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Gerald Kane, a digital transformation expert who joined Terry in 2022 as part of a university-wide AI hiring initiative and was named head of the Department of Management Information Systems in January, says this only raises the ceiling of what’s possible. “We’re in the first inning of a nine-inning game,” he says. “We are only scratching the surface. Partially because the technology is not there yet, but also because we haven’t really figured out the best use cases for it.” Which is to say: If you think ChatGPT and Gemini are cool, wait till you see what’s next. https://lnkd.in/epdrngAM

Did you know that in addition to being one of the Top 10 programs at a public institution, The University of Georgia's Management Information Systems department was one of the first MIS programs around? In 1969, the Departments of Management and Accounting created a program called Business Systems. Though it was a joint program, it was administered and quickly assimilated by Management. The program’s name was changed to Management Information Systems in 1971, becoming one of the first such programs in the country. Go Dawgs! https://lnkd.in/ey6AdGyn - UGA MIS

Thanks to?the MIS Student Advisory Board and our Black Level sponsors for helping us host this year's MIS Top 10% event, celebrating some of our department's highest-achieving students.

Thanks to our Student Advisory Board and all of our corporate sponsors for helping us host yet another great MIS Welcome Back Social for our students on campus!

Our Women in Technology student organization was recently profiled by The Red & Black Publishing Co., the weekly student newspaper that serves the University of Georgia community. Congrats to Ishi, Alexa, and the rest of the students involved in WIT! https://lnkd.in/e-NfjEsD

Perhaps the most impactful part of the MIS Advisory Board meeting every semester is when we break out into groups to gather information from the industry partners on our board. Last week we met with our Black and Red Level board representatives in roundtable sessions that included: Jobs for MIS students, AI in the classroom, cloud computing, the role of business process management in the MIS curriculum, information security, data analytics, and more. Thanks to all of our board partners for their helpful advice at the Spring MIS Advisory Board meeting!

Earlier this evening, MIS Department Head Gerald Kane welcomed all of our new MIS majors at Terry's New Major Orientation event. Congrats to all incoming MIS students! We're so happy that you decided to join us.

Nick Berente, Professor of IT Analytics and Operations from the University of Notre Dame, visited us in Athens last week. While at the Terry College, Dr. Berente presented his new research on Ethical Artificial Intelligence, worked with our cohort of PhD students to hone their research projects, and met individually with Terry faculty. We're already looking forward to his next visit!

The Presidential Interdisciplinary Seed Grant program at UGA supports the creation of university-wide interdisciplinary research teams that tackle grand challenges and build connected ecosystems for sustainable innovation. Our MIS faculty were included in three out of the ten project teams that were awarded a grant for the 2024 cycle: Akshat Lakhiwal, Aaron Schecter, Jiyong Park, Gerald Kane, Marie-Claude Boudreau, and John Rios.

The MIS department would like to extend a warm welcome to Jan Recker who is joining us from the University of Hamburg as the first international scholar to visit Athens as a part of the newly-launched Terry International Business Scholar program. Over the next few weeks, Dr. Recker will be working with PhD and undergraduate students in both Information Systems and International Business. He brings deep expertise in understanding how digital technologies influence organizational transformations, particularly in the context of sustainable development.