Benjamin Bederson is a

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at the

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, a member of the University of Maryland Human-Computer Interaction Lab, and a co-founder of

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. His father is Benjamin Bederson, Sr., a Professor of Physics Emeritus,

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Biography

Ben Bederson received a B.S. in

from

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in 1986. Bederson received his M.S. and Ph.D. in

in 1987 and 1992 from

where he researched

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. Bederson became inducted into the

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's CHI Academy as a Distinguished Scientist in 2012 and became an ACM Distinguished Scientist in 2011. In 2010 he and Allison Druin won the SIGCHI Social Impact Award for developing the

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. Bederson was an expert witness for Samsung in Apple Inc. v. Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. to discuss prior art.accessed 2012-08-29.
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Publications

A selection: * 2008. ''Voting Technology and the Not-So-Simple Act of Casting a Ballot''; with Herrnson, P.S., Niemi, R.G., Hanmer, M.J., Conrad, F.G., Traugott, M.; Brookings Institution Press.

References

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