Awards

The Association for Information Systems calls each year for nominations for the Leo Award for Lifetime Exceptional Achievement in Information Systems and for Fellows of the Association for Information Systems.

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AIS Leo Awards

The Leo Award for Lifetime Exceptional Achievement in Information Systems was established in 1999 by the Council of the Association for Information Systems and the Executive Committee of the International Conference on Information Systems. The most recent winners of the Leo Award is Paul Gray and Jay Nunamaker.

Leo Award Winners Include:

  • C. West Churchman [1999]
  • J. Daniel Couger [1999]
  • Gordon B. Davis [2000]
  • Paul Gray [2002]
  • Bill King [2004]
  • Rob Kling [2004]
  • Frank Land [2003]
  • Börje Langefors [1999]
  • Richard O. Mason [2001]
  • Enid Mumford [1999]
  • Jay F. Nunamaker, Jr [2002]
  • John F. Rockart [2003]

    Click on recipient's name for biography of accomplishments.

    • Further information about the Leo award, the Leo award winners and a nominations form is available.

    AIS Fellow Awards

    The Association for Information Systems AIS Fellow Award was established in 1999 by the Council of the Association for Information Systems and the Executive Committee of the International Conference on Information Systems.

    AIS Fellows Include:

  • Maryam Alavi [2000]
  • Chrisanthi Avgerou [1999]
  • Niels Bjørn-Andersen [1999]
  • Izak Benbasat [2002]
  • Gordon B. Davis [2000]
  • Phillip Ein-Dor [2000]
  • Dennis F. Galletta [2002]
  • Robert Galliers [2003]
  • Paul Gray [1999]
  • Blake Ives [1999]
  • Sirkka Jarvenpaa [2001]
  • Rob Kling [2003]
  • Ken Kraemer [2003]
  • William R. King[1999]
  • Frank Land[2000]
  • T. P. Liang [2003]
  • Frank Land [2000]
  • Henry C. Lucas, Jr. [2000]
  • Jim McKenney [2001]
  • Kalle Lyyntinen [2004]
  • Lynne Markus [2004]
  • Ephraim R. McLean [1999]
  • Seev Neumann [2002]
  • Jay F. Nunamaker, Jr. [2000]
  • Dan Robey [2004]
  • Carol Saunders [2003]
  • Iris Vessey [1999]
  • Michael Vitale [2002]
  • Doug Vogel [2004]
  • Hugh Watson [2004]
  • Ronald Arthur Gerard Weber [2000]
  • Robert Zmud [2003]


    • Click on recipient's name for biography of accomplishments.

    Further information about the Fellows award and the Fellow nominations form is available.

    Education
    AIS Recognizes IS Educational Innovators:
    First Annual AIS Award for Innovation in Information Systems Education
     By M. Lynne Markus, AIS VP for Education
    January 24, 2005

    Promoting innovation in education is a core mission of AIS. For the last several years, AIS Council has monitored unfolding social and technical trends that might affect the timeliness and relevance of IS curricula; examples of such trends include offshore outsourcing, agile software development approaches, and radical software componentization and object reuse. Consequently, AIS Council charged the AIS VP for Education with developing a process to highlight the importance of these trends and to stimulate the development of educational innovations to address them.

    The result was an AIS-sponsored awards competition held for the first time in 2004. The call for submissions focused on the two themes of offshore outsourcing and software development innovations. A panel of expert judges from the IS academic and practitioner communities evaluated the submissions and made six awards-three awards of excellence and three honorable mention awards. The award winners and the titles of their submissions are listed below. Please join me in congratulating the winners. Also listed below are the reviewers, whose contributions are gratefully appreciated.

    Paul Gray invited the winners to submit their innovations to CAIS for review and possible publication. Don McCubbrey is editing a special issue of CAIS for these papers.

    In December 2004, AIS Council members voted to create an annual AIS Award for Innovation in Education. In future years, the awards competition will be jointly managed by the AIS VP for Education and the AIS special interest group on education-SIGED. This panel provides a discussion forum for those members of the AIS community who wish to develop educational innovations and those who wish to apply them in their courses and programs

    Award for Excellence in Innovation in Information Systems Education, 2004


    Accelerated System Analysis and Design With Appreciative Inquiry: An Action Learning Workshop
  • Michel Avital, Case Western Reserve University, avital@case.edu

    Enterprise IS Management: A Capstone Course for Undergraduate IS Majors
  • John C. Beachboard, Idaho State University, beach@cob.isu.edu
  • David V. Beard, Idaho State University, beard@isu.edu

    A Course on Sourcing Management
  • Beena George, University of St. Thomas, georgeb@stthom.edu

    Honorable Mention for Innovation in Information Systems Education, 2004
  • Mutual Fund Management Information System: An Integrated Project for the Introduction to MIS Course
  • Kregg Aytes, Idaho State University, aytekreg@isu.edu
  • Steve Byers, Idaho State University, byerstev@isu.edu

    The Management of Outsourcing: Development of a Module With Implications for the IT Curriculum
  • Roberto Evaristo, University of Illinois, Chicago, evaristo@uic.edu
  • Jorge Audy, PUCRS, Porto Alegre, Brazil, audy@pucrs.br
  • Rafael Priklandnicki, PUCRS, Porto Alegre, Brazil, Rafael@inf.pucrs.br
  • Leonardo Pilatti, PUCRS, Porto Alegre, Brazil, lpilatti@inf.pucrs.br
  • Leandro Teixeira Lopes, PUCRS, Porto Alegre, Brazil, lteixeira@inf.pucrs.br

    HKNet: Instilling Realism Into the Study of Emerging Trends
  • Michiel van Genuchten, Technical University of Eindhoven, m.j.i.m.v.genuchten@tm.tue.nl
  • Douglas Vogel, City University of Hong Kong, isdoug@cityu.edu.hk
  • Anne Rutkowski, University of Tilburg, A.Rutkowski@uvt.nl
  • Carol Saunders, University of Central Florida, csaunders@bus.ucf.edu