Short Biography - Michael Bieber

Michael Bieber is Assistant Professor of Information Systems in the Department of Computer and Information Sciences (CIS) at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT). He teaches in NJIT's distance education program, and in NJIT's Virtual Classroom program through a combination of cable television and computer conferencing. He directs NJIT's Hypermedia Information Systems Research Lab. He also is an Associate Director of NJIT's Electronic Enterprise Engineering (EEE) program. He has been performing hypermedia research since 1987. He currently is working on several projects to extend the functionality of the World Wide Web, and ways of developing WWW applications more effectively.

Michael co-edited the August 1995 special section of the Communications of the ACM on "Designing Hypermedia Applications." He conceived of and led the effort to implement an electronic version of the special section on the World Wide Web, augmented by over 150 links by the special section's authors. He also has co-edited a special issue of the Journal of Management Information Systems on "Navigation in Information Intensive Environments" and a special issue of the Journal of Organizational Computing on "Hypermedia in Information Systems and Organizations." He is currently co-editing several other special issues. He has published in the Communications of the ACM, IEEE Computer, Management Information Systems Quarterly, the International Journal of Human Computer Studies, Decision Support Systems, Interfaces and Hypermedia. He has co-organized the Hypermedia in Information Systems and Organizations minitrack at the HICSS conferences since 1993. He participates on the program committees of several other conferences.

Michael holds a Ph.D. in Decision Sciences from the University of Pennsylvania. He currently is a Faculty Fellow in the Automation Technology Section at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. He is an active member of the New Jersey Center for Multimedia Research and the National Institute of Transportation and Industrial Productivity centered at NJIT. Michael designed and developed the hypertext interface for the Max system, which won the "Outstanding Decision Support System Application" award at the DSS'90 conference. He serves as the treasurer of ACM SIGLINK. He is a member of the ACM, Association of Information Systems and the Society of Information Management.

Michael's research interests include information systems, hypertext automation, multimedia, electronic enterprise engineering (EEE)and decision support.