Rick received an AISFellows Award at the recent International Conference on Information Systems. "The AIS Fellows Award recognizes individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the development and maintenance of the international community of InformationSystems academics". Here is the wording of Rick's award:
"Dr. Richard Watson is the J. Rex Fuqua Distinguished Chair for Internet Strategy, Director of the Center for Information Systems Leadership, and Interim Head of MIS in the Terry College at the University of Georgia. He has published more than 100 journal articles and written texts on electronic commerce and data management. His work has been accepted by leading academic and practitioner journals and has been translated into several languages. He has given invited seminars in more than 20 countries.
Dr. Watson has served as President of AIS, co-conference chair for ICIS in 2004, and as a senior editor for MIS Quarterly. While a senior editor for MIS Quarterly, he established its Review section.
In 2001, John Wiley & Sons appointed Dr. Watson as its consulting editor for its net-enhanced organization (NEO) series. He is a visiting professor at Agder University College in Norway and Fudan University in China. He is also an honorary advisor to the Neusoft Institute for Information, China.
With Don McCubbrey, Dr. Watson is co-leading the Global Text Project. The goal of the project is to create 1,000 open content texts for university students in the developing world, and the first book will be an introductory Information Systems text.
Dr. Watson received his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota, where he studied on a Fulbright award, and his MBA from Monash University in Australia. In addition he holds a Diploma in Computation and a Bachelor of Science in mathematics from the University of Western Australia".
Congratulations, Rick, on this well deserved recognition from your colleagues!
-Don
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