/news-archive/tag/rolf-wigand/ 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock Tue, 13 Oct 2020 16:05:46 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 /news-archive/2020/10/13/rolf-wigand/ Tue, 13 Oct 2020 16:05:46 +0000 /news/?p=77692 ... 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock remembers Professor Emeritus Rolf Wigand]]> 鈥淚 am greatly saddened to learn of his passing,鈥� said Dr. Elizabeth Pierce, chair of the Department of Information Science. 鈥淚n addition to being a tremendously productive scholar in the field of information science, Dr. Wigand was a great teacher and mentor to his students. He contributed generously to our discipline through his conference, editorial, and review work. He was a kind, soft spoken, and considerate colleague that will be missed by all who knew him.鈥� Wigand was born in Altkirch, Germany, and grew up in Mayen, Germany. He earned a B.B.A. in marketing and advertising in 1970 and a master鈥檚 degree in mass communication in 1972 from Texas Tech University. In 1975, he earned his Ph.D. from Michigan State University in organizational communication. Wigand spent four decades as an active and productive professor and researcher. He began his career in academia in 1975 as an assistant professor of communication at Arizona State University. By 1983, he was promoted to a professor of communication and public administration at ASU. He served as a professor of information studies at Syracuse University School of Information Studies and a senior research fellow with the Maxwell School at SU from 1991 to 2002. He was the past director of the graduate program in information management and founding director of the Center for Digital Commerce, both at Syracuse University. In 2002, Wigand joined 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock as the Maulden-Entergy Chair and Distinguished Professor of Information Science and Management, retiring in 2015. His research interests lie at the intersection of information and communication technology and business and societal issues, the role of newer information technologies and their impact on organizations and society, as well as their strategic alignment within business and industry. 鈥淩olf touched numerous lives, and I was fortunate to be among them,鈥� said Dr. Nitin Agarwal, Jerry L. Maulden-Entergy Endowed Chair and Distinguished Professor of Information Science. 鈥淗e was an incredible mentor, friend, and colleague. We spent hours almost daily discussing about research, current affairs, and life in general. We were still actively working on research projects together. May he rest in peace.鈥� In 2019, Wigand received the Distinguished Member Cum Laude award from the Association for Information Systems, a nonprofit professional association for the advancement, promotion, and study of information systems. The award honors his research achievements and his commitment to the international information systems community. Wigand, a founding and charter member, received the award 鈥渇or supporting the association by maintaining continuous membership, for sharing your skills and talents by serving in leadership roles within the association, and for advancing the field of information systems research through AIS and AIS-affiliated journals in various editorial positions,鈥� said Dr. Helle Zinner Henriksen, AIS vice president of membership and professor of digitization at the Copenhagen Business School in Denmark. Wigand鈥檚 active research agenda yielded 21 books and more than 500 articles, chapters, and monographs. His 1997 book, 鈥淚nformation, Organization and Management: Expanding Markets and Corporate Boundaries鈥� with Wiley & Sons, is listed among the 鈥�75 Best Management Books of All Time鈥� in the Handelsblatt Management Bibliothek rankings. His research was supported by the National Science Foundation, the German National Science Foundation, the Volkswagen Foundation, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in Berlin, the European Union, the International Science Council in Paris, the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, and other funding agencies. Since 2015, he has been affiliated with the Emeritus College at ASU. During his academic career, he held numerous administrative positions as well as served as a visiting professor at universities located in Mexico City, Munich, Bayreuth, Manheim, Stuttgart, Helsinki, Sydney, and Hong Kong. He consulted with a variety of national and international business organizations. The Bled eConference community, of which Wigand was a founding member, remembered Wigand as their 鈥渆steemed colleague and deal friend.鈥� 鈥淲e will always remember Rolf as a truly inspiring professor, colleague, and above all as a great man whose words would always encourage everyone around him to give and achieve their best,鈥� the statement said. Wigand was preceded in death by his son, Andreas, and is survived by his wife, Dianne, and his brother, Rainer. In lieu of flowers, please make a donation to your favorite charity in Wigand鈥檚 name.]]> /news-archive/2020/02/04/wigand-recognized-for-lifetime-achievement-by-association-for-information-systems/ Tue, 04 Feb 2020 15:59:52 +0000 /news/?p=76031 ... Wigand recognized for lifetime achievement by Association for Information Systems]]> Wigand is a founding and charter member of the Association for Information Systems (AIS), an international, nonprofit professional association for the advancement, promotion, and study of information systems that was founded in 1994. The appointment as a Distinguished Member Cum Laude is intended to honor his research achievements and his commitment to the international information systems community. He received the award 鈥渇or supporting the association by maintaining continuous membership, for sharing your skills and talents by serving in leadership roles within the association, and for advancing the field of information systems research through AIS and AIS-affiliated journals in various editorial positions,” said Dr. Helle Zinner Henriksen, AIS vice president of membership and professor of digitization at the Copenhagen Business School in Denmark. At 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock, Wigand worked as the Maulden-Entergy chair and distinguished professor of information science, business information systems, and management for 13 years until his retirement in 2015. He was the past director of the graduate program in information management and founding director of the Center for Digital Commerce, both at Syracuse University. He is currently a faculty member with the Emeritus College at Arizona State University. His research interests lie at the intersection of information and communication technology and business and societal issues, the role of newer information technologies and their impact on organizations and society, as well as their strategic alignment within business and industry. Wigand authored 19 books and more than 500 articles and book chapters. His 1997 book,鈥淚nformation, Organization and Management: Expanding Markets and Corporate Boundaries鈥� with Wiley & Sons, is listed among the 鈥�75 Best Management Books of All Time鈥� in the Handelsblatt Management Bibliothek rankings.  ]]> /news-archive/2018/12/12/kim-tran-social-networks-ipf/ Wed, 12 Dec 2018 15:35:15 +0000 /news/?p=72926 ... 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock grad researches validity of patient data found on social networks]]> A University of Arkansas at Little Rock student who is graduating on Dec. 15 is making it easier for medical researchers to validate patient data found on social networks that can be used to make important decisions about what medical products are advanced for future development. When Kim Tran of Little Rock was working at Arkansas Capital Corporation a decade ago, she noted that there was a statewide discussion on the critical importance of computer and information technology. 鈥淚 was working with business and government leaders throughout Arkansas who were talking about technology and how important it was to have access to the infrastructure in order to enable that technology,鈥� she said. 鈥淎t the time, people were also starting to talk about this thing called big data. With this in mind, I wanted to learn more. 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock had also just partnered with MIT to develop a curriculum that was focused on the science of data and that is what brought me to 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock.鈥� Tran, who began the Ph.D. program in computer and information science in 2010 as a part-time student who worked full time, said one of the most challenging aspects of the process was selecting a topic for her dissertation, citing the more than 1,200 articles she reviewed before choosing a topic. She鈥檚 grateful for her professors who served as mentors during her time at 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock. 鈥淒r. Rolf Wigand was always pushing the boundary for me,鈥� she said. 鈥淓very time I felt good about where I was at, he would challenge me to look around the next corner. Ph.D. students need this kind of feedback in order to strengthen the quality of their research. Dr. John Talburt and Dr. Meredith Zozus especially helped me contextualize my research. I also developed lifetime friendships with many professors at the university. They were an exceptionally supportive group, and I was lucky to have that.鈥� Having a support structure during her doctoral endeavors was something she especially owes to her dissertation advisor, Dr. Nitin Agarwal, Maulden-Entergy Endowed Chair and distinguished professor in the Department of Information Science and director of the Collaboratorium of Social Media and Online Behavioral Studies (). 鈥淭he great thing about the Ph.D. process is that you have an advisor who will guide you through the process and help open doors so that you can grow and develop. Dr. Agarwal guided me through the process,鈥� she said. Tran鈥檚 research brings together the fields of machine learning and natural language processing, psychometrics, and social networks, all of which are applied to Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (IPF), a lung disease which results in scarring (fibrosis) of the lungs for unknown reasons. An estimated five million patients worldwide and 150,000 patients in the United States are affected by this disease. 鈥淜im鈥檚 research bridges the disciplines of statistics, health sciences, information sciences, and social networks by developing a computational framework to assess social media鈥檚 validity in capturing patient reported outcomes from Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis patients,鈥� Agarwal said. 鈥淗er research has far-reaching implications to the health domain by facilitating exploratory efforts in the medical product development process.鈥� Since 2009, regulatory reviewers have been looking at ways to incorporate patient input into its drug selection process, in order to bring drugs to the market sooner, Tran said. In 2015, a discussion held between regulatory reviewers, pharmaceutical companies, and a patient group generated consensus on the potential of social networks in supporting the validity of patient outcomes identified for medical product development and her dissertation creates a scalable framework from which the validity of social networks can be determined. 鈥淗ealthcare is very unique domain since research in this area affects the lives of patients,鈥� she said. 鈥淪o any data you are deriving from any source will require a high level of scrutinization. Social networks are one possible platform that can be used as a source to develop patient-reported outcomes. While the ideal source of feedback is obtained directly from the patient, the way in which this information is gathered is highly variant in scope and in quality. The FDA, for example, still collects patient input through town halls. In the search for more efficient methods of gathering patient understanding, social networks serve as a unique source of observational data.鈥� In order to study whether the data is valid, she uses advanced probabilistic methods to analyze and evaluate Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis messages from Twitter for the last 10 years across 34 different languages from around the world. Tran was drawn to study Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis after attending an international research conference where she spoke with patients and about this little known disease. 鈥淚PF is not as well known or studied as breast cancer,鈥� she said. 鈥淲hen something is idiopathic, you don鈥檛 know the origin. The one thing you do know is that your disease is fatal and that it will result in markedly reduced lung capacity over time. I met with and spoke at length with many patients who were affected by this disease at an international conference. It was eye opening and also touching how driven and motivated these patients were to learn about IPF. They were there because they didn鈥檛 want to just be a patient, they wanted to be a part of finding a cure. That gave me the drive to learn more about the field and to help advance the understanding of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.鈥� As part of her dissertation, Tran has collaborate with a researchers across the country who are planning to set up additional studies based on this research. 鈥淚 have been fortunate to meet researchers from other institutions that I have been working with as well as others that I will begin to work with,鈥� she said. 鈥淭his is a group which will bring diverse perspectives and includes researchers from 糖心Vlog传媒MS, Yale, Georgetown, Northeastern, and Tulane University. There is much opportunity to extend this research to fully evaluate the validity of social networks, and I am really looking forward to it.鈥� In the end, Tran is grateful for the opportunities that earning a Ph.D. brought her. 鈥淭he Ph.D. process is an excellent development opportunity as long as you are able to commit to the process,鈥� Tran said. 鈥淭hrough this process, you learn how to learn. I had an opportunity to work across a variety of fields that are all on the cutting edge of things that matter in today鈥檚 business environment and to make a novel contribution to the field.鈥�]]>