Dr. David Schwartz’s career spans both academia and business. Since 1998 he has served as Editor of the journal Internet Research. David’s research has appeared in publications such as IEEE Intelligent Systems, International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, IEEE Transactions on Professional Communications, Information Systems, Knowledge Management Research & Practice, and the Journal of Organizational Behavior. His books include Cooperating Heterogeneous Systems, Internet-Based Knowledge Management and Organizational Memory, and the Encyclopedia of Knowledge Management. He has been a visiting scholar at Columbia University, Department of Biomedical Informatics and Monash University, Faculty of Information Technology. David’s main research interests are Knowledge Management, Ontology, Internet-based Systems, and Computer-mediated Communications. He serves as a board member of Psagot Investment House, Cham Foods Ltd. (TASE), and Copernic (NASDAQ: CNIC). David received his Ph.D. from Case Western Reserve University; MBA from McMaster University; and B.Sc. from the University of Toronto.Dov Te'eni holds the Mexico Chair for Information Systems at Tel Aviv University. He completed his B.Sc. in Economics and Statistics at University College London and M.Sc. and PhD at Tel-Aviv University, took a faculty position at Case Western Reserve University for seven years and returned home. In between, he was visiting researcher/professor at Oxford, Warrick, Moscow Academy, National University of Singapore, City University of Hong Kong, Yale, New York University, University of Waterloo and Nantes, and recently at Leiden and Amsterdam universities.
For over twenty years, Dov has studied how computers support people at work, with a special emphasis on people making decisions, communicating and sharing knowledge, and interacting with computers.
His research usually combines model building, laboratory experiments and development of prototypes like Spider and kMail. Integrative papers on this work appear in Organization Science (supporting distributed cognition) and MIS Quarterly (supporting communication), for which he won best paper award. His approach to design is summarized in Human-computer interaction for developing effective organizational systems (co-authored with Jane Carey and Ping Zhang; Wiley, 2007). He has published over 100 academic papers with over 70 colleagues.
Professor Te’eni is now the President Elect of the Association of Information Systems (AIS). He has served or serves as Senior Editor for MIS Quarterly and the AIS Transactions of HCI, and associate editor for Journal of AIS, Information and Organizations, European Journal of IS, and Internet Research. He co-chaired with Frantz Rowe ICIS2008 in Paris and MCIS2010 in Tel Aviv with Phillip Ein-Dor. Dov was awarded AIS Fellowship in 2008.