 | Level: Introductory Scott Laningham (scottla@us.ibm.com), Podcast Editor, IBM developerWorks
25 Sep 2007 Listen to this discussion to get a taste of the topics and find out
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Paul Cronan drives the ERP curriculum, and David Douglas is a
university professor in information systems, both at the University of
Arkansas, Walton School of Business. In this 18-minute talk, Cronan and
Douglas talk about the resurgence of mainframe computing, its effect on
academic curricula, and the massive data-mining system they are building to
share with faculty and students at other institutions.
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About the guests  Paul Cronan, Ph.D., is professor of information systems at the University
of Arkansas, Walton College of Business. From 1993 to 1995, he was co-director and co-founder
of the University of Arkansas Teaching and Faculty Support Center. Cronan
serves as past president and executive committee member of the UA Teaching
Academy. He was recognized as the 1995 computer educator of the
year by the International Association for Computer Information Systems. He
is interested in the use of teaching portfolios for the improvement of
teaching, and a current project is the development of a state-of-the-art
multimedia development and distance-learning center in the college. He
teaches database systems, as well as graduate MIS and computer information
systems research courses. He is an active member of the Decision
Sciences Institute, the International Association for Computer Information
Systems, and The Association for Computing Machinery. Cronan received
the D.B.A. from Louisiana Tech University and is currently co-director of
the College of Business Administration Center for Teaching Effectiveness.
 David Douglas holds the title of University Professor in information
systems at the University of Arkansas, Walton College of Business. He was
department chair from 1985 to 1998. He served as president of the
Decision Sciences Institute -- Southwest Region for 1996-1997, the
associate program chair for the Decision Sciences Institute for the 1999 national
meeting, and secretary/treasurer for the Southwest Federation of
Administration Disciplines. His research interests include pedagogy for
distance education, e-commerce, and database management
systems/data warehousing/data mining. He received his Ph.D. in
computer modeling from the University of Arkansas in 1972.
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| | Scott Laningham, host of developerWorks podcasts, was previously editor of developerWorks newsletters. Prior to IBM, he was an award-winning reporter and director for news programming featured on Public Radio International, a freelance writer for the American Communications Foundation and CBS Radio, and a songwriter/musician. |
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