2005-2006 Doctoral Program Entrants Announced

In September 2005, the Information and Decision Sciences Doctoral Program will welcome two new doctoral students to our program. They are:

* Ms. SuJong Choi has a BA in Business Administration and Economics, and an MA in Business Administration from Sogang University of Korea. She also holds an MS in Statistics from Stanford University. Her professional experience is in IS, customer relationship management, enterprise systems and financial risk management systems with Samsung Securities and Samsung Card Co. Her doctoral program interests at the Carlson School of management are in economics and IS.

* Ms. YoungOk Kwon has a BS in Computer Science from Yonsei University, and an MBA from Seoul National University in Korea. Her professional experience is with Oracle Korea, where she was a business intelligence specialist, with involvement in online analytical processing, data mining, and data warehousing. She is currently completing a master's thesis on consumer loyalty in Internet-based selling. Her doctoral program interests at the Carlson School of Management are in electronic markets and the effects of IT on organizations.

On behalf of the faculty and doctoral students in the Information and Decision Sciences Department, and the staff of the MISRC, we wish Ms. Choi and Ms. Kwon great success in thir doctoral study at the Carlson School of Management in the years to come!

MISRC Director Appointed As Senior Editor at Electronic Commerce Research and Applications

During March 2005, MISRC Director, Robert J. Kauffman, was appointed as a Senior Editor for the Elsevier journal Electronic Commerce Research and Applications. His appointment followed up his contribution of a special issue of the journal which appeared in Winter 2005, which was co-edited with Rahul Telang of the Heinz School of Public Affairs at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. ECRA was founded a number of years ago by Jae-Kyu Lee of Singapore Management University and Andrew Whinston of the University of Texas at Austin.

For addition details on the journal, please visit Elsevier's website for the journal.

Faculty, doctoral students and practitioners are welcome to contact Rob via the MISRC for input on proposed submissions, journal special issue topics, and other input that will be helpful in building the journal's franchise as a leading outlet for publication related to e-commerce and the Internet.

RFID May Be Coming to a Store Near You

On Monday morning, April 4, MISRC Director Rob Kauffman will be a guest at WCCO Channel 4 in the 6:00-6:30 time slot to discuss radio frequency identification (RFID). RFID is a new technology that is improving the way Minnesota businesses track inventory, and in the case of Mercy Hospital, actually tracks patients. RFID may also change the way that we do our grocery shopping. This technology has been hailed by some as the technology of the decade. The Carlson School of Management's MIS Research Center is involved in a research project which is aimed at helping local businesses understand and use this new technology.