Fifty years' involvement in information systems has won BCS
fellow Frank Land one of the world's top IT honours.
He has won the Leo Award for Lifetime Exceptional Achievement in
Information Systems, established by the US Association for
Information Systems.
Land was a programmer on the Leo computer at catering company J
Lyons, which in 1951 ran the world's first business
application.
He moved to the London School of Economics in 1967 as its first
specialist researcher and teacher in IS. In 1982 he became the
first professor of IS.
Land retired in 1992 but is still a visiting professor and is
active in research.
