{"title":"The millennium bug and Asia Pacific","authors":"T. Bui","doi":"10.1145/272657.272686","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/272657.272686","url":null,"abstract":"The United States has recently taken a more urgent move toward dealing with the year 2000 problem (Y2K). As a sign of the time, readers of recent issues of major business and computer journals could not help but notice an avalanche of articles on the millennium bug. Prodded by regulators and pressured by their concerned customers, U.S. organizations public and private alike are stepping up their efforts to deal with the Y2K issues.","PeriodicalId":152518,"journal":{"name":"ACM Sigmis Database","volume":"63 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128238016","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"PRIISM: Internet Development in Asia Pacific","authors":"T. Bui","doi":"10.1145/264701.565530","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/264701.565530","url":null,"abstract":"Tung X. Bui \u0000PRIISM Consortium Director \u0000The U.S. Naval Postgraduate School \u0000Department of Systems Management","PeriodicalId":152518,"journal":{"name":"ACM Sigmis Database","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122019336","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An Interview with Robert Malone: Reaching Out to Investment Representatives","authors":"M. Sumner","doi":"10.1145/252829.565512","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/252829.565512","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":152518,"journal":{"name":"ACM Sigmis Database","volume":"64 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126975303","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An Interview with Phillip D. Farr","authors":"Leon A. Kappelman","doi":"10.1145/264417.565498","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/264417.565498","url":null,"abstract":"As Director of Management Information Services, Phillip D. Farr is responsible for the information technology (IT) function at American Petrofina, Inc. (FINA). His responsibilities include long-term planning, as well as day-to-day operations. FINA (AMEX: FI) is a Dallas-based company engaged in crude oil and natural gas exploration and production; petroleum products refining, marketing, and transportation; as well as the manufacturing and marketing of petrochemicals and plastics. Organized in 1956, FINA is part of an international group of companies affiliated with Petrofina S.A. headquartered in Brussels, Belgium. In 1995 FINA had revenues over $3.6 billion, employed nearly 2700 people, and had over 2700 company-branded service stations.Mr. Farr has more than 25 years experience in the information systems (IS) field and 9 years in his present position. He has a degree in mathematics and physics from East Texas State University and has done graduate work at Harvard Business School and the University of Virginia. He is a member of the Society for Information Management (SIM), the Data Processing Management Association (DPMA), and the Greater Dallas Chamber of Commerce. He is a past chair of the Information Systems Committee of the American Petroleum Institute and of the Advisory Board of the Business Computer Information Systems Department at the University of North Texas.","PeriodicalId":152518,"journal":{"name":"ACM Sigmis Database","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131131731","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"PRIISM: National Information Infrastructures In Pacific Asia: Visions, Reality, and Research Inquiry","authors":"T. Bui","doi":"10.1145/264417.565495","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/264417.565495","url":null,"abstract":"Over the last two years, PRIISM, via its members, has participated in three major conferences and workshops whose effort was to focus on research and policy issues related to the information revolution in the Pacific Rim. This increased interest is no accident. It has been suggested that we will soon enter a \"Pacific Century,\" in which the world's economic center of gravity, having shifted from Asia to Europe and then to North America, is now returning to Asia. But it is returning to a very diverse Asia, with many regional differences in language, culture, ideology, income levels and income distribution, and economic policies. Despite this diversity, most - if not all - of the leaders of Asian countries are firmly convinced that IT will help propel their country into the Information Age. Indeed, many nations in Asia Pacific have recently begun to design and implement their widely-publicized national information infrastructures (NIIs). In the previous edition of this column, NII was identified as one of the major information technology issues in the Pacific.","PeriodicalId":152518,"journal":{"name":"ACM Sigmis Database","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128288913","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Through A Glass, Darkly","authors":"R. Glass","doi":"10.1145/252829.565511","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/252829.565511","url":null,"abstract":"\"Through a glass, darkly\" is a biblical description of the imperfect way in which we see the world around us.","PeriodicalId":152518,"journal":{"name":"ACM Sigmis Database","volume":"7258 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126890409","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"PRIISM: PRIISM Fourth Annual Conference","authors":"T. Bui","doi":"10.1145/243350.565473","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/243350.565473","url":null,"abstract":"The 1997 fourth annual PRIISM conference, chaired by Bill Chismar, University of Hawaii, will be held in January 1997 back-to-back with the 30th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. The PRIISM '97 Conference will focus on the planning and development of national and regional information infrastructures in the Asia Pacific region. Papers and proposals for panel discussions are invited in the areas shown below. Submit papers and proposals to Bill Chismar at the address shown below by July 1, 1996. All submissions will undergo a peer referee process and those selected for presentation will be published in the conference proceedings. Submissions must not have been previously published. Relevant topics include: The development of national information infrastructures • Technical and telecommunication issues • National policy concerns • Human resource development Cross-cultural studies of information technology • Technology adoption • Computer supported cooperative work Electronic commerce in the Asia Pacific region • International and interorganizational systems • Development of standards","PeriodicalId":152518,"journal":{"name":"ACM Sigmis Database","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127070362","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Annual report of the Association for Computing Machinery special interest group on management information systems (formerly the special interest group on business information technology)","authors":"E. McLean","doi":"10.1145/217278.217280","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/217278.217280","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":152518,"journal":{"name":"ACM Sigmis Database","volume":"57 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128142157","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Diffusion of innovation theory: borrowings, extensions, and modifications from IT researchers","authors":"M. B. Prescott","doi":"10.1145/217278.217283","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/217278.217283","url":null,"abstract":"Innovation diffusion theory has been widely applied to the study of information technology (IT) innovations for more than the last decade and has provided insight into the adoption, implementation, infusion, and diffusion of IT innovations. This stream of research has strong potential for contributing both to the development of innovation diffusion theory and to providing pragmatic guidance to practitioners faced with the often difficult task of successfully introducing a new information technology or method to the workplace. Brief summaries are included of the five articles in this special issue of the DATA BASE for Advances in Information Systems, which is devoted to information technology adoption, implementation, and diffusion.","PeriodicalId":152518,"journal":{"name":"ACM Sigmis Database","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124944345","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}