IIPC:
Initial convenors include industry,
academic and technology collaborators

The Internet Information Payment Collaborative's founding convenors bring a unique combination of industry, academic and technology expertise. They include:

Dr. Leslie D. Ball

Dr. Ball is professor of information systems at the Isenberg School of Management at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. For 10 years, he was a partner with Computer Science Corp.'s Systems Integration Company, where he managed its international business process re-engineering management consulting practice. Before that, he was on the faculties of Babson College, Arizona State University, and Northeastern University. He has consulted with over 100 companies in the United States, Europe, and South America and focuses on helping senior executives understand the business impact of new computer technologies. Dr. Ball is the author of over 80 journal articles and two books. He serves on the Executive Board of the Society of Information Management. He holds a BS, Northeastern University; an MBA, Boston College; and a Ph.D., University of Massachusetts-Amherst.

Stephen C. Mott

Mr. Mott is the principal of CSI Management Services of Stamford, Conn., and an expert on electronic-commerce strategies and online payment systems. Until February, 1998, Mott was senior vice president for electronic commerce and new ventures, at MasterCard International Inc., reporting to the president. Mott holds an MBA from the Harvard University Graduate School of Business. He formerly held assignments with MCI International Inc., McGraw-Hill Inc., and McKinsey & Co. From 1987-1994 he was president and then CEO of Cognitive Systems Inc., a Stamford, Conn.-based data-mining and text-processing company. He began his career as a journalist with the Dallas Times-Herald after graduation cum laude from the University of California at Berkeley in journalism and economics. He was the elected editor-and-chief and publisher of The Daily Californian. Mott is a director of Clickshare Service Corp.

William P. Densmore Jr.

Mr. Densmore is president and cofounder of Clickshare Service Corp., a Massachusetts startup which has pioneered the development of a patent-pending distributed user-management and microbilling aggregation system. He has written articles on electronic-commerce topics for ComputerWorld magazine's EMMERCE web site, and for the Newspaper Association of America. He has spoken by invitation at industry conferences sponsored by The Gartner Group, McKinsey & Co., Editor & Publisher Interactive and The Associated Press and for three years has served as a judge of E&P's Online Newspapers Contest. Prior to joining in development of the Clickshare¨ Token Validation ServiceŞ technology, Densmore spent 20 years in the newspaper and publishing industries as a wire-service reporter, editor and weekly publisher. Mr. Densmore received his B.A. in environmental policy and communications from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst and was graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy.

Applied Computing Systems Institute of Massachusetts

The Applied Computer Systems Institute of Massachusetts Inc. (ACSIOM) is a 501(c)3 not-for-profit technology-transfer affiliate of the University of Massachusetts and its computer-science department. By charter, a majority of its directors are UMass-Amherst faculty. ACSIOM's director of business development, Robert W. Eaton, is IIPC's contact. Incorporated in 1988, ACSIOM: (a) Promotes the expertise and technology available at the University for use in commercial, government, and educational applications; (b) Performs contract research and development for federal and state government agencies, and for private enterprise; and, (c) Assists start-up companies with promising technology products or services. ACSIOM has issued over 150 licenses for more than 20 intellectual properties created by UMass faculty, staff and students to corporations, government agencies, universities and research institutions in the U.S. and abroad. It has a 15-person technical staff. ACSIOM's offices are located in a two-year old, state-of-the-art corporate center in Hadley, Mass., three miles from the multi-site university's premier 21,000-student Amherst campus.

Umass Interdisciplinary Center for Electronic Commerce (ICEC)

The Interdisciplinary Center for Electronic Commerce (ICEC) is a UMass-Amherst based umbella academic research organization and the IIPC is its first public-private project. The center is jointly managed by Prof. Les Ball, of the Isenberg School of Management (SOM) and Prof. Leon Osterweil, of Department of Computer Science (CS), with assistance from Prof. Barry C. Field, of the Department of Resource Economics and with support from International Business Machines Corp. The ICEC's goals are to: (a) Advance the state of the art and practice in electronic commerce; (b) Produce a growing stream of skilled and educated students strongly grounded in basic principles underlying electronic commerce; (c) Engage in collaborative projects with industry to expedite dissemination of research results and expedite the validation of those results; and, (d) Secure an international leadership position for UMass by establishing a paradigm-setting blueprint for multi-specialty research. Disciplines brought to bear will include marketing, finance, economics, and ethics. Commerce aspects studied will include information-systems management, information retrieval, data mining, business-process redesign, security and privacy, network topology and effects and collaboration technology.

The Internet Information Payments Collaborative
c/o The Applied Computing Systems Institute of Massachusetts Inc.
Massachusetts Venture Center
100 Venture Way
Hadley MA 01035
(413) 587-2180
info@iipc.net


Dr. Leslie Ball
Professor of Information Technology
Room 202-D / Isenberg School of Management
University of Massachusetts
Amherst MA 01003
(413) 545-5654
ball@som.umass.edu


This page updated: 11-08-98