Gray received a PhD in
Operations Research from Stanford University in 1968. He has been a member of the faculty at Stanford, Georgia Institute of Technology, University of Southern California, Southern Methodist University, University of California at Irvine, and Claremont Graduate University. Gray served as secretary of
The Institute of Management Sciences from 1975 to 1979, vice president at large from 1983 to 1986, and president from 1992 to 1993. Gray was the founding editor of CAIS, the
Communications of the Association for Information Systems and served as editor-in-chief from 1999 to 2006. He is on the editorial board of CAIS and eight other journals. In 1999, he was elected Fellow of the Association for Information Systems. In 2000, he was named Educator of the Year by EDSIG. In 2002, he was elected Fellow of the Institute for Operations Research and Management Science (INFORMS). In 2002, he received the
LEO Award of the Association for Information Systems for Lifetime Achievement. In 2003, he received the INFORMS
George E. Kimball Medal. In 2006, he received the Lifetime Achievement Award of SIGMIS. Paul Gray, professor emeritus at Claremont Graduate University (CGU), died on May 10, 2012, from injuries suffered in a car crash. He was 81. ==Selected publications==