An illustration of a lawyer serving a lawsuit to a robot works on a painting set up on an easel.

AI art may lead to more lawsuits

Terry researchers found a pervasive public bias against art created with artificial intelligence that may lead to more copyright lawsuits and legal awards for copyright plaintiffs.

Winners of the Spring UGA Idea Accelerator Pitch Contest stand with a giant prize check.

Automated calendar takes home Idea Accelerator prize

Management senior Maahir Murad and MIS junior Huzaifah Malik impressed the judges at the first spring UGA Entrepreneurship Idea Accelerator with Scale — an automated student calendar. They took home the night’s top prize of $2,500.

robot hovering above laptop keyboard

More chatter and less connection

Recent research from the Terry College shows social media users’ comments and reactions increase when bots are included, but user-to-user interactions decline.

Illustration of a woman scrolling her phone with giant phone with a robot and chat bubbles behind her.

Let’s talk a-bot it

How do you feel about bots and AI? Carolina Salge, an assistant professor in management information systems, discusses her research into AI, chatbots and strange activity online.

Visiting international scholar Jan Recker speaks with faculty and graduate students at the Terry Department of Management Information Systems

Visiting Scholar: Jan Recker

Jan Recker, Terry College’s inaugural visiting international scholar and Alexander-von-Humboldt Fellow and Nucleus Professor for Information Systems and Digital Innovation at the University of Hamburg, has built a career studying the different ways people put technology to work.

Carolina Salge

A new way to think about bots

Salge and co-authors — Elena Karahanna of UGA and Jason Thatcher of the University of Colorado-Boulder (formerly of Temple University) — recently won best paper awards from the Association for Information Systems, the academic association for information systems scholars, and from MIS Quarterly, a premier information systems journal, for their investigation into the ways bots impact the information ecosystem online.

Jerry Kane in front of bookshelves

The future of work means thriving through change

With the rapid pace of technological change, the most significant thing an academic program can give its students is the ability to evolve, said Gerald Kane, who was named head of the Terry College of Business Department of Management Information Systems on Jan. 1. 

Ling Xue and Carolina Salge

MIS faculty recognized for scholarly work

Faculty from the Terry College of Business Department of Management Information Systems were honored for their contributions to the field by the Association for Information Systems. “We are extremely fortunate to have two such outstanding scholars in our department,” said Gerald Kane, head of the MIS department and the C. Herman and Mary Virginia Terry […]

Illustration of angry coworkers reacting poorly to the arrival of a robot to an office birthday party

Are robots wrecking the workplace?

Whether it’s a machine learning system boosting SEO, an algorithm sorting résumés or a chatbot handling customer service, artificial intelligence already plays a role in today’s offices.