Sold Out – Fireside Chat with Terry Winograd

Event Description:

Joint JHTC, RWiT, SiliconFrench event!

Terry Winograd is a professor of computer science at Stanford University, where he has developed an innovative program in software design, with a focus on human-computer interaction design (HCI).

His BA was in mathematics in 1966 and his PhD in applied mathematics at MIT.

Professor Winograd’s focus is on human-computer interaction design and the design of technologies for development. He directs the teaching programs and HCI research in the Stanford Human-Computer Interaction Group, which recently celebrated it’s 20th anniversary. He is also a founding faculty member of the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford (the “d.school”) and on the faculty of the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law (CDDRL).

Winograd was a founding member and past president of Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility. He is on a number of journal editorial boards, including Human Computer Interaction, ACM Transactions on Computer Human Interaction, and Informatica. He has advised a number of companies started by his students, including Google. In 2011 he received the ACM SIGCHI Lifetime Research Award.

Light dinner and wine served.