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| What is your favorite outside activity? |
Watching Tiger basketball games. |
| What is your favorite color? |
Blue |
| Who is your favorite entertainer ever? |
Elvis Presley |
| Who is your best friend? |
My wife, Susan |
| What is your favorite course? |
I like all courses in the MIS area, but courses relating to database
and the Internet are my favorite. |
| What first attracted you to the University? |
The University offered a job in the data processing area, the forerunner
of MIS. |
| What is your biggest professional achievement? |
Writing 23 textbooks that help students to learn. |
| What is your biggest honor at the University of Memphis? |
Being selected for the University Distinguishing Advising Award. |
| What is your biggest professional honor? |
Being selected as the Data Educator of the Year by the International
Society of Information Systems Professionals. |
| What do you like most about teaching? |
The opportunity to work with students. |
| What do you like least about teaching? |
Assigning grades. |
| What would students be least likely to guess about you? |
That I made All City in basketball and baseball while in high school. |
| What would you like to devote more time to? |
I am lucky to have a good family. I would like to spend more
time with them. |
| If you had not chosen to be a professor, what would you like to do? |
Work in a large corporation--maybe FedEx or IP. |
| What has caused the biggest changes for you? |
Microcomputers, the Internet, and grandchildren. |
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