Leading MIS Researchers

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Leading MIS Researchers

• Presented by
• Students of
• MIS 696A
• University of Arizona
• Fall 2001

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Model Dimensions

• Four dimensions
• Behavioral vs. Technical
• Rigorous vs. Descriptive
• Area of focus
• Function
• What was left out
• Methodology
• Reference Disciplines

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Functions
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The Model
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Timeline
1967 The Dendral Program 1st Knowledge-Based
Program
1957 Newel, Shaw, and Simons General Purpose
Solver
1979 Russell Ackoffs Future of Operations
Research
1960 George Dantzigs Linear Programming
1976 Peter Chens Entity Relationship Model
1987 DeSanctiss Contingency Theory
1988 Nunamakers Electronic Meetings
1970 E. F. Codds Relational Model
1993 Brynjolfssons Productivity Paradox
World-Wide-Web
1944 ENIAC
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Watershed Event

• An distinctive realization which defines or has
  significant long term impact on an area of study.

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Watershed

• EF Codd
• A Relational Model for Data for Large Shared Data
  Banks (1970).
• Provides a means for describing data with its
  natural structural only.
• Provides a basis for a high level data language.

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Watershed

• Herb Simon
• Pioneering research into the decision-making
  process within economic organizations.

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Current

• Important projects, experiments or research
  identified as extending the current field of
  study or further refining previous assertions
  within the domain.

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Current

• Ben Shneiderman
• Heads the Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory
• at the University of Maryland
• Among other contributions, Ben has developed
• The Hyperties hypermedia system
• The starfield display for information
  visualization.
• And a Treemap concept
• These Systems have all proved useful enough to be
  developed commercially
• He has also written several books which describe
  how to build effective user interfaces.
• His HCI Lab has published hundreds of papers,
  contributing to this field for more than 10
  years.

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Current

• Andrew Whinston
• Research spanning cross-disciplinary efforts,
  thus bringing technological, business, economic,
  public policy, sociological, cryptographic and
  political concerns together in laying the
  theoretical and practical foundations of a
  digital economy.

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Future

• Where do key researchers see the field going?

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Future

• Jay Nunamaker
• GSS is branching into various new areas
  e-commerce, modeling simulation, software
  architecture, crisis response, virtual
  workspaces, team interface design and the
  classroom. With these extensions further
  broadened analysis of the GSS framework is
  needed.

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Future

• Christoph Bussler
• Stefan Jablonski
• Modeling, architecture and implementation of
  workflow management systems and transferring
  workflow technology to fit organizational needs.

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Conclusion