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Mobility: Thinking Outside the Phone
Dr. James H. Morris is a Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. He received a Bachelor’s degree from Carnegie Mellon, an MBA and Ph.D. in Computer Science from MIT. He taught at the University of California at Berkeley where he developed some important underlying principles of programming languages: inter-module protection and lazy evaluation. He was a co-discoverer of the Knuth-Morris-Pratt string searching algorithm.
HCII PhD Thesis Proposal: Huy Nguyen
Future Centered Design: Designing for Sustainable Business
Janaki Kumar has over 15 years of experience designing business software. She has a degree in both business and information design. She works at SAP, a leading enterprise software vendor that enables business to manage their resources, supply chain, customer relations, product life-cycle, supplier relations etc. SAP has over 100,000 customers in over 120 countries. SAP is headquartered in Germany and has offices all over the world. Janaki works in the Palo Alto Labs.
HCII Ph.D. Thesis Defense: Michael Xieyang Liu
Toward Intuitive Design Interfaces
Ellen Yi-Luen Do is an Associate Professor of Computational Design in the School of Architecture at Carnegie Mellon University. Before joining Carnegie Mellon University, Ellen was on the faculty at University of Washington (99–04) where she co-directed the Design Machine Group, and served as Faculty Advisor for the MS program in Design Computing, and the Honors Program. Prior to UW, Ellen worked at University of Colorado at Boulder (94–99) as a researcher and lecturer for the Sundance Lab for Computing in Design and Planning. She joined Carnegie Mellon’s faculty in September 2004.
HCII Ph.D. Thesis Defense: Alex Cabrera
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HCII Seminar: Yao Cheng
Thesis Proposal: Rebecca Gulotta
Mini-3 Course Withdrawal Grade Deadline
Session Two Course Drop Deadline to Receive Tuition Adjustment
Mini-1 Final Grades Due by 4 p.m.
Thesis Defense: Sunyoung Kim
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Ph.D. Open House for Accepted Students
Crowdsourcing Lunch Seminar: Michael Franklin
Design at the Interface
Daniel Cardoso Llach is Assistant Professor in the Carnegie Mellon University School of Architecture. His recent work includes the book Builders of the Vision: Software and the Imagination of Design (Routledge, 2015), which identifies and documents the theories of design emerging from postwar technology projects at MIT, and traces critically their architectural repercussions. His writings have been published in journals including Design Issues, Architectural Research Quarterly (ARQ), and Thresholds, among others, and in several edited collections.
Can I Use That?! Ethics, Law, and Norms for Other People’s Data
Dr. Casey Fiesler is an assistant professor and founding faculty in the Department of Information Science at University of Colorado Boulder. Armed with a PhD in Human-Centered Computing from Georgia Tech and a JD from Vanderbilt Law School, she primarily conducts research at the intersection of social computing and regulation, including social norms, internet law, research ethics, and ethics education.
Cautionary Tales and Better Futures for Social Technologies
John Cain is Visiting Professor at the Institute of Design in Chicago where he is devising courses for a new graduate curriculum at the intersection of design, data and technology.