Salvatore T. March
David K. Wilson Professor of Management
Subject Area(s):
Information Technology, Strategy and Business Economics
Biography:
Professor Salvatore T. March joined the faculty of the Owen School in 2000 after more than two decades at the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota, where he was honored as Graduate Teacher of the Year (1989-90) and received the Outstanding Graduate Teacher Award (1992-93). March teaches courses on Information Technology and Internet Commerce, Database Management Systems, and Managerial Economics. His primary research interests are in the areas of Information System Development, Electronic Commerce, Logical and Physical Database Design, Distributed Database Design, and the Economics of Information. His research in these areas has appeared in journals such as ACM Computing Surveys, ACM Transactions on Database Systems, Communications of the ACM, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Information and Management, The Journal of MIS, Information Systems, and Information Systems Research. He has served as the Editor-in-Chief for ACM Computing Surveys and as an Associate Editor for MIS Quarterly. He is currently an Associate Editor for Decision Sciences Journal, Information Systems Frontier, and Journal of Database Management and a Senior Editor for Information Systems Research. Actively engaged in the Information Technology community, Professor March has been involved in organizing and program committees for numerous conferences including the Entity-Relationship Conference, ACM SIGMOD Conference, IEEE Data Engineering Conference, the Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems (WITS), and the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS). He is currently a member of the Steering Committee for WITS. Professor March also has served as president of the Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems, an international session held annually in conjunction with the International Conference on Information Systems. He presented a keynote address entitled, "Reflections on Computer Science and Information Systems Research" at the 19th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling.
Education:
B.S., Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, Cornell University, 1972
M.S., Operations Research, Cornell University, 1975
Ph.D., Operations Research, Cornell University, 1978
Course(s) Taught:
- MGT 492: Database Management Systems
- MGT 417: Accounting Information Systems
- MGT 496: Information Technology and Electronic Commerce (not offered 2007/2008)
- MGT 599f: Data Mining
- MGT 492b: Database Management and Business Intelligence
Research Interest(s):
Information system development, electronic commerce, logical and physical database design, distributed database design, and object-oriented languages, development tools, and methodologies.
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