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Professor Kahai teaches Information systems (310), Telecommunications (420), and Database management (324) courses. His interest areas are in wireless networks, IS decentralization, e-transformation, e-business, and outsourcing. He was a project sponsor for a study of Wi-Fi deployment in small and medium enterprises. He is currently working on a research project on Wi-Fi security.
 
Professor McHenry currently teaches courses in two undergraduate areas e-business (introduction, 6100:201)and Decision support with data warehousing/mining (425).

Professor McHenry's research concerns the development of information systems within the context of specific economic, political, and social systems. He has concentrated most heavily on the Soviet Union and Russia. Current topics that are included within this research stream are "electronic" government, offshore software production, and the diffusion of the full range of technologies, including e-business, that are related to the Internet. Professor McHenry has supervised Master's Theses about such topics as using discussion boards on websites for business purposes, community involvement in e-government website design and use, and the diffusion of the Internet in the Philippines and Kazakhstan. Broadly speaking, Professor McHenry is interested in understanding the "big picture" about what is happening with the diffusion of leading edge technologies.
 
Professor Krovi teaches courses in Database management (324), e-business application development (426) and Management project (471). His interest areas are in data quality, open source development, data mining, and emerging technologies. He was a project sponsor for a study of the impact of RFID on the supply chain. He is currently working on a research project on the effectiveness of data quality metrics.
 
Dr. Vijay teaches Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), E-Business and MIS. Dr. Vijay teaches courses at both undergraduate and graduate levels. His research interests include: Software/Internet Piracy, Disaster Recovery Planning, topics related to emerging technologies such as E-Business/Enterprise Systems/RFID, Impact of IT in Organizations, and Curriculum Issues in IS. He is currently working on a global software piracy research study.
 
Professor Liping Liu teaches Systems Analysis and Design (325), Systems Integration (427) and Business Applications Programming (315).His research interests are in the areas of Uncertainty Reasoning and Decision Making in Artificial Intelligence, Electronic Business, Systems Analysis and Design, Technology Adoption, and Data Quality. He has strong practical and teaching interests in e-business systems design, development, and integration using advanced DBMS, CASE, and RAD tools. His recent experience includes designing and developing a patient record management system, a payroll system, a course management system, and an e-travel agent, and Oracle databases for medium and large corporations.
 
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