Ben Shneiderman

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Ben Shneiderman
Shneiderman at UNC Charlotte, April 1, 2011
Born	(1947-08-21) August 21, 1947 (age 76) New York City, New York
Nationality	American
Alma mater	City College of New York (B.S., Mathematics and Physics, 1968) Stony Brook University (M.S., Computer Science, 1972; Ph.D., 1973)
Known for	Nassi–Shneiderman diagram, treemap, Information Visualization, HyperLink, Touchscreen, Direct manipulation interface
Awards	Member National Academy of Engineering, ACM Fellow, AAAS Fellow, IEEE Fellow, IEEE Visualization Career Award, SIGCHI LifeTime Achievement, Miles Conrad Award, National Academy of Inventors Fellow
Scientific career
Fields	Computer science, human–computer interaction, information visualization social media
Institutions	University of Maryland, College Park
Doctoral advisor	Jack Heller
Doctoral students	Andrew Sears

Ben Shneiderman (born August 21, 1947) is an American computer scientist, a Distinguished University Professor in the University of Maryland Department of Computer Science, which is part of the University of Maryland College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences at the University of Maryland, College Park, and the founding director (1983-2000) of the University of Maryland Human-Computer Interaction Lab. He conducted fundamental research in the field of human–computer interaction, developing new ideas, methods, and tools such as the direct manipulation interface, and his eight rules of design.^[1]