Through the past 30 years I have had and still have several streams of research. They are all quite different. In general, I pursued those ares that I was interested on, and had the means to do it. I would not recommend to a junior researcher to follow a similar path since it is very risky but I did what I had to do.

Information & Energy

I want to understand the role of information in the process of generating energy. E=mc2 occurs in a perfect scenario, when we use mass to generate energy we tend to get much less and and we are left with some additional mass that needs to be disposed of. My colleague, Dr. Ricardo Salim and I have...

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ELearning

I am very interested in Technology-Mediated Knowledge Transfer, online education or eLearning. I teach online classes but also observe others teaching online. I want to better understand the role of the instructor in an online course of primarily explicit knowledge. I want to learn about tools...

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Accreditation

Higher Education is now a very large marketplace. Students and employers cannot easily distinguish between good and bad higher education institutions. To help in this quest, we have accreditation. In the United States there is regional accreditation (for entire universities) and specialized...

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Accounting Information Systems

I started developing accounting information systems in an Apple II when I was 15 years old. Very soon after that I had strong conversation with the Comptroller of several banks regarding how accounting should be done. I continued developing information systems that evolved into comprehensive ERPs....

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Digital Divide

Information Technology (IT) and the Internet have helped many to create all types of things and companies; however, not everyone has been able to leverage these technologies equally. We tend to believe that the Internet has made the world truly flat but that has not really been the case....

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