[1] Regents Professor is the highest faculty rank bestowed at the university, an honor reserved for the top 3% of scholars.
He founded both the MIS department[2] (ranked top 5 in the country by U.S. News & World Report for the past 20 years) in 1974, and the Center for the Management of Information[3] in 1985 at the University of Arizona.
In 2002, he was the recipient of the LEO (lifetime achievement) Award from the Association of Information Systems, at ICIS in Barcelona, Spain.
His research on group support systems addresses behavioral as well as engineering issues and focuses on theory as well as implementation.
His publications span more than 250 papers and seven books, and editorial positions on major journals, in computer science and engineering, information management, communication, security informatics.