{"id":90128,"date":"2019-01-30T08:22:03","date_gmt":"2019-01-30T18:22:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=90128"},"modified":"2019-01-30T08:22:03","modified_gmt":"2019-01-30T18:22:03","slug":"hicss-conference-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2019\/01\/30\/hicss-conference-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Global <abbr title=\"information technology\">IT<\/abbr> experts gather to discuss artificial intelligence and cybersecurity"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><figure id=\"attachment_90147\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-90147\" style=\"width: 676px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/manoa-shidler-conference.jpg\" alt=\"Two women and a man talking\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"size-full wp-image-90147\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/manoa-shidler-conference.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/manoa-shidler-conference-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-90147\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> International Conference on System Sciences attendees<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>More than 1,200 of the world\u2019s top academics, researchers and practitioners in computer science and information technology gathered on Maui for the 52nd annual <a href=\"http:\/\/hicss.hawaii.edu\/\"><span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> International Conference on System Sciences<\/a> (<abbr>HICSS<\/abbr>) in January. Hosted by the University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> at M\u0101noa <a href=\"http:\/\/shidler.hawaii.edu\/\">Shidler College of Business<\/a>, this year\u2019s conference addressed trending topics such as artificial intelligence, blockchain applications and cybersecurity, as well as cutting-edge research that may lead to the next big technological discovery.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Early research theories and models of the Internet, drones, social media, human technology, etc., were all discussed at <abbr>HICSS<\/abbr> years before their debut,&rdquo; said <strong>Tung Bui<\/strong>, <abbr>HICSS<\/abbr> conference chair and professor at the Shidler College of Business. &ldquo;<abbr>HICSS<\/abbr>\u2019 influence will continue to shape the future directions of information technology research in the world.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The conference featured 36 workshops, symposiums and tutorials and nearly 800 research paper presentations. Other highlights included a pre-conference doctoral consortium, a women\u2019s networking event, an opening reception, a luau and an awards ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, visit the <a href=\"http:\/\/shidler.hawaii.edu\">Shidler College of Business<\/a> website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 1,200 of the world\u2019s top experts in computer science and information technology gathered for the 52nd annual <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> International Conference on System Sciences hosted by the Shidler College of Business. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[541,416,146,9],"class_list":["post-90128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-computer-science","tag-information-technology","tag-shidler-college-of-business","tag-uh-manoa","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90128"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90149,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90128\/revisions\/90149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}