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'''Paul Gray''' (1930 – May 10, 2012) was an American [[information systems]] pioneer, and Professor Emeritus at [[Claremont Graduate University]] where he was the founding chair of The School of Information Systems and Technology. The School of Information Systems and Technology at Claremont Graduate University is the home of the [[Paul Gray PC Museum]].
== Biography ==
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Gray received a PhD in [[Operations Research]] from Stanford University in 1968.
He has been a member of the faculty at Stanford, Georgia Institute of Technology, University of Southern California, Southern Methodist University, University of California at Irvine, and Claremont Graduate University. Gray served as secretary  of [[The Institute of Management Sciences]] from 1975 to 1979, vice president at large  from 1983 to 1986, and president from 1992 to 1993.
Gray was the founding editor of CAIS, the ''Communications of the Association for Information Systems'' and served as editor-in-chief from 1999 to 2006. He is on the editorial board of CAIS and eight other journals.
In 1999, he was elected Fellow of the Association for Information Systems. In 2000, he was named Educator of the Year by EDSIG. In 2002, he was elected Fellow of the Institute for Operations Research and Management Science (INFORMS). In 2002, he received the [[Association for Information Systems#Leo Award|LEO Award]] of the Association for Information Systems for Lifetime Achievement. In 2003, he received the INFORMS [[George E. Kimball Medal]]. In 2006, he received the Lifetime Achievement Award of SIGMIS.
Paul Gray, professor emeritus at Claremont Graduate University (CGU), died on May 10, 2012, from injuries suffered in a car crash. He was 81.
==Selected publications==
Gray is the author of 13 books and over 140 professional articles. Books, a selection:
* Gray, P., Watson, H. J., King, W. R., & McLean, E. R. (1997). ''Management of information systems''. Dryden Press.
* Negash, Solomon, and Paul Gray. ''Business intelligence''. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2008.
Articles, a selection:
* Gray, Paul. "Group decision support systems." ''Decision Support Systems'' 3.3 (1987): 233-242.
* Gorgone, John, and Paul Gray. "[https://web.archive.org/web/20131027002158/http://156.35.81.1/docs/IJPEI/Bachelor_Masters_Curricula/ccG_2000_IS.pdf MSIS 2000: model curriculum and guidelines for graduate degree programs in information]." ''Communications of the AIS'' 3.1es (2000): 1.
* Ives, B., Valacich, J., Watson, R. T., Zmud, R., Alavi, M., Baskerville, R., ... & Whinston, A. B. (2002). [https://web.archive.org/web/20131027002917/http://www.aisnet.org/intranet/aiscouncilnet/aiscouncil/ccl2002/2002daacsbisreport.doc What every business student needs to know about information systems]. ''Communications of the Association for Information Systems'', 9(30), 1-18.
* Gorgone, J. T., Gray, P., Stohr, E. A., Valacich, J. S., & Wigand, R. T. (2006). "[https://web.archive.org/web/20131027050003/http://plone.acm.org/education/curric_vols/MSIS%202006.pdf MSIS 2006: model curriculum and guidelines for graduate degree programs in information systems]." ''ACM SIGCSE Bulletin'', 38(2), 121-196.
== References ==
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==External links==
* [http://www.lionhrtpub.com/orms/news/informs/inf1203kimb.html Kimball Medal awarding]
* [http://www.cgu.edu/pages/4546.asp?item=6314 CGU mourns the loss of emeritus professor Paul Gray]
* [https://www.informs.org/content/view/full/273231 Biography of Paul Gray] from the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences
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