John Slayton, adjunct assistant professor of finance and principal of The Trust Company of the South, and John Burbridge, professor of operations and supply chain management, along with Donald Crooks, assistant professor at Wagner College, contributed the lead book chapter Information Technology and Financial Markets: Risk, Volatility and the Quants to the book Information Technology for Global Financial Markets: Emerging Development and Effects authored by Associate Professor Alex Yap.
Crooks , Slayton and Burbridge trace the development of technology and quantitative analysis on the trading of stocks, bonds, derivatives, currency and commodities. They also discuss the potential impact and chaos that can occur when unforeseen events are not anticipated by computerized algoritms that initiate trades in the various markets.