Artificial Intelligence

Contact Information

Michael Gendron
Professor and Department Chair
Management Information Systems
R.C. Vance Academic Center
449
860.832.3293
gendronm@ccsu.edu
George F. Claffey
Information Technology
Vice President for Technology and Strategic Initiatives
Workforce Innovation Hub
860.832.3999
george@ccsu.edu

Faculty Research

Management Information Systems 202

MIS202 Pathways

Management Information Systems 202 was redesigned in the School of Business to create transcript-visible digital credentials which equips all students with practical artificially intelligence capabilities.  Leveraging CentralU digital badge, the four module sequence is aligned to 1EdTech’s Trusted Credential Framework (EdTech, n.d.).  This plan modernized the curriculum to meet workforce demand for AI-literate graduates who can analyze data, design, prompts, and apply ethical reasoning to business decisions. 

EdTech. (n.d.). Trusted credentials: Connecting learning to opportunity. Retrieved from https://www.1edtech.org/program/trusted-credentials

MIS and Library Collaboration

Faculty from Management Information Systems and the Library collaborated on a project to build an AI tool that can look at a large collection of photos and automatically describe what is in each image.  The system would take photos, scan them with artificial intelligence, and create useful information about each one. For example, it could identify objects in the photo, generate a short, written description, pull out the date or location if that information is 
stored in the image file and save everything into a spreadsheet or searchable file. The goal is to make photos easier to organize, search, review, and use later.