AIS Fellows Award Winner - Dennis F. Galletta
			Dennis F. Galletta Dennis Frank Galletta broke from his past career as a CPA and began his studies in MIS in 1980 with a fellowship at the University of Minnesota, minoring in Psychology. He moved to the University of Pittsburgh almost immediately upon graduation in 1985, was promoted to associate professor in 1991, and remains at Pittsburgh to this day. An active researcher, Dennis has written one book and 40 refereed publications in a variety of journals and conferences, including Management Science, Information Systems Research, Journal of MIS, Decision Sciences, Communications of the ACM, and Accounting, Management, and Information Technologies. He is probably best known for his work on cognitive fit; with Iris Vessey he conducted the first study that reconciled a highly equivocal set of previous studies about the efficacy of graphs versus tables. He is also known for his work on spreadsheet error-finding, and his studies have been replicated by several others. With Alex Lopes, he recently received a best paper award in the OCIS Division at the Academy of Management meeting (August 2002). He has performed experiments with teams of doctoral students in examining his three favorite dependent variables: user attitudes, behavior, and performance. One study found a deflating effect of negative word-of-mouth on all of his favorite outcome variables, even including performance; the study was reported on the front page of the Wall Street Journal in 1995, by other trade publications such as Computerworld and Information Week, and in academic outlets such as ICIS and CACM. He has written chapters in books such as Handbook of Electronic Commerce, Accountant's Handbook, Software Creativity, and others. Dennis has addressed academic and/or executive audiences in many cities in the United States as well as Brazil, Canada, China, Czech Republic, Finland, India, Japan, Poland, Slovakia, and even aboard a ship. With his family, he accompanied 30 other faculty members and 630 students aboard the SS Universe Explorer in fall 1999, and went around the world in 14 weeks, teaching and stopping at 10 different countries on the way. He has served on five editorial boards, including MIS Quarterly, Data Base, and Information Systems and E-Business Management; has been on the ICIS program committee; is serving with Jeanne Ross as program cochair chair of the AMCIS 2003 conference; and has served as a reviewer for many journals, conferences, grant programs, and tenure committees. He has often served as a session chair, one of his least favorite roles, and discussant, one of his favorite roles. He has supervised nine Ph.D. thesis projects and is currently supervising five new candidates. He was interviewed on All Things Considered on National Public Radio about human factors issues on the Internet, his related op-ed piece also appeared in the Washington Post, and he testified before Congress on moving government printing functions to the Internet. Dennis was a charter member of AIS, and serves, or has served, in a wide variety of service capacities for AIS, ICIS, and ISWorld, many of which are being, or were, performed in parallel. Dennis chaired the first AMCIS Conference in 1995, performing the duties of publicity chair, budget chair, paper presenter, and session chair, and implemented the procedures for the first electronic submissions for a major IS conference. He created and maintained the first AIS Web site from 1996 through 1998. Dennis served as the Americas representative on the AIS Council in 1996-1997; chaired the AIS office relocation committee in 1997; and, since 2000, has served as the Vice President of Member Services. He designed and implemented the system of special interest groups for AIS. The past fall, Dennis was visited Mexico City a member of the AIS site selection team. Dennis was the local arrangements chair for the ICIS Doctoral Consortium in 1987, served as the treasurer of ICIS from 1994 through 1998, created the ICIS chart of accounts and the first complete accounting of all revenues and expenditures from ICIS from1988 through 1998 into one system, designed and implemented the original Web registration system for ICIS in 1996, and worked to obtain the trademark of the ICIS logo and acronym. In addition, as the Fnancial/Legal Liaison for ICIS, Dennis worked with attorneys to draw up the agreements to merge AIS with ICIS. In 2000, Dennis cochaired MIS Camp with Fred Niederman. Dennis serves as the page editor for the Graduate Programs in MIS (1996 to present) and for the IS Salary Survey (1998 to present). He is a member of the ISWorld listserve policy committee and the AIS/ISWorld technology committee.