The Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) is an annual conference for Information Systems and Information Technology academics and professionals sponsored by the University of Hawaii at Manoa's Shidler College of Business. The conference provides a platform for panel discussions and the presentation of peer-reviewed information systems research papers.

The first HICSS conference took place in 1968 at the University of Hawaii, with the goal to promote collaborative research on computer science, information technology, and telecommunications. Notably, the first six annual meetings focused primarily on various scientific issue related to the design, development, use and implementation of the ARPANET, the precursor of the Internet. Norman Abramson and Franklin Kuo, co-founders of HICSS, used HICSS platform to launch the ALOHAnet, that was subsequently employed in the Ethernet cable based network in the 1970s, and following regulatory developments in the early 1980s it became possible to use the ALOHA random-access techniques in both Wi-Fi and in mobile telephone networks.

From 1968 to 1989, HICSS proceedings were published by Western Periodicals Company, California. As the conference grew and focused more on the development, design, implementation, use and evaluation of information technologies in a wide spectrum of applications, in particular in business, HICSS worked with the IEEE Computer Society for its proceedings under the leadership of Ralph Sprague Jr. and Tung Bui, conference co-chairs. Starting in 2017, all HICSS publications have been archived and disseminated at no cost to all readers worldwide through ScholarSpace. They have also been made available in the digital library of the Association for Information Systems (AIS). With this move, HICSS has become the leading source for scientific dissemination -- more than 3.5 million paper downloads since HICSS-50 and growing.

Researchers from the University of Washington, Seattle helped create a visualization of HICSS scientific influence over time. The scholar visualization tool shows the influence a central collection of publications has had across different fields, telling the story of how this influence has developed over time.

According to Microsoft Academic in 2021, in terms of citations, HICSS has ranked first among information systems as well as business conferences and overall, ranked 37th among all conferences indexed by Microsoft Academic. HICSS H-Index reported by SCImago Journal Rank in 2022 was 92, significantly higher than the average H-Index reported in the same year for information systems journals and comparable with top Information Systems journals (e.g., compared with Information Systems Journal with H-Index of 94).

HICSS Conferences Past and future HICSS conferences include:

Year Name Island Place2028HICSS-61OahuHilton Hawaiian Village Waikiki Beach Resort, Honolulu2027HICSS-60Big IslandHilton Waikoloa Village Resort, Waikoloa Village2026HICSS-59MauiHyatt Regency Resort, Lahaina2025HICSS-58Big IslandHilton Waikoloa Village Resort, Waikoloa Village 2024 HICSS-57 Oahu Hilton Hawaiian Village Waikiki Beach Resort, Honolulu 2023 HICSS-56 Maui Hyatt Regency Resort, Lahaina 2022 HICSS-55 Virtual due to COVID-19 2021 HICSS-54 Virtual due to COVID-19 2020 HICSS-53 Maui The Grand Wailea Resort Hotel & Spa, Wailea 2019 HICSS-52 Maui The Grand Wailea Resort Hotel & Spa, Wailea 2018 HICSS-51 Big Island Hilton Waikoloa Village Resort, Waikoloa Village 2017 HICSS-50 Big Island Hilton Waikoloa Village Resort, Waikoloa Village 2016 HICSS-49 Kauai The Grand Hyatt Kauai Resort & Spa, Koloa 2015 HICSS-48 Kauai The Grand Hyatt Kauai Resort & Spa, Koloa 2014 HICSS-47 Big Island Hilton Waikoloa Village Resort, Waikoloa Village 2013 HICSS-46 Maui The Grand Wailea Resort Hotel & Spa, Wailea 2012 HICSS-45 Maui The Grand Wailea Resort Hotel & Spa, Wailea 2011 HICSS-44 Kauai The Grand Hyatt Kauai Resort & Spa, Koloa 2010 HICSS-43 Kauai The Grand Hyatt Kauai Resort & Spa, Koloa 2009 HICSS-42 Big Island Hilton Waikoloa Village Resort, Waikoloa Village 2008 HICSS-41 Big Island Hilton Waikoloa Village Resort, Waikoloa Village 2007 HICSS-40 Big Island Hilton Waikoloa Village Resort, Waikoloa Village 2006 HICSS-39 Kauai Hyatt Regency, Koloa 2005 HICSS-38 Big Island Hilton Waikoloa Village Resort, Waikoloa Village 2004 HICSS-37 Big Island Hilton Waikoloa Village Resort, Waikoloa Village 2003 HICSS-36 Big Island Hilton Waikoloa Village Resort, Waikoloa Village 2002 HICSS-35 Big Island Hilton Waikoloa Village Resort, Waikoloa Village 2001 HICSS-34 Maui Outrigger Wailea Resort, Wailea 2000 HICSS-33 Maui Outrigger Wailea Resort, Wailea 1999 HICSS-32 Maui Aston Wailea Resort, Wailea 1998 HICSS-31 Big Island The Orchid at Mauna Lani, Kohala Coast 1997 HICSS-30 Maui Wailea 1996 HICSS-29 Maui Wailea 1995 HICSS-28 Maui Maui Intercontinental Resort, Kihei 1994 HICSS-27 Maui Maui Intercontinental Resort, Kihei 1993 HICSS-26 Maui Maui Intercontinental Resort, Kihei 1992 HICSS-25 Kauai Stouffer Waiohai Beach Resort, Koloa 1991 HICSS-24 Kauai 1990 HICSS-23 Big Island Kona Surf Resort, Kailua-Kona 1989 HICSS-22 Big Island Kona Surf Resort, Kailua-Kona 1988 HICSS-21 Big Island Kona Surf Resort, Kailua-Kona 1987 HICSS-20 Big Island Kona Surf Resort, Kailua-Kona 1986 HICSS-19 Oahu Westin Ilikai Hotel, Honolulu 1985 HICSS-18 Oahu Westin Ilikai Hotel, Honolulu 1984 HICSS-17 Oahu Westin Ilikai Hotel, Honolulu 1983 HICSS-16 Oahu Ilikai Hotel, Honolulu 1982 HICSS-15 Oahu Ilikai Hotel, Honolulu 1981 HICSS-14 Oahu Ilikai Hotel, Honolulu 1980 HICSS-13 Oahu Ilikai Hotel, Honolulu ... 1968 HICSS-1 Oahu University of Hawaii

Notable people

Founders The conference was co-founded in 1968 by Norman Abramson and Franklin F. Kuo. Kuo served as the first conference chair.

Keynote and plenary speakers HICSS has featured several notable presentations, keynote and plenary addresses by researchers and practitioners in technology, computing, information systems, and related fields. Selected speakers include Guy Kawasaki, Ajit Pai, Werner Vogels, Doug Cutting, Cynthia Breazeal, Ben Shneiderman, Hal Abelson, Ian Foster, Lawrence Lessig, Lotfi A. Zadeh, Arno Allan Penzias, Edward H. Shortliffe, Don Norman, Lindsay Grace, Raj Reddy, Niklaus Wirth, Douglas Engelbart, Barbara Liskov, Tony Hoare, Edgar F. Codd, Larry Roberts, Siddhartha Paul Tiwari, Stewart Udall, and Richard E. Bellman.

See also

Pacific Disaster Center Systems engineering Futures techniques

References

External links Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences University of Hawai'i at Manoa, Shidler College of Business Shidler College of Business, Information Technology Management Department HICSS Conference Organization