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    <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">http://personal.anderson.ucla.edu/clay.sprowls/history/SWAC/earlyuse.htm</a><br>
      More of this early computing history at:
      <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://personal.anderson.ucla.edu/clay.sprowls/">http://personal.anderson.ucla.edu/clay.sprowls/</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>
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                  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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                  URL:     </span><span style="font-size: 10pt;
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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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