About The Author
David J. Auer
Dr. David J. Auer has more than thirty years of experience teaching college-level business and information systems courses and, for over twenty years, has worked professionally in the field of information technology. He served as a commissioned officer in the U.S. Air Force, assigned to NORAD and the Alaskan Air Command in air defense operations. He later taught business administration, music classes at Whatcom Community College, and business courses for the Chapman College Residence Education Center at Whidbey Island Naval Air Station. He founded the Puget Sound Guitar Workshop (now in its 41st year of operations).
David was a psychotherapist and organizational development consultant for the Whatcom Counseling and Psychiatric Clinic's Employee Assistance Program. He provided training for the Washington State Department of Social and Health Services. He taught for Western Washington University's College of Business and Economics from 1981 to June 2015 and served as the college's Director of Information Systems and Technology Services from 1994 to 2014.
David M. Kroenke
Professor David Kroenke has many years of teaching experience at Colorado State University, Seattle University, and the University of Washington. The International Association of Information Systems named him Computer Educator of the Year in 1991. He has led dozens of seminars for college professors on the teaching of information systems and technology. The Association of Information Technology Professionals-Education Special Interest Group honoured David with the title of Educator of the Year in 2009.
David held positions with Boeing Computer Services and the US Air Force.
He was a key figure in the founding of three businesses, holding positions as chief of database technologies at Wall Data, Inc. and vice president of product marketing and development at Microrim Corporation.
The semantic object data model is his creation.
IBM®, Microsoft®, and Computer Sciences Corporations, as well as numerous smaller businesses, have been among David's consulting clients.
David has recently concentrated on using information systems to teach teamwork and collaboration.
Numerous other textbooks have been written by him or with whom he has collaborated, such as Database Concepts, 8th Edition, Experiencing MIS, 8th Edition, SharePoint for Students, Office 365 in Business, and Processes, Systems, and Information: An Introduction to MIS, 3rd Edition.
Scott L. Vandenberg
Dr. Scott L. Vandenberg has over 27 years of experience teaching computer science to college students in computer science and business. Before completing his Ph.D., he worked briefly at Procter & Gamble headquarters, Standard Oil Research, and IBM Research. He taught for two years at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst before joining the faculty at Siena College in 1993. His primary teaching interests are in database management systems and introductory computer science, with research, consulting, and publications also focused on those areas. Some of his earlier scholarly work included the development of data models, query languages, and algebras for object-oriented databases and databases involving sequential and tree-structured data. More recent research has involved applying database technology to help solve data science problems in biology and epidemiology.
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