Professor Dennis Bialaszewski has been involved with International Academy for Information Management (IAIM) for several years and has served as its President and also Program Chair for the IAIM Conference (New Orleans). He has also served the organization as CoEditor of the Journal of Education for MIS for four years. Dennis received his Ph.D. from SUNY at Buffalo. He is a past recipient of the New York State Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching. He was Chairperson in the Department of Systems and Decision Sciences of Indiana State University for a period of 10 years. He was instrumental in developing the MIS major at I.S.U. He received a grant to build the first computer lab offered to business students at Indiana State University. Dennis has more than 90 publications and is a member of several professional/academic organizations. He has written the text INFORMATION SYSTEMS FOR THE FUTURE – 2nd edition (ISBN 9781465242201) and is in the process of completing the text AN INTRODUCTION TO GOOGLE DRIVE WITH APPLICATIONS (ISBN 9781465269027). He also serves on multiple journal review boards.

Dr. Bialaszewski has seen many changes in direction in the field of Information Systems since he taught his first college class in 1972. The introductory course has changed from programming in BASIC and programming logic to a stress on application software to a move towards Open Source software. It appears that vendors had a very large influence on the direction of the curriculum. Movements such as the OLPC and PLan Ceibal have attempted to take the curriculum in another direction. With the widespread use of Open Source operating systems such as LINUX there is less fear of using Open Source software. GOOGLE and AMAZON use LINUX on their multitude of servers. Universities and companies are always trying to cut costs while not sacrificing quality. In this session we will look at the future of Information Systems from a Global Perspective.