[AISWorld] Earliest Undergraduate Program in Information Systems in a College of Business

[Ping Wang]

Here is Professor Clay Sprowls' own memory of this 1953 course and the 
use of Standards Western Automatic Computer (SWAC) at UCLA business 
school (1952-1955):
http://personal.anderson.ucla.edu/clay.sprowls/history/SWAC/earlyuse.htm
More of this early computing history at: 
http://personal.anderson.ucla.edu/clay.sprowls/
Clay passed away in 2011.

Ping Wang, Ph.D.
University of Maryland, College Park
http://terpconnect.umd.edu/~pwang/

On 8/26/2013 3:30 PM, Ephraim McLean wrote:
> Our degree program here at Georgia State University began in 1969, so 
> MSU has us beat.  But if the question is business-school-based courses 
> in computing, the title goes to ULCA which offered a course in 
> business statistics using the SWAC (octal) computer in 1953, taught by 
> Prof.  Clay Sprowls.  Eph McLean
>
> *Ephraim R. McLean, Ph.D., FAIS
> */Regents' Professor
> George E. Smith (GRA) Eminent Scholar's Chair
>    in Information Systems
> Department Chair, /Computer Information Systems Department
>
> /Director, /Center for Research in Information Systems
>
> /Director, /Center for Health Information Technology
> Robinson College of Business
> Georgia State University
> Atlanta, Georgia 30303
> E-mail: EMcLean at GSU.edu <mailto:EMcLean at GSU.edu>
> URL: http://www.cis.gsu.edu/emclean
> Phone:  1-404-413-7448
>
>
> From: Gary Templeton <GTempleton at business.msstate.edu 
> <mailto:GTempleton at business.msstate.edu>>
> Date: Saturday, August 24, 2013 9:35 AM
> To: "aisworld at lists.aisnet.org <mailto:aisworld at lists.aisnet.org>" 
> <aisworld at lists.aisnet.org <mailto:aisworld at lists.aisnet.org>>
> Subject: [AISWorld] Earliest Undergraduate Program in Information 
> Systems in a College of Business
>
> AIS Colleagues,
> At this time, the earliest known computer-related degree program in a 
> college of business began in 1963 at Mississippi State University.
>
> Does anyone have information on an earlier one?
>
> It has to be in a college of business and have a computer-based name.
>
> I will report any earlier one that I can verify to the group.
>
> Gary
>
>
>
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