1. Ben Shneiderman was born on August 21,1947 and 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 of the University of Maryland Human-Computer Interaction Lab.
Ben Shneiderman then went on to study at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, where he received an MS in Computer Science in 1972 and graduated with a PhD in 1973.
Ben Shneiderman started his academic career at the State University of New York at Farmingdale in 1968 as instructor at the Department of Data Processing.
Ben Shneiderman started out as assistant professor in its Department of Information Systems Management, and became associate professor in 1979.
Ben Shneiderman is an ACM CHI Academy Member and received their Lifetime Achievement Award in 2001.
Ben Shneiderman received Honorary Doctorates from the University of Guelph in 1995, the University of Castile-La Mancha in 2010, Stony Brook University in 2015, the University of Melbourne in 2017, Swansea University in 2018, and the University of Pretoria in 2018.
Furthermore, Ben Shneiderman had conducted experiments which suggested that flowcharts were not helpful for writing, understanding, or modifying computer programs.
Ben Shneiderman applied those principles to design innovative user interfaces such as the highlighted selectable phrases in text, that were used in the commercially successful Hyperties.
Ben Shneiderman developed dynamic queries sliders with multiple coordinated displays that are a key component of Spotfire, which was acquired by TIBCO in 2007.
Ben Shneiderman's work continued on visual analysis tools for time series data, TimeSearcher, high dimensional data, Hierarchical Clustering Explorer, and social network data, SocialAction.
Ben Shneiderman contributed to the widely used social network analysis and visualization tool NodeXL.
In 2012, Jeffrey Heer and Ben Shneiderman coauthored the article "Interactive Dynamics for Visual Analysis" in Association for Computing Machinery Queue vol.
Ben Shneiderman defined the research area of universal usability to encourage greater attention to diverse users, languages, cultures, screen sizes, network speeds, and technology platforms.
The current topic of Ben Shneiderman's Scholarship is Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence.
Ben Shneiderman emphasizes the need for technologies that "augment, amplify, empower, and enhance humans rather than replace them".