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Information Sciences and Technology (I.S.T.) 307G Information Sciences and Technology Building
College of I.S.T.
Penn State University
University Park, State College, PA 16802 eam264 at psu.edu
1.814.865.8952 (voice)
1.814.865.6426 (fax) Personal Page
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Personal Statement |
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Edgar Maldonado is a Ph.D. Candidate in the College of Information Sciences and Technology at Pennsylvania State University. He has an undergraduate degree in Electronic Engineering from Simón Bolívar University in Caracas, Venezuela. Before entering graduate school, Edgar worked as a software support engineer for banking networks, with projects in Venezuela, Trinidad and Tobago, Panamá, Guatemala, and Cyman Islands. Edgar’s research include policies of Open Source Software adoption in developing countries, education policies, and their influence in the development of knowledge based societies and economies, and learning theories for information technologies. Edgar’s work has appeared in: Computer and Entertainment and the American Sociological Association. Science, Knowledge, and Technology Newsletter. Edgar’s as participate in the following conferences: the IFIP Working Group 8.2 International working conference (2006), the Special Interest Group of the Association for Computing Machinery on Management Information Systems (SIGMIS-CPR) (2006 and 2007), The Information Resource Management Association (2006), and The American Association for the Advance of the Science graduate student conference (2007). |
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