Leo Award Winner - Paul Gray
			Paul Gray Paul Gray is a scholar, researcher, teacher, and leader in IS. His work consistently moved the field forward. Among his achievements are initial papers in four areas, founding of the IS program at Claremont, helping to create AIS, and founding and editing the Communications of the AIS. His research includes the initial work and first papers on crime in transportation, on telecommuting, technology assessment of the PC, and on group decision support systems. He built the first group decision laboratory in a university at SMU in 1981 and a second one at Claremont Graduate University in 1985. His current research centers on data warehousing, knowledge management, and business intelligence. Paul is the author of over120 papers and author or editor of 13 books, the most recent of which is Decision Support in the Data Warehouse with Hugh. J. Watson. His association with AIS goes back to the society's beginnings. In 1992, he called a meeting at ICIS in Dallas of 40 leading academics from around the world to discuss the current state of academic IS. At that time, the field was in a down turn, with the American Assembly of Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) and many schools reducing IS requirements. One of the outcomes of that meeting was that Bill King was tasked with forming a new professional society, what we know as AIS today. Paul's participation in AIS includes being one of the writers of its constitution, a candidate for President, a member of the Publications Committee, and co-chair of the joint AIS-ACM Committee on the MS degree program in IS. As founding editor of the electronic journal Communications of the AIS, he created a journal dedicated to facilitating communications among AIS members. The journal presents articles that fall outside the focus of many research journals, including tutorials on the state of the art, applications, cases, opinion, innovation and novel concepts, teaching, international work, and points of view. The URL is http://cais.aisnet.org. Between its inauguration in January 1999 and December 2002, CAIS has published over 190 articles. He was president of The Institute of Management Sciences (now INFORMS) for 1992-93, and was formerly president-elect, vice president, and secretary of the Institute, as well as a member of the Council of the Operations Research Society of America. He was president of Omega Rho, the OR honorary Society 1998-1990. He was awarded a NATO Systems Science Prize. He was named Information Systems Educator of the Year 2000 by EDSIG. He is a Fellow of AIS and a Fellow of INFORMS. He is the founder and curator of the Paul Gray PC Museum at Claremont Graduate University, established in 2002. He is on the editorial board of seven academic journals. Paul is Professor Emeritus of Information Science at Claremont Graduate University, from where he retired in 2001. Previously, he was a professor at Stanford, Georgia Tech, University of Southern California, and Southern Methodist University. His experience also includes 17 years in research organizations, nine of which of were at Stanford Research Institute. He received his Ph.D. in Operations Research from Stanford in 1969. Paul came to Claremont in 1983 as founder of the School of Information Science. This graduate program produced more Ph.D.s in IS since 1990 than any other university. It was one of the recipients of the $2 million IBM grants in IS in 1986. He is currently teaching part-time as a visiting professor at the University of California at Irvine (UCI) and working on research at CRITO (the Center for Research in Information, Technology, and Organizations) at UCI.