[AISWorld] Announcing the 50th Anniversary Issue of The DATA BASE for Advances in Information Systems (50:1)

[Petter, Stacie]

Thanks to those of you that were able to join us for the 50th birthday celebration for The DATA BASE for Advances in Information Systems at ICIS 2018 in San Francisco. We are pleased to announce that our first issue of the 50th volume is now available in the ACM Digital Library (http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J219).  Not many information systems publications have published their 50th volume, and we are pleased to be able to celebrate this milestone throughout 2019.



This issue is both retrospective and forward-looking. We have editorials from most of the past editors-in-chief as well as some articles that encourage us to consider the future of information systems. In this issue,



- Learn about the origins of ACM SIGMIS, whose roots begin as one of the first special interest groups within the Association for Computing & Machinery in "Twenty Anecdotes in Search of a Theme: A Brief History of SIGMIS" by Fred Niederman (https://doi.org/10.1145/3312576.3312579).



- Varun Grover wrote a forward-looking article on the information systems discipline for the 25th anniversary of The DATA BASE for Advances in Information Systems. He offers his insights now in " Surviving and Thriving in the Evolving Digital Age: A Peek into the Future of IS Research and Practice" (https://doi.org/10.1145/3312576.3312580).



- Reflections from several of the past editors-in-chief on their view of  The DATA BASE for Advances in Information Systems then and now by:

     - James Wetherbe (https://doi.org/10.1145/3312576.3312581)

     - Ephraim McLean (https://doi.org/10.1145/3312576.3312582)

     - Dorothy Leidner and Wynne Chin (https://doi.org/10.1145/3312576.3312583)

     - Tom Stafford (https://doi.org/10.1145/3312576.3312584)

     - David Salisbury and Andrew Schwarz (https://doi.org/10.1145/3312576.3312585)



- Examine the scientometrics of The DATA BASE for Advances in Information Systems  over the past several decades in "Author Highlights for the Past 35 Years: An Analysis of the Most-Published Authors and Most-Cited Papers in The DATA BASE for Advances in Information Systems " by Michael Gallivan (https://doi.org/10.1145/3312576.3312586).



- A response by Horst Treiblmaier in "Taking Feyerabend to the Next Level: On Linear Thinking, Indoctrination, and Academic Killer Bees" to the invited responses in 'The Philosopher's Corner' within The DATA BASE for Advances in Information Systems (https://doi.org/10.1145/3312576.3312587).



Also, don't forget to attend the Computers and People Research Conference in 2019 (June 20-22 in Nashville, Tennessee).  For more information, visit http://sigmis.org/sigcpr2019/.



We are excited to celebrate the 50th anniversary of The DATA BASE for Advances in Information Systems throughout 2019, and we look forward to another 50 great years of this publication.



Sincerely,

Stacie Petter & Tom Stafford

Editors-in-Chief, The Data Base for Advances in Information Systems

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