The Association for Information Systems (AIS) is an international, not-for-profit, professional association for

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of information systems that was established in 1994. The association publishes journals, organizes conferences, and provides a forum for information systems professors and managers. It has members in more than 100 countries. The association is led by a president who is annually elected from one of three world regions—the Americas, Europe and Africa and Asia-Pacific—on a rotating basis. The governing council is made up of elected functional vice-presidents and other officers and council members who are elected in the three world regions. The association organizes four annual conferences for IS researchers, educators and students: The

International Conference on Information Systems International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS) is an annual international conference for academics and research-oriented practitioners in the area of information systems. Previously known as the Conference on Information Systems (CIS), ICI ...

(ICIS), which alternates between the three world regions, and three regional conferences: the

Americas Conference on Information Systems The Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS) is an annual conference for information systems and information technology academics and professionals sponsored by the Association for Information Systems. AMCIS is widely considered to be o ...

(AMCIS), the European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS), and the

Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems The Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems (PACIS) is an annual conference for Information Systems and Information Technology academics and professionals and is affiliated with the Association for Information Systems. Its purpose is to pr ...

(PACIS).

Publications

The association publishes academic journals including: * Journal of the Association for Information Systems (JAIS) * Scandinavian Journal of Information Systems (SJIS) * Revista Latinoamericana Y Del Caribe De La Associacion De Sistemas De Informacion (RELCASI) * Pacific Asia Journal of the Association for Information Systems (PAJAIS) * Journal of the Midwest Association for Information Systems (JMWAIS) * Journal of Information Technology Theory and Application (JITTA) * Communications of the Association for Information Systems (CAIS) * AIS Transactions on Replication Research (TRR) * AIS Transactions on Human-Computer Interaction (THCI) Affiliated journals include: *

Business & Information Systems Engineering Business & Information Systems Engineering (BISE) is an international scholarly and double-blind reviewed journal which publishes scientific research on the effective and efficient design and utilization of information systems by individuals, group ...

(BISE) *

Management Information Systems Quarterly ''Management Information Systems Quarterly'', referred to as ''MIS Quarterly'', is an online-only quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal that covers research in management information systems and information technology. It was established in 19 ...

(MISQ) * MIS Quarterly Executive (MISQe) * Information Systems Journal (ISJ) * Systèmes d'Information et Management (SIM) * Foundations and Trends in Information Systems (FnTIS) Both AIS published titles and affiliated journals are included in th
AIS eLibrary
which is accessible as a benefit of membership.

Leo Award

Since 1999 the AIS annually grants the Leo Award to one or more persons, who have made exceptional contributions to the research and practice of Information Systems. Award recipients have been:https://aisnet.org/page/LeoAward at aisnet.org. Retrieved June 8, 2011. * 1999 : C. West Churchman, J. Daniel Couger,

Börje Langefors Börje Langefors (; 21 May 1915 – 13 December 2009) was a Swedish engineer and computer scientist, Emeritus Professor of Business Information Systems at the Department of Computer and Systems Science, Stockholm University and Royal Institut ...

, Enid Mumford * 2000 : Gordon B. Davis * 2001 : Richard O. Mason * 2002 : Jay Nunamaker, Paul Gray * 2003 :

Frank Land Fred Frank Land (born Frank Landsberger; October 1928) is a German-born information systems researcher and was the first United Kingdom Professor of Information Systems. He is currently emeritus professor in the Department of Information Syst ...

, John F. Rockart * 2004 : William Richard King, Rob Kling * 2005 : Andrew B. Whinston * 2006 : Niels Bjørn-Andersen, Phillip Ein-Dor * 2007 : Izak Benbasat, Ephraim McLean * 2008 : Dewald Roode, M. Lynne Markus, Robert W. Zmud, Kenneth L. Kraemer * 2009 : Daniel Robey, E. Burton Swanson * 2010 : Blake Ives, Carol Saunders * 2011 : Richard (Rick) Watson, Ron Weber * 2012 :

Bob Galliers Robert D. Galliers is Bentley University’s Distinguished Professor Emeritus having previously served as Provost. He also holds an honorary appointment as Visiting Professor of Information Systems at Loughborough University. Previously, Bob held ...

, Detmar Straub * 2013 : Rudy Hirschheim, Kalle Lyytinen * 2014 : Joey George, Ting-Ping (T.P.) Liang * 2015 : Dennis Galletta,

Allen Lee Allen Lee Peng-fei, CBE, JP (; 24 April 194015 May 2020) was a Hong Kong industrialist, politician and political commentator. He was a member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, serving from 1978 to 1997 and was the Senior Member of th ...

, Kwok Kee Wei, Dov Te'eni * 2016 : Richard Baskerville, James Marsden * 2017 : Sirkka Jarvenpaa, Vallabh Sambamurthy * 2018 : David Avison, Jane Fedorowicz * 2019 :

Ritu Agarwal Ritu Agarwal is an Indian-American management scientist specializing in management information systems. She is the Senior Associate Dean for Faculty and Research and the Robert H. Smith Dean’s Chair of Information Systems at the Robert H. Smi ...

, Michael D. Myers,

Arun Rai Arun Rai (born 1963) is an Indian-born American scientist. Arun Rai is a permanent Regent's Professor at the Robinson College of Business at Georgia State University and holds J. Mack Robinson Chair of IT-Enabled Process Innovation and Supply Cha ...

* 2020 : Cynthia Beath, Varun Grover, Elena Karahanna, Jae Kyu Lee

References

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