Business Data Communications and Networking

Prior to joining Indiana University, Professor Dennis spent nine years as a professor at the University of Georgia, where he won the Richard B. Russell Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching. Professor Dennis has a bachelor's degree in computer science from Acadia University in Nova Scotia, Canada, and an MBA from Queen's University in Ontario, Canada. His Ph.D. in management of information systems is from the University of Arizona. Prior to entering the Arizona doctoral program, he spent three years on the faculty of Queen's School of Business.

Dr. Jerry Fitzgerald is the principal in Jerry Fitzgerald & Associates, a firm he started in 1977. He has extensive in risk analysis, computer security, audit and control of computerized systems, data communications, networks, and systems analysis. He has been active in risk-assessment studies, computer security, audit reviews, designing controls into applications during the new system development process, date communication networks, bank wire transfer systems, and electronic data interchange and date communication networks. Dr. FitzGerald has a Ph.D.in business economics and a master's degree in business economics from the Claremont Graduate School, an MBA from the University of Santa Clara, and a bachelor's degree in industrial engineering from Michigan State University. He is a certified information systems auditor (CISA) and holds a certificate in data processing (CDP). He belongs to the EDP Auditors Association (EDPAA), the Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA), and the Information Systems Security Association (ISSA). Dr. FitzGerald has been a faculty member at several California universities and a consultant at SRI International.

Alexandra Durcikova is an Assistant Professor at the Eller College of Business, University of Arizona. Alexandra has a Ph.D. in Management Information Systems from University of Pittsburgh. She has earned a M.Sc. degree in Solid States Physics from Comenius University, Bratislava, worked as an experimental physics researcher in the area of superconductivity and as an instructor of executive MBA students prior to pursuing her Ph.D. Alexandra's research interests include knowledge management and knowledge management systems, knowledge management system characteristics, governance mechanisms in the use of knowledge management systems; and human compliance with security policy and characteristics of successful phishing attempts within the area of network security. Her research appears in Information Systems Research, Journal of Management Information Systems, International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, and Communications of the ACM.