Ross, Bajwa and Sandvig receive honorable mention for their paper on Internet ad-blocker usage

Steve Ross, a professor of decision sciences in the College of Business and Economics at Western Washington University, presented a paper authored by himself and Chris Sandvig, a WWU associate professor, and Deepinder Bajwa, a WWU professor, titled "Usage and Perceptions of Internet Ad-Blockers: An Exploratory Study" at the 2011 annual conference of the International Association of Computer Information Systems, held Oct. 5 to 8, in Mobile, Ala. The paper, which studies the circumstances under which persons employ ad blockers with their internet browsers, received an honorable mention (second place) in the competition for best research paper.

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