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Intern Spotlight: Conner Paulson

Conner Paulson knows firsthand that you should never underestimate an opportunity to get your resume out there and network. Due...

Students

Improving Deception Detection

By byuisnews August 01, 2022 11:53 AM
PROVO, Utah – Jun 28, 2018 – In 2001, news of the Enron scandal broke, revealing that the energy company had misrepresented its income. Arthur Andersen, the accounting firm that conducted audits of Enron, failed to detect the fraud; neither company recovered after the scandal.

Intern Spotlight: Nathan Turner

By Emma Haynes September 16, 2020 05:49 PM
2nd Year MISM student Nathan Turner has discovered that whether on a normal day or during a global pandemic, Adobe...

Intern Spotlight: Ching Tong

By Emma Haynes January 23, 2020 05:51 PM
As a second year MISM student, Ching Tong was offered her dream job as a consultant for Pariveda Solutions. She...

AIS

Domo Data Analytics Hackathon Recap

By byuisnews March 03, 2020 03:13 PM
On February 21-22, AIS partnered with Domo and Weave to host the Domo Data Analytics Hackathon. Participating teams were provided a dataset and analytics challenge by Weave Friday afternoon. Each team was given 24 hours to work on their analytics utilizing Domo software and presented Saturday morning to a panel of judges, who then selected the winners.

BYU Marriott Students Win Big at AIS Competition

By byuisnews November 08, 2019 01:57 PM
PROVO, Utah – Nov 06, 2019 – BYU Marriott information systems students, supported by faculty and armed with experiential knowledge, took home first- and second-place finishes at the tenth annual Association for Information Systems Student Chapter Leadership Conference.

Collecting Hardware

By Sam Slighting April 25, 2018 09:05 PM
Hard drives and motherboards weren’t the only hardware at the annual Association for Information Systems Student Chapter Leadership Conference: BYU Marriott School of Business information systems students took home one second-place and two first-place trophies as well.

Alumni

Tanner Skousen Wins Best Theory Paper at ICIS

By Emma Haynes February 17, 2020 11:18 AM
Just days after his son’s birth, BYU MISM alumnus Tanner Skousen and his co-authors received an award for Best Theory Paper at ICIS in Munich, Germany.

MISM Alumnus Kyle Mathews Helps Gatsby Raise $15 Million in Funding

By Emma Haynes January 17, 2020 11:23 AM
Ten years after graduating with an MISM degree from BYU, Kyle Mathews (CEO and founder of Gatsby) announced that Gatsby has raised $15 million in Series A funding. This is a huge accomplishment for this open source software company. Their funding was raised by CRV and other investors including Trinity Ventures, Fathom Capital, and Dig Ventures.

BYU IS Alumna Opens First J.P. Morgan Private Bank in Utah, Excited to Give Back

By Camille Christiansen February 07, 2019 11:32 AM
PROVO, Utah – Feb 7, 2019 – After working in Texas for a decade, BYU Information Systems alumna Rachelle Morris has come back to Utah as a Vice President, Client Advisor for the newest J.P. Morgan office.

Faculty

Ashlyn Lewis Receives the SAERA Award

By Emma Haynes April 16, 2020 10:42 AM
Anytime someone enters the IS department office with a question or needing help, Business Manager Ashlyn Lewis has a solution. Nominated because of her respect for sacred resources, Ashlyn was awarded BYU’s SAERA Award in January 2020.

How Did the IS Faculty Spend Their Summer?

By Emma Haynes November 04, 2019 04:00 PM
The professors in the Information Systems department spend the school year teaching and mentoring students to help them prepare for the professional world. But, when students leave town for internships and full-time job offers, how do the faculty spend their time? Here are just a few of the exciting places that were explored during the summer of 2019.

Are Siri and Alexa making us ruder? The answer is...

By byuisnews August 18, 2019 12:27 PM
Is the way we bark out orders to digital assistants like Siri, Alexa and Google Assistant making us less polite? Prompted by growing concerns, two BYU information systems researchers decided to ask.