Ben Bederson

Benjamin Bederson is a Computer Science professor at the University of Maryland, College Park, a member of the University of Maryland Human-Computer Interaction Lab, and a co-founder of Zumobi.^[1]

His father was Benjamin Bederson, Sr., a Professor of Physics Emeritus, New York University.^[2]

Biography

Ben Bederson received a B.S. in Computer Science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1986. Bederson received his M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science in 1987 and 1992 from New York University^[3] where he researched Zooming User Interface.

Bederson became inducted into the Association for Computing Machinery's CHI Academy as a Distinguished Scientist in 2012^[4] and became an ACM Distinguished Scientist in 2011.^[5] In 2010 he and Allison Druin won the SIGCHI Social Impact Award^[6] for developing the International Children's Digital Library.

Bederson was an expert witness for Samsung in Apple Inc. v. Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. to discuss prior art.^[7]

A selection:

2008. Voting Technology and the Not-So-Simple Act of Casting a Ballot; with Herrnson, P.S., Niemi, R.G., Hanmer, M.J., Conrad, F.G., Traugott, M.; Brookings Institution Press.

^ The Zumbi Network, accessed 2012-03-03.
^ "Benjamin Bederson, Sr.", bederson.org
^ CV, accessed 2012-03-03.
^ ACM Awards Archived 2012-04-02 at the Wayback Machine, accessed 2012-03-03.
^ Distinguished Member - 2011 Archived 2012-04-02 at the Wayback Machine, accessed 2012-03-03.
^ Ben Bederson and Allison Druin from the University of Maryland are awarded The SIGCHI Social Impact Award for 2010, accessed 2012-03-03.
^ accessed 2012-08-29.