Dr. David Schwartz
Head of the Information Systems Division and Senior Lecturer
Bar-Ilan University Graduate School of Business Administration, Israel
Editor, Encyclopaedia of Knowledge Management

Dr. David Schwartz is a senior lecturer in Information Systems at the Graduate School of Business Administration of Bar-Ilan University, Israel. From 1995-2001 he served as Head of the Information Systems Division of the Business School.

Dr. Schwartz's research interests include Computer Mediated Communications, Distributed Artificial Intelligence, Knowledge Management, Intelligent Agents, and Internet-based Systems. In 1998 and 1999 he served as co-organizer and co-chair of the First (Pisa) and Second (Copenhagen) International Workshop on Innovative Internet Information Systems (IIIS).

In 1998 Dr. Schwartz was the recipient of a grant from Chase Manhattan Bank to investigate the use of Computer Mediated Communications techniques to improve the richness of communications for cooperation in International Business.

David is editor of the internationally acclaimed Journal of Internet Research. The Journal of Internet Research was the first international journal established to examine and understand the uses and effects of the Internet. Back in 1992, the Journal was the first to publish a paper by Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, entitled "World-Wide Web: the information universe". In 1994 the journal published Marc Andreessen's breakthrough paper on the Mosaic Browser. Today, under Dr. Schwartz's leadership, the Journal continues to publish the highest quality leading edge research. Through the Journal, David manages an international editorial board of 18 scientists and researchers at some of the world's leading universities, research institutes, and corporations.

David has a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, and a Masters in Business Administration from McMaster University, Canada.

Prior to joining Bar-Ilan University, David spent three years at the Center for Automation and Intelligent Systems Research in Cleveland, Ohio. He has, since 1989, published more than fifty journal articles, conference papers and book chapters on various aspects of information technology. See, e.g., When eMail Meets Organizational Memories, in Human-Computer Studies, 1999; and Tying Knowledge to Action with kMail, IEEE Intelligent Systems and Applications, 2000; The process of Organizational Communication: a model and field study, IEEE Transactions on Professional Communications, 2001. He is the author and editor of the books, Cooperating Heterogeneous Systems and Internet-based Organizational Memory and Knowledge Management.

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