JOEY F. GEORGE

Joey F. George is a Professor of Information Systems and the Thomas L. Williams Jr. Eminent Scholar in Information Systems in the MIS Department in the College of Business at Florida State University (FSU).  He earned his bachelor's degree at Stanford University in 1979 and his Ph.D. in management at the University of California at Irvine in 1986.  He was selected as a Fellow of the Association for Information Systems (AIS) in 2008.  His research interests include the detection of deceptive computer-mediated communication, computer-based monitoring, and group support systems.  His research has been funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation and the U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research.

He is currently the President-Elect of the Association for Information Systems, and he will serve a President of AIS for one year, beginning on July 1, 2010.

Dr. George has published 54 articles in such journals as Information Systems Research, MIS Quarterly, Communications of the ACM, Journal of MIS, Journal of AIS, and Communication Research.  He has also published 24 book chapters and 35 papers in refereed conference proceedings.  He has been invited to present his research at many universities in the US, as well as at universities in Brazil, France, Italy, New Zealand, Australia, Taiwan, South Korea, and the Peoples’ Republic of China.

Professor George is currently a Senior Editor at Information Systems Research.  From January 2006 until March 1, 2009, he served as Editor-in-Chief of Communications of the Association for Information Systems.  He has served as both Senior Editor and Associate Editor for MIS Quarterly.

He has worked extensively with the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS).  In 2001, he served as the Conference Co-Chair in New Orleans, LA.  In 2003, he was the Co-Chair of the Doctoral Consortium in Seattle, WA.  He will also be the Conference Co-Chair for ICIS 2012, to be held in Orlando, Florida, USA.

He has won several teaching awards, including an FSU University Teaching Award.  He has chaired 25 doctoral committees and served on 29 other doctoral committees since 1987.  Dr. George is co-author of four textbooks for Prentice Hall (Modern Systems Analysis and Design; Essentials of Systems Analysis and Design; Object-Oriented Systems Analysis and Design, and Information Systems Project Management: A Process and Team Approach) and editor of a fifth book, Computers in Society: Privacy, Ethics and the Internet.