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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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?

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.

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.