Benjamin B. Bederson
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| Nationality |  United States |
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| Known for | Zooming User Interface, Human Computation, Digital Libraries |
| Awards | ACM Distinguished Scientist, CHI Academy, SIGCHI Social Impact Award |
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| Fields | Computer Science, Human-Computer Interaction |
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| Doctoral students | Bongshin Lee |
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]
Ben Bederson received a B.S.inComputer Science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1986. Bederson received his M.S. and Ph.D.inComputer 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]
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