Event Information
Dr. Andries Van Dam - "When the Pen is Mightier Than the Keyboard?" (Other)March 5th, 2009
10:30 am - 12:30 pm
Location: HEC Bldg. Room 101
Description: Title: When the Pen is Mightier Than the Keyboard?
This talk will demo three prototype digital-ink based applications in mathematics, chemistry, and diagramming and then will describe some of
the research issues that the Microsoft Research Center in Pen-Centric Computing at Brown University is addressing.
Bio:
Andries van Dam is the Thomas J. Watson, Jr. University Professor of Technology and Education and Professor of Computer Science at Brown
University. He has been a member of Brown's faculty since 1965, is a co-founder of Browns Computer Science Department, and was its first Chairman, from 1979 to 1985. He also was Browns first Vice President for Research from 2002-2006. He was a Principal Investigator and was the Director from 1996-1998, in the NSF Science and Technology Center
for Graphics and Visualization, a research consortium including Brown, Caltech, Cornell, North Carolina (Chapel Hill), and the University of Utah. His research has been in computer graphics, hypermed
Contact Information:
| Name: | Joseph J. LaViola Jr. |
| Phone: | 407-882-2285 |
| Email: | jjl@eecs.ucf.edu |
| Sponsor: | EECS |
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