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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Greetings AISWORLD members. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">CIST 2014 (Conference on Information Systems and Technology) will be held on November 8-9, 2014 in San Francisco, California. This year’s theme is the convergent phenomenon
of Social, Mobile, Analytics, Cloud and Security, collectively known as SMACS. <o:p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">In keeping with the theme of the city and INFORMS, we aim to create a bridge among researchers across business, government and research universities. We already have an exciting
panel of distinguished speakers and panelists, who cut across business and academia, including Hal Varian, Chief Economist, Google; Piero Bonissone, Chief Scientist, GE; Robert Stackowaik, Vice President, Oracle; and Jeff Welser, Director, IBM.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">We invite you to submit your best papers to the conference. Please see the Call for Papers here:
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a href="http://www.som.buffalo.edu/isinterface/cist-2014/cfp.html">http://www.som.buffalo.edu/isinterface/cist-2014/cfp.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The submission deadline is June 15, 2014. Submission instructions are here:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">This year, we plan to integrate Twitter, YouTube, and other social media channels into CIST. So look out for other interesting updates that will impact your CIST experience
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">CIST 2014 Conference Co-Chairs
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Sudip Bhattacharjee, Ram Gopal, H. Raghav Rao, Sanjukta Das Smith<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Sudip Bhattacharjee</span><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Visiting Professor, GE Global Research Center</span><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Associate Professor</span><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Dept. of Operations and Information Management</span><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">School of Business</span><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">University of Connecticut</span><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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