Craig enjoyed a 20 year career at IBM where he advanced through various Information Systems positions including fourth level manager of a computer center with over 200 employees and as IBM’s World Wide IS Audit manager. Craig is now an information systems associate professor at Marist College, Poughkeepsie, NY. His  Ph.D. is in Information Science and his research interests are primarily in organizations, information quality, decision making and technology.  His papers have appeared in journals such as Information Systems Research (ISR), Advances in Management Information Systems Special Monograph issue on Information Quality, and Information & Management. Craig is on the Board of Directors and a regular participant in the International Conference on Information Quality (ICIQ).

Dr. Lauría is an Assistant Professor of Information Systems at Marist College, Poughkeepsie, NY.  Dr. Lauría is an Electrical Engineer from University of Buenos Aires, Argentina; holds an MBA from Universidad del Salvador (Argentina) / University of Deusto (Spain); and received his PhD  in Information Science from University at Albany, SUNY. Prior to his current appointment, he was a faculty member and Chair of the MIS Dept.  at the School of Business, Universidad del Salvador. He has worked in the IT arena for 20+ years and has consulted for a numerous multinational firms including Microsoft, IBM, Exxon, Reuters, Philip Morris, Hewlett Packard, STET France Telecom, Accenture, and Ryder, advising on such topics as decision support systems, business intelligence, data management and distributed applications. His research in Bayesian networks and statistical machine learning has been published in a number of top journals and academic institutions, including Decision Support Systems, the European Journal of Operational Research, the Association of Information Systems, and the American Institute of Physics. Dr. Lauría serves as co-director of the Master of Science in Technology Management and as Project Manager at the Center for Collaborative and On-Demand Computing, Marist College.

Dr. Chengalur-Smith is an Associate Professor in the Information Technology Management Department at the School of Business, University at Albany, State University of New York. She received her Ph.D. from Virginia Tech in 1989. Her research interests are in the areas of Quality Control, Information Quality, Decision Making, and Technology Implementation. She has worked on industry-sponsored projects on these topics and published her research in various journals including Information Systems Research, Communications of the ACM, and several IEEE Transactions. She has chaired the annual International Conference on Information Quality at MIT in 1998 and again in 2004. Shobha Chengalur-Smith currently serves on the Editorial Boards of Information & Management, Journal of E-Commerce Research and Information Quality Research. Prior to joining the faculty at SUNY-Albany she worked in the private sector for Corning Inc. and in the public sector for the Department of Transportation.

Richard Y. Wang is Director of the MIT Information Quality (MITIQ) Program and Co-Director for the Total Data Quality Management Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is also the University Professor of Information Quality at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. Before heading the MITIQ program Dr. Wang served as a professor at MIT for a decade. He also served on the faculty of the University of Arizona and Boston University. Dr. Wang received his Ph.D. in Information Technology from MIT.

Dr. Wang has put the term Information Quality on the intellectual map with a myriad of publications. In 1996, Prof. Wang organized the premier International Conference on Information Quality, which he has served as the general conference chair and currently serves as Chairman of the Board.  Dr. Wang’s books on information quality include:

1. Quality Information and Knowledge (Prentice Hall, 1999)
2. Data Quality (Kluwer Academic, 2001)
3. Readings in Information Quality (MITIQ Publications, 2004)
4. Information Quality (M.E. Sharpe, 2005)
5. Introduction to Information Quality (MITIQ Publications, 2005)
6. Case Studies in Information Quality (MITIQ Publications, 2006)
7. Journey to Data Quality (MIT Press, 2006)
8. Enterprise Architecture Deployment (forthcoming, 2006).

In 2005, Dr. Wang received four awards for his contributions to the field:

1. The 2005 DAMA International Academic Achievement Award. Previous recipients of this award include:Peter Chen (father of the Entity Relationship Model),  E. F. Codd (father of the Relational Model), and William H. Inmon.
2. A certificate of appreciation from the Director of Central Intelligence in recognition of outstanding contribution to the Intelligence Community.
3. A Special Recognition by the University of Arkansas at Little Rock (UALR) for Dr. Wang’s original contributions to the development of the first-of-its-kind Master of Science in Information Quality degree in the world.
4. A Special Award by the German Society of Information Quality (GSIQ) for Dr. Wang’s instrumental contributions in establishing the GSIQ.

Dr. Wang’s current research focuses on extending information quality to enterprise architecture deployment and service-oriented computing. Additionally, he heads MITIQ’s Consortium Program on Longitudinal IQ Research and Practice.  The MITIQ program also offers certificate programs and executive courses on information quality. Over the last two decades, Dr. Wang has been involved in numerous projects and consulting assignments both in the public and private sectors. He can be reached at rwang@mit.edu, http://mitiq.mit.edu, or 617-969-2169.

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