What are the technologies that will transform business and drive the research agenda for the IS field in the years to come? Which innovations, platforms, and paradigms will become dominant, and which others will ultimately pass into obscurity? In this panel discussion, we will seek answers to these questions from those with a unique and unmatched perspective. The leaders who have witnessed the ...

Almost everyone knows that the inner angles of a triangle sum to 180o. But if you ask the typical mathematician how to sum the solid inner angles over the vertices of a tetrahedron, you are likely to receive a blank stare or a mystified shrug. In some cases you may be directed to the Gram-Euler relations for higher dimensional polytopes [3, 4, 6, 7], a 19th century result unjustly consigned to ...

e nature of divine eternality is obscure in both historical andmodern discussions. In a way its obscurity is no surprise, given that the nature of time is so mysterious. But the obscurity is still notable relative to the other traditional divine attributes, which are comparatively much better understood. Our perplexities regarding eternality are compounded, I will argue here, by a failure to re...

H ow do smalland medium-sized firms raise external equity capital? In this paper, I describe two markets that entrepreneurs of smalland medium-sized enterprises use in the United States to raise equity: the organized private equity market and the market for angel capital. Both markets are important sources of equity capital for smalland mediumsized firms. However, until recently, not much was k...

I rst celebrate the immense success of twentieth century physics, but then urge that the future may bring many surprises, even in the basic structures of physical

A review of the academic discourses on gender and music on the one hand, and on electronic music composition on the other, might elicit the impression that the two fields carry mutually repellent charges.1 Despite the diversity of backgrounds and compositional interests among women electronic composers, their relative obscurity has made theorizing gender difference as a factor in electronic exp...