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Shneiderman currently holds a post as professor for Computer Science at the Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory at the University of Maryland, College Park. He got a B.S. in Mathematics/Physics from the City College of New York in 1968, and then went on to study at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, where he received an M.S. in Computer Science in 1972 and graduated with a Ph.D. in 1973. In addition to his influential work in user interface design, he is known for the co-invention (together with Isaac Nassi) of the Nassi-Shneiderman diagrams, a graphical representation of the design of structured software. 2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A professor (Latin: one who claims publicly to be an expert) (prof for short) is a senior teacher, lecturer and researcher, usually in a college or university. ... Wikibooks Wikiversity has more about this subject: School of Computer Science Open Directory Project: Computer Science Downloadable Science and Computer Science books Collection of Computer Science Bibliographies Belief that title science in computer science is inappropriate Categories: | ... The University of Maryland, College Park (also known as UM, UMD, or UMCP) is a public university located in College Park, Maryland, just outside Washington, D.C., USA. As the flagship institution of the University System of Maryland, the university is most often referred to as the University of Maryland... A Bachelor of Science (B.S., B.Sc. ... Mathematics is often defined as the study of topics such as quantity, structure, space, and change. ... A black hole concept drawing by NASA. Physics (from the Greek, φυσικός (physikos), natural, and φύσις (physis), nature) is the science of the natural world dealing with the fundamental constituents of the universe, the forces they exert on one another, and the results produced by these forces. ... The City College of The City University of New York (known more commonly as City College of New York or simply City College, CCNY, or colloquially as City) is a senior college of the City University of New York, in New York City. ... 1968 (MCMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1968 calendar). ... Stony Brook University The State University of New York at Stony Brook (SUNYSB),or Stony Brook University (SBU), located in Stony Brook, New York, USA, is a public university in the United States with more than 21,000 students enrolled. ... A masters degree is an academic degree usually awarded for completion of a postgraduate course of one or two years in duration. ... Doctor of Philosophy (Ph. ... 1973 (MCMLXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday. ... Isaac Ike Nassi was the director of engineering at Cisco Systems and a senior vice president at Apple Computer and one of the founders of Encore Computer Corporation. ... A Nassi-Shneiderman diagram is a graphical design representation for structured programming. ...

Selected bibliography

• Shneiderman, B.: Software Psychology: Human Factors in Computer and Information Systems; Little, Brown and Co. (formerly Winthrop), 1980. ISBN 0-876-26816-5
• Shneiderman, B., Leonardo's Laptop: Human Needs and the New Computing Technologies; MIT Press, 2002. Winner of IEEE 2004 award for Distinguished Literary Contribution. ISBN 0-262-69299-6.
• Shneiderman, B., Plaisant, C.: Designing the User Interface: Strategies for Effective Human-Computer Interaction; Addison-Wesley, 1987. Fourth edition with Catherine Plaisant as co-author 2004: ISBN 0-321-26978-0.
• Card, S. K.; Mackinlay, J.; Shneiderman, B.: Readings in Information Visualization: Using Vision to Think; Morgan Kaufmann (Series in Interactive Technologies); 1999. ISBN 1-558-60533-9.

Stuart Card is a Senior Research Fellow at Xerox PARC. He has been at PARC since 1974, and is now the Area Manager of the User Interface Research, or UIR, section of PARC. He has been one of the pioneers of applying human factors in human computer interaction. ...

External links

• Ben Shneiderman's home page
• A short history of structured flowcharts (Nassi-Shneiderman Diagrams)
• Ben Shneiderman's CV, with an extensive list of publications.