Another last minute item I just noticed, Lunch with Dr Thomas Ho July 2 2008 Announcement on Bytemarks
I meant to mentioned, we are having an impromptu lunch with @drthomasho on Wed 7/2 that you are all welcome to join us. We’ll meet on the corner of Keeaumoku and Rycroft (Map) at 11:30am. We can start there and walk over to this Pho restaurant near La Pizza Rina. Call me if you have any questions: [phone number deleted, click through on yahoo groups to get it] or twitter me at @bytemarks.
Burt
Dr Thomas Ho: http://drthomasho.info/ redirects to http://claimid.com/drthomasho
Brief Bio stolen from his website:
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 has been actively involved in distance education experiments with real-time streaming to add instructional value to Web-based training. He is one of the founders of IUPUI’s CyberLab. Until recently, he was also involved in electronic commerce with particular emphasis on commercial activities on the Internet. He is also engaged in efforts to motivate primary and secondary students to study information technology. 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. Currently, he is engaged in experiments to apply “Web 2.0” tools to improve teaching and learning through information technology.
He is a charter member of 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.”