Editorial: Welcome to the first issue of ACM TMIS

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It is a great pleasure for me to announce the first issue of the long-awaited ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems (ACM TMIS), the only ACM journal devoted to the MIS community. The Association for Computing Machinery (http://www.acm.org), or ACM, was founded in 1947 as the world’s first scientific and educational computing society. It has more than 92,000 members as of 2009.1 An ACM publication brings significant prestige and recognition due to the community’s long-standing and high societal impact and its wide reach to academic institutions and the IT industry. It takes a tremendous effort for a small group of MIS researchers and educators to make ACM TMIS a reality. In particular, I would like to acknowledge the groundwork that had been done by Alan Hevner in proposing an earlier MIS journal idea to the ACM, and the assistance and guidance of Ee-Peng Lim as a member of the ACM Publications Board during the entire approval process. We have received exceptionally strong support from the EICs of many key ACM publications and from SIGs (Special Interest Groups) within the ACM community, including: ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS) EIC Jamie Callan, ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data (TKDD) EIC Jiawei Han, ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS) EIC Meral Özsoyoğlu, ACM Journal of Data and Information Quality (JDIQ) EIC Stuart Madnick, ACM Transactions on the Web (TWEB) EIC Helen Ashman, ACM SIGMIS Chair Janice Sipior, ACM SIGKDD Chair Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro,