Bill Anderson, BSIS/MSIT program director, has released a digitalSeminarsTM training CD, “Systems Analysis & Design.” The 90-minute CD, published by the Pleier Corporation in Mission Viejo, is geared toward both information technology and business professionals and covers 30 learning objectives regarding database design and systems analysis and design.

Associate Professor of Business Mak Kaboudan’s article, “Modeling and Forecasting Dynamical Systems with Genetic Programming,” has been accepted for publication in the Taylor & Francis Journal, “Systems Analysis Modelling Simulation.” The article will appear in early 2004.

Jim Pick, professor of business, was recently appointed to a two-year term on the Executive Council of the Information Resources Management Association. The international scholarly association of information systems faculty supports an annual conference and 11 scholarly journals. He was appointed to the Data/GIS Task Force of the Southern California Association of Governments, the region’s largest metropolitan planning organization. Pick also was elected to a three-year term on the Board of Trustees of the Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archives of the University of California.