School of Information Systems 
 
   
  Date: 23 February 2005 (Wednesday)  
  Time: 12.30 p.m.  
  Venue: Evans Building, Level 1, Seminar Room 5  
  Title:

Reflections of an eRetail Pioneer

 
  Speaker: Dr.  Mark S. FOX  

  Agenda  
 

12.00 p.m.

Registration

  
 

12.30 p.m.

Seminar

  
    1.15 p.m.

Q & A

 
 

Lunch cum interaction

 
 
  About the Speaker  
 

Dr. Fox co-founded and is Chairman/CEO of Novator Systems Ltd., a provider of Ecommerce services and software since 1994. Novator's client list includes: Florists Transworld Delivery (www.ftd.com), Warner Brothers (www.shopwb.com), and Canada Life (www.kanetix.com). In October 2003, Dr. Fox launched ChocolatePlanet.com which will provide same day delivery of premium chocolates across North America.

Dr. Fox is also a Professor of Industrial Engineering at the University of Toronto where his research focuses on Enterprise Integration and Artificial Intelligence. In the research world, Dr. Fox is known for his pioneering work in Constraint-Directed Scheduling which underlies current logisitics, supply chain management and scheduling solutions, and for his work in Ontologies for Enterprise Modelling.

Dr. Fox co-founded Carnegie Group Inc. (CGIX on NASDAQ until 1998) in 1984, a software company that specialised in intelligent systems for solving engineering, manufacturing, and telecommunications problems, and was its Vice-President of Engineering and President/CEO.

Dr. Fox received his B.Sc. in Computer Science from the University of Toronto in 1975 and his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University in 1983, where he was an Associate Professor of Computer Science and Robotics until his return to Toronto in 1991. He is a Fellow of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence.

 

  Abstract  
 

In February 1993, Dr. Fox had a vision of selling flowers over the then nascent World Wide Web. While still a Professor, he started a company, Novator Systems (www.novator.com), to provide out-sourced online retailing services to companies that wanted to sell products over the web. Over the last 11 years, Dr. Fox has worked with some the web's major retailers, including FTD/Interflora, Sony and Warner Bros. This talk will reflect upon the evolution of eCommerce over the last 11 years, in particular the factors that lead to success on the web.

  

 
To register for the talk, please send your details (name, organization and etc) to SISseminar@smu.edu.sg before 18 February 2005, 12 noon.   
  

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