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Dr. Jay F. Nunamaker Jr.
Director
Dr. Jay F. Nunamaker is Regents Professor and Director of the Center for Management of Information at the University of Arizona. He was a faculty member at Purdue University prior to founding the MIS department at the University of Arizona in 1974. Under his leadership for twenty years, the department has become known for its expertise in collaboration technology and the technical aspects of MIS.
In 1996, Dr. Nunamaker received the DPMA EDSIG Distinguished IS Educator Award. The GroupSystems software resulting from his research received the Editor's Choice Award from PC Magazine, June 14, 1994. At the GroupWare 1993 Conference in San Jose, he received the GroupWare Achievement Award along with recognition of GroupSystems as best of show in the GDSS category. In 1992, he received the Arthur Andersen Consulting Professor of the Year award. Dr. Nunamaker received his Ph.D. in systems engineering and operations research from Case Institute of Technology, a M.S. and B.S. from the University of Pittsburgh, and a B.S. from Carnegie Mellon University. He was an original member of the ISDOS project (PSL/PSA) under the direction of Professor Daniel Teichroew at Case and the University of Michigan from 1965 to 1968.
Regent's and Soldwedel Professor in Management Information Systems, Computer Science, and Communication
Class Information
- MIS 696A - Readings in MIS
- MIS 497a/597a - Collaborative Computing
Experience
University of Arizona
- Regents Professor of MIS and Computer Science, 1994 - Present. Director (1985 to Present) and founder of the Center for Management of Information (CMI), a research center to study collaboration technology and decision support.
- Professor of MIS and Computer Science, 1976 to 1994 and founding head/chair of MIS Dept./prgr. 1974 to 1992. Developed degree programs starting in 1974 and built MIS program from initial class in 1975 to 600 undergraduate majors, 110 MS students and 40 doctoral students. The MIS graduate program was ranked 4th in U.S. by U.S. News and World Report, for the past six years; undergraduate program ranked 3rd for the past two years.
Previous Positions
- Assistant and Associate Professor of Computer Science and Industrial Administration, Purdue University, 1969 - 1973. Developed one of the first Decision Support Systems called GPLAN with Professor Andrew Whinston.
- Founding Member of ISDOS research team at Case Institute and University of Michigan that produced PSL, PSA and SODA and established foundations for systems that are now called CASE under direction of Professor Daniel Teichroew, University of Michigan. The ISDOS Project was recognized with the Warnier Prize in Computer Science from the French Govt in 1986 as the first instance of Case Tools.
- Computer Systems and Test Engineer, Pressurized Water Reactor, Shippingport Atomic Power Facility, Pittsburgh, PA, 1960 - 1963. Joint project Atomic Energy Commission, Westinghouse and Duquesne Light Co.
- Engineering Trainee in Operations, National Tube Works, McKeesport, PA, U.S. Steel, 1960.
Research
- Current research centers on computer supported collaboration and decision support which is directed toward improving productivity through the use of information technology. This approach to computer supported collaboration supports a new way of enabling individuals to work together, to communicate, share information, collaborate on writing, generate ideas, organize ideas, draft policies, share visions, build consensus and make decisions at anytime and any-place.
- One of the developers of the "decision center" concept, there are over 1,500 decision centers in industry, government and universities using the GroupSystems software. Built the first operational decision support center in 1985.
- Research funding from National Science Foundation, IBM, U.S. Army, U.S. Airforce, U.S. Navy, NCR, AT&T, DARPA, Bell South, Hewlett-Packard, and others has totaled over 30 million for the past 15 years.
- Major Professor for 60 Ph.D. dissertations at Purdue and University of Arizona. Former students are on faculty or have held appointments at Harvard University, Indiana University, Texas A&M, University of Georgia, University of Florida, University of Iowa, University of Michigan, Washington State University, Carnegie Mellon University and others.
- Publications include: 80 refereed papers, 60 articles, 25 book chapters, 67 refereed conference proceedings, 10 books and 2 videos.
- Recent papers have appeared in Management Science, Journal of Information Systems Research, CACM, Journal of Operations Research, MIS Quarterly, Journal of The Academy of Management.
Awards
- Educator of the Year Award from Data Processing Management Association Education Foundation, 1996.
- GroupSystems received the Editors Choice Award, PC Magazine, June 1994.
- Andersen Consulting Professor of the Year Award, 1992-1993.
- Received awards for GroupSystems research:
- Groupware Achievement Award and Best of Show in the Group Decision Support Systems Category at Groupware, 1993.
- Group Achievement Award From DOD (received with Volpe National Transportation Center, Coopers and Lybrand, December 1993.
- Best Paper Award from the Academy of Management, 1992.
- Best Paper of 1992 Award from Alpha Kappa PsI Foundation, Business Comm. Assoc.
- Final five in best research award; Decision Support Conference Competition, 1990.
- Finalist in innovative software competition in 1989; ComputerWorld-Smithsonian Award.
- Second place from Society for Information Management Award for; Creative Concepts and Applications in IS management, 1989.
- Best paper award at Hawaii Systems Conference in 1986, 1987, 1988, 1996, 2nd place in 1989.
Professional Activities
- Editorial board of six journals.
- Chairman, ACM Curriculum Committee on Information Systems, 15 years, 1976-1991.
- Track Chairman, Data and Knowledge Bases, Decision Support Systems and Information Systems, Hawaii Conference 1990 - 1997.
- Founding member of International Conference on Information Systems, 1980.
- Served on Faculty at AACSB Basic and Advanced Institutes for faculty retraining, 1983- 91.
Education
- Ph.D. Operations Research and Systems, Engineering Case Institute of Technology, 1969
- M.S. Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, 1965
- B.S. Industrial Management, Carnegie-Mellon University, 1964
- B.S. Mechanical Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, 1960
- Ph.D. Dissertation: "Design and Optimization of Information Processing Systems"
- Major Professor: Daniel Teichroew, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
- Professional Engineer, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, 1965-Present
