Analysis, Legislation

Is Georgia moving to hand-marked paper ballots for elections?

The Georgia Assembly is considering a bill to return the state to hand-marked paper ballots as the default, with touchscreen voting devices available for people with disabilities. The bill won't make it through the 2025 legislative session as it was not passed by the Senate before crossover day. Hopefully, it will survive the session and… Continue reading Is Georgia moving to hand-marked paper ballots for elections?

Academia, Research, Students

“What does ChatGPT Know about Information Systems?” accepted for publication at the Communications of the AIS

I recently worked on a research project with Dan O'Leary, Veda Storey, Aaron French, Joseph Buckman, Cecil Chua, Grace Gu, Fred Niederman, Francis Pereira, Gary Templeton, and Linda Wallace that explored how well ChatGPT would do with exam and quiz questions used by faculty in Information Systems (IS) courses. I'm happy to report that our… Continue reading “What does ChatGPT Know about Information Systems?” accepted for publication at the Communications of the AIS

Academia, Research

“To report or not to report? Extending Protection Motivation Theory to Vulnerability Discovery and Disclosure” accepted for publication at Computers & Security

I've been working with Amy Woszczynski and DJ Oliver on a study that is near and dear to my heart due to my personal experiences with reporting problems I have discovered. This week, we were informed that our study had been accepted for publication in "Computers & Security," an A-level journal on the Australian Business… Continue reading “To report or not to report? Extending Protection Motivation Theory to Vulnerability Discovery and Disclosure” accepted for publication at Computers & Security

Research, Tips

Importing OVA into Amazon AWS

While working on a project, I needed to be able to import OVAs into my Amazon AWS account for use in various ways. What I discovered is that Amazon's documentation on this process is rather... dense and confusing. I spent a good amount of time trying to decipher what the documentation was actually telling me… Continue reading Importing OVA into Amazon AWS

Research

Converting VM images to Docker containers

I'm starting to experiment with Docker containers. From a pedagogical perspective, I see lots of opportunities to quickly and easily script environments to support hands-on lab objectives for my students. Being able to create a series of images, push them to a public Docker repo, and then store a Docker compose script in a Github… Continue reading Converting VM images to Docker containers