<html><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>Interesting!!<br><br>Sent from my iPhone</div><div><br>On 27 Aug, 2013, at 4:54 AM, Ping Wang <<a href="mailto:pwang@umd.edu">pwang@umd.edu</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">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):<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://personal.anderson.ucla.edu/clay.sprowls/history/SWAC/earlyuse.htm"><a href="http://personal.anderson.ucla.edu/clay.sprowls/history/SWAC/earlyuse.htm">http://personal.anderson.ucla.edu/clay.sprowls/history/SWAC/earlyuse.htm</a></a><br>
More of this early computing history at:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://personal.anderson.ucla.edu/clay.sprowls/"><a href="http://personal.anderson.ucla.edu/clay.sprowls/">http://personal.anderson.ucla.edu/clay.sprowls/</a></a><br>
Clay passed away in 2011.<br>
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<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">Ping Wang, Ph.D.
University of Maryland, College Park
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On 8/26/2013 3:30 PM, Ephraim McLean wrote:<br>
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<div>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</div>
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R. McLean, Ph.D., FAIS<br>
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font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: navy; ">Regents'
Professor<br>
George E. Smith (GRA) Eminent Scholar's Chair<br>
in Information Systems<br>
Department Chair, </span></i><span style="font-size:
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Information Systems Department<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;
font-size: 11pt; "><i><span style="font-size: 10pt;
font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: navy; ">Director, </span></i><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial,
sans-serif; color: navy; ">Center for Research in
Information Systems</span></p>
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for Health Information Technology<br>
Robinson College of Business<br>
Georgia State University<br>
Atlanta, Georgia 30303<br>
E-mail: </span><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);
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Phone: 1-404-413-7448</span></p>
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<span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span>Gary Templeton
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<span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span>Saturday, August
24, 2013 9:35 AM<br>
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<span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span>[AISWorld]
Earliest Undergraduate Program in Information Systems in a
College of Business<br>
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font-size: 13px; ">AIS Colleagues,<br>
At this time, the earliest known computer-related degree
program in a college of business began in 1963 at
Mississippi State University.<br>
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Does anyone have information on an earlier one?<br>
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It has to be in a college of business and have a
computer-based name.<br>
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I will report any earlier one that I can verify to the
group.<br>
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Gary<br>
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Dr. Gary Templeton <br>
Associate Professor of MIS <br>
Management & Information Systems Department <br>
P.O. Box 9581 <br>
Mississippi State, MS 39762 <br>
Office: (662) 325-1956<br>
Dept: (662) 325-3928<br>
Fax: (662) 325-8651 <br>
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