PhD students look for patterns—in teaching strategies and creative projects.

Nicole Wishart and David Hinds, both PhD students in the Department of Decision Sciences and Information Systems (DSIS) in the College of Business Administration, are focusing on patterns. Though the subject matter is quite different—teaching conceptual database design and innovation communities —their findings have a number of features in common, including their practical applicability. Nicole […]

Innovative approach to dynamic web caching reduces total cost of IT ownership.

Kaushik Dutta The web sites that fuel e-commerce rely increasingly on applications that generate dynamic content to provide visitors with personalized, interactive experiences. As Internet traffic continues to grow and web sites become more complex, performance and scalability are fast becoming major issues for many organizations. At the same time, today’s e-commerce companies are looking […]

Faculty team shares their knowledge in train-the-trainers program.

Chris Ellis, Department of Decision Sciences and Information Systems instructor, looks on during an exercise using matches and dice designed to teach the theory of constraints. Jerry Haar, associate director of the Knight Ridder Center for Excellence in Management and professor in the Department of Management and International Business at the head of the table, […]

MSMIS program revises curriculum to prepare future CIOs.

Veronica Gómes, IBM, MSMIS student; Tatiana López, MSMIS program assistant; Juan Poggio, Telefónica USA, MSMIS advisory board member and alumnus; Zuzana Hlavacova, MSMIS program manager; and Julia Accárdo, FP&L, MSMIS alumna at the MSMIS retreat in Key Largo Despite the laid-back atmosphere in the Florida Keys, a recent two-day retreat held in Key Largo to […]