Benjamin B. Bederson
Associate Professor Computer Science, Institute of Advanced Computer Studies and iSchool, University of Maryland, USA
Co-Founder, International Children's Digital Library, USA
Dr. Benjamin B. Bederson is an Associate Professor of Computer Science and the previous director of the Human-Computer Interaction Lab at the Institute for Advanced Computer Studies and iSchool at the University of Maryland.
He is the Co-Founder and Technology Project Director of the International Children's Digital Library, which has been building a digital library of outstanding children's books from around the world and supporting communities of children and adults in exploring and using this literature through innovative technology, designed in close partnership with children for children.
Dr. Bederson's research and patents concentrate in the areas of mobile computing, human-computer interaction, computer vision, robotics, information visualization, digital libraries and electronic voting.
He has published more than 100 articles in conferences, journals and magazines; his most recent book is “The Craft of Information Visualization.”
Dr. Bederson is also Co-Founder and Chief Scientist of Zumobi, a startup offering a mobile content platform based on that research. He earned his B.S. in computer science at Rensselaer and his Ph.D. in computer vision and robotics at New York University.