So I am in the business school. We have an Information System concentration, so people learn about the use, business use of information system. It's always interesting when people come right out of high school to find what organizations use computers for that's not just social media and that sort of activities. I think people are getting much better about that, in high school of understanding how businesses use computers.Some of our students are more technical who get on more technical tracks, programming and development tracks. Others are more focused on consulting and then obviously a big portion of what we do has to do with analytics and data. So the program goes through several departments in our school and that's the most important part, and that's a big part of our curriculum to focus on data analytics.About the undergraduate level, which you originally asked about, but also at the MBA level. We don't have a PhD program, we just have an MBA program, which is a very data focused program.

I think we go through phases with information systems where either no one wants to major in information systems or everyone wants to major in it. I think right now we're in a phase where many people want to major in IS, so we don't have to encourage like we may have had two years ago and some of that is driven by, we'll talk about this I'm sure in a few minutes, the increased emphasis on data and analytics.So in terms of encouraging, I don't know that I do much encouraging. If it fits with people's interest then it is a natural fit and if it isn't then that's okay. Not everything appeals to every person.About misconceptions, that's an interesting one because I think there's a tendency for people to, I guess I hear the complaint I'm not good at tax, I'm not good at computers, I'm not good at statistics and for some reason that one I have a little bit of peeve about that because there is exactly zero people in the world that were ever born getting computers or born getting statistics. These are all learned activities. These are not innate, very low compared to different Maslow's hierarchy of needs.The people have, they say they're not good at something, they may not have an affinity for it and that's fine but all these things are learned and if you're interested we're happy to help them learn as much as they can.

I think I may not be a great example here because one of the things about the PhD program is about focus and I have focused on many things which I know is not the definition of focus. My original, my early research was about security, around the policy aspects of security examples might be we pay people to find bugs in software, what happens when we tell everybody we found a software vulnerability. Does that do better for the good guys or are better for the bad guys? Does open source help or hurt? So these are the questions on social policy question and then people think traditional security research is about finding vulnerabilities and I'm more interested in what happens in the marketplace once your vulnerabilities are out or once offers come out big part of that.When I first started working in security I found that there is tons of data and so I started analyzing intrusion detection system logs and intrusion detection system logs have literally billions and billions of records and because of that I got interested in how we do large scale data now and that's where I really got interested in the general use of data versus just my specific focus on security.Other than that I got interested in online collaboration and those are the main focus of my academic research. I also am pretty involved in the MIT School of Management reviews and their interest in data and analytics and artificial intelligence. So I do more practitioners focused research in those areas with an ongoing research program. For the analytics program now where we do a large scale survey and interviews of people and it is focused less on the academic audience, more on the practitioner audience.There is an initiative right now the second year around artificial intelligence, so those are the things that I am also curious and interested in as well. It's different. I don't make distinction between that and the purely academic research versus the practitioner research.