November 30, 2011
Barrie R. Nault has been honoured with the Distinguished Fellow Award by the INFORMS Information Systems Society. Barrie is the Robson Professor in Management (MIS), and Director of the Informatics Research Centre (iRC) at Haskayne.
The award recognizes individuals who have made outstanding intellectual contributions to the information systems discipline. The awards committee recognizes the multi-dimensional nature of intellectual contributions and pays attention to a variety of scholarly contributions, including, but not limited to:
1. Publications that have made a significant impact on theory, research, and practice.
2. Intellectual leadership in the discipline as reflected in editorial appointments, particularly of INFORMS journals.
3. Intellectual stewardship of the field as reflected in the mentoring of doctoral students and young researchers
Barrie is only the second Canadian to receive the award, and joins colleagues from Purdue, MIT, Carnegie Mellon, and Stanford.
The INFORMS Information Systems Society seeks to foster, promote, and disseminate research on the use and impact of information technology in organizations. It provides a forum for researchers and practitioners in information systems to interact and further their interests in the area. One of the goals of the society is to encourage interdisciplinary research by leveraging connections between other societies and colleges within the INFORMS environment.
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