My life is no longer my own (actually, it never was)
When I started creating my new ‘Papers‘ page, I had a dream of making all my academic work easily accessible–a ‘live CV’ with each paper just one click away. I didn’t realize how much of…
Another great IFIP 9.1 workshop on “Computers and Work”
The dynamic team of Steve Sawyer, Julie Rennecker, and myself pulled off another successful meeting of the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) Working Group 9.1, immediately after the ICIS 2009 conference in Phoenix. We…
Congrats USF: Top 10 in Fulbright Scholars 2009-10
Nice job, Dons! We made the list of Top 10 universities nationwide for Fulbright Scholars in 2009-10. The occasion provided USF with another excuse to post a stunning JP Allen photo on the newly designed…
Digital Business: A new introductory tech class for business students
I gave a talk today at the AIS Special Interest Group on Education conference on a new way of introducing business students to Information Systems. Like many others, I argue that the traditional “Intro to…
University Visits in South Africa and Australia
I was able to visit two more fascinating universities on the Allen World Tour: the Department of Information Systems in the Faculty of Commerce, University of Cape Town (UCT); and the Centre for Organisational and…
A little love for Kraków over at SiliconValleyWatcher
Tom Foremski at SiliconValleyWatcher did a nice writeup on our Kraków, Poland presentation. Hopefully, the momentum will continue to build for Kraków as a technology hub in Central and Eastern Europe. As always, the Kraków…
Open source deployment paper to be presented at HICSS
Update on the open source ‘miracle’ paper: It has been accepted at the HICSS 2010 conference track on Open Movements: FLOSS, Open Content, Open Access and Open Communities. The paper now features the more sedate…
Krakow, Poland: A technology hub for Central & Eastern Europe
After spending July in Krakow, Poland visiting companies, startups, and universities, I am truly impressed with the Krakow tech scene. Together with a colleague at Cisco Systems Poland, Ramon Tancinco, I have put together a…
Journal editorial boards resigning to start open/low-cost versions
Thanks to a recent discussion on slashdot, I learned that the entire editorial boards from at least three journals have resigned to start new journals that are open, or lower cost: Journal of Algorithms Topology…
A month at the Swedish Business School
For most of June, I was a visiting researcher in the Informatics division of the Swedish Business School, Örebro University. Thanks to the group’s rigorous, precise daily schedule of lunch times and coffee breaks (fika),…