Read all about it: IS Department updates

Department of Information Systems faculty and students have been making waves! For example, last month we learned that our student organization received laurels for the second year in a row from the Association for Information Systems.

The information systems doctoral program: A diverse community

Committing to a doctoral degree program is a big decision. To understand why someone would take the leap, KnowIT interviewed a sampling of current PhD students.

Recruiting 2.0: IS Department's new, tech-savvy efforts dispel myths, recruit CIS majors

Misperceptions about the IT and information systems field abound among today’s high school and college students. As a result, enrollment in technology majors has dropped off at colleges and universities around the country.

What do you know? Information Systems Department news

This just in: each month knowIT brings you news briefs from the faculty and students. Read on to catch media appearances by our faculty and activities organized by our student groupss.

Innovators: A professor's idea goes to market

The Innovators series profiles a special group of graduates: our Ph.D. alumni. Dawn Gregg (Ph.D. 2000) is on the faculty of the University of Colorado Denver Business School. There she teaches, conducts research and runs the Bard Center for Entrepreneurship as its interim director.

Stock market play could raise your marketing model's performance

Which prospects are most likely to buy what you're selling? Who are your good credit risks? What will your customers buy next? Chances are, your company uses predictive models to answer these and other questions, or soon will.

Quantifying the intangible: Determining the performance of knowledge workers

Measuring the performance of workers on an assembly line is simple: Count the objects produced and find out how long the process took. That should reveal the productivity of the factory workers. But how do you determine the performance of knowledge workers?

Innovators: David Schuff puts Web 2.0 into perspective

Part of the beauty of the Internet is the plethora of information that helps us make decisions. But, could this glut of content actually be hampering our ability to make clear-cut, unbiased decisions?

The Cloud in the classroom: Students develop marketable apps

Students in Professor Asim Roy's CIS 430 class are using Force.com -- a development platform offered by salesforce.com -- to create apps in the cloud.

The Ph.D. experience: A student's life is intense, focused

If you choose the academic life, you will always be two things at once: a student -- continuously uncovering and processing new knowledge; and a teacher -- conveying what you know to others. This dual life begins in the Ph.D.