From: "amy heinen" <heinen@xxxxxxxx>
Date: September 13, 2004 12:12:21 AM CDT
To: "Deborah Israel" <disrael@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "Dan Sledz" <dsledz@xxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Can you guys plan a SigHCI luncheon for noon on Friday
Sept 24?
Hi Deb,
Josh & I aren't the chairs for SigCHI anymore, but I am passing the
info
onto the current chair, Dan Sledz for looking into setting things up.
Amy
----- Original Message -----
From: "Deborah Israel" <disrael@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Joshua E Benjamin" <jebenjam@xxxxxxxx>; "Amy Beth Heinen"
<heinen@xxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, September 12, 2004 2:02 PM
Subject: Can you guys plan a SigHCI luncheon for noon on Friday Sept
24?
With Steve Drucker from Microsoft?
Bio:
Dr. Steven M. Drucker has been the lead researcher for the Next Media
Research Group <http://www.research.microsoft.com/nextmedia> in
Microsoft Research <http://www.research.microsoft.com/> for the last 4
years where he has been looking at how the addition of user interaction
transforms conventional media. He is particularly interested in
database
visualization for consumers or where art meets technology for user
interfaces. While in the group, he has filed 18 patents on technologies
as diverse as remotely operated personal video recorders, spectator
oriented gaming, and new visualization techniques for media databases
and published papers on information visualization and management.
Previously he was the lead researcher in the Virtual Worlds Group also
in Microsoft Research. During his tenure there he helped architect a
platform for multi-user virtual environments, filed an additional 12
patents, and published papers in subjects ranging from architectures
for
multi-user, multimedia systems to online social interaction.
Before coming to Microsoft, he received his Ph.D. from the Computer
Graphics and Animation Group at the MIT Media Lab
<http://www.media.mit.edu/> in May 1994. His thesis research was on
intelligent camera control interfaces for graphical environments. Dr.
Drucker graduated Magna Cum Laude with Honors in Neurosciences from
Brown University <http://www.brown.edu> and went on to complete his
masters at the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at MIT
<http://www.csail.mit.edu/> doing research in robot learning.
His published papers have been in such areas as information
visualization, multi-user environments, online social interaction,
hypermedia research, human and robot perceptual capabilities, robot
learning, parallel computer graphics, and human interfaces for camera
control.
Deborah A. Israel
External Affairs and Development
Department of Computer Science
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
217 333-1621