Linda Weiser Friedman, is Professor of Information Systems and Statistics at the Baruch College Zicklin School of Business and the Graduate Center, both of the City University of New York. She received her Ph.D. from the Polytechnic Institute of New York (now, NYU Tandon School of Engineering). She has published in Computers & Information Science, Communications of the Association for Information Systems , Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of the Operational Research Society, and Argumentation, among others. Her books include Comparative Programming Languages: Generalizing the Programming Function (Prentice Hall, 1991); The Simulation Metamodel (Kluwer, 1996); and God Laughed: Sources of Jewish Humor (Transaction, 2014), with Hershey H. Friedman. Her research interests include humor studies, Jewish studies, simulation, online education and social media. She teaches Jewish Humor at Baruch College.