Infosys v2n026 (August 11, 1995) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/infosys/infs-v2n026 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * INFOSYS: The Electronic Newsletter for Information Systems * * Volume 2, Number 26 ISSN: 1173-3764 August 11, 1995 * * * * Editor: Dennis W. Viehland, Massey University, New Zealand * * Listowners: Greg Welsh, American University, Washington DC * * Peter M. Weiss, Penn State * * Sponsor: boyd & fraser publishing, Danvers, Massachusetts * * * * Current Subscribers = 3,912 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * TABLE OF CONTENTS * * * * * * * * * * * * * NEWS - From The Computists' Communique * * ANNOUNCEMENT - Free Subscription to Online Business Today * * CONFERENCE - User-Centrd Prototyping; Designing Visual Interfaces * * CALL FOR PAPERS - College and U Computer Users Assoc (CUMREC 96) * * CALL FOR PAPERS - Electronic Commerce (The Information Society) * * POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT - Faculty Position, Information Systems * * POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT - Dean, Business and Public Administration * * POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT - Asst Professor, Info Systems Strategy * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * 0732* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * NEWS - From The Computists' Communique * * Dennis Viehland, Massey University * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Editor's note: IMHO the second best electronic newsletter for Information Systems professionals is Ken Laws' The Computists' Communique. The Computists' Communique is a tightly edited (32K) weekly (44 issues/yr) newsletter serving professionals in artificial intelligence, information science, and computer science. The Communique costs US$115 annually (maybe less, ask Ken). For more information: laws@ai.sri.com. Tell him you read about it in INFOSYS. Here are a few extracts from the July 27, 1995 issue of THE COMPUTISTS' COMMUNIQUE: Electronic Commerce: "The Internet Business Companion," by David Angell and Brent Heslop, focuses on business opportunities on the net. Addison-Wesley, 1995, 250 pp., $19.95; ISBN: 0-201-40850-3. [Michael Erbschloe, WEBster, 7/25/95.] Free tips for successful web sites: post a "Send Tips!" subject line to Steve O'Keefe . The tips are developed more fully in Dr. Jill Ellsworth's new book, "Marketing on the Internet" (John Wiley & Sons, $24.95, ISBN 0-471-11850-8). Ordering info is on . [c.i.www.announce, 7/21/95.] Information Retrieval: The Lycos index server at lists over 3.6M URLs and indexes 783K documents on WWW. It's often busy, though. Open Text Web Index knows of 9.7M hyperlinks in 400K documents. Other index services are InfoSeek , Web Crawler , and Harvest for document summaries. [NIC - NEWS, 6/8/95.] DejaNews lets you search Usenet hierarchies and newsgroups for keywords, dates, authors, or threads. Company info is on . [Tom Hyde , sci.engr.manufacturing, 7/17/95. Bill Park.] An abridged version of the 5/95 Directory of Electronic Journals, Newsletters, and Academic Discussion Lists, 5th Edition, describes nearly 700 e-journals and 2,500 discussion lists. Now available online at (Scholarly Communication/Directory of Electronic... 1995 ...). To order the printed edition, contact . [Educom Update, 7/17/95.] Online Resources: The Women in Technology Directory facilitates networking among women. . [, 6/26/95. net-hap.] Discussion Groups: YELLOWPAGES is for discussion of Internet marketing, advertising, and publishing by small businesses. Send a "subscribe yellowpages your name" message to . Archives will be kept by month. [Mike Mathiesen , NEW-LIST, 6/10/95. net-hap, 7/20/95.] WWW-CIS is for discussion of World Wide Web tools for internal corporate information systems. To subscribe, send a "subscribe www-cis your name" message to . [Stefano Bonacina , NEW-LIST, 7/22/95.] Entertainment: Twinkies? "Two Rice engineering students explore the solubility, density, gravitational, and intellectual capabilities of an American dietary standard." See for some good laughs. [DaveNet, 7/20/95.] If you try out a PowerMac with voice recognition and text-to-speech, ask "Are there any Easter eggs?" It will reply, "If there were any, do you think that I would tell you?" [Lawson English , comp.sys.mac.advocacy, 7/5/95.] SOFTWARE ENGINEERING: The market share for object-oriented methodologies is: Rumbaugh/OMT 27%, Shlaer-Mellor 21%, Booch 14%, proprietary 19%. [IDC, 10/94. Steve Mellor , comp.object, 3/15/95. John Reeves] "Carelessly planned projects take three times longer to complete than expected. Carefully planned projects take four times longer to complete than expected, mostly because the planners expect their planning to reduce the time it takes." [TFTD-L, 6/7/95.] "There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies." -- C.A.R. Hoare. [Tony J. Kanawati , 5/95.] \EOA 0733* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ANNOUNCEMENT - Free Subscription to Online Business Today * * William Leigh, * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * On October 25-27, 1995, UCLA Extension will present the short course, "User-Centered Prototyping", on the UCLA campus in Los Angeles. The instructors are Penny Bauersfeld, MS, Human Interface Design Consultant, and Kathleen Gomoll, MA, Human Interface Design Consultant. Each participant receives a copy of the text, "Software By Design", by Penny Bauersfeld, and extensive course notes. This course presents methodologies for user-centered design and rapid prototyping to help develop effective, successful user interfaces and provides vital hands-on experience in interface construction, including task analysis, visualization and paper prototyping, user testing and design iteration. The techniques presented are particularly appropriate for design and development of media or graphical user interfaces, but can be applied to any type of user interface development as well. Lecturers present their methods and approaches to interface design and the way in which they focus on the user throughout development. Attention is also given to revising the software development cycle to accommodate user concerns. Step-by-step guidelines for interface design are presented with example interfaces drawn from the lecturers experience. Multimedia forms of presentation are used throughout the course. The course fee is $1295, which includes extensive course materials and the text. On October 28, 1995, UCLA Extension will present the one-day course, "Designing Visual Interfaces", on the UCLA campus in Los Angeles. The instructor is Kevin Mullet, MA, Product Designer, Macromedia. This one-day course examines core competencies and "tricks of the trade" that all visual designers internalize as part of their basic design education, and how these specific techniques can be applied to solve real-world problems in software design and product development. Participants have access to instructor "recipes" collected from relevant specializations. Hundreds of examples - good and bad - are drawn from print design, product, and architecture, as well as the HCI domain, to illustrate the problems and solutions described. The course fee is $395, which includes extensive course materials. Both courses may be taken together for $1495. For additional information and complete course descriptions, please contact Marcus Hennessy at: Voice: (310) 825-1047 Fax: (310) 206-2815 E-mail: mhenness@unex.ucla.edu \EOA 0735* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * CALL FOR PAPERS - College and U Computer Users Assoc (CUMREC 96) * * Jeff von Munkwitz-Smith * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * College and University Computer Users Association (CUMREC 96) "In Tune with Technology" May 5-7, 1996 Nashville, Tennessee 'In Tune With Technology' is the theme for CUMREC '96 but it's getting harder to keep up with the music these days! We have seen an explosion of networking technology; the advent of client/server architectures; increased demand for information technology services; a squeezing of higher education budgets; and a legacy environment that cannot be transformed overnight. How do we understand the technological options available? What is the impact on users, MIS professionals, students, administrators and faculty? How do we know if it's right for our institution? The CUMREC'96 Program Committee invites you, or a team of colleagues, to submit an "Intent to Present" with an abstract (200 word maximum). Institution/Vendor teams are also encouraged to submit case studies of system implementations and migration strategies. The preferred method of submitting an intent is electronic. The Intent to Present form is available under the CUMREC Home Page on the World Wide Web. The URL is: http://www.sdstate.edu/~cc19/http/cumrec/homecumrec.html The form also may be requested via e-mail to cobb@uansv3.vanderbilt.edu. The deadline for submission of Intents to Present is September 25, 1995. Papers need to be submitted for review and consideration by November 15, 1995. Notification of acceptance will be communicated by January 20, 1996. The final copy of your paper is due February 20, 1996 for inclusion in the published proceedings. For more information contact: Jenny Cobb Voice: 615-343-1837 Fax: 615-343-4629 E-mail: cobb@uansv3.vanderbilt.edu \EOA 0736* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * CALL FOR PAPERS - Electronic Commerce (The Information Society) * * Rolf T. Wigand, Syracuse University * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Electronic Commerce Special Issue of The Information Society (An International Journal) The Information Society (TIS) journal is inviting authors to submit papers for review on the topic of "Electronic Commmerce" for a special issue to be edited by Rolf Wigand, Syracuse University. The paper submission deadline is January 15, 1996. Electronic transactions are now common place in the business and government environment in the industrialized world. In the United States alone, over 50% of all companies are exchanging data electronically while engaging in accounting, controlling, production management, funds transfer, record-keeping, purchasing and selling activities. Consumers too use various information technologies daily to buy products via their credit cards, to transfer funds, to buy stocks, and to browse through electronic catalogues. Electronic commerce is expected to grow in various forms such as electronic data interchange and various multimedia services such as interactive television and home shopping, multimedia kiosks and cable-based video-on-demand services. Off-shoots may be desk-top video-conferencing and computer networks affecting the way we communicate and the overall need to travel. When overlaying and projecting many of these and future electronic commerce activities on the envisioned National and Global Information Highway, it is indeed astonishing to fathom the future potential for commerce and economic performance. At the same time, however, we can recognize potential social, organizational and societal limits and dysfunctions. Potential research questions include, but are not limited to: --How is the availability and use of the Internet changing commerce as we know it? --Will electronic markets provide new areas of opportunity for retailers, producers and consumers? --How will future traffic on the Information Highway affect each segment of an industry value chain? --How will such forseeable developments impact the consumer and society in general? --What do electronic commerce developments mean from a marketing perspective and for customer relationships? --Can we envision electronic forms for payment such as digital cash on the Internet? This special issue intends to embrace a wide and rich array of electronic commerce issues. We would like to focus on "commerce," not just transactions, implying that commerce denotes a larger process including aspects of information seeking and distribution, negotiation, trust, risk-taking, customer relationships, buyers finding sellers, sellers finding customers, after-sale service and support. Although we are interested in transaction processing concerns within and between firms and within markets, we would also like to address important and essential social and behavioral issues in this setting, without which no effective commerce is possible. Moreover, we are interested in work and organizational issues embedded in electronic commerce and what they mean and imply inside the organization. In addition, we would like to explore how these electronic commerce issues relate to the marketing perspective, such as in relationships between firms and customers/clients. For manuscript format details, contact the editor or see the inside back cover of an issue of the journal. Authors of manuscripts for this issue on "Electronic Commerce" should send four copies to the guest editor no later than January 15, 1996: Rolf T. Wigand, PhD Guest Editor, The Information Society School of Information Studies 4-293 Center for Science and Technology Syracuse University Syracuse, NY 13244-4100, USA Voice: +315-443-5608 Fax: +315-443-5806 E-Mail: rwigand@mailbox.syr.edu \EOA 0737* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT - Faculty Position, Information Systems * * Barbara Schuldt, Univ of Wisconsin * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * The Information Systems/Operations Management Department in the College of Business Administration at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh has tenure track position. Requirements: Must have a doctorate in Information Systems. Candidates in the dissertation stage may be considered. Doctorate is required for tenure and/or promotion. Prefer practical experience as well as academic credentials. Candidate should have a strong working knowledge in areas of new technology. Responsibilities: Teaching and research emphasis in Information Systems. Position requires the candidate teach introductory, upper level, and graduate courses in Information Systems. Candidates should be strongly committed to teaching, professional growth and service to department, college, university and community. Research publication and professional development is required. Starting Date: September 1, 1996 Salary: Competitive, depending on qualifications and experience. Contact person: Barbara Schuldt College of Business University of Wisconsin Oshkosh Oshkosh WI 54901 (414) 424-007 schuldt@vaxa.cis.uwosh.edu Send letter of application, resume, three current letters of recommendation and transcripts (official or photocopy). Application deadline is November 1, 1995. \EOA 0738* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT - Dean, Business and Public Administration * * Frank Lin, Calif State U, San Bernardino * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Announcement of Dean's Position School of Business and Public Administration California State University, San Bernardino California State University, San Bernardino invites nominations and applications for the position of Dean of the School of Business and Public Administration. The preferred starting date is Summer, 1996. Reporting to the Vice President of Academic Affairs, the Dean will be responsible for the academic and administrative leadership of the departments of Accounting and Finance, Information and Decision Sciences, Management, Marketing, and Public Administration. Candidates should possess: --Successful administrative experience related to organization and/or educational programs in university or administrative settings --Commitment to excellence in teaching, research and service --Excellent communication skills --Commitment to student achievement and faculty development --Understanding of and commitment to principles of shared governance --A record of intellectual contributions to the discipline --Evidence of effective community involvement and leadership --Commitment to advancement of women and minority Compensation is competitive. Review of application will start November 1, 1995 and continue until the position is filled. Letters of nomination will be accepted. Candidates should submit a current vita/resume, accompanied by the names, addresses (including e-mail), telephone and fax numbers of three references and a cover letter to: Dr. Julius Kaplan Dean, Graduate Studies and Chair School of BPA Dean's Search Committee California State University, San Bernardino 5500 University Parkway San Bernardino, California 92407 \EOA 0739* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT - Asst Professor, Info Systems Strategy * * Mary Culnan, Georgetown University * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Georgetown University School of Business seeks a tenure-track Assistant Professor for fall 1996. Research/teaching specializations sought: 1. IS Strategy 2. Organizational Impacts 3. Management of I/S Applicants should have a strong interest in both teaching and research. Expertise in the strategic impacts of information technology essential. Interests in global and ethical issues related to information technology are desirable. Teaching duties are primarily at the undergraduate and MBA levels. Position subject to funding. Additional information about Georgetown University can be obtained at: http://www.georgetown.edu. The business school's home page is located at: http://www.georgetown.edu/gsb. \EOA * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ABOUT INFOSYS * * INFOSYS is an electronic newsletter for faculty, students, and * * practitioners in the field of Information Systems. INFOSYS * * publishes news items, requests for assistance, calls for papers * * announcements of professional meetings and conferences, position * * announcements, journal table of contents, and other items of * * interest to the Information Systems community. * * * * INFOSYS is published biweekly, more frequently if volume requires * * it. 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