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 | | Dr. Ira H. Sack | | Associate Professor |
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Research & Education
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| Research |
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- Organizational Architecture and Design
- Business and Information Modeling
- Information Systems Ontologies and Epistemologies
- Knowledge Management
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| | Education |
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- Ph.D. (1976), Computer Science, Stevens Institute of Technology
- M.S. (1966), Mathematics and Computer Science (42 credits), Courant Institute of New York University
- B.S. (1964) Mathematics, Brooklyn College
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Experience & Service
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| General Information |
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| Ira Sack is an Associate Professor of Management who has been teaching at Stevens for over 25 years. Prior to joining Stevens, he was an academic at various universities including Hofstra University and Canisius College and employed in diverse positions including: a Member of Technical Staff at Bell Telephone Laboratories (1966-1968) in systems modeling and software development (simulation and systems design and programming). His consulting experience includes research and development for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and Scientific Research Associates working in the area of the design and implementation of distributed view integrated databases. He has done technical editing for McGraw Hill, Prentice Hall, and been a curriculum consultant to several universities. He has authored numerous publications on organizational architecture and design, information systems, business foundations of e-commerce, intelligent agents, business and information modeling, and logic. His latest, coauthored text is the well-acclaimed book, Organization Modeling: Innovative Architectures for the 21st Century. He has given numerous papers at workshops and international workshops as well as universities on his own research in organizational architecture and design as well as business and information modeling and related areas. Among his academic accomplishments are having been one of the prime facilitators of the Ph.D. program in Information Management and the subsequent supervision of Ph.D. students in Information Management as principal advisor. |
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Achievements & Professional Societies
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- National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Two grants ( in Design and Prototyping of a Distributed Heterogeneous View Integrated Database for Space Applications. 1983-1985
- NASA-ASEE Summer Faculty Fellow (twice) 1983, 1985
- Principal Investigator "Process Control and Communication", NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
- Air Force Grant for Studies on "Information Imaging Algebra" (with Dean Charles Suffel, and Dr. Charles Giardina) 1985-1986
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| | Honors & Awards |
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- Schmitt Computing Scholar (awarded twice by the National Engineering Consortium)
- Certificate of Recognition form Dept. of Acct. and Law. Received from William Patterson University for Leadership and Paper Presentation (2002).
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- Association of Computer Machinery (ACM)
- International Association for Data and Information Quality (IADIQ)
- DAMA International
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Publications
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Presentation/Meeting- Ira Sack. (Jan 24, 2008). ""A New Contract Continuum for Organization Design", "Seminaire du Doctorat en Informatique Cognitvie", Universtity of Quebec at Monteal (UQAM)"
- Ira Sack. (Jun 7, 2007). " "Roundtable participant : "To change the healthcare system in Quebec? The strategy-structure debate in the Quebec healthcare system in the lsight of general policies, organizational theories, and organizationa design", Interanational Conferenc eon Strategic Managment, Montreal, Canada""
Generic- Ira Sack, Richard Balicki and Albert Lejeune. (2009), Workshop on Information and Organizational Design, EIASM, The European Institute for Advanced Studies in Management, Brussels, April 20-21, 2009, ' A Balanced Architectural Approach to Develop Dynamic Capabilities
- Haim Kilov and Ira Sack. (2008), Mehdi Khosrow-Pour , Encylcopedia of Information Science and Technology, Second Edition, Idea Group
- Albert Lejeune and Ira Sack, Workshop on Architecture and Social Architecture: Disturbing Notions of Structure in Organizations;
EIASM, The European Istitute for Advanced Studies in Management, Brussels, May 15-16, 2008, "Architecting organizational domains in three spaces of strategy"
Conference Proceedings- Haim Kilov and Ira Sack. (2005). "Philosophy-Based Communications Between Business and IT Experts", ONTOSE 2005, University of Alcala, Spain
- Ira Sack, Richard Balicki. (2002). "Contracts and Contract Analogs in Organizational Contexts", Eleventh OOPSLA Workshop on Behavioral Semantics Serving the Customer
- Sack, I.. (2001). "An Introduction to Theories of Information Flow and Their Organizational Applications", Tenth OOPSLA Workshop on Behavioral Semantics, Back to Basics
- Joseph Morabito, Ira Sack, Anilkumar Bhate. (2000). "An Introduction to Knowledge Binding. In: Proceedings of the Technology of Object-Oriented Language and Systems", TOOLS 34' IEEE
- Angela E. Thalassinidis, Ira Sack. (1999). "Initiating Business Strategies for the E-publishing Industry - A Case Study", Eighth OOPSLA Workshop on Behavioral Semantics OOPSLA '99, Denver
| Journals- Haim Kilov and Ira Sack. (Jan 2009). "Mechanisms for Communication between Business and IT Experts ", Journal of Computer Standards and Interfaces, Elsevier. 31 (1)
- Joseph Morabito, Ira Sack, Ted Stohr, Anilkumar Bhate. (2008). "Architecting Flexible Orgnizations", Global Journals of Flexible Systems Management, indianjournals.com
- Sack, I.. (Apr 2000). "Dimensions of Organizational Design: The Architectural Continuum and Knowledge Binding", Stevens Alliance for Technology Management Newsletter. 4 (2)
Books- Haim Kilov, Ira Sack . (2004). "Exploiting Reusable Abstractions in Organizational Inquiry", J.F Courtney J.D. Haynes and D. Paradice, Inquiring Organizations: Moving from Knowledge Management to Wisdom, Hershey PA: Idea Group Publishing
- Sack, I.. (2003), Using IM to Initiate Business Strategies for the E-Publishing Industry, Kluwer Academic Press
- Sack, I.. (1999). "On the Specification of the Business and Economic Foundations of Electronic Commerce", Behavioral Specifications of Businesses and Systems, Kluwer Academic Press
- Sack, I., Morabito, J. Bhate, A.. (1999), Organization Modeling: Innovative Architectures for the 21st Century, Prentice Hall
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