Five stars, one star or something in between? Ratings you give a restaurant are likely affected by where you grew up, when you visited the eatery, and how far away that establishment is. What’s more, others look at how much emotion you express when evaluating the helpfulness of your critique.

Before launching into a new academic year, we took time out this week to gather the faculty — 32 strong — for a group portrait. They are as excited as the students to get back to class! But before we leave summer behind, read about our capstone projects

Information Systems Department Chair Raghu Santanam delivers his message.

The compound annual growth rate for big data is expected to be 26.4 percent through 2018, creating governance challenges for organizations.

Alan Simon says that three scenarios cover the objectives of most students who enroll in the Master of Science in Information Management (MSIM) program. Some hope to advance in their companies. Others are looking for something different from their current career path.

The W. P. Carey convocation was last week, and CIS was represented by the department's Outstanding Graduating Senior, Joshua McCoy, who carried our banner. In the weeks leading up to this happy event, the academic community focuses intensely on pulling the threads together.

Committing to a doctoral degree program is a big decision. To understand why someone would take the leap, KnowIT interviewed a sampling of current PhD students.

A hallmark of the W. P. Carey School's information systems doctoral program is the expectation that PhD students will participate in — and ideally publish — research during the first two years of what's typically a four or five year course of study.

Most students don't really grasp the realities of CIS in the real world until they're actually in the real world, making the transition from the classroom to the first job a little jarring. A new W. P. Carey partnership aims to finally tackle that problem.

When a big software company releases a new product it often comes with the now ubiquitous "version" number: 1.0, 2.0, etc. In the past few years, a second version of the Web has emerged with the moniker Web 2.0.