Athens, Ga. – Hugh J. Watson has been named a Fellow of the Association for Information Systems (AIS). Watson is a longtime faculty member in the management information systems department of the University of Georgia’s Terry College of Business. AIS is the leading professional organization for information systems academics, and Watson joins 30 other AIS Fellows from around the world.
Watson has taught at UGA since 1970. He is a leading scholar and authority on decision support, having written 22 books and more than 100 scholarly articles in such journals as MIS Quarterly, Journal of MIS, Management Science and the Academy of Management Journal.
Watson helped develop the conceptual foundation for decision support systems in the 1970s, researched the development and implementation of executive information systems in the 1980s and, most recently, began specializing in the field of data warehousing. Watson is a five-time winner of the Society for Information Management Paper Competition Award, which recognizes the best research on the topic of information systems.
Watson also is a Fellow of the Data Warehousing Institute. He is the senior editor of the Business Intelligence Journal and serves on eight other editorial boards. He is the senior director of the Teradata University Network, a free portal for faculty and students who teach and research data warehousing, BI/DSS and database.
Watson has consulted for many organizations and corporations, including the World Bank, Intel, IBM and Glaxo. In the mid-1980s, he was the principal author of a proposal that resulted in a $4 million grant from IBM to the Terry College for research and education on the management of information systems. For the past 17 years, Watson has been the consulting editor for John Wiley & Sons’ MIS series.
