ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Professor Alan Dennis is professor of information systems in the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University and holds the John T. Chambers Chair in Internet Systems. The Chambers Chair was established to honor John Chambers, president and chief executive officer of Cisco Systems, the worldwide leader of networking technologies for the Internet.
Prior to joining Indiana University, Professor Dennis spent nine years as a professor at the University of Georgia, where he won the Richard B. Russell Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching. Professor Dennis has a bachelor's degree in computer science from Acadia University in Nova Scotia, Canada, and an MBA from Queen's University in Ontario, Canada. His Ph.D. in management of information systems is from the University of Arizona. Prior to entering the Arizona doctoral program, he spent three years on the faculty of the Queen's School of Business.
Professor Dennis has extensive experience in the development and application of groupware and Internet technologies and developed a Web-based groupware package called Consensus @nyWARE, now owned by SoftBicycle Corporation. He has won seven awards for theoretical and applied research and has published more than 100 business and research articles, including those in Management Science, MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research, Academy of Management Journal, Organization Behavior and Human Decision Making, Journal of Applied Psychology, Communications of the ACM, and IEEE Transactions of Systems, Man, and Cybernetics. His first book was Getting Started with Microcomputers, published in 1986. Professor Dennis is also an author (along with Professor Barbara Wixom of the University of Virginia and Professor Robby Roth of the University of Northern Iowa) of Systems Analysis and Design: An Applied Approach, also available from Wiley. Professor Dennis is the cochair of the Internet Technologies Track of the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. He has served as a consultant to BellSouth, Boeing, IBM, Hughes Missile Systems, the U.S. Department of Defense, and the Australian Army.
Dr. Jerry FitzGerald is the principal in Jerry FitzGerald & Associates, a firm he started in 1977. He has extensive experience in risk analysis, computer security, audit and control of computerized systems, data communications, networks, and systems analysis. He has been active in risk-assessment studies, computer security, audit reviews, designing controls into applications during the new system development process, data communication networks, bank wire transfer systems, and electronic data interchange (EDI) systems. He conducts training seminars on risk analysis, control and security, and data communications networks. Dr. FitzGerald has a Ph.D. in business economics and a master's degree in business economics from the Claremont Graduate School, an MBA from the University of Santa Clara, and a bachelor's degree in industrial engineering from Michigan State University. He is a certified information systems auditor (CISA) and holds a certificate in data processing (CDP). He belongs to the EDP Auditors Association (EDPAA), the Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA), and the Information Systems Security Association (ISSA). Dr. FitzGerald has been a faculty member at several California universities and a consultant at SRI International.
His publications and software include Business Data Communications: Basic Concepts, Security and Design, 4th edition, 1993; Designing Controls into Computerized Systems, 2nd edition, 1990; RANK-IT: A Risk Assessment Tool for Microcomputers; CONTROL-IT: A Control Spreadsheet Methodology for Microcomputers; Fundamentals of Systems Analysis: Using Structured Analysis and Design, 3rd edition, 1987; Online Auditing Using Microcomputers; Internal Controls for Computerized Systems; and over 60 articles in various publications.
Alexandra Durcikova is an Assistant Professor at the Eller College of Business, University of Arizona. Alexandra has a PhD in Management Information Systems from the University of Pittsburgh. She has earned a M.Sc. degree in Solid States Physics from Comenius University, Bratislava, worked as an experimental physics researcher in the area of superconductivity and as an instructor of executive MBA students prior to pursuing her PhD. Alexandra's research interests include knowledge management and knowledge management systems, the role of organizational climate in the use of knowledge management systems, knowledge management system characteristics, governance mechanisms in the use of knowledge management systems; and human compliance with security policy and characteristics of successful phishing attempts within the area of network security. Her research appears in Information Systems Research, Journal of Management Information Systems, International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, and Communications of the ACM.
Alexandra has been teaching business data communications to both undergraduate and graduate students for several years. In addition, she has been teaching classes on information technology strategy and most recently won the Dean's Award for Undergraduate Teaching Excellence at the University of Arizona.