Gordon Davis is internationally known as one of the principal founders and intellectual architects of the academic field of information systems. In 1967, he and two colleagues initiated the first academic degree programs in management information systems and established the Management Information Systems Research Center (MISRC). His book, Management Information Systems: Conceptual Foundations, Structure, and Development (1974; 1985, McGraw-Hill), is recognized as a foundational classic in the field. He has published 19 other textbooks and over 200 journal articles. He is the Executive Editor of MIS Quarterly and is on the editorial boards of numerous other journals. He serves as the USA Representative to the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) Technical Committee 8 (Information Systems). He has been involved in virtually all of the major developments in the information systems segment of the computing community, including the founding of the principal conference, the International Conference on Information Systems, and the formation of the Association for Information Systems (AIS), an international academic society, and is the 1998 President. He is the Honeywell Professor of Management Information Systems, an endowed chair in the Carlson School of Management. He has been awarded honorary doctorates by the University of Zurich and the University of Lyon III and has been named a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery.