15, 2009. Over 300 people attended this event and alums paid tribute to Jay F. Nunamaker who established the department in 1974. Alums who spoke during the event were Benn Konsynski, Nicholas Romana, Annette and George Easton, and Jinwei Cao. Click here to read comments from alum who were not able to attend the event but who sent their comments which were read by Paulo Goes (MIS department head) on their behalf.
The second (and much larger) event was the annual International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS 2009). ICIS is the most prestigious gathering of IS academics and research-oriented practitioners in the world. The conference celebrated its 30th anniversary this year. The theme was “Doing IT Research That Matters". The theme addressed the need for information systems research to be timely, relevant, and far-reaching in its impacts on individuals, groups, organizations and society. This was a record year for total paper submissions (703 in 23 tracks) and registered attendees (1,268). We would like to thank our corporate sponsors Raytheon, DAZI, sanofi-aventis, Symantec, and Shamrock Foods for their generous contributions to this event. In addition, we would like to thank the MIS Departmental planning committee members who include Dr.'s Jay F. Nunamaker, Conference Co-Chair; Hsinchun Chen, Program Co-Chair; Paulo Goes, Sponsor Co-Chair; Sudha Ram, Doctoral Consortium Co-Chair; and Alexandra Durcikova, Doctoral Consortium, Local Arrangements Co-Chair. [more] 15 Industry Projects Slated to Begin This Semester
What does Wal-Mart, Sanofi-Aventis, Raytheon, SoleStream, University of Arizona Financial Services, Tucson United School District, Shamrock Foods, FLSmidth Krebs Engineering, and Greater Arizona eLearning Association (GAZeL) have in common? These are client organizations actively participating in this semester's Master's projects. Students gain in-depth project experience as they solve real world problems by relating theory learned in the classroom to field experience. Client organizations gain innovative solutions to their business problem. Find out more about this course and its benefit to firms and non-profits here. Welcome New MIS Board of Advisor, Kerry Pauling, Wal-Mart
We are proud to announce our newest member of our MIS Board of Advisors Mr. Kerry Pauling. Kerry began his career with Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. in October, 1991 as an Industrial Engineer for the Logistics Division. In 1994, Kerry became the Manager of Industrial Engineering for the Logistics Division. Kerry joined the Information Systems Division (ISD) in 1996 as director for logistic applications. Kerry assumed responsibility for the back office store application systems in 2002 where his involvement with RFID began. In 2003, Kerry assumed responsibility for corporate financial systems and was promoted to Vice President. In 2005, Kerry assumed responsibility of ISD Global Sourcing and Procurement for Domestic and International locations along with having responsibility for SAM’s information systems. Kerry is currently the Vice President of ISD Customer Enablement in Wal-Mart’s Infrastructure area located in Bentonville, AR. We look forward to a long and productive relationship with Kerry and his team. COMPUTERWORLD Selects MIS BOA Member Styne Hill as a 2010 Top 100 IT Leader
Wyllstyne “Styne” Hill, Chief Information Officer (CIO) of Raytheon Missile Systems (RMS) and MIS Board of Advisor member, has been named one of the top 100 information technology leaders by COMPUTERWORLD magazine, a trusted source of IT management news for 40 years. She will be honored at the COMPUTERWORLD IT Leaders Conference in Phoenix, March 7–9, 2010. COMPUTERWORLD’s 2010 Premier 100 IT Leaders list honors individuals who have had a positive impact on their organizations through technology. Each year, COMPUTERWORD accepts nominations from across the industry. Eligible nominees include CIOs, chief technology officers, vice presidents, IT directors and managers. CONGRATULATIONS Styne - we are proud of your accomplishments! [more]
MISGA (Management Information Systems Graduate Association) is proud to announce its new officers for the coming year.
About the Management Information Systems Graduate Association (MISGA):
Congratulation to Partha Pratim Sanyal (MIS Master’s student) who presented his efforts in the research project "Fine-Grained Semantic Markup of Descriptive Data for Knowledge Applications in Biodiversity Domains” at the TDWG 2009 Annual Conference held in Montpellier, France in November 2009. The project develops a set of unsupervised machine learning algorithms & creates a suite of domain-independent, high-throughput software that marks textual descriptive data of taxonomic treatments to support various knowledge applications, including producing character matrices & identification keys for different taxon groups. [more] Spring 2010 Wal-Mart Scholarship Recipients Announced
It is with pleasure that we introduce our Wal-Mart Leadership in Technology and Innovation Awardees for Spring 2010. Each of these undergraduates will receive $1,000. These students have shown exemplary dedication to their education and the community and we are proud of their accomplishments. CONGRATULTIONS to all!
[more] New Zipperman Scholars Announced
The Zipperman Scholars Program is designed to give freshman and sophomore pre-business majors additional exposure to MIS and job opportunities in the field. Each semester selected pre-business students are invited to apply to the program. Selection is made based on students GPA's, extra curricular activities, interest in the MIS field, and answers to questions asked on the application form. The Zipperman Program is generously supported by Mr. Walt Zipperman, president of DAZ Systems, Inc. DAZ Systems specializes in Oracle E-Business Suite and leveraged industry experience to provide mission-critical business solutions to small and medium sized enterprises. 43 new Zipperman Scholars were selected this semester which brings the total of Zipperman Scholars to 80 students. [more]
Sudha Ram (McClelland Professor of MIS and In addition, Sudha received the "Best Paper Award" titled "Who Does What: Collaboration Patterns in the Wikipedia and Their Impact on Data Quality" from the WITS (Workshop on Information Technology and Systems) conference held in conjunction with ICIS 2009. This paper is co-authored with Jun Liu. [more] Private Equity Firm Buys MIS Spinoff Company Founded by Hsinchun Chen
A private equity firm has acquired Knowledge Computing Company (KCC), the company founded by Hsinchun Chen (McClelland Professor of MIS and Director, Artificial Intelligence Laboratory) to commercialize the crime-fighting product COPLINK®. “KCC was a spinoff from the University with local funding involved,” says Chen. “So the sale is a nice closure for me on the project.” COPLINK® is a software product that allows law enforcement agencies to draw information from multiple databases and identify associations between crimes. COPLINK® supports over 3,000 jurisdictions nationwide, spanning 20 states and four of the nation’s five largest cities. The private equity firm that purchased KCC merged it with i2, a provider of intelligence and investigation management software. The combined company, headed by KCC CEO Robert Griffen, will be known as i2. “It’s a very synergistic match,” Chen says. “i2 has excellent visualization and European presence, whereas KCC has excellent technical infrastructure and a stronger presence in the U.S. market.” [more] Alexandra Durcikova Receives Best Paper Award at HICSS
Congratulations to Alexandra Durcikova (Assistant Professor of MIS) who received the best paper award in the Knowledge Management Systems Track at the HICSS 43 (Hawaii International Conference on Systems Sciences) conference. This paper was co-written with a MIS Department alumni - Kelly J. Fadel who is currently Assistant Professor of MIS at Utah State University. The paper titled "Knowledge Sourcing from Repositories: The Role of System Characteristics and Autonomy" draws on extant knowledge management literature, including research on knowledge-based system design, to develop hypotheses relating key KR (Knowledge Repositories) characteristics to KR knowledge sourcing behavior. [more] Moshe Dror Organizing Behavioral and Quantitative Game Theory Conference
Moshe Dror (Professor of MIS) has been busy organizing a new conference on game theory. The main purpose of the "Behavioral and Quantitative Game Theory: Conference on Future Directions" is to create a meeting place conducive to cross-pollination of ideas from game theory in operations management and logistics, behavioral game theory, and algorithmic game theory. Since these streams are quite new – all three emerged in the last decade or so - there is a very strong impetus for learning and exchange from one arena to another. The conference will be held May 14-16, 2010 in Newport Beach, CA. [more] We are always looking for avenues to interact with our alumni and "show off" ways they are Shaping the Future of IT. To this end, we have started to post information about alumni who have notified us of exciting "happenings" in their life. Read their news here and keep us posted on what you are doing! Connect with Classmates in the MIS Facebook or LinkedIn Groups!
Recent alumni have started Facebook and LinkedIn groups especially for MIS alumni. Both require registration to access. On LinkedIn - Search for the "Eller MIS Alumni Network" group. On Facebook - Search for the "Eller MIS University of Arizona" group. We invite you to join either or both of these groups to connect and network with MIS alumni and friends of the department. |
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