ISECON has a new sister, the Information Systems Education Journal (ISEDJ), ISSN: 1545-679X. Starting in 2003, ISECON papers that are deemed by peer and editor review to be of journal quality are also invited to be published in ISEDJ. We are very excited to honor and publish our best ISECON papers in a refereed journal.

How did this come about? Serendipity. Several late arriving ISECON 2001 papers could not be reviewed and edited in time to be included in the proceedings. EDSIG built a web site to publish them. That small idea grew to include all ISECON papers from 2000 and 2001. The dark cloud of late papers had a silver lining. The Proceedings web site has been very successful. Our hit rate per month has DOUBLED every 95 days, seven times in 22 months, from 172 hits in November, 2001 (the first full month of operation) to 22307 hits in September, 2003. With about 400 papers from three years now online, each paper got an average of TWO HITS PER DAY in September. Together we must be doing a lot of things right.

ISEDJ published its first paper online on September 8, 2003. In the next 30 days it had 1368 outside hits to public parts of the web site, including 61 click-throughs from Google and 22 from Yahoo. Its 17 papers each averaged 1.6 hits per day! The future looks bright. The ISEDJ Website can be found at www.isedj.org.

Don Colton has edited and published the ISECON Proceedings from 2000 on, and is the founding editor of ISEDJ. He also hosts both web sites at BYU Hawaii. Says Don, "I don't think I can quit. This is too much fun."

The following list of monthly hit counts shows the rapid growth of this new resource.

Our Journal of Information Systems Education (JISE) Editor, Al Harris of Appalachian State University, and his team have recently debuted a new JISE website that includes back issues and a search capability. According to Al, "It seems to be nearing completion. We invite you to look at the new JISE web site and provide any feedback that you have."

The JISE Website is located at www.jise.appstate.edu

EDSIG to Honor Eph McLean

Professor Ephraim McLean of Georgia State University has been selected as the EDSIG Information Systems Educator of the Year for 2003. Dr. McLean will be honored at the ISECON Awards Luncheon on November 8, 2003 in San Diego.

Professor McLean earned his Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering degree from Cornell University in 1958. After brief service in the U.S. Army Ordnance Corps, he worked for the Procter & Gamble Co. for seven years, first in manufacturing management and later as a computer systems analyst. In 1965, he left P. & G. and entered the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, earning his master's degree in 1967 and his doctorate in 1970.

Professor McLean left M.I.T. and joined the faculty of the Anderson Graduate School of Management at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in the winter of 1970. He was the founding Director of the Information Systems Research Program and the first Chairman of the Information Systems area, both within the Anderson Graduate School of Management. In the fall of 1987, he was named to the George E. Smith Eminent Scholar's Chair in the Robinson College of Business at Georgia State University in Atlanta, GA; and in 2002, he was named Regents' Professor in the University System of Georgia.

He is currently the Executive Director of the ICIS and of the Association for Information Systems (AIS) of which he was one of the founding members. In 1999, he was recognized as one of the first Fellows of AIS, one of only seven in the world so honored at that time.

Historically Speaking

This month marks the tenth anniversary of the release of Mosaic 1 for Windows, the first graphical Web browser, by the National Center for Supercomputer Applications at the University of Illinois. Few innovations were less heralded at the time, and few have had more impact on IT and the world in general