Mark S. Silver is Associate Professor of Information Systems at the Fordham University Schools of Business. He has served as Senior Research Fellow at the Higher Education Finance Research Institute and has held various editorial positions in the field of Information Systems. He is the author of a book, Systems That Support Decision Makers: Description and Analysis (Wiley, 1991), and co-author of “The IT Interaction Model” (MIS Quarterly, 1995), among other journal articles

Professor Silver’s current research interests focus on the design of interactive computer-based systems, especially web-based systems and other Internet Applications. In particular, he is studying the numerous practical problems that plague users of browser-based applications. This research also focuses on two key system design features: "system restrictiveness" (how a system constrains its users) and "decisional guidance" (how a system enlightens or sways its users). The significance of these features emerged from his earlier work in the area of Decision Support Systems.

Professor Silver is also interested in Information Technology education, considering such questions as what material is essential for undergraduate and graduate students and what is the best way to approach that material. As part of this effort he is developing a set of fundamental principles for those learning “how to think” about Information Technology.

Education: Mark Silver received his PhD from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and has been a member of the faculties at UCLA and NYU.