Scott Hamilton

• Malta College of Arts, Science and Technology

Few people in the scientific community would dispute the role NASA has played in the advancement of aerospace and aerodynamic research in the 20th century. But to fulfill next-century goals of a manned mission to Mars and deep space exploration, NASA must drive the state of the art in computer science in the 21st century the way it has pushed advan...

On the occasion of the presentation of the Computer Society's and Hitachi's inaugural Tsutomu Kanai Award for distributed computing, Computer visited recipient Ken Thompson at Lucent's Bell Labs. Thompson, best known as the co-creator of the Unix operating system, also created the Plan 9 and Inferno distributed operating systems. He received a 1998...

The Semiconductor Research Corp. is one of the few organizations to get fierce competitors like Intel, Motorola, and IBM to the same table, let alone cooperate, and it has also wrangled money-$37 million annually-from these companies and others. With this money, it funds future research to keep the engines of semiconductor production churning. In s...

What are 250 top researchers from academia and industry working on at Microsoft Research (MSR)? What attracted them to Redmond, Washington, as well as two new facilities in San Francisco and Cambridge, UK? MSR's appeal to its researchers is that their research will likely be “productized” for the mass market. Each of three metagroups have long-term...

If CommerceNet realizes its vision, we might well see a new “ecology” of global Internet commerce, with buyers, sellers, and intermediaries forming extended trading communities. Launched in 1994 as a not-for-profit organization, CommerceNet (http://www.commerce.net) is dedicated to advancing electronic commerce, which is fast becoming synonymous wi...

The use of information technology (IT) as a competitive weapon has become a popular cliche; but there is still a marked lack of understanding of the issues that determine the influence of information technology on a particular organization and the processes ...

Journals constituting the formal communication system for Management Information System (MIS) research are described and analyzed. Six measures of journal importance in communicating MIS research are developed based upon MIS expert opinions, published MIS articles, and citation analysis. Four strata of journals are proposed utilizing a composite in...

Different strategies for conducting empirical research in the Management Information Systems (MIS) field are discussed. Strategies employed in 532 MIS articles published in 15 journals during the 1970–1979 time period are analyzed. The trends are analyzed over the ten year period with respect to the differences between articles authored by practiti...

Knowledge utilization among MIS researchers is examined via an analysis of 9,911 references appearing in 532 MIS journal articles published in fifteen journals during the 1970-1979 period. Quantitative indicators of references per article, type of publication referenced, elapsed time between citing and cited publications, and cross disciplinary ref...

Extending the ARPANET technology of an asynchronous, packet-switched "electronic mailbox," the Corporate Information Systems department introduced a pilot mail service within Digital Equipment Corporation which has now grown into a full-fledged production ...

The paper presents a comprehensive framework for research in Management Information Systems (MIS). The necessity for a more comprehensive research framework is derived from a review of past research frameworks. The new framework is validated by mapping 331 MIS doctoral dissertations into its research categories. The dissertations are also classifie...