CURRICULUM VITAE

Norman White 

212 Montclair Avenue 

Upper Montclair, New Jersey 07043 

(973-744-5025)

 RESEARCH INTERESTS:

Decision Support Systems, especially supporting Marketing and Sales, Multimedia , Client-Server Computing , Electronic Commerce,Data Mining and Computer Networks, Distance Learning Technologies.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE:

I have taught a wide variety of courses, including courses on computer operating systems, computer programming (in many languages), networked multimedia systems, decision support systems, systems analysis and design, computer simulation and modeling, on-line systems, marketing information systems, computer performance, emergingtechnologies , Introduction to MIS, Managing Financial Businesses., and Design and Development of Web Based Systems.

WORK EXPERIENCE:

2000 - presentActing Director, Center for Digital Economy Research,
Leonard N. Stern School of Business

1998 - 2000Acting Chief Technical Advisor

Leonard N. Stern School of Business

1995 - 1998Deputy Chairman, Department of Information Systems

Leonard N. Stern School of Business

1997 - 1999Undergraduate Director, Department of Information Systems

Leonard N. Stern School of Business
1978  - present Clinical Associate Professor, 

Department of Information Systems, 
Leonard N. Stern School of Business

1973 - present  Department Computer Coordinator

Information Systems Department
Leonard N. Stern School of Business



1995 - 1998  Office Automation Group Taskforce

Leonard N. Stern School of Business
1994-1995Acting Director, 

Center for Research in Information Systems Affiliates Program

1994 - 1995  Acting Director, Center for Research in Information Systems,  

Leonard N. Stern School of Business
1994Local Arrangements Chair and Organizing Committee

Digital Media Symposium

Leonard N. Stern School of Business

1993 - 1999   President, Dialogue Software Systems

1971-1989Computer Resources Committee
1991-presentLeonard N. Stern School of Business

1989-1991Local Arrangements Chair

1991 International Conference On Information Systems

1973 - present   Consultant to a number of organizations on the design and 

implementation of complex information systems, especially in the area of decision support for financial and marketing decisions.Former clients include Kraft General Foods International, RJ Reynolds Tobacco, Labatt Brewing Company, G. Heileman Brewing, Sargento Cheese, Keebler, Frito Lay, Toyota Motors, Ford Motor Company, Westinghouse,Taco Bell, Pepsi Cola, ITT, Stroh Brewing, Ault Foods, Dairyworld Foods, Anheuser Busch, the CIA, Vera Institute of Justice, Duracell, CPC International, McKinsey and others. Major software systems that I helped design are still in use at several of the above clients.

1983 - 1993   Member Board of Directors, Dialogue Inc. 

1984 - 1988   Member Board of Directors, TUN Inc. 

(A computer graphicsuser group) 

1983 - 1985   Senior Vice President, Research and Development, 

Dialogue Inc., Member of the management committee. 

1981 - 1983   Manager, Advanced Language Project , 

New York University Graduate School of Business.Project to investigate the use of Natural Language as a user interface to a relational data base system. 



1978 - 1983   Director, Undergraduate Program, 

Department of Computer Applications and Information Systems, New York University Schools of Business. 

1976 - 1978   Member of Computer Advisory Group, 

New York University, Committee that ran university computing. 

1975 - 1978   Assistant Professor, 

Department of Computer Applications and Information Systems, New York University Schools of Business. 

1974 - 1977   Technical Consultant, 

EDUCOM Simulation and Gaming Project. EDUCOM, Princeton, New Jersey. This project was a large-scale simulation and game which was used to evaluate the impact of a network such as NSFNET (predecessor of the Internet) on the research community. The project showed that there would be substantial network traffic if communication prices were low enough. The results of this study were one of the reasons NSF has been so generous in funding the Internet all these years.

1974 - 1975   Instructor, 

Department of Computer Applications, 
New York University Schools of Business 

1970 - 1974   Director,

Academic Computer Center, 
New York University Graduate School of Business 

1969 - 1970   Assistant Director, 

Academic Computer Center, 
New York University Graduate School of Business 

1967 - 1969   Manager,

Academic Computer Center,
New York University Graduate School of Business 

1966 - 1967   Programmer,

Academic Computer Center
New York University Graduate School of Business 



EDUCATION 

BA, 1966Engineering and Applied Physics
Harvard University 

MS, 1971

Ph.D.1974 Economics and Statistics

New York University Graduate School of Business

Honor Societies 

Beta Gamma Sigma 

Professional Societies 

Association for Computing Machinery 

The Institute of Management Sciences 

IEEE

RESEARCH GRANTS

1974Summer research grant.
“Integration of computer materials into Tier 1 Courses” Graduate School of Business, New York University

1975Summer Support from the EDUCOM Simulation and Gaming Project

1976Summer Support from the EDUCOM Simulation and Gaming Project

1982 - 1983Manager, Advanced Language Project - IBM supported project

JOURNAL ARTICLES:

"User Interfaces for Decision Support Systems", InternationalJournal ofPolicyAnalysisandInformation Systems, Vol. 6, No.4, 1982. (With E.A.Stohr) 

"Natural Language for Database Queries:aLaboratoryStudy"in ManagementInformationSystemsQuarterly,Dec.1983 with (Yannis Vassiliou, Matthias Jarke, Edward A.Stohr, and Jon Turner)

"A Field Evaluation of Natural Language for Data Retrieval", in IEEE Transactions for Software Engineering, Vol.SE?11, No.1 Jan.1985, with (M.Jarke, E.A.Stohr, J.A.Turner, Y.Vassiliou, andK. Michaelsen) 

"On the Analysis of WEB Site Usage Data: How Much Can We Learn about the Consumer from Web Logfiles?" in European Journal of Marketing (Special Issue on Marketing in Cyberspace), Volume 32, November 1998 (with S. Sen, A. Tuzhilin, B. Padmanabhan, and R.Stein)

REFEREED PROCEEDINGS:

"A Simulation Model of a National ComputerResource?SharingNetwork forEducationand Research" in Computer Networks, Proceedings of the NBS/IEEE 1976 Computer Networks Symposium (with Ronald Segal). 

"TheImpactofOfficeAutomationonSociety,Implicationsfor Education,Policy,andResearch. “ 1980 Office Automation Conference Digest, Atlanta Georgia, March, 1980.(With Margrethe Olson). 

"Research in Natural Language RetrievalSystems",Proceedings ofthe 15th HawaiiInternationalConference on SystemsSciences, Honolulu, Hawaii, January 1982.(With E.A.Stohr, J.Turner, Y.Vassiliou) 

“Application Development for Natural Language Query Systems”, Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Languages for Automation, Chicago, 1983, pp. 288-293 (With Y Vassiliou, M. Jarke, E. A. Stohr and J. A. Turner)

“Coupling Field Studies with Field Experiments for the Evaluation of Computer Languages”,Proceedings of the 13th ACM Computer Science Conference, New Orleans, March 1985, pp. 179-183) (with M.Jarke, E. A. Stohr, J. A. Turner and Y. Vassiliou)

“Evaluation and Assessment of a Domain-Independent Natural Language Query System:,” IEEE Database Engineering, September 1985 (with M. Jarke, J. Krause,E. A. Stohr, J. A. Turner and Y. Vassiliou)

"The Impact of the World Wide Web on Idea Generation", Proceedings of theThirty-secondHawiian International Conference on Systems Sciences, January 1999 (with B. Massetti and V. Spitler)

BOOK CHAPTERS:

"MIS in the 1980's, Implications for Large Scale Organizations", Management Problems in Large Scale Organizations, Fordham University Press, 1976,George Loqusch Ed. 

"Simulating the Behavioral ImplicationsofaNationalComputer ResearchNetwork",in Current Issues in Simulation, Academic Press, Nabil Adam and Ali Dogramaci, Editors.1979 

"Software for Planning and Decision Support Systems:An Overview"in ManagementandOfficeInformation Systems, Plenum Publishing, 1983, Edited by S.K.Chang. (With E. A. Stohr) 

"Using Restricted Natural Language for Data Retrieval:APlanfor FieldEvaluation", in Human Factors and Interactive Computer Systems, Y.Vassiliou, Ed.Norwood, N.J., ABLEX 1984 (WithJ.Turner,M. Jarke, E.A.Stohr, Y.Vassiliou) 

“Requirements for Developing Natural Language Query Applications”, in Languages for Automation, S. Chang Ed., Plenum Press, 1985 (with Y.Vassiliou, Matthias Jarke, E. A. Stohr, and J. A. Turner)

NON-REFEREED PROCEEDINGS/OTHER

"Estimates of Gross State Product for NewJersey,1948?1969",2ndAnnualReport, Economic Policy Council and Office of Economic Policy, Department of the Treasury, State of New Jersey, June, 1969. 

"The ApplicationofMINQUETheorytoEconometrics",Ph.D. dissertation,New YorkUniversity,GraduateSchoolofBusiness Administration, October, 1974. 

"Management of a Large Computer Network Simulation Project", Symposium ontheSimulation of Computer Systems, National Bureau of Standards, August, 1976 (with Ronald Segal). 

"Representations of Workloads in a Network Environment", 1976 Summer Computer Simulation Conference, July, 1976 (with Ronald Segal). 

“An MIS for Aiding Market Research Analysts”, Working paper #77-11,Department of Computer Applications and Information Systems, New York University Graduate School of Business, 1977

"Simulating the Aggregate Performance ofaNetworkofDissimilar Computers",Paperpresentedat the Hawaii InternationalConferenceon International Systems Sciences, Honolulu Hawaii, June, 1979 . 

Natural Language Systems Evaluation: Laboratory and Field Experiments,” Proceedings NYU Symposium on User Interfaces, May 1982 (with M. Jarke, E. A. Stohr, J. A. Turner, and Y. Vassiliou)

“Information Retrieval Using USL: A Field and Laboratory Evaluation,” Proceedings of the IBM Scientific Engineering Study Conference, Poughkeepsie, NY, November 1982, (with M. Jarke, E. A. Stohr, J. A. Turner and Y. Vassiliou)

“Analysis of WEB Site Usage Data: How much can we learn about the consumer from WEB logfiles?” Center for Research on Information Systems working paper # IS-96-18, Stern School of Business