Andrew B. Whinston is the Hugh Roy Cullen Centennial Chair in Business Administration, Professor of Information Systems, Computer Science and Economics, John Newton Centennial IC2 Fellow, and Director of the Center for Research in Electronic Commerce at The University of Texas at Austin. He is editor of the journals Decision Support Systems and Organizational Computing, and Electronic Commerce, and co-author or co-editor of 23 books and over 250 articles. Recent research interest is the area of electronic commerce.