Thomas P. Moran is a Distinguished Engineer at the IBM

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. He has been active in the field of

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for a very long time. In 1983 the book he wrote along with

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and Allen Newell ''The Psychology of Human-Computer Interaction'' was published. It became a very influential book in the field, partly for introducing the Goals, Operators, Methods, and Selection rules ( GOMS) model. He founded and has been Editor-in-Chief of ''Human-Computer Interaction'', one of the leading journals of the field. He is one of the first

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members and won ACM SIGCHI's 2004 Life Time Achievement Award. In 2003 he was inducted as a

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. In 2008 he was elected as a

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of AAAS. Unrelated to the other famous engineer, Thomas D. Moran.

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Bio at HCI Journal
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