Keynote: Were You There When??

Since the early 1960s, the field of management information systems has experienced tremendous growth and its research community has formalized and flourished. Professor Ephraim R. McLean, Regents' Professor and George E. Smith Eminent Scholar's Chair -- "Eph" -- is a legend among scholars of information systems and in particular scholars in computer and people research. He has been a fixture at ACM SIGMIS CPR from its early beginnings in the 1970s. His keynote will provide a historical look at the foundations of the field, examine its enduring issues, and speculate about the future of research and practice.