The latest scoop: Information Systems faculty and students
The year 2011 ended on a high note as the information systems community at the W. P. Carey School celebrated their achievements. Our illustration is the Distinguished Chapter Award from the Association for Information Systems, presented to our DISC club at the 2011 International Conference on Information Systems. This is the second year in a row that our student group has won this award. Read on for more news about our students and faculty.
The year 2011 ended on a high note as the information systems community at the W. P. Carey School celebrated their achievements. Our illustration is the Distinguished Chapter Award from the Association for Information Systems, presented to our DISC club at the 2011 International Conference on Information Systems. Read on for more news about our students and faculty.
Recipe for success: Fall 2011 Salesforce.com competition winners
"Happy Tummy," a social networking application designed to make it easy to share favorite or personally-tested recipes was the winning project among 20 entered in the Salesforce.com competition this fall. Winners, from left to right, are Corinne Relucio, Mayu Yoshida, Andrea Rodriquez, Dan Xu.
The competition is a focal point of Professor Asim Roy ’s cloud computing classes, where students are divided into teams and are challenged to develop marketable apps in the cloud. Students use Force.com, a Salesforce.com product that facilitates development. Dave Carroll, director of developer evangelism at Salesforce, was the judge. Curtis Overall, director of knowledge informatics, and Neetu Rau, research analyst from ASU’s Office of Knowledge Enterprise Development assisted in questioning the teams.
Other fall 2011 winning teams include:
Assistant Professor Gregory Dawson will be one of seven judges that will rank the world’s best service providers for the “2012 Global Outsourcing 100,” an award presented by the International Association of Outsourcing Professionals (IAOP). Dawson was a partner in PricewaterhouseCoopers and spent 25 years in the outsourcing field before beginning his university career. He has written numerous practitioner and academic papers on outsourcing related topics and recently delivered two papers in Shanghai to an international audience on outsourcing related topics. Dawson teaches outsourcing in a new course for the W. P. Carey MBA/Master of Science in Information Management. The 2012 Global Outsourcing 100 will be released in Fortune magazine’s Global 500 issue, July 23, 2012.
Leadership role
Information systems Professor Asim Roy has been elected to the governing board of the International Neural Network Society (INNS). INNS is the premiere organization for individuals interested in a theoretical and computational understanding of the brain and applying that knowledge to develop new and more effective forms of machine intelligence. Roy originated a new brain theory that postulates that there are parts of the brain that control other parts, which means that control theoretic principles can be used to design and construct systems similar to the brain. According to Roy, this new theory invalidates of the current dominant theory of the brain called "Connectionism" that has been widely accepted for the last 50 years. Read more
Award winning
DISC, the department’s undergraduate student organization, was honored as one of the 2011 Distinguished Chapters at the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS) awards luncheon on December 5 in Shanghai, China. This is the second year in a row that our student group has won this award, and faculty advisor Greg Dawson was in China to accept the award. Back at home, chapter President Drew Schweinfurth shows off the plaque, which is on display in the department offices. DISC is one of the largest student organizations in the W. P. Carey School. At weekly meetings, students interact with industry representatives. The group focuses on career preparation, but is also known for its service projects and social activities. Read more about the DISC award.
"Happy Tummy," a social networking application designed to make it easy to share favorite or personally-tested recipes was the winning project among 20 entered in the Salesforce.com competition this fall. Winners, from left to right, are Corinne Relucio, Mayu Yoshida, Andrea Rodriquez, Dan Xu.
The competition is a focal point of Professor Asim Roy ’s cloud computing classes, where students are divided into teams and are challenged to develop marketable apps in the cloud. Students use Force.com, a Salesforce.com product that facilitates development. Dave Carroll, director of developer evangelism at Salesforce, was the judge. Curtis Overall, director of knowledge informatics, and Neetu Rau, research analyst from ASU’s Office of Knowledge Enterprise Development assisted in questioning the teams.
Other fall 2011 winning teams include:
- Second Prize — ASU Mingle - Jason Stepp, Austin Sloan, Adam Halem, Nathan Boeke. Allows users to create a personal profile then finds other people and groups with similar interests.
- Third Prize — Cloud Caddy - Scott Kornblue, Brian McCarthy, Liwance Rodrigues, Yesenia Martinez. Connects golfers to golf courses, displaying real time information about a particular course enabling golfers to make better decisions about where to play.
Assistant Professor Gregory Dawson will be one of seven judges that will rank the world’s best service providers for the “2012 Global Outsourcing 100,” an award presented by the International Association of Outsourcing Professionals (IAOP). Dawson was a partner in PricewaterhouseCoopers and spent 25 years in the outsourcing field before beginning his university career. He has written numerous practitioner and academic papers on outsourcing related topics and recently delivered two papers in Shanghai to an international audience on outsourcing related topics. Dawson teaches outsourcing in a new course for the W. P. Carey MBA/Master of Science in Information Management. The 2012 Global Outsourcing 100 will be released in Fortune magazine’s Global 500 issue, July 23, 2012.
Leadership role
Information systems Professor Asim Roy has been elected to the governing board of the International Neural Network Society (INNS). INNS is the premiere organization for individuals interested in a theoretical and computational understanding of the brain and applying that knowledge to develop new and more effective forms of machine intelligence. Roy originated a new brain theory that postulates that there are parts of the brain that control other parts, which means that control theoretic principles can be used to design and construct systems similar to the brain. According to Roy, this new theory invalidates of the current dominant theory of the brain called "Connectionism" that has been widely accepted for the last 50 years. Read more
Award winning
DISC, the department’s undergraduate student organization, was honored as one of the 2011 Distinguished Chapters at the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS) awards luncheon on December 5 in Shanghai, China. This is the second year in a row that our student group has won this award, and faculty advisor Greg Dawson was in China to accept the award. Back at home, chapter President Drew Schweinfurth shows off the plaque, which is on display in the department offices. DISC is one of the largest student organizations in the W. P. Carey School. At weekly meetings, students interact with industry representatives. The group focuses on career preparation, but is also known for its service projects and social activities. Read more about the DISC award.
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