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Joseph B. Latimer

e-mail: Joseph.Latimer@ndsu.nodak.edu

 

EDUCATION

 

Graduate (PhD level) course work in MIS, 1990-1997

The University of Arizona

 

Master of Business Administration (Finance), 1988

Also, graduate (MS level) course work in Computer Science

California Polytechnic State University; San Luis Obispo, CA

 

Bachelor of Science (Physics), 1977

Georgia Institute of Technology; Atlanta, GA

 

ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

 

1997-present        Instructor: College of Business Administration,

                                                North Dakota State University

 

1990-1996            Graduate Teaching Assistant: MIS Department,

                                                The University of Arizona

 

1988-1990            Instructor: School of Business,

                                                California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

 

1987-1990            Graduate Teaching Assistant: Computer Science Department,

                                                California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

 

1988-1989            Instructor: Chapman College,

                                                California Men's Colony, San Luis Obispo

 

1977-1983            Operations Manager (2 years)

                                General Field Test Engineer (2 years)

                                Oil Field Services Engineer  (2 years)

                                                Schlumberger Well Services

 

1973-1974            VISTA Volunteer

 

1970-1971            U.S. Army

                                                                                                       

TEACHING

 

Courses Taught

                MIS 277                Introduction to UNIX

                MIS 299                System & Server Administration

                MIS 370                Introduction to MIS

                MIS 375                Database              

                MIS 376                Networks

                MIS 399                Applied Business Intelligence

                MIS 470                Management of Information Systems

                MIS 770                Information Resource Management

 

RESEARCH AND INTELLECTUAL CONTRIBUTIONS

 

Research Interest

                AI/Expert Systems

                Decision Support Systems

                Executive Information Systems

                Group Systems

                Business Intelligence

 

Referred Journal Articles

                Briggs, Venkataraman, Romano, Latimer.  The Exemplar Project: Using

                Electronic Meeting Systems to Improve the Learning Environment. 

               Journal of Educational Technology Systems, Vol 23(3), pp. 277-291, 1994-95.

 

Refereed Presentations

                Latimer and Chang. "A Model of Structured Discourse for Cooperating Intelligent Agents.

                Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth Annual Hawaii International Conference on Systems Sciences,

                Vol 2, pp. 191-200, 1996.

 

Working Papers

Fang Chen, Limin Zhang, Joseph Latimer, Robert Briggs

“Convergence in Computer Supported Groups: Measures of Reduction and Comprehensiveness”

 

SERVICE

 

University Committees

                ITS Liaison

                Group Decision Center

                Information Technology Roundtable

 

College Committees

                MIS Program Coordinator

                MIS Committee

                Building Committee

 

Student Organizations

                MIS Club, advisor