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Douglas K. van Duyne, entrepreneur and inventor, is cofounder and a principal of Naviscent, a Web research and design firm, and Dune Design Group, a strategic digital product design firm. He was a cofounder and CEO of NetRaker Corporation, a pioneer in online usability and market research. His teams have developed innovations for companies including MBNA, Yahoo, Intel, Safeway, Agilent, and other Global 2000 companies. With more than twenty years of experience in product design and development at companies like GO Corporation and KidSoft, he has been an innovator in online shopping, e-commerce, and software and multimedia development. He holds a degree in computer science from the University of California at Berkeley. He lives in San Francisco with his two sons.

James A. Landay is a professor of computer science at the University of Washington. Previously, he served as the director of Intel Research Seattle, which focuses on the emerging world of ubiquitous computing, as the chief technical officer and cofounder of NetRaker, and as an associate professor of computer science at the University of California, Berkeley. He received his B.S. in electrical engineering and computer science from Berkeley in 1990 and his M.S. and Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University in 1993 and 1996, respectively. His Ph.D. dissertation was the first to demonstrate the use of sketching in user interface design tools. He has published extensively in the area of human-computer interaction, including articles on user interface design and evaluation tools, Web design, gesture recognition, pen-based user interfaces, mobile computing, ubiquitous computing, and visual languages. He has also consulted for a number of Silicon Valley companies. Landay lives with his wife, Eileen, sons, Andrew and Timothy, and their dog in Seattle.

Jason I. Hong is a professor of computer science in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. Jason received his B.S. from Georgia Tech and his Ph.D. in computer science from University of California at Berkeley. His dissertation work investigated privacy in ubiquitous computing environments. Jason has worked at IBM Research, Fuji Xerox Palo Alto Laboratories, and Xerox Research, where he investigated topics such as collaborative Java applications, paper-based user interfaces, and techniques for viewing and navigating Web pages on cell phones. His current work is in usable privacy and security, anit-phishing, and locationbased services. Jason is a voracious informavore, consuming vast quantities of Web, print, television, film, and musical media, with an emphasis on world history, technology, social impact of technology, and facts that are just plain weird. Jason currently lives with his wife in Pennsylvania.

 

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Douglas K. van Duyne, James A. Landay and Jason I. Hong, together offer more than a quarter century of research, design, academic and industry experience. Industry professionals.

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