QualificationsPh.D., Purdue University, Computer Science, 1974. Expertise and Research InterestsDr. Ho is actively involved in distance education experiments with RealAudio and 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 tracking commercial activities on the Internet. He is best-known for 'Thomas Ho's Favorite Electronic Commerce WWW Resources' which was sold to internet.com’s guide to electronic commerce on the World Wide Web at http://ecommerce.internet.com/. 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. KeywordsCOS Keywords:Distance Learning, Internet Or World Wide Web (WWW), Real-Time Computing, Telecommunications.Additional Terms:Distance Learning, Distributed Education, Real-time Streaming, RealAudio, RealVideo.Previous Positions1993-1995, Senior Fellow,
National University of Singapore,
School of Computing (http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/),
Information Systems
1990-1992, Director,
Carnegie Mellon University,
Information Networking Institute (http://www.ini.cmu.edu/)
1988-1990, Professor of Computer Technology,
Purdue University,
Technology,
Computer Technology (http://www.cpt.tech.iupui.edu)
1986-1988, Executive Director,
INTELENET Commission
1978-1988, Chairman & faculty member,
Purdue University,
Technology,
Computer Technology (http://www.cpt.tech.iupui.edu)
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