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| Name: | Dr. Russell W. Robbins |
| Title: | Assistant Professor |
| Office Location: | Lowell Thomas 012 |
| Extension: | (845) 575-3000 ext. 2596 |
| Email: | russ.robbins@marist.edu |
| Personal Web Page: | http://foxweb.marist.edu/users/russ.robbins/ |
| Degrees Held: | Ph.D. (Engineering Science) Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Troy, New York, December 2005. Thesis: Understanding Individual and Group Ethical Problem Solving: A Computational Ethics Approach M.S. (Information Technology) Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Troy, New York, December 2004 M.S. (Accounting) Binghamton University Binghamton, New York, May 1997 B.S.B.A. (Finance) University of Missouri-Columbia Columbia, Missouri, December 1990 |
| Bio: | Dr. Robbins earned his Ph.D. in Engineering Science and a M.S. in Information Technology at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He also holds a M.S. in Accounting from Binghamton University as well as a B.S. in Business Administration from the University of Missouri. Prior to Marist College, at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, he was a faculty member of the Lally School of Management and Technology for six years. He co-founded Achaean Technology, Inc., a startup focused upon providing enterprise systems to not-for-profit agencies providing care to the developmentally disabled and mentally retarded. He has also worked for International Business Machines, Inc., Rensselaer Polytechnic and the U.S. Army. He has published in the Association for Computing Machinery proceedings and Decision Support Systems and has a chapter in an upcoming book: Research on Technoethics. Professor Robbins is affiliated with the IEEE, the Association for Computing Machinery, the Institute for Operations Research and Management Science, and the Association for Information Systems. He was one of four finalists in the 2004 Excellence in Ethics Dissertation Proposal competition hosted at the Institute for Ethical Business Worldwide in the Mendoza College of Business at the University of Notre Dame. |
| Interests: | Dr. Robbins is an avid outdoors person; he enjoys hiking, biking, and canoeing. He also reads history and philosophy in his spare time. |
| Awards & Honors: | National Science Foundation Award Number IIS-0734899. Award Date: August 23, 2007. Educational Simulation for Computing and Information Ethics; $89,999 for 2008-2010. Collaboration with University of Maryland College Park (IIS-0734894, $150,000) and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (IIS-0734879, $60,001); Total Grant: $300,000. Dr. Robbins was one of four finalists in the 2004 Excellence in Ethics Dissertation Proposal competing held by the Institute for Ethical Business Worldwide at the University of Notre Dame. |
| Publications: | Robbins, R.W., and Wallace, W.A. Decision Support for Ethical Problem Solving: A Multiagent Approach (to appear in Decision Support Systems) Robbins, R. W., Wallace, W. A., and Puka, B. (April 2004). "Supporting Ethical Problem Solving: An Exploratory Investigation." Proceedings of the Association for Computing Machinery, Special Interest Group for Management Information Systems and Computer Personnel Research. Association for Computing Machinery. Tucson, AZ. |
| Research Interests: | Decision Support Systems, Expert Systems, Multi-agent Systems, Ethics |
| Conferences & Workshops: | Robbins, R.W. (December 2006) �Towards Developing Descriptive Ethics Theories for Management Science: Using Interdisciplinary Research and Information Systems.� 2006 International Federation for Information Processing Working Group 8.2 Organizations and Society in Information Systems (OASIS) Pre-ICIS Workshop, Milwaukee, WI. Robbins, R. W., Wallace, W. A., and Puka, B. (April 2003). "Supporting the Ethical Problem Solving Process with Information Technology." Promoting Ethics in Operations Research workshop, hosted by the EURO WORKING GROUP PROMETHEUS on Ethics in OR, Fontainebleau, France. Robbins, R. W., and Wallace, W. A. (April 2003). Modeling the Social Dynamics of Individual Ethical Behavior." Promoting Ethics in Operations Research workshop, hosted by the EURO WORKING GROUP PROMETHEUS on Ethics in OR, Fontainebleau, France. |
| Affiliations: | Association for Information Systems - SIGABIS Academy of Management - OCIS, SIM Association for Computing Machinery - SIGMIS CPR American Association for Artificial Intelligence IEEE - Computer Society |
| Presentations: | Robbins, R.W. and Wallace, W.A. (November 2006). A Computational Model of a Group of Individuals Resolving an Ethical Dilemma: Virtual Experiments.� 2006 Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA. Robbins, R.W. and Wallace, W.A. (August 2006). Decision Support for Ethical Problem Solving: A Multi-agent Approach. 2006 Americas Conference on Information Systems MIS Camp. Acapulco, Mexico. Robbins, R.W. and Wallace, W.A. (October 2005). Describing Ethical Problem Solving Dynamically: A Computational Modeling Approach. Ethics: The Guiding Light - The 12th Annual International Conference Promoting Business Ethics, St. Johns University, New York, NY. Robbins, R.W. and Wallace, W.A. (December 2004). "Towards Supporting Ethical Problem Solving in Individuals and Groups: Foundations for a Computational Modeling Approach." Association for Information Systems SIGDSS workshop "Expanding the Boundaries for Decision Support Systems" pre-2004 International Conference on Information Systems. Association for Information Systems. Washington, D.C. Robbins, R.W. (November 2004). "Understanding Individual and Group Ethical Problem Solving: A Computational Modeling Approach." 2004 Excellence in Ethics: Dissertation Proposal competition at the Institute for Ethical Business Worldwide in the Mendoza College of Business at the University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN. Robbins, R.W. (August 2004). "Understanding Ethical Problem Solving in Individuals and Groups: A Computational Modeling Approach." 2004 America's Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS) Doctoral Consortium, New York, NY. Robbins, R.W., Wallace, W.A., and Puka, B. (June 2003). "The Ethical Assistant: A Decision Aid for Ethical Problem Solving." Fifth Annual Computer Ethics, Philosophical Enquiry Conference. International Society for Ethics and Information Technology. Boston, MA. |
