Release Date: Monday, November 11, 2002

GORDON DAVIS, ONE OF THE FOUNDERS OF MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS RESEARCH, TO SPEAK AT UGA'S TERRY COLLEGE OF BUSINESS

ATHENS, Ga. — Gordon B. Davis, one of the principal founders and intellectual architects of the academic field of management information systems, will speak on the history and future of the field at 12:30 pm on Thursday, November 14, in 205 Caldwell Hall at the University of Georgia.

Davis's lecture, titled "Information Systems Conceptual Foundations: Looking Backward and Forward," is sponsored by the Management Information Systems Department in the Terry College of Business and is open to the public.

Davis is the Honeywell Professor of Management Information Systems at the University of Minnesota's Carlson School of Management and current publisher of MIS Quarterly — the premier journal in MIS research.

"We are delighted to have Gordon speak to our MIS research seminar. His insightfulness makes every conversation with him very worthwhile," said Richard Watson, who holds the J. Rex Fuqua Distinguished Chair for Internet Strategy at the Terry College.

Davis began his research in 1968 when he and two colleagues founded the Management Information Systems Research Center at the University of Minnesota. Since then, Davis has published more than 200 articles and 21 books, the most recent of which is Personal Productivity with Information Technology (McGraw-Hill, 1997).

Davis earned both his M.B.A. and Ph.D. at Stanford University, and he is the recipient of three honorary degrees from the University of Lyon in France, the University of Zurich in Switzerland and the Stockholm School of Economics in Sweden. He was the 1998 president of the Association for Information Systems and the U.S. representative to the Technical Committee 8 of the International Federation for Information Processing.

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