Leo Award Winner - Jay F. Nunamaker, Jr.
			Jay F. Nunamaker, Jr. Jay Nunamaker is an internationally renowned scholar, teacher and leader in the information systems profession. He is a leading researcher and entrepreneur on collaboration technology and group support systems, founder of the MIS Department at the University of Arizona, a major professor to over 70 doctoral graduates and past chairman of the ACM IS curriculum committee. Nunamaker is currently Regents and Soldwedel Professor of MIS, Computer Science, and Communication and Director of the Center for the Management of Information at the University of Arizona. From 1968 to 1974, he was a professor of computer science and industrial administration at Purdue University. Jay received his Ph.D. in operations research and systems engineering from Case Institute of Technology in 1968. He holds a BSME and an MSIE from the University of Pittsburgh and a BS from Carnegie Mellon University. He received a professional engineering license in 1965. As one of the developers of the "group support systems" concept, Jay built one of the first operational decision support centers in 1985 at the University of Arizona. Twenty-five years ago, Jay and his team approached collaboration technology systems design from an engineering perspective, with a technology focus. However, from the results of controlled experiments, field experience, and success in real organizations with the use of collaboration technology provided Jay with the insight needed to develop theoretical explanations for the observed phenomenon ranging from productivity to creativity, to anonymity, to satisfaction, to participation, and to technology transition. The theories and designs are now based upon a cognitive foundation and in turn are enabling him to test and refine his theoretical understanding of group support systems. There are now more than 2500 organizations that have used the GroupSystems software. He was a member of the ISDOS research team at the Case Institute of Technology and the University of Michigan during the late 1960s and early 1970s that produced PSL, PSA, and SODA. Under the direction of Professor Daniel Teichroew of the University of Michigan, the ISDOS team established foundations for information systems that are now called CASE tools. Jay has received over $40 million in funding over the past 20 years from the National Science Foundation, Department of Defense, IBM, AT&T, Intel, and other organizations in support of his research. He established campus-wide instructional computing labs and he and his colleagues built one of the premier programs in information systems. The MIS programs at Arizona have been ranked in the top 5 by U.S. News & World Report for the past 15 years. Jay was selected as an AIS fellow and he received the Computer Educator of the Year Award from the International Association of CIS in 2000. He received the Educator of the Year Award by the DPMA Education Foundation in 1996 and the Andersen Consulting Professor of the Year in 1992. His work led to the Logistics Achievement Award from the Secretary of Defense in December 1993 and the Best Paper Award in information systems from the Academy of Management in 1992. He serves on the editorial board of six journals. He has been a track chair for a large segment of the IS program at the Hawaii International Conference on Systems Sciences. He is the author of over 220 papers and author/editor of 10 books and 7 videos.