IS 2002 : The Final Undergraduate IS Curriculum Model Report
(Sunday, December 16, 1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m

The Joint AIS/ACM/AITP Task Force will present its final recommendations for IS 2002, Model Curriculum and Guidelines for Undergraduate Degree Programs in Information Systems, in the joint IAIM/ICIS session. The task force will describe the key principles and guiding assumptions about de IS profession, exit characteristics of IS graduates, scope of the current curriculum update,  course architecture and sequence, and high-level catalog descriptions. The session will conclude with a discussion on the next model curriculum development project.

A copy of the report is available in the ICIS Proceedings and is available at http://webfoot.csom.umn.edu/ais/02IS2002.pdf until December 31, 2002.


Doctoral Student Reception
The Doctoral Student Reception will be held on Sunday evening, December 15, from 6:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. in the Top City Room of the Princesa Sofía Hotel. We encourage all doctoral students registered for ICIS to attend this reception. It is a great opportunity to meet your peers.


Opening Reception
All conference registrants are invited to attend the traditional Opening Reception on Sunday evening, December 15. The reception will be held in the Mezzanine and Alemania Rooms of the Princesa Sofía Hotel from 7:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.


Social Event
This year's social event will take place on Monday evening, December 16, at the Oval Room of the Palau Nacional de Montjuic, on the mountain of Montjuic, one of the two hills overlooking Barcelona. Transportation will be provided. Buses will depart the hotels at 7:00 p.m. Dinner will be served at 8:15 p.m. Buses will return to the hotels at 10:15 
p.m.

At this event, Mythreyee Ganapathy, Technical Product Manager, Developer Tools and Platforms Division from Microsoft Corporation will deliver a talk on "The Future of Programming in a World of Web Services". Click here to view the abstract of the talk.


Special Event/Presentation
Microsoft Corporation sponsors a special event featuring Dr. Minder Chen from George Mason University. Dr. Chen will give a special presentation on "Building XML Web Services for E-Business Applications with .NET Framework and Visual Studio .NET" at 4:30 p.m. on Sunday, December 15, in the Girona Room.


Placement
On-site placement services will be provided in collaboration with AIS. On-site facilities for conducting interviews will be available to participants registered in the AIS online placement system and registered for ICIS. For more information on the online system, see the AIS Placement Web site at http://aisnet.org/placement/ or the ICIS registration booth for on-site registration. The ICIS on-site service will include a sign-in table and interview tables in the Mallorca Room. Interview table space will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis on each day of the conference. Placement bulletin boards will be available near the sign-in table. On-site interview tables will be available during the following hours:

E-mail Services/Internet Access on Site
E-mail and Internet services are available for the duration of the conference in the Cadaqués Room. This year, we will provide high-tech laptop PCs courtesy of Toshiba. E-mail facilities and Internet access are courtesy of Telefónica.


Exhibits
Exhibitors, including textbook publishers and information technology vendors, will display materials for use in teaching, research, and business in the Alemania Room. Hours are:

Future Conferences
ICIS 2003 will be in Seattle, Washington, USA, December 14-17.The conference cochairs are Joe Valacich and Leonard Jessup from Washington State University. The conference theme is "IT Is Everywhere: Impact on Life, Work, and Learning."Visit de conference website at http://www.icis2003.org/.

ICIS 2004 will be held in Washington, DC, USA, December 12-15. V. Sambamurthy, Michigan State University, and Richard Watson, University of Georgia, are the conference cochairs. ICIS 2005 will be held in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. The conference cochairs are William King, University of Pittsburgh, and Reza Torkzadeh, University of Nevada.


Proceedings
Papers accepted for presentation at ICIS 2002 are available to you anywhere in the world. The ICIS proceedings are available online through the eLibrary of the Association for Information Systems. Simply connect to the eLibrary, search, and download the papers you would like:

http://aisel.isworld.org/

1. First, connect to the eLibrary.
2. Select either the link to "Research Papers" or "Research in Progress."
3. Next, find the paper you would like to download and click on the link marked "[PDF]"

Note: You must be a current member of AIS to gain access to the proceedings. If you were not previously a member of AIS, please note that a one-year membership is included in the conference registration fee.

Awards
This year, ICIS continues the tradition of hosting the presentation of the AIS Fellows and the Leo Awards. The AIS Fellows recognizes colleagues who have made an outstanding contribution the development and maintenance of the international community of Information Systems academics. The Leo Award for Lifetime Exceptional Achievement in Information Systems honors outstanding individuals who have contributed to the information systems community. The awards will be presented at lunch on Monday in the Catalunya Room.