ITM 433
Information Assurance

About the Teacher

Dr. Panko is a professor of IT Management in the Shidler College of Business at the University of Hawaii. He has also been a faculty member in the college’s marketing department.

At Business Night 2003, he received the Dennis Ching College of Business Administration Teaching Excellence Award for Senior Faculty.

He received his doctorate from Stanford University, graduating with a 4.0 GPA. He received his undergraduate degree in physics, summa cum laude, from Seattle University. He also received his MBA from Seattle University.

Before coming to the University, he was a project manager at Stanford Research Institute (now SRI International). At the research institute and at the university, he has consulted for or conducted training for many local, national and international clients, including the following: The Office of the President of the United States, AT&T, Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, Western Union Telegraph Company, British Post Office, Bell Canada, Trans-Canada Telephone System, Fujitsu, Wang Laboratories, Hughes Aircraft Space Division, RCA, Royal Dutch Shell, The Council of European Post and Telecommunications Administrations, RCA, 20th Century-Fox, ABC, CBS, NBC, HBO, NASA, National Institutes of Standards and Technology, NSF, Congressional Office of Technology Assessment, Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, U.S. Army Development and Readiness Command, U.S. Army Ballistics Research Laboratory, Naval Electronics Laboratory Command, A.C. Nielson DATAQUEST, Auerbach Publishers, Diebold Automated Office Program, International Institute of Research (Singapore), TEA Pty. Ltd. (Australia), and Communications Studies and Planning (U.K.).

He has written three textbooks. His End User Computing textbook was the top textbook in the field in the 1980s, and his current networking and security books are also among the top sellers.

His research has appeared in MIS Quarterly, Communications of the ACM, Journal of the Association for Information Systems (JAIS), Communications of the Association for Information Systems (CAIS), Journal of Management Information Systems, IS Audit and Control Journal, Decision Support Systems, Journal of End User Computing, Office Systems Research Journal, Journal of Organizational Computing, Journal of Organizational Computing, and Telecommunications Policy. In 1996, Harvard Business Review published a management briefing on his spreadsheet error research. In 2006, the Wall Street Journal did a piece on his spreadsheet research.

He has published in leading national magazines, including PC World, Computerworld, Information Week, Communications Week, ISSA Journal, and DATAMATION.