AIS Fellow Award Winner - Henry C. Lucas, Jr.
Henry C. Lucas, Jr. Hank Lucas

Henry C. Lucas, Jr. is currently the Robert H. Smith Professor of Information Systems at the the Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland. He received his B.S. from Yale University and his M.S. and Ph..D. from the Sloan School of Management at M.I.T. Hank has spent leaves as Shaw Foundation Professor at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, the IBM European Systems Research Institute in La Hulpe, Belgium, on the faculty of INSEAD in Fountainebleau, France, and at Bell Communications Research in Morristown, New Jersey. His research interests include strategy and technology, the management of information technology, the use of IT in organization design, and the impact and value of technology. Hank is a member of the Board of Directors of the AVX Corporation, a global manufacturer of passive electronic components. He has published articles in information systems and management journals including Management Science, Information Systems Research, Decision Science, Communications of the ACM, MIS Quarterly, Journal of Management Information Systems, Sloan Management Review, and The Computer Journal. His most recent books are Information Technology: The Search for Value (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999), and Information Technology for Management, 7 th Edition, (New York: McGraw-Hill Inc., 2000).

Hank served as Vice President, Publications, for the Association for Information Systems from 1995 to 1998. He is Editor-in-Chief of Communications of the Association for Information Systems (CAIS) and Journal of the Association for Information Systems (JAIS). He was instrumental in having CAIS and JAIS, as well as the proceedings of ICIS, included as part of the Association for Computing Machineryªs Digital Library.

Hank was Chair of IFIP Working Group 8.2 (Information Systems and the Organization) from 1975 to 1980.