Ben Bederson

Benjamin "Ben" Bederson is a Computer Science professor at the University of Maryland, College Park, a member of the University of Maryland Human-Computer Interaction Lab, and a co-founder of Zumobi.[1]

Benjamin B. Bederson
Nationality United States
Alma mater
Known forZooming User Interface, Human Computation, Digital Libraries
AwardsACM Distinguished Scientist, CHI Academy, SIGCHI Social Impact Award
Scientific career
FieldsComputer Science, Human-Computer Interaction
Institutions

His father is Benjamin Bederson, Sr., a Professor of Physics Emeritus, New York University.[2]

Biography

Ben Bederson received a B.S. in Computer Science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1986. Bederson received his M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science in 1987 and 1992 from New York University[3] where he researched Zooming User Interface.

Bederson became inducted into the Association for Computing Machinery's CHI Academy as a Distinguished Scientist in 2012[4] and became an ACM Distinguished Scientist in 2011.[5] In 2010 he and Allison Druin won the SIGCHI Social Impact Award[6] for developing the International Children's Digital Library.

Bederson was an expert witness for Samsung in Apple Inc. v. Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. to discuss prior art.[7]

Publications

A selection:

  • 2008. Voting Technology and the Not-So-Simple Act of Casting a Ballot; with Herrnson, P.S., Niemi, R.G., Hanmer, M.J., Conrad, F.G., Traugott, M.; Brookings Institution Press.
gollark: Isn't inter-VM networking... not massively hard?
gollark: Also, screenshots.
gollark: But it's kind of bad.
gollark: I mean, if you want the code *now* for some reason, I'll give you it?
gollark: Yes, Lua exists and I could embed it somehow, but there are !!FUN!! challenges with that:- the API is kind of unsafe so the Rust wrappers are not great- I would also have to write a bunch of glue code to allow interacting with pages and whatever, which is especially hard as my code is asynchronous- I'd *also* have to work out a nice way to integrate scripting into the interfæce still.

References
  1. The Zumbi Network, accessed 2012-03-03.
  2. "Benjamin Bederson, Sr.", bederson.org
  3. CV, accessed 2012-03-03.
  4. ACM Awards Archived 2012-04-02 at the Wayback Machine, accessed 2012-03-03.
  5. Distinguished Member - 2011 Archived 2012-04-02 at the Wayback Machine, accessed 2012-03-03.
  6. Ben Bederson and Allison Druin from the University of Maryland are awarded The SIGCHI Social Impact Award for 2010, accessed 2012-03-03.
  7. accessed 2012-08-29.
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