THOMAS I. M. HO is Professor of Computer and Information Technology at Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI). Previously, he was a Senior Fellow in Information Systems and Computer Science at the National University of Singapore from 1993-1994. From 1990-1992, he was Director of the Information Networking Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. From 1978 to 1988, he was Head of the Department of Computer Technology at Purdue University which has been recognized by the Data Processing Management Association for its Four-year Institution Award for undergraduate computer information systems programs. From 1986-1988, he was on loan from Purdue to serve as Executive Director of the INTELENET Commission which oversees INTELENET, INdiana TELEcommunications NETwork. He received his BS, MS, and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from Purdue University. Dr. Ho is actively involved in distance education experiments with real-time streaming, e.g. RealVideo, to add instructional value to Web-based training. He is one of the founders of IUPUI's CyberLab at http://cyberlab.iupui.edu/. He is also involved in electronic commerce with particular emphasis on commercial activities on the Internet. He is also engaged in efforts to apply telecommunications and networking to primary and secondary education. While in Pittsburgh, he served as External Liaison for Common Knowledge: Pittsburgh, a project to provide Internet access to the Pittsburgh Public Schools. In Singapore, he was a consultant to the IT2000 Education Sector Programme of the National Computer Board. He is a charter member of the Association for Information Systems and the Indianapolis chapter of the Society for Information Management (SIM) International. In April 1996, he was named by the Indianapolis Business Journal to its “Who’s Who in Information Technology.”

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