Engineering Colloquium

Who: Professor Ben Shneiderman, Department of Computer Science and Founding Director (1983-2000) of the Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory. Prof Shneiderman will discuss, "Leonardo's Laptop: Human Needs and the New Computing Technologies," challenging hardware and software developers to build products that better support human needs and that are usable at any bandwidth. Shneiderman proposes Leonardo da Vinci as an inspirational muse for the "new computing." He raises the intriguing question of how Leonardo would use a laptop and what applications he would create.

When/Where: Mon., April 14 at 3:30 p.m. in the bldg 3 Goett Auditorium

For more info, visit: http://ecolloq.gsfc.nasa.gov/announce.shneiderman.html