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Red Burns is the head of the Interactive Telecommunications Program
(ITP) at New York University's School of the Arts. In 1971, she founded
the Alternate Media Center, a research and implementation centre for
new technologies. During the 1970s and 1980s, she designed and directed
a series of telecommunications projects including two–way television
for and by senior citizens, and applications for the developmentally
disabled. She recently received the Mayor of New York's Award for
Excellence in Science and Technology.
Since 1991, Leonardo Chiariglione has been at CSELT, the corporate
research centre of Telecom Italia. He is currently Executive Director
of the Secure Digital Music Initiative (SDMI), whose purpose is
to develop technical specifications for securing music across all
digital delivery platforms.
A Japanese architect, Irie Keichi has a strong interest in interaction
design and a keen involvement with digital culture. Since the early
1990s, he has explored the new design space opening up where the
real and the virtual converge. He now teaches a studio at IAMAS
University, in Ogaki, Japan, and lectures widely.
A Professor at Stanford University, David Kelley leads programmes
that are redefining product design. His work as a teacher and as a
manager emphasises the combination of innovation, human values and
aesthetics into a single process. He was also the founder and head
of the world–famous product design firm, IDEO.
Prior to joining US Venture Partners, a Silicon Valley venture capital
firm, in January 2000, David Liddle was president and CEO of Interval
Research Corporation. This Silicon Valley–based laboratory and
incubator for new businesses focuses on broadband applications and
services, consumer devices, interaction design and advanced technologies.
At USVP, his investments span wireless, networking, components, and
e–commerce. He is also a consulting professor of Computer Science
at Stanford University.
After receiving undergraduate and graduate degrees in computer science
from MIT, John Maeda returned to his roots in Japan to study art
and design at the University of Tsukuba. He is now Sony Career Development
Professor of Miedia Arts and Sciences and Director of the Aesthetics
and Computation Group at MIT's Media Lab. Esquire magazine nominated
him as one of the '21 Most Important People of the 21st Century'
for his contribution to visual culture.
A researcher in multimedia and active learning technologies, Ranjit
Makkuni has been affiliated with Xerox Palo Alto Research Center since
1985. At Xerox Parc, his work pioneered the use of computing and video
technologies to support design processes. Ranjit Makkuni's work marks
a strong departure from traditional text-based approaches to computer
interaction. He explores non–textual, multimedia interaction
techniques, including through gestures, sound, and movement browsing
technologies.
As Director of Design Research and Development at Philips Design in
the Netherlands, Irene McWilliam not only steers research into traditional
design disciplines, such as product development, user interface design
and graphic design; she also explores the newer territories of socio–cultural
trends, behavioural research, cultural contextualisation and strategies
for innovation. Since 1994, she has also advised the European Commission,
and coordinated the research theme, 'Connected Community,' within
the long–term research domain of 'Intelligent Information Interfaces.'
One of the most influential industrial designers of the past twenty
years, Bill Moggridge graduated from London's Central School of Art
to found Moggridge Associates in 1969. In the early 1980s, he designed
the acclaimed GriD compass computer – a precursor of today's
laptop. In 1991, Moggridge Associates merged with ID TWO to form Ideo.
This company is now one of the world's most influential international
design consultancies, with offices in London, Tokyo, California and
Germany. Bill Moggridge is Visiting Professor of interaction design
at the Royal College of Art, and a Fellow of the London Institute.
Having managed Apple's Human Interface Group for nearly eight years,
Joy Mountford continues to remain involved in the project. Prior to
this, she worked on interface development for Honeywell and MCC. More
recently, she has worked with Interval Research Corp on music development
projects – including soundscapes which can be shared across the
Internet.
An information and interface designer for over ten years, Nathan Shedroff
is expert in the fields of information architecture, interaction design,
and online and interactive media. Most recently, he has concentrated
on building online solutions for businesses, specifically online branding,
developing new types of online advertising, and customer–centered
online products. He is also studying the viral nature of communication.
The renowned designer and architect Ettore Sottsass is best known
for his role in founding Memphis in 1981, which created an innovative
vocabulary for 'New Design.' His career before this was also marked
by a series of firsts – for example, in 1959 he designed the
first Italian computer for Olivetti. He works with Sottsass Associati,
the studio he founded in the 1980s, and his designs can be seen in
museum collections worldwide.
An architect and industrial designer, Marco Susani has developed projects
for the likes of Telecom Italia, Olivetti and Mediaset. For the European
Union, he has headed research programmes in interaction and media
design. He was Director of the Domus Academy Research Centre in Milan
for several years, a partner of Sottsass Associati, and a consultant
at Olivetti Design Studio. He recently joined Motorola in the USA,
where he leads a newly–established advanced concepts team.
Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University, Terry Winograd
has a particular interest in human computer design, with a focus on
theoretical aspects and conceptual models. He is the director of the
Stanford HCI Consortium, and is in charge of teaching programs in
Human–Computer Interaction Design. He is a principal investigator
of a project on interactive workspaces in conjunction with the Computer
Graphics Laboratory, and of the Stanford Digital Libraries Project,
in conjunction with the Stanford InfoLab. Winograd was a founding
member and past president of Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility.
He is on the national advisory board of the Association for Software
Design and a number of journal editorial boards.
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