Association for Information Systems
Encyclopedia
The Association for Information Systems (AIS) is an international professional organization serving as the premier global organization for academics specializing in Information Systems
. Its mission is to progress knowledge in the use of IT to improve organizational performance and individual quality of work life.
Information systems
Information Systems is an academic/professional discipline bridging the business field and the well-defined computer science field that is evolving toward a new scientific area of study...
. Its mission is to progress knowledge in the use of IT to improve organizational performance and individual quality of work life.
Leo Award
Since 1999 the AIS annually grants the Leo Award to one or more persons, who have made exceptional contributions to the research and practice of Information Systems. Award recipient have been:- 2010 : Blake Ives, Carol Saunders
- 2009 : Daniel Robey, E. Burton Swanson
- 2008 : Dewald RoodeDewald RoodeJohannes Dewald Roode was a South African academic and Professor at the University of Pretoria, specializing in Information Systems research.-Biography:Dewald Roode received his B.A. in theoretical physics, his M.A...
, M. Lynne MarkusM. Lynne MarkusM. Lynne Markus has made fundamental contributions to the study of enterprise systems and inter-enterprise systems, IT and organizational change, and knowledge management. Her early work in these areas has been published in several high-impact peer-reviewed journals, and set the stage for much of...
, Robert W. Zmud, Kenneth L. Kraemer - 2007 : Izak Benbasat, Ephraim McLean
- 2006 : Niels Bjørn-Andersen, Phillip Ein-Dor
- 2005 : Andrew B. WhinstonAndrew B. WhinstonAndrew B. Whinston is an American economist and computer scientist. He is the Hugh Roy Cullen Centennial Chair in Business Administration, Professor of Information Systems, Computer Science and Economics, and Director of the Center for Research in Electronic Commerce in the McCombs School of...
- 2004 : William R. King, Rob Kling
- 2003 : Frank LandFrank LandFrank F Land FBCS is an information systems researcher and was the first UK Professor of Information Systems. He is currently emeritus professor in the Department of Information Systems at the London School of Economics ....
, John F. Rockart - 2002 : Jay NunamakerJay NunamakerJay F. Nunamaker Jr. is Regents and Soldwedel Professor at the University of Arizona. Regents Professor is the highest faculty rank bestowed at the university, an honor reserved for the top 3% of scholars....
, Paul Gray - 2001 : Richard O. Mason
- 2000 : Gordon B. Davis
- 1999 : C. West ChurchmanC. West ChurchmanCharles West Churchman was an American philosopher and systems scientist, who was Professor at the School of Business Administration and Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of California, Berkeley...
, J. Daniel Couger, Börje LangeforsBörje LangeforsBörje Langefors was a Swedish engineer and computer scientist, Emeritus Professor of Business Information Systems at the Department of Computer and Systems Science, Stockholm University and Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, and "one of those who made systems development a science."-...
, Enid MumfordEnid MumfordEnid Mumford was a British social scientist, computer scientist and Professor Emerita of Manchester University and a Visiting Fellow at Manchester Business School, largely known for her work on human factors and socio-technical systems.- Biography :Following her BA in Social Science from Liverpool...