AIS Fellow Award Winner - Ephraim R. McLean
			Ephraim R. McLean Eph has been one of themost vigorous founders and builders of ICIS and AIS, the organizationsthat are vital to the development of IS as an academic discipline. In 1953, Eph entered thefive-year engineering program at Cornell University, earning his Bachelorof Mechanical Engineering degree in 1958. After brief service in the U.S. Army Ordnance Corps, he worked for the Procter & Gamble Co. for sevenyears, first in manufacturing management and later as a computer systemsanalyst. In 1965, he left P & G and entered the Sloan School of Managementat the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, obtaining his master’s degreein 1967 and his doctorate in 1970. While at M.I.T., he beganan interest in the application of computer technology to medicine, workingon his dissertation at the Lahey Clinic in Boston. While there, Eph wasinstrumental in developing the Lahey Clinic Automated Medical History System.During the same period, he served as an instructor at M.I.T. and also assistedin the preparation of the books, The Impact of Computers on Management(MIT Press, 1967), The Impact of Computers on Collective Bargaining(MIT Press, 1969), and Computers in Knowledge-Based Fields (MITPress, 1970.) Eph joined the faculty ofthe Anderson Graduate School of Management at the University of California,Los Angeles (UCLA) in 1970. He was the founding Director of the InformationSystems Research Program and the first Chairman of the Information Systemsarea. In the fall of 1987, he was named to the George E. Smith EminentScholar’s Chair in the J. Mack College of Business at Georgia State Universityin Atlanta, GA. Eph has published nine booksand over 100 articles. He is the co-author (with John Soden of McKinsey& Co.) of Strategic Planning for MIS (Wiley Interscience, 1977),co-editor of a book of programs entitled APL Applications in Management(UCLA, 1981), co-editor of The Management of Information Systems(Dryden Press, 2 nd ed., 1994), and co-author of the textbook InformationTechnology for Management (Wiley, 2 nd ed., 1999). He wasa founding Associate Editor for Research of the MIS Quarterly andis currently Senior Co-Editor of The DATA BASE for Advances in InformationSystems. Eph has done pioneering research in a number of areas, includingIS project management (1970), medical information systems (1971), measuringthe value of IS (1973-92), IS in life insurance marketing (1974), "throwaway”code (1977), decision support systems (1977-1998), strategic IS planning(1977), end-user computing (1979, 1993), and IS careers (1991-1997). In 1980, he chaired the organizingcommittee for the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS)at UCLA and was Conference Co-chairman in 1981 in Cambridge, MA; ConferenceChairman in 1986 in San Diego, CA; and Conference Co-chairman in 1997 inAtlanta, GA. He is currently the Executive Director of ICIS. He was oneof the founding members of the Association for Information Systems (AIS),served as the first AIS Vice President for Affiliated Organizations, andis currently the AIS Executive Director. Reflecting his artistic bent,he designed the logos for both ICIS and AIS. He has twice served on thenational Executive Council of the Society for Information Management (SIM),was the founding Chairman of the Southern California SIM Chapter, and in1996 helped found the Atlanta SIM Chapter. Eph has made executive presentationsand conducted management workshops in Asia, Australia, Europe, South Africa,and throughout North America. In 1979, he established the week-long executiveprogram "Managing the Information Resource” at UCLA, now in its 22nd year.