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THE INFORMATION SYSTEMS FACULTY
 NORMAN WHITE is acting co-director in 1997-1998 while Professor Tuzhilin in on sabbatical
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Founded in 1973, the Department of Information Systems (IS) was one of the
first such departments in a business school. The IS Department has 16
faculty making it one of the largest information systems groups in the
country.
The faculty have backgrounds in a range of fields including computer science, management and sociology, but are united by a common interest in the use of information technology to increase the effectiveness and efficiency of organizations.
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Information System Majors,
1996-97
Undergraduate:
Bachelor of Science: 260
Graduate:
Masters of Business Administration: 210
Masters of Science in Information Systems: 70
Doctor of Philosophy: 18
Total Number of Students Majoring in IS: 558
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NEW INFORMATION SYSTEMS CURRICULA
The IS Department continues to develop innovative new courses and to update existing courses to meet advances in technology and changing demands. The new MBA program, which was taught for the first time in 1993-94, involves an integrative, cross-disciplinary approach to management. The new undergraduate program was introduced for the first time in 1994-95 and has the same underlying philosophy as the MBA program. As a part of these sweeping changes we have redesigned every course in our curriculum. The objectives of the new IS program are to teach students to: (1) use information technology to design and manage business firms that are competitive and efficient, (2) manage the information resources of the firm, and (3) solve specific business problems using available information technology.
These are times of tremendous change in the Stern School and in industry as a whole. Information technology plays a leading role in this change. Demand from industry for our students is at the highest level we have experienced, and our major is growing in popularity at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. The massive changes we are making at all levels in the curriculum are designed to keep our teaching programs in information systems at the leading edge. Over the last two years, we have introduced a new undergraduate course covering multi-media applications, and three new MBA courses on, respectively, electronic commerce, the digital media industries, and organizational design and information technology. This year, we introduced a new course on dealing and trading in equity markets.
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MASTER OF SCIENCE IN INFORMATION SYSTEMS
As the information needs of organizations become more complex and urgent, information systems specialists attuned both to the latest techniques for developing and managing information resources and to the needs of business are in increasingly short supply. To meet this need, the Computer Science (CS) Department of the Courant Institute of Mathematical Science in the Graduate School of Arts and Science and the Department of Information Systems (IS) of the Stern School of Business offer a joint program of study leading to a Master of Science in Information Systems. The MS was introduced in the summer of 1994, with the first students graduating at the end of the summer of 1995.
In this unique program, students experience the best of both the Stern School and the Computer Science Department. Full-time students complete the requirements for the MS in three semesters (fall, spring, summer) and part-time students in three years or less.
More information on the MIS program is available at: http://is-2.stern.nyu.edu/~ms-is
MS Projects Course
The Information Technology Projects course is a practical training course in which teams of student interns solve real computer systems problems at real corporations. Professor Arthur Goldberg created the Projects course in 1995. Projects is run as a pedagogical, non-profit, computer consulting company. A number of students from the course now work full-time at former clients. Over the last three years, we have completed successful projects for 12 clients. Some typical projects are shown below:
An Industry Advisory Board helps to provide direction and oversee the development of the new program. The members of the MS in Information Systems Industry Advisory Board are:
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Our annual Information Systems Get-Together, Careers Night and Alumni Evenings provide unique opportunities for students, affiliates, and alumni to meet and discuss career opportunities in the information systems field. Company representatives at Careers Night receive resumes of both graduate and undergraduate students. These occasions also allow us to invite distinguished speakers to present their ideas on the future of the information revolution to our students. The speakers in 1997 were:
Alumni Evening, Spring 1997
Peter G. W. Keen, Chairman, The International Center for Information
Technologies. "Business Multimedia, the Trust Economy of Electronic
Commerce, and the Business Internet,"
Information Systems Get-Together, Fall 1997
John Stone, Vice President Technology & Chief Technology Officer, Bowne &
Co., Inc. "The Promise and Realities of the Late 1990s Information
Technology Workplace."
Careers Evening, Fall 1997
Denis O'Leary, Managing Director and CIO, Chase Manhattan Corporation.
"Technology and the Changing Paradigm of Banking."
The internship and summer employment programs have also been valuable for both students and affiliates.
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