Artificial Intelligence/Emerging Technologies

Objectives
The Artificial Intelligence/Emerging Technologies Section strives to encourage application of the techniques of these two areas to accounting research, teaching and practice. Artificial intelligence includes the subfields of knowledge-based systems, neural networks, and heuristic problem solving; emerging technologies include (among others) the Internet, the World Wide Web, electronic commerce, work-group and work-flow technology, and interactive multimedia. More specific objectives for the section are:

1. To encourage research in emerging technologies and artificial intelligence:
   (a) by identifying areas of accounting in need of exploration with the methods of these two disciplines,
   (b) by facilitating the exchange of ideas and findings in artificial intelligence and emerging technologies among accounting scholars, and
   (c) by providing presentation and publication opportunities for accounting researchers in these fields.
2. To encourage educational innovation and to improve accounting instruction:
   (a) with the development of AI-based teaching methods and tools, and
   (b) with the application of emerging technologies to accounting education.
3. To provide opportunities for interchange of ideas in artificial intelligence and emerging technologies among accounting academics and business practitioners in public, corporate, and not-for-profit accounting.

Membership: 391

Dues: $15

2001–2002 Officers

Chairperson
Stewart A. Leech
Department of Accounting
The University of Melbourne
Victoria 3010 AUSTRALIA
Telephone: +61 3 8344 5314
Fax: +61 3 9349 2397
Email: saleech@.unimelb.edu.au

Chairperson-Elect
Amelia A. Baldwin
Culverhouse School of Accountancy
Box 870220
The University of Alabama
Tuscaloosa, AL 35487-0220
Phone: (205) 348-6679
Fax: (205) 348-8453
Email: abaldwin@cba.ua.edu

Vice Chairperson
To be elected at the Annual Meeting

Immediate Past Chairperson
Marilyn M. Greenstein
School of Management
Arizona State University West
4701 West Thunderbird Road
Phoenix, AZ 85069-7100
Phone: (602) 543-6219
Fax: (602) 543-6303
Email: marilyn.greenstein@asu.edu

Secretary/Treasurer
James A. Hall
College of Business and Economics
Lehigh University
RBC 37
Bethlehem, PA 18015
Phone: (610) 758-3457
Fax: (610) 758-4499
Email: jah0@lehigh.edu

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