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The Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems - WITS.

WITS, or the Workshop for Information Technologies and Systems, is an academic conference for information systems that is held annually (in December) in conjunction with ICIS (the International Conference on Information Systems). WITS is incorporated in the state of Georgia (US).

Richard Wang (MIT) started WITS in 1991, co-chairing the first conference December 14-15, 1991 with Sudha Ram (University of Arizona). Also involved in the early conferences were Prabhudda De (Purdue), Al Hevner (USF), Carson Woo (UBC), Sal March (Vanderbilt), Veda Storey (Georgia State), Diane Strong (WPI), Stuart Madnick (MIT), Andy Whinston (UT Austin), and others.

WITS Presidents:


 * 2010 – present: Jeff Parsons
 * 2007 – 2009: Paulo Goes
 * 2004 – 2006: Carson Woo
 * 2001 – 2003: Sal March
 * 1998 – 2000: Prabuddha De
 * 1995 – 1997: Richard Wang

WITS Locations and Conference Chairs:


 * 2012: Orlando, Florida
 * 2011: Shanghai, China – Roger Chiang & Andrew Gemino
 * 2010: St. Louis, Missouri — Erik Rolland & Ray Patterson
 * 2009: Phoenix, Arizona — Min Zhao & Vijay Kathri
 * 2008: Paris, France — Ram Gopal & R. Ramesh
 * 2007: Montreal, Canada — Kaushal Chari
 * 2006: Milwaukee, Wisconsin —
 * 2005: Las Vegas, Nevada –
 * 2004: Washington, DC –
 * 2003: Seattle, Washington –
 * 2002: Barcelona, Spain –
 * 2001: New Orleans, LA — Jeff Parsons &
 * 2000: Brisbane, Australia –
 * 1999: Charlotte, North Carolina — Sridhar Narasimhan & Sumit Sarkar
 * 1998: Helsinki, Finland –
 * 1997: Atlanta, Georgia –
 * 1996: Cleveland, Ohio —
 * 1995: Amsterdam, Holland –
 * 1994: Vancouver, BC, Canada — Prabuddha De & Carson Woo
 * 1993: Orlando, Florida –
 * 1992: Dallas, Texas — Andrew Whinston &
 * 1991: New York, New York (or Cambridge, MA???) — Richard Wang & Sudha Ram

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