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Appendix A: Committee Member Biographies
Pages 55-57

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... During the 1970s, he was a faculty member at the British Open University, helping to develop some of the first computer science courses delivered by distance education. Subsequently, he was Vice Provost for Computing at Dartmouth College and Vice-President for Computing at Carnegie Mellon University.
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... Since 1993 he has been at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, where he serves as Associate Director for Research at the Computing Center, and Professor of Computer Science. For the Association for Computing Machinery he served during 1988-91 as a member of the Publications Board and as editor in chief of ACM Press Database Products.
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... Ben Shneiderman is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science, Head of the Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory, and Member of the Institute for Advanced Computer Studies and for Systems Research, all at the University of Maryland at College Park. He is the author of Software Psychology: Human Factors in Computer and Information Systems (1980)
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