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Brad Myers
Professor
Human-Computer Interaction Institute
bam@cs.cmu.edu
Newell-Simon Hall 3517
(412) 268-5150
Administrative Staff:
Indra Szegedy

Brad A. Myers is a Professor in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. He is an ACM Fellow, winner of six best paper awards, and a member of the CHI Academy, an honor bestowed on the principal leaders of the field. He is the principal investigator for the Natural Programming Project and the Pebbles Handheld Computer Project, and previously led the Amulet and Garnet projects. He is the author or editor of over 400 publications, including the books "Creating User Interfaces by Demonstration" and "Languages for Developing User Interfaces," and he has been on the editorial board of five journals. He has been a consultant on user interface design and implementation to over 60 companies, and regularly teaches courses on user interface design and software. Myers received a PhD in computer science at the University of Toronto where he developed the Peridot user interface tool. He received the MS and BSc degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology during which time he was a research intern at Xerox PARC. From 1980 until 1983, he worked at PERQ Systems Corporation. His research interests include user interface development systems, user interfaces, handheld computers, programming environments, programming language design, programming by example, visual programming, interaction techniques, and window management. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE, and also belongs to SIGCHI, ACM, the IEEE Computer Society, and Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility.

Research Areas
Enabling Technologies
Research Interests
User interface software, handheld devices, making programming easier, intelligent user interfaces, demonstrational interfaces
Projects
Natural Programming
Pebbles
Advisees
Andrew Ko
Erik Harpstead
Jacob Otto Wobbrock
Jeff Nichols
Kerry Chang
Stephen Oney

Robert C. Miller
YoungSeok Yoon
Thomas LaToza
John Pane
Rich McDaniel
James Landay
Francesmary Modugno

Courses Taught
Advanced Topics UI Software
Introduction to Human-Computer Interaction for Technology Executives
Special topics: Human Aspects of Software Development