Faculty News

Dr. Kohn Addresses INFORMS-NY: October 2007

Dr. Samuel Kohn

On Wednesday, October 17, Dr. Samuel Kohn addressed the prestigious New York Metro Chapter of INFORMS (Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences) on "Strategic Pricing of Innovative Technology" at the INFORMSNY luncheon meeting. Rachel Rothschild and Raizel Druxman, accompanying Dr. Kohn, represented Lander College for Women - Manhattan at the luncheon.

The meeting was held at the elegant Penn Club located at 30 West 44th Street, New York, NY The Penn Club's address is the same address Touro College had when it began in the 1970's. The URL for the luncheon and presentation can be found at http://nymetro.chapter.informs.org/main_event_info.html, a program of events including monthly meetings, conferences and outreach programs to local universities. The New York Metro Chapter was established in 1955 as a chapter of The Institute of Management Sciences (TIMS). The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) was formed in 1995 through the merger of TIMS and the Operations Research Society of America (ORSA).

Academic Computing Personnel Present at Educomm/Infocomm 2007

Albert Bina, Technical Support Manager for Touro's computer labs, and Phil Charach, Director of Instructional Technology, both of Touro's Academic Computing Department, presented an innovative session entitled "Do-It-Yourself Projector Control" on June 19, 2007, at Educomm/Infocomm 2007.

Mr. Bina developed an easily-extensible software program to control ceiling-mounted projectors via serial port communication . This program fulfilled the capstone project requirement for his Master’s degree in Instructional Technology and is currently utilized in Touro's smart classrooms at various sites.

In the session at Educomm, Mr. Bina and Mr. Charach emphasized that every smart classroom needs a projector to provide audio-visual capabilities. Fixed ceiling-mounted projectors, however, bring about a host of issues caused by inaccessible on-board controls and unreliable infrared remote controls. Popular solutions, such as switchers, control boxes, or vendor-supplied touch-screens, are high-cost or provide limited utility or extensibility. Mr. Bina and Mr. Charach demonstrated how Touro College solved the projector control problem by utilizing the software program developed in-house by Mr. Bina.

Educomm 2007, which ran concurrently with Infocomm from June 19-21, 2007, is a premiere educational technology conference with a strong focus on audiovisual equipment.

Conference link: http://educomm.educatorsportal.com/

Economics Conference Presentation: June 2007

Dr. Samuel Kohn

Dr. Samuel Kohn will be presenting "Telecommunication Pricing Tactics and Strategies – A Practitioner's Perspective for Innovators and Disruptors" at Oxford University, on June 24, 2007, in the "Marketing" Session of the Oxford Business & Economics Conference. The paper, drawing on Dr. Kohn's 25 years of industrial pricing, finance and marketing experience, can be found in the Conference's Proceedings. Dr. Kohn will be also be chairing the Conference's "Economics & Finance" Session. The conference, sponsored by Oxford Journal (ISSN 1551-4498) and Association for Business & Economics Research (ABER), promotes high quality academic interdisciplinary research among leading scholars and practitioners from Finance, Marketing, Management, Information Systems, Operations Management, Economics, Education and related areas.

Conference Link: http://www.facultyforum.com/obec