MIT MIT TDQM Program

 

IQ 1996 Conference Program
OCTOBER 25, FRIDAY
12:00 - 1:00 Registration
1:00 - 1:20 Chairman's Welcome and Opening Remarks
Richard Wang, Co-Director for MIT's TDQM Program
1:20 - 2:00 Keynote Speech
Rakesh Kaul, President & CEO, Hanover Direct, Inc.
2:00 - 2:15Coffee Break
2:15 - 3:45 State-of-the-Art Research in Information Quality
Session Chair: Arie Segev, University of California, Berkeley
  Data Quality Research at SUNY-Albany
Donald Ballou, Harold Pazer, and Giri Kumar Tayi
State University of New York, Albany
  TDQM Research at MIT
Yang Lee and Richard Wang, MIT
Leo Pipino, University of Massachusetts, Lowell
Diane Strong, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
3:45 - 4:00Coffee Break
4:00 - 5:30 State-of-the-Art Practice in Information Quality
Session Chair: Stuart Madnick, MIT
  Data Quality and Systems Theory
Ken Orr, Ken Orr Institute
  Knowledge Cockpit - Visualizing Knowledge Quality and Management
K.T. Huang, Director, Worldwide Knowledge Management and Asset Reuse, IBM Consulting Group
  How Will You Transform Legacy Data into an Information Asset?
Stephen Brown, Vality Technology
6:00 - 7:00Reception at the MIT Faculty Club
7:00 - 9:00Dinner at the MIT Faculty Club
OCTOBER 26, SATURDAY
8:15 - 10:00 Research Paper Session I
Session Chair: Richard Mathieu, University of North Carolina, Wilmington
  On Information Quality and the WWW Impact: A Position Paper
Arie Segev, University of California, Berkeley
  Conditions for the Detection of Data Errors in Organizational Settings: Preliminary Results from a Field Study
Barbara Klein, University of Michigan-Dearborn
Dale Goodhue and Gordon Davis, University of Minnesota
  Can You Defend Your Information in Court?
Richard Wang and Yang Lee, MIT
Diane Strong, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
  Practice Paper Session I
Session Chair: Tom Redman, Navesink Consulting Group
  Data Quality in Practice: Experience from the Front Line
Chris Firth, Citibank, Singapore
  Competing with Quality Information
Alan Matsumura and Nadia Shouraboura, Diamond Technology Partners
  Data Quality Issues in the Health Care Industry
Melissa Tzourakis, Medicode, Inc.
10:00 - 10:15 Coffee Break
10:15 - 12:00 Research Paper Session II
Session Chair: Leo Pipino, University of Massachusetts, Lowell
  Estimating the Quality of Data in Relational Databases
Amihai Motro and Igor Rakov, George Mason University
  Toward a Methodology for Knowledge Quality Assurance in Data Mining
Vassilis Moustakis and Loukas Tsironis, Technical University of Crete, Greece
  Systems Approaches to Improving Data Quality
Levant Orman, Cornell University
Veda Storey, Georgia State University
Richard Wang, MIT
  Practice Paper Session II
Sessoin Chair: Larry Cobler, Vector Research Inc.
  Data Quality Assurance Activities in the Military Health Services System
David Corey, US Army
Larry Cobler, Thomas Lonsdale, & Karen Haynes
Vector Research, Inc.
  DoD Guidelines on Data Quality Management
Phillip Cykana, Alta Paul & Miranda Stern
Defense Information Systems Agency
  Beyond Security: A DQ Perspective on Information Warfare
Peter Kaomea, Sue Hearold & Ward Page NCCOSC, US Navy
12:00 - 2:00 Luncheon at MIT Faculty Club
Luncheon Speaker: Stuart Madnick, MIT
2:00 - 3:45 Research Paper Session III
Session Chair: Beverly Kahn, Suffolk University
  Managerial Issues in Data Quality
Donald Ballou and Giri Kumar Tayi
State University of New York, Albany
  A TQM Approach to the Measurement of Information Quality with Implications to Concurrent Engineering
Ron Dvir, ECI Telecomm
Stephen Evans, Cranfield University, England
  A Data Quality Engineering Process
Donna Meyen, The Mitre Corporation
Mary Jane Willshire, Colorado Technical University
  Practice Paper Session III
Session Chair: David Eddy, Niche Software Products
  Data and Information Quality: Will the New York Times ever "Get It"?
James Hurysz, Data Quality Journal
  Name and Address Data Quality
Sophie Allen, MasterSoft Research Pty Ltd., Australia
  TDQM Versus the Edifice Complex in Data Warehousing
Max Hansen, Max Hansen and Associates
3:45 - 5:00 End of the IQ 1996 Conference
Informal Discussions