(Rudy) Hirschheim is the Ourso Family Distinguished Professor of Information Systems in the E.J.
Ourso College of Business at Louisiana State University.
Hirschheim received a PhD in information systems from the London School of Economics in 1985.
He has written several books,[3] among them Information Systems Development and Data Modeling - Conceptual and Philosophical Foundations, with Kalle Lyytinen and Heinz Klein, published by Cambridge University Press in 1995/2008.
[4] Hirschheim is a recipient of the Leo award, the Association for Information Systems's highest honor.