Curriculum Vitae

CONTACT INFORMATION

Thomas A. Horan, Ph.D.
School of Information Science
Claremont Graduate University
130 East Ninth Street
Claremont, CA 91711
Tel.: 909/607-9302 
Fax.: 909/621-8564
Internet: tom.horan@cgu.edu

CURRENT EMPLOYMENT

Claremont Graduate University
Institute Director and Associate Professor, School of Information Science, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA 91711, 1998-present.

Serve as Director for an interdisciplinary technology institute (Claremont Information and Technology Institute) that focuses on broad-based evaluations of information technology. Hold concurrent Associate Professor position that includes teaching and research for the Ph.D. and M.A. program.  Teach graduate-level courses in management and evaluation of technology, public and private telecommunications planning, geographic and visual information systems, and evaluation of social and environmental impacts of technology. Currently serve as principal investigator for several research and consultation projects that focus on evaluating public sector programs (in transportation, healthcare, environment, and economic development) as well as enhancing related private sector decision-making.

Institute Director, Claremont Graduate University Research Institute, 1995-98.

Prior to the establishment of the new School of Information Science, served as institute director for inter-disciplinary university-wide research institute (The Claremont Graduate University Research Institute). Led over $3.0 million in research grants in environment, technology, transportation, organizational, and public policy studies. Held concurrent adjunct faculty position in both the School of Organizational and Behavioral Science and the School of Politics and Economics, where taught research methods, program evaluation, organizational technology assessment, and program planning.

Recent Concurrent Appointments

Visiting Scholar, Humphrey Institute, University of Minnesota, 2000-present.

Vice President for Business Strategy, Viaspace Technologies (JPL/Caltech Spinoff), 1999-2000.

Visiting Scholar, MIT, School of Environmental Engineering, 1995.

Visiting Scholar, Harvard University, Kennedy School of Government, 1993, 1994.

EDUCATION

Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), May 1988
Claremont Graduate School, Claremont, California
Concentration:  Organizational Psychology and Evaluation

Master of Public Policy (M.P.P.), May 1984
Claremont Graduate School, Claremont, California
Concentration:   Informational Technologies

Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), May 1981 (Phi Beta Kappa)
University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont
Major: Psychology, Minor: Environmental Studies

PREVIOUS POSITIONS

Senior Fellow, Institute of Public Policy, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, 1992-1995.  

Served as Senior Fellow for Transportation and Evaluation Policy.  In this position developed and directed university research program geared toward the planning and evaluation of new transportation technology systems and programs. Served as Principal Investigator or Project Director for over $2 million in applied studies to develop a new systems architecture to transportation technologies, public-private partnerships in transportation financing and operations, and policy analysis of new intelligent transportation systems (ITS) and related (GIS) developments.

Senior Analyst, Program Evaluation and Methodology Division (PEMD), U.S. General Accounting Office (GAO), Washington, D.C.,  1987-1992.

Served as a senior manager for program evaluations undertaken for the U.S. Congress in the areas of technology, transportation and environmental policy.   Several research findings had direct use in formulating national transportation and environmental policies (e.g. ISTEA), including creation of a major new initiative in advanced technologies (ITS).  Conducted related congressional oversight and testimony on research findings and recommendations.

SELECTED TEACHING ACTIVITIES

Management of IT (IS-328)

The primary objective of the course is to provide IS and other CGU students with a deep understanding of what is involved in the management of information technology.  The course considers general organizational challenges, specific skills in managing IT projects, and business and social challenges to technology deployment in business and community settings.   This is structured to provide a solid grounding in organizational theory before proceeding into IT and MIS applications through case studies and empirical research articles

Program Evaluation (CGU-PP331)

This course provided an in-depth review of policy planning and evaluation methods.  Issues covered during the course include: understanding the context of policy and program planning, methodologies for determining need; policy and program planning and evaluation methods; linkages across program planning, design, and evaluation; stakeholder participation in program planning; designing and evaluation of local initiatives and developments. The course also reviewed key research design choices, including quantitative and qualitative analytic approaches to alternative research strategies.

Community Informatics (IS-356)

This transdisciplinary seminar is devoted to an examination of appropriate technologies for enhancing social networks in locally-based and globally-linked communities, with special attention to ethnic and racially diverse settings. The course will include a review of major works on the computer revolution and community life, as well as a consideration of local, regional, national and international impacts of technological change. The course will also coincide with two planned expert forums, one on community-based research and one on international (North American) social networks and technology.

Medical and Bioinformatics (IS-377).

Graduate course co-taught with Keck Institute for Life Sciences. This course analyzed medical Informatics, bio-informatics, and information systems with regard to foundations, applications, and case studies that reach across arbitrary disciplinary boundaries to expose intersections among them.  Focused applications include: design of electronic medical record systems, integration of bioinformatics and medical informatics for individualized medicine, and knowledge acquisition systems for emergency medical services.

Management in a Virtual Environment (CGU-300)

This inter-departmental course addresses the management, technology, economic and social elements inherent in virtual organization. Course topics including: the rise of the virtual organization, managing the virtual worker, collaboration technologies and systems, business models for designing virtual organizations, and spatial, social, and economic impacts of distributed work environments.

GIS and Visual Decision Support Systems  (CGU-IS356)

This course provides an overview of the concepts and methods of using visual information with an emphasis on spatial information and its use to support private and public decision-making. Both theoretical background and applied use of a number of visual systems will be covered in this course, drawing heavily on the work of Edward Tufte. Several models are reviewed including Arch View, 3d analyst, and simulation models.  Quantitative and qualitative methods for spatial analysis are also covered with examples from each included in the course.

SELECTED FUNDED RESEARCH
 

Transportation, Environment & Telecommunications Systems,  1995-present.

Funded by Federal Highway Administration (FHWA). Serve as CGU Principal Investigator (in cooperation with Humphrey Institute, University of Minnesota) for community studies of transportation and telecommunications systems.  Results of studies will be used to guide policies and projects so as to ensure that new digital technology systems provide effective environmental and community benefits, particularly in rural settings.

Technology Transfer Consortium Evaluator, 2001-present

Funded by National Science Foundation. Serve as Expert Evaluator for multi-partner technology transfer project recently funded by NSF.  In role of evaluator, will assess technology transfer and commercialization activities by University of Southern California, Cal Tech, and other partners through sponsorship of NSF.  Evaluation includes developing metrics for collaboration and commercialization effectiveness.

Funded by QTC Management.  Serve as Principal Investigator for a series of faculty/student practicums to investigate and devise an assessment methodology for targeting new projects and services in the medical informatics business and policy area.  Led initiation, design, and management of this innovative business-university collaboration.  Recent activities have focused on improving the time-efficiency and security of e-government related online medical assessment for veterans.

Funded by seed grants through Fletcher Jones and Blais funds. Serve as Co-Principal Investigator on this initiative to investigate to social impacts of technology, with a focus on the southern California. Initial activities have focused on possible use of low-cost ICT to build social networks of immigrant communities.  Related efforts are underway to examine the role of ICT in border economies (Mexico-US; US-Canada). A course in community informatics will be offered in Spring, 2004, in collaboration with the School of Educational Studies.

E-Business Systems, 1998-2000

Funding by Viaspace Technologies, Fox Movie Studios, others.  Served as lead faculty for variety of industry sponsored student research projects. Projects have included devising business plan for satellite-based mobile commerce system, evaluating the business and technical dimensions of video-streaming systems, and developing information architecture for e-commerce and spatial (GIS) information management systems. 

Digital Community Initiative, 1994- 2000.

Funding by Viacom,  Universal,  North Star and Lincoln Land Institute Foundations. Served as Principal Investigator for research initiative funded by several foundations to investigate the regional and community planning requirements for new information technologies.   Activities involve writing book entitled Digital Places: Building Our City of Bits, (Urban Land Institute, 2000) and conducting related case studies and graduate courses on digital communities.

PUBLICATION PORTFOLIO

Books and Book Chapters

1.   Zimmerman, R. and Horan, T., (EDS).  Digital Infrastructure: Enabling Civil and Environmental Infrastructures Through Information Technology,  London: Routledge Press (2004, underway).

Hilton, B., Tulu, B., and Horan, GIS in Healthcare Services, in J.Pick (ED), GIS in Business,  Hershey, PA: IDEA Press, 2004 (accepted, forthcoming).

2.  Horan, T.   Integrating the End User into Infrastructure Systems: A Customer Centric Approach to the Design and Function of Intelligent Transportation Systems,  in G. Ditsa (ED), Information Management: Support Systems & Multimedia Technology, Hershey, PA: Idea Publishing, 2003, p.63-77.

3.  Horan T., Digital Places: Building Our City of Bits, Washington, D.C.: Urban Land Institute, 2000. Foreword by William J. Mitchell.

4.  Blanchard, A. and Horan, T. Virtual Communities and Social Capital, in E. Lesser, Knowledge and Social Capital, Boston: Butterworth-Heinemann,  p. 159-178, 2000 and reprinted in D. Garson, Social Dimensions of Information Technology, Hershey, PA: IDEA Group Publishing, 2000, p. 6-23.

5.  Horan, T., Digital Places: A New Approach to Digital Technology Planning, in D. Garson (ED), Handbook on Public Information Systems, New York, NY: Marcel Dekker, 1999.

6.  Horan, T., Dittmar, H, and Jordan, D.  "ISTEA and the New Era of Transportation Policy", in D. Mazmanian and M. Kraft (EDS). Toward Sustainable Communities: Transitions and Transformations in Environmental Policy.  Cambridge: MIT Press, 1999.

7.  Horan, T.  and Jacubiak, S., "Linkages Between Intelligent Transportation Systems and the National Information Infrastructure: The Key Role for Shared Resource Evaluations in Converging Infrastructures: Contributions of Intelligent Transportation Systems to the National Information Infrastructure, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1996. p. 229-250.

Refereed Journal Articles and Proceedings.

1.   Horan, T., and Well, K, Digital Communities of Practice: Investigation of Local Knowledge Networks for Community Systems, Knowledge, Technology and Policy, (under review).

2.   Horan, T. and Schooley, B.  Achieving Convergence Through Solution Interpretability: Case Study of Integrated Telecommunications Design and Incremental Deployment,  Information System Frontiers, 2004 (accepted, forthcoming).

3.   Horan, T, and Schooley, B, Interorganizational Emergency Medical Services:  Case Study of  Wireless Deployment and Management, Information System Frontiers, 2004 (accepted, forthcoming).

4.   Horan, B., Tulu, B., Hilton, B., and Burton, J.,"Physicians Acceptance of Online Medical Assessment Systems, Hawaii International Conference on System Science, 2004 (accepted, forthcoming, nominated for best paper).

5.   Horan, T.,  Kaplancali, T., and  Schooley. B., Devising a Web-Based Ontology for Emerging Wireless Systems: The Case of Emergency Management Systems, America's Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS) Proceedings, August 2003.

6.   Wells, K., and Horan, T.,"Case Studies Exploring the Implications of Telework for Knowledge-Enabling and Social Learning", accepted for presentation and proceeding, Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, (August  12, 2002).

7.   Horan, T,"Bringing the Consumer to Infrastructure Management Proceedings, Annual Meeting of the Information Resources Management Association, Seattle, WA, May 19-22, 2002.

8.   Wells, K. and Horan, T.,"Developing Actionable Knowledge About Community Telecommunications Systems ",Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Information and Technology (ITSA.), Washington, D.C. .

9.   Horan, T. "The Paradox of Place",  Special Edition, Communications of the ACM, Celebrating 50 Years of Computing, March 2001. 

10.   Horan, T., "A New Civic Architecture: Bring Electronic Space to Public Place", Journal of Urban Technology, vol 7, no. 2. August, 2000, p. 59-84.

11.   Wells, K, and Horan, T.  Toward a Consumer-Driven Intelligent Transportation Systems Policy: Findings From Southern California, Transportation Research Record , No 1679, 1999, p. 64-72.

12.   Horan, T. and D. Jordan, "Integrating Transportation and Telecommunications Planning in Santa Monica",  Journal of Urban Technology, Volume 5, no.2, 1998.  P. 1-20.

13.   Blanchard, A. and T. Horan, "Virtual Communities and Social Capital", Social Science Computing  Review, 16:3, 1998, p. 263-298.

14.   Hall, R., Thakker, V., Horan, T., Glazer J., and Hoene, C. "Automated Highway System Field Operation Tests", Transportation Research Record, No, 1651, 1998 p.89-97.

15.   Gifford, J., Horan, T. & White, L.,"Advocacy Coalitions and the Legislative Process: Reflections on the Passage of The Intermodal Surface", Transportation Efficiency Act of Transportation Research Record, No. 1466, Spring, 1995, pp. 8-13.

16.   Horan, T. and R. Barnes, "Public Acceptance of Automated Highways: Results from National Focus Groups, IEEE Transactions,  Summer, 1995.

17.   Horan, T. and J Gifford.   New Dimensions in Infrastructure Evaluation: The Need for Institutional and Environmental Assessments of IVHS Technologies.   Policy Studies Journal, Vol. 21, no. 2., Summer, 1993, p.347-356.

18.   Horan, T. and J. Gifford.   Determining Congestion and Air Quality Effects: The Need for Field and Forecast Data on IVHS Technologies.   Modeling and Simulation 23, 1992, pp. 1319-25.

19.   Horan, T. "Cumulative Evaluations in Surface Transportation", Evaluation Practice, vol. 13, no. 2, 1992, pp. 117-123.

Select Technical and Consulting Reports

1.   Horan, T., Information and Communication Technologies: Implications for California Transportation Plan , technical report prepared for Mineta Transportation Institute, December 15, 2002.

2.   Horan, T, and Reany, W.  Lessons in Network Management: Cross Industry Comparisons and Implications for ITS Development, Prepared under grant from California Partners in Advanced Transit and Highway Program (PATH), University of California, Berkeley, 2001.

3.   Horan, T, and Wells, K. Design Studio Report: Review and Testing the Planning Methodology for Broadband Telecommunications, draft prepared under grant from Minnesota Guidestar Program and the US Department of Transportation, December 2000.

4.   Horan, T., Hackler, D., and C. Navarette, Broadband Telecommunications Issues for Developments in Mexico and Costa Rica,  September 1999, (proprietary).

5.   Horan, T. and Blanchard, A. Evaluation of LA Culture Net, Prepared For Getty Information Institute, June 1999..

Professional and Academic Conference Presentations

1.   Horan, T.   Globalization and Technology, Implications for Mexico-US Development, Keynote Speaker at  3rd Congreso de Actualizacion y Desarrollo, Institute Technologico de Sonora, September 20, 2003.

2.   Horan, T. Complexity and Transportation Management, Implications of Wireless Research, Presented at University of Minnesota Roundtable on Complexity and Management (Co-covener), November 11, 2002.

3.   Horan, T. International Dimensions to E-Government, Annual Research Meeting of the Association of Public Policy and Management (APPAM), November 8, 2002.

4.   Horan, T.,  Creating Digital Places for Communities, Keynote Speaker, Annual Meeting of the Metropolitan Cooperative Library System , Orange County, June 5, 2002.

5.   Horan, T.  Technology Applications for Regional Development, New England Transportation Institute and Museum Seminar Series, June 21, 2002.

6.   Horan, T.   Technology Impacts on Cities and Regions, Plenary Speaker, National Congress of Australia, Property Council of Australia (Host), Canberra, Australia, September 15, 2001.

7.   Horan, T. Technology and Real Estate Industry, Executive Colloquia, Global Link Club, Tokyo, Japan, November 22, 2000.

8.   Horan, T. Digital Places and the New Economy, Plenary Speaker, Urban Land Institute Annual Meeting, Chicago, Ill, November 2, 2000.

Academic Guest Lecture and Colloquia Presentations

1.   Horan, T., Interorganizational Challenges to Wireless Networks, Invited Presentation, Center for Research on Information Technology and Organizations (CRITO), University of California, Irvine, September 10, 2002.

2.   Horan, T.  Digital Places, University of California, Los Angeles, November 29, 2000.

3.   Horan, T.  New Media and Telecommunications Systems (session chair), International Academic Conference on New Media and Communities, Ben-Gurion University, Israel May 14, 2000

4.   Horan, T., Planning Digital Communities, Guest Lecture, New York University, April 18,  2000.

5.   Horan, T. The Architecture of Digital Communities, Getty Institute Conference on Trans-architectures: Toward Digital Communities, May 17, 1998.

6.   Horan, T.  Urban Planning Implications of the Information Technology Revolution.  Guest Presentation at the MIT Seminar on Informational Technology, Low Income Communities and the City, April 1, 1996.

7.   Horan, T. The Information Revolution: Its Impact on Transportation and Cities, Distinguished Lecture Series, Florida Atlantic University,  April 13, 1995.

8.   Horan, T. Policy Issues Surrounding the Deployment of Advanced Transportation Technologies, symposium presentation, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, June 24, 1993.

Congressional and White House Presentations

1.   Adler, T., Coogan, M.,  and Horan, T., Addressing Rural Transportation Needs and Issues, Statement Prepared and Delivered, Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Hearing on Highway Trust Fund Reauthorization, August 20, 2002.

2.   Horan, T. U.S. Congressional Briefing,  Information and Environmental Technology Research Needs, Congressional Staff Briefing, December 11, 1997.

3.   Horan, T. White House Symposium Presenter, White House Conference on Environmental Technologies, Panel on National Transportation Goals, Jan 11, 1994.

4.   Horan, T. National Evaluation Issues in Intelligent Vehicle-Highway Systems, delivered to the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation, April 15, 1993.

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

Academy of Management (AOM)
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
Association of Information Science (AIS)
Transportation Research Board (TRB)
Association of Public Policy and Management (APPAM)
Association of Computer Machinery (ACM)