Interaction Design over the past 15 years.

My father, William Newman, has been working in the computer graphics + HCI space for probably forty years now. Starting back in the beginning of it all, with Evans & Sutherland in Salt Lake City, and then Xerox Parc in the early seventies, where I grew up, and then spending a dozen years with Xerox in Cambridge, UK. Yes, as a small kid I spent a lot of time in the lengthy halls and comfortable slugs of Parc. William has been working for the last few years as a freelance consultant and has decided to start writing up his work diaries that he’s been keeping for the last 15 years, and put them online here: www.mdnpress.com/wmn/.

This will be a great look into the view of HCI over the years, from the point of view of a computer scientist, as well as his influences and interests over the years. Unfortunately, I don’t know how much “cool inside stories” from the early ‘innovation’ days of Parc we’ll get, or stuff about people like Warnock, Evans and Sutherland and their computer graphic work in Utah - but from what I’ve read and been told, it should be fascinating for many of us nonetheless. Do drop by and give him a visit.

2005-11-25 + plink