Brad Allan Myers is a professor in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at

Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) is a private research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. The institution was established in 1900 by Andrew Carnegie as the Carnegie Technical Schools. In 1912, it became the Carnegie Institu ...

and became its Director in 2023. He earned his PhD in computer science at the

University of Toronto The University of Toronto (UToronto or U of T) is a public university, public research university whose main campus is located on the grounds that surround Queen's Park (Toronto), Queen's Park in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It was founded by ...

in 1987, under

Bill Buxton William Arthur Stewart Buxton (born March 10, 1949) is a Canadian computer scientist and designer. He is regarded as one of the pioneers in the field of human–computer interaction and is currently active in research at the University of Toront ...

Education

Myers received his BS degree in Computer Science and MS degree in Computer Science and Engineering under MIT in 1980, whilst simultaneously interning at

Xerox Parc Future Concepts division (formerly Palo Alto Research Center, PARC and Xerox PARC) is a research and development company in Palo Alto, California. It was founded in 1969 by Jacob E. "Jack" Goldman, chief scientist of Xerox Corporation, as a div ...

for his Master's thesis. He then received his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Toronto in 1987.

Work

Myers's work is focused on building computer systems, most of them have rock-themed names. His work since the 1970s at many distinguished institutes including Xerox Parc, MIT Architecture Machine Group (Now the Media Lab), and the

Three Rivers Computer Corporation The Three Rivers Computer Corporation (3RCC) was a spinoff from the Research Engineering Laboratory of the Computer Science Department of Carnegie Mellon University, and was founded in May 1974 by Brian S. Rosen, James R. Teter, William H. Broad ...

pioneered many systems and innovations that are still in use today. His work with window managers produce
SAPPHIRE
in the early 1980s, while working for PERQ Systems Corporation. It is one of the first commercial window managers with feature that became widely adopted such as

progress bar A progress bar is a graphical control element used to visualize the progression of an extended computer operation, such as a download, file transfer, or installation. Sometimes, the graphic is accompanied by a textual representation of the progre ...

s. Myers's MIT Master's thesis was one of the earliest data visualization systems. While working for PERQ Systems Corporation in the early 80s, Myers created Sapphire, one of the first commercial window managers with a number of features that later became widespread. His University of Toronto dissertation described Peridot, a

programming by demonstration In computer science, programming by demonstration (PbD) is an end-user development technique for teaching a computer or a robot new behaviors by demonstrating the task to transfer directly instead of programming it through machine commands. The te ...

system that specified the look and behaviors of widgets without conventional programming. He has done a number of research projects on handheld devices, such as th
Pebbles
exploring the different uses of these devices and how they communicate with other systems. Another focus of Myers's work is th
Natural Programming project
It focuses on programming languages and making programming easier and more correct by making it more natural.

Awards

In 2017, Brad Myers received the

Association for Computing Machinery The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) is a US-based international learned society for computing. It was founded in 1947 and is the world's largest scientific and educational computing society. The ACM is a non-profit professional membe ...

's SIGCHI Lifetime Achievement Award in Research, for outstanding fundamental and influential research contributions to the study of human-computer interaction. Myers is the winner of nine best paper type awards and three Most Influential Paper awards and is the author or editor of 475 publications.
ACM SIGCHI Lifetime Research Award. URL retrieved 26th March 2017. , Myers was the 28th most published author in the field of human-computer interaction.
HCI Bibliography: Most Frequent Authors. URL retrieved 26th March 2017.
ACM Author Page: Brad A. Myers. URL retrieved March 26, 2017. He was elected to the

CHI Academy The SIGCHI Academy is a group of researchers honored by SIGCHI, the Special Interest Group in Computer–Human Interaction of the Association for Computing Machinery. Each year, 5–8 new members are elected for having made a significant, cumulative ...

in 2004 as one of the "principal leaders of the field" of HCI and is an

IEEE Fellow , the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is an American 501(c)(3) public charity professional organization for electrical engineering, electronics engineering, and ot ...

and an

ACM Fellow ACM Fellowship is an award and fellowship that recognises outstanding members of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). The title of ACM Fellow A fellow is a title and form of address for distinguished, learned, or skilled individuals ...

.
ACM: Press Release, January 10, 2006 Myers is a leading researcher in the field of

and created the Garnet and Amulet toolkits. He is one of a select few who has attended every CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, conference. You can see documentation online of his extensive collection o
CHI ribbons

Memberships

Journal of Visual Languages and Sentient Systems.
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''Journal of Visual Languages and Computing''.''Human-Computer Interaction'' Journal.''Interacting with Computers''.

References

External links

Brad Myers's websiteHuman-Computer Interaction Institute
{{DEFAULTSORT:Myers, Brad A American computer scientists Human–computer interaction researchers Living people Human-Computer Interaction Institute faculty Year of birth missing (living people) University of Toronto alumni Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni