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

[Doug]

Interesting!!

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On 27 Aug, 2013, at 4:54 AM, Ping Wang <pwang at umd.edu> wrote:

> 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
>> URL:     http://www.cis.gsu.edu/emclean
>> Phone:  1-404-413-7448
>> 
>> From: Gary Templeton <GTempleton at business.msstate.edu>
>> Date: Saturday, August 24, 2013 9:35 AM
>> To: "aisworld at lists.aisnet.org" <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
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> ______________________________________
>> Dr. Gary Templeton 
>> Associate Professor of MIS 
>> Management & Information Systems Department 
>> P.O. Box 9581 
>> Mississippi State, MS 39762 
>> Office: (662) 325-1956
>> Dept: (662) 325-3928
>> Fax: (662) 325-8651 
>> gtempleton at cobilan.msstate.edu 
>> http://misweb.cbi.msstate.edu/gtempleton
>> 
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