AIS Fellow Award Winner - Phillip Ein-Dor
			Phillip Ein-Dor Phillip Ein-Dor began his career in information systems as a sales representative for IBM (Israel) in 1960 after graduating from Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He returned to academia in 1967, receiving an M.Sc. in Industrial Administration and a Ph.D. in Systems and Communications Sciences from Carnegie-Mellon University in 1971. Since then he has been on the faculty of the Information Systems program at Tel-Aviv University. He chaired the program in Information Systems from 1980 to 1986. From 1992 to 1999, Phillip was Director of the Marcel and Annie Adams Institute for Business Management Information Systems. He was promoted to Professor in 1988. Phillip has been active in AIS since its inception and is a founding member. Positions he has filled include membership of the Organizing Committee, chairing the Nominating Committee for the first elections (1994), member of the Publications Committee since1994, and a Council Member for Europe, Africa, and the Middle-East (1996-98). His roles in conference organization include membership on the Executive Committees of ICIS and ECIS and on various Program Committees. He is Co-Chair of ICIS 2003 to be held in Jerusalem, Israel. One of his most enjoyable roles in conferences has been as a member of the faculty of the Doctoral Consortia of ICIS (three times¥once as co-chair), ECIS (twice¥once as co- chair), PACIS, and AmCIS. In 1998, Phillip was appointed founding editor of the Journal of the Association for Information Systems, which began publication in March 2000 and now appears regularly. He serves on the editorial and/or advisory boards of a number of journals including Information & Management, Journal of Management Information Systems, Information Technology and Management, and Internet Research. He has served as an associate editor of Management Science and MIS Quarterly. Phillipªs current research interests are information system theory, artificial intelligence¥ especially natural language processing for information retrieval, economics of computers and information systems, technology infrastructure and diffusion, and the Internet. He has published four books and more than 40 papers on various aspects of information systems and their management. His most frequently cited works are papers concerning the relationship between organizational context and management information systems and a book proposing a paradigm for MIS, all co-authored with Eli Segev. Phillip has held visiting appointments at leading schools on four continents, including New York University, Claremont Graduate University, the Naval Postgraduate School, and the National University of Singapore.