Conan Albrecht

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Conan C. Albrecht (born 1974?) computer-aided fraud detection expert, certified fraud examiner and professor of Information Systems.

He did his Mormon missionary work in Chicago, attended Brigham Young University in Utah, and later received a doctorate in Information Systems from the University of Arizona in 2000 at the age of 26. Lived in Orem (circa 2004) with his wife and 3 children. He currently serves as an assistant professor in the Information Systems Department within the Marriott School of Management at BYU. He also serves as a research fellow for the Center for the Management of Information at the University of Arizona.

While at the University of Arizona he did research on computer-aided fraud detection, earning him recognition as an expert in this field. He is well known for spending 10 hours a week learning emerging technologies, and encouraging his students to do so. An avid viewer of Stargate SG-1, he has acquired a broad vocabulary based on this science fiction television series, and is noted for his uncanny resemblance to the character Daniel Jackson played by Michael Shanks.

He is distinguished among other professors for his support for Open Source software, use of an Apple MacBook Pro and Debian distributions of Linux.

Contents 1 Publications 1.1 2005 1.2 2004 1.3 2003 1.4 2001 2 External links

[edit] Publications

[edit] 2005

• User Experiences Using Collaboratus, an Internet-based Collaborative Writing Tool

[edit] 2004

• Guilt by Investigation and Other Pitfalls
• Fast, Free, and Traceless Computer Forensics
• Characteristics of Large Group Support Systems
• How clean is the future of SOAP?

[edit] 2003

• A Comparison of Distributed Groupware Implementation Environments
• "Forensic Accounting: In the Reckoning," The Accounting World 2003
• Evolutionary development and research on Internet-based collaborative writing tools and processes to enhance eWriting in an eGovernment setting
• Audit At a crossroads
• Using situation calculus for e-business agents
• Market Place and Technology Standards for B2B ECommerce: Progress and Challenges

[edit] 2001

• A Peer-to-Peer Network Protocol for Genealogical Data

[edit] External links

• Brigham Young University - Employee Page
• Python cookbook recipes
• Picalo Fraud and Auditing Analysis Software
• ACFE Listing
• Personal Home Page
• Personal Blog
• Vita