RAM D. GOPAL is a GE Endowed Professor of Business in the Department of Operations and Information Management at the School of Business, University of Connecticut. His current research interests include economics of information systems management, data security, economic and ethical issues relating to intellectual property rights, and electronic markets. His research has appeared in Management Science, Journal of Management Information Systems, Operations Research, Journal of Business, Information Systems Research, INFORMS Journal on Computing, Communications of the ACM, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Decision Support Systems, and other journals and conference proceedings.