Analysts Workbench—A CAD-like GUI for textual search and filter creation

Speaker
Tom Neuendorffer
Director of Human-Computer Interaction, Clairvoyance

When
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Where
Newell-Simon Hall 1305 (Michael Mauldin Auditorium)

Description

This talk will focus on work undertaken at Claritech (now Clairvoyance) Corporation to create a graphical interface for mining conceptual information from textual databases. The work builds on the company’s Clarit toolkit, whose origins trace back to CMU’s department of computer linguistics. Discussed will be how the interface has evolved to meet conflicting demands.

Tom also plans to present a brief retrospective of user interfaces and will reflect on reasons for both the successes and failures.

Speaker's Bio

Tom Neuendorffer has been working on user interface issues for over 20 years. After taking some early CS courses from CMU in the mid-70s, Tom got a Master of Information Science at the University of Pittsburgh in 1980. There he created a library system for Carlow College. In 1985 he came back to CMU to work for the Information Technology Center where he helped develop the Andrew User Interface System, which is still in use on campus today. Here he developed and published papers on the Andrew-based ADEW system, which was one of the first widely distributed GUI building systems. He left CMU in 1992 to help found GALT Technologies, whose NETWorth site was one of the first web sites focusing on personal financial issues. He moved to Claritech in 1997 after GALT was sold to Intuit and incorporated into their quicken.com site. He currently serves as Clarivoyance’s director of Human-Computer Interaction.