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Dr. Myers received his PhD in cognitive science from Rensselaer under the mentorship of Dr. Wayne Gray. Following school, he was a postdoctoral scholar at Arizona State University with Dr. Nancy Cooke where they collaborated with members of the Air Force Research Laboratory to develop a synthetic teammate capable of completing a remotely piloted aerial system reconnaissance task with human team members. Dr.

Adrian Gropper, MD is CTO of the non-profit Patient Privacy Rights Foundation where he brings training as an engineer from MIT and physician from Harvard Medical School followed by a career as a medical device entrepreneur. He founded three regulated medical diagnostics businesses including AMICAS, the first Web-based radiology image network and the first to provide imaging links in electronic health records.

Victoria Bellotti is a Senior Member of Research Staff in the Computer Science Lab at PARC. She studies current and prospective technology users to understand their work-practice, their problems and their requirements for future technology. She also designs novel systems and works on analyzing existing or proposed technology design for utility and usability and on finding ways to improve them. Victoria is a co-inventor on numerous pending patent applications for user-centered systems.

Until she recently got fired, Timnit Gebru co-lead the Ethical Artificial Intelligence research team at Google, working to reduce the potential negative impacts of AI. Timnit earned her doctorate under the supervision of Fei-Fei Li at Stanford University in 2017 and did a postdoc at Microsoft Research NYC in the FATE team. She is also the cofounder of Black in AI, a place for sharing ideas, fostering collaborations and discussing initiatives to increase the presence of Black people in the field of Artificial Intelligence.

Eric Wilcox is a designer, developer, researcher, and strategist. He has spent the last 4 years in the IBM TJ Watson Research Collaborative User Experience Group where he has led innovative research and forged relationships between research and product. His design communication resulted in the successful tech and conceptual transfer of ideas on the Reinventing Email project. Eric’s early conceptual development and prototypes around weblogs, workflow, and syndication have helped drive strategy for Lotus Development into new and emerging technologies.

Joel Chan is an Assistant Professor in the University of Maryland’s College of Information Studies (iSchool) and Human-Computer Interaction Lab (HCIL). Previously, he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow and Project Scientist in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute (HCII) at Carnegie Mellon University, and received his PhD in Cognitive Psychology at the University of Pittsburgh. His research investigates systems that support creative knowledge work, such as scientific discovery and innovative design.

Ben Shneiderman is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science Founding Director (1983–2000) of the Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory, and Member of the Institutes for Advanced Computer Studies & for Systems Research, all at the University of Maryland at College Park. He was elected as a Fellow of the Association for Computing (ACM ) in 1997 and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2001. He received the ACM SIGCHI Lifetime Achievement Award in 2001.

Michael Nebeling is an Assistant Professor of Information at the University of Michigan, where he leads the Information Interaction Lab (https://mi2lab.com), an HCI research group focused on virtual, augmented, and mixed reality applications.

Mark Derthick is a Project Scientist in CMU’s Visualization and Intelligent Interfaces Lab. His interests include Human-Information Interaction, Visual Data Mining, and organization of personal or group multi-media data stream. In support of these interests he has developed a visual query language that is integrated into a direct manipulation data exploration environment. It uses data structures developed for data mining in order to maintain interactivity with datasets of up to a million objects. Previously Dr.

A. Chris Long is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the HCI Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. He is working with Brad Myers on Silver, an intelligent digital video editor. He finished his Ph.D. in Computer Science at the University of California at Berkeley in June, 2001. His dissertation produced quill, the first gesture design tool for pen-based user interfaces. He is also interested in speech interfaces, personal information management, and security usability. He plans to apply for permanent jobs in 2002, primarily faculty positions at research universities.

Dr. Carolyn Rosé is a Research Scientist with a joint appointment between the Human-Computer Interaction Institute and the Language Technologies Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. She was awarded her Ph.D. in 1997 from the Language Technologies Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. Her dissertation research focused on robust interpretation of natural language in the context of a multi-lingual speech-to-speech machine translation project.

Jesse Schell has taught Game Design and led research projects at Carnegie Mellon’s Entertainment Technology Center since 2002. Jesse is also the CEO of Pittsburgh’s largest video game studio, Schell Games, and the former chairman of the International Game Developers Association. In 2004, he was named one of the world’s Top 100 Young Innovators by Technology Review, MIT’s magazine of innovation.

Gunnar Johannsen studied communication and information engineering at the Technical University of Berlin as well as music within the sound engineering curriculum at the University College of Music Berlin. He received his doctoral degree in 1971 from the TU Berlin, and habilitated (Dr. habil.) in 1980 for the area of “Human-machine systems of aeronautics and astronautics” at the RWTH Aachen University, Germany. For several years, he studied conducting in Hamburg, Vienna, and Kassel.