The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) is a US-based international learned society for computing. It was founded in 1947 and is the world's largest scientific and educational computing society. The ACM is a non-profit professional membership group, reporting nearly 110,000 student and professional members as of 2022. Its headquarters are in New York City.
An information system (IS) is a formal, sociotechnical, organizational system designed to collect, process, store, and distribute information. From a sociotechnical perspective, information systems comprise four components: task, people, structure, and technology. Information systems can be defined as an integration of components for collection, storage and processing of data, comprising digital products that process data to facilitate decision making and the data being used to provide information and contribute to knowledge.
Design science refers to a scientific, i.e. rational and systematic, approach to designing. An early concept of design science was introduced in 1957 by R. Buckminster Fuller who defined it as a systematic form of designing which he applied especially in innovative engineering design. The concept has been more broadly defined by the Design Science journal as “quantitative and qualitative research in the creation of artifacts and systems, and their embedding in our physical, virtual, psychological, economic, and social environment”.
Wynne W. Chin is C. T. Bauer Professor of Decision and information Sciences at the University of Houston. Wynne is the second most cited researcher in his college and in the top ten in his university. He received his Ph.D. In Computers and Information System and an MBA from the University of Michigan, an MS in chemical and biomedical engineering from Northwestern University, and an AB in biophysics with a minor in philosophy from UC Berkeley. Before joining the University of Houston faculty in 1997, Wynne taught at the University of Calgary and Wayne State University. In addition, he holds visiting status at the School of Information Systems, Technology and Management at The Australian School of Business, UNSW.
Shoshana Zuboff is an American author, professor, social psychologist, philosopher, and scholar.
Chrisanthi Avgerou FBCS FAIS is a Greek-born British scholar in the field of the Social Study of Information Systems, focusing on Information Technology in developing countries. She is currently Professor of Information Systems at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Fred Frank Land 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 Systems at the London School of Economics (LSE). He was married to Ailsa Land, a professor of Operations Research.
The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) is an organization whose mission is to promote networked information technology as a way to further the advancement of intellectual collaboration and productivity.
The IRIS Association is a non-profit organization aiming to promote research and research education in the use, development, and management of information systems (IS) in the Nordic region, and making sure that research known in the international research community and among practitioners. The Association was formed around the annual IRIS conference which has run since 1978. The IRIS Association was formally registered in 1997. The IRIS Association also represents the Scandinavian chapter of the Association for Information Systems (AIS) serving AIS members in the Nordic region.
The Australasian Conference on Information Systems (ACIS) is an annual conference for Information Systems and Information Technology academics and professionals and is affiliated with the Australasian Association for Information Systems. ACIS is the premier Information Systems conference within Australia and New Zealand, targeting Information Systems academics and researchers. It covers technical, organisational, business and social issues in the application of Information Technology(IT) to real world problems.
Varun Grover is an American Information systems researcher, who is the George & Boyce Billingsley Endowed Chair and distinguished professor at the Walton School of Business, University of Arkansas. From 2002-17, he was the William S. Lee Distinguished Professor of Information Systems at Clemson University, where he taught doctoral seminars on methods and information systems. He is consistently in the top 3 IS researchers in the world. He has an h-index of 100, among the top 5 in his field Grover has around 52,000 citations in Google Scholar and over 13,900 citations in Web of Science.
Robert D. Galliers is Bentley University's Distinguished Professor Emeritus having served as Provost (2002-2009) and Professor Emeritus at the University of Warwick. Previously, he was Professor and Research Director in the Department of Information Systems at the London School of Economics (LSE), the Lucas Professor of Business Management Systems at Warwick Business School, and Foundation Professor of Information Systems at Curtin University, Western Australia.
Helmut Krcmar holds the Chair for Information Systems in the Department of Informatics at the Technical University of Munich (TUM), Germany since 2002 with a joint appointment to TUM School of Management. Krcmar served as Dean of the Faculty of Informatics from 10/2010 until 09/2013. In July 2018 he was elected Vice Dean TUM School of Management and Founding Dean TUM Campus Heilbronn. He is academic director of the SAP University Competence Center @ TUM. Krcmar has supervised more than 100 Ph.D. students. He is also speaker of the directory board of Fortiss GmbH, Research Institute of the Free State of Bavaria for Software and Systems.
Information Systems International Conference is an AISINDO AIS Indonesia Chapter affiliated international conference administered by the Department of Information Systems, Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember, Indonesia.
Jonny Holmström is a Swedish professor of Informatics at Umeå University and director and co-founder of Swedish Center for Digital Innovation.
Rim Jihoon is a visiting professor of management practice in the Department of Management and Organizations at New York University Stern School of Business. He is a former CEO of Kakao (KRX:035720), a South Korean technology company known for its mobile messenger Kakao Talk. His appointment as CEO at 34 years of age made him the youngest CEO among South Korea's top 500 companies.
Simon Rogerson is lifetime Professor Emeritus in Computer Ethics at the Centre for Computing and Social Responsibility (CCSR), De Montfort University. He was the founder and editor for 19 volumes of the Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society. He has had two careers; first as a technical software developer and then in academia as reformer. He was the founding Director of CCSR, launching it in 1995 at the first ETHICOMP conference which he conceived and co-directed until 2013. He became Europe's first Professor in Computer Ethics in 1998. His most important research focuses on providing rigorously grounded practical tools and guidance to computing practitioners. For his leadership and research achievements in the computer and information ethics interdisciplinary field he was awarded the fifth IFIP-WG9.2 Namur Award in 2000 and the SIGCAS Making a Difference Award in 2005.
Jan Marco Leimeister is a German university professor for business information systems from Bietigheim-Bissingen. He is tenured professor of business information systems and director at the Institute of Information Management. at the University of St. Gallen as well as head of the Department of Information Systems and director at the Research Center for Information System Design (ITeG) at the University of Kassel.
William Richard King, the thirty-sixth President of The Institute of Management Sciences (TIMS), is a retired American university professor who studied and researched management science and information systems at the University of Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania. He was the Founding President of the Association for Information Systems, co-founder of the International Conference on Information Systems, and the founder of the America's Conference on Information Systems. He has an h-index of 77 when including all of the fields in which he has published, according to Google Scholar.
