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http://www.billbuxton.com
(August 20th, 2008)
 

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PERSONAL INFORMATION

Name: William Arthur Stewart Buxton
Birth: March 10, 1949
Place: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Citizenship: Canadian
Languages: Native: English; Working: French, Basic: German, Dutch
Marital Status: Married, 3 Children
Address:  Available on request.

Recent Employment History:

  1. Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research (Dec. 2005 – present)
  2. Principal, Buxton Design (Dec. 2002 – Dec. 2005) 
  3. Associate Professor, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Toronto.(1984-present)
  4. Lecturer, Ontario College of Art and Design, Toronto.(Sept. - Dec. 2004)
  5. Chief Scientist - Silicon Graphics Inc., Mountain View, CA. (Nov. 1996 – Dec. 2002)
  6. Chief Scientist, Alias | Wavefront Inc., Toronto, Ontario.(June 1994 – Dec. 2002)
  7. Senior Research Consultant, Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, Palo Alto, CA. (June 1989 - June 1994)
  8. Research Scientist, Rank Xerox EuroPARC, Cambridge England.  (June 1987 - 1989)
  9. Lecturer, Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto.  (September 1980 - 1987)

EDUCATION & DEGREES

  • Ontario College of Art and Design,.Doctor of Design, Honoris Causa, June, 2008
  • University of Toronto (Toronto, Ontario): M. Sc. (1978) in Computer Science. Thesis: Design Issues in the Foundation of a Computer-Based Tool for Music Composition.  [videos]
  • Institute of Sonology (Utrecht State University, The Netherlands): Course in Sonology (1973-75). Classes in studio technique, compositional theory/computer composition, linguistics, electro-acoustics, and psycho-acoustics.
  • Queen's University (Kingston, Ontario, Canada): Bachelor of Music (June 1973). Major in composition and analysis. Instrument: tenor saxophone.
  • St. Lawrence College (Kingston, Ontario, Canada): (1971-73): courses in basic electronics, technical math, and advanced photography.

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TECHNICAL ADVISORY BOARDS/COMMITTESS

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND ASSOCIATIONS

  • Columnist on design and innovation for BusinessWeek.com, since January 2008.
  • Member, Advisory Board, Department of Design, Technical University of Eindhoven, The Netherlands, 2007 - present.
  • Member, Research Review Committee, Faculty of Design Engineering, Technical University of Delft, The Netherlands, Nov. 2007.
  • Visiting Professor, Knowledge Media Design Institute (KMDI), University of Toronto(Sept. 2004-2005)
  • Member, International Advisory Board, Center for Advanced Studies and Research in Information and Communication Technologies & Society (ICT&S) at the University of Salzburg, 2004 - 2008.
  • Jury, Banff Mountain Book Festival, Nov. 2-4, 2005, Banff Alberta Appointed to the board of the Canadian Film Centre, 1988-2004.
  • Member, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).  Member of ACM SIGGRAPH and  ACM SIGCHI. Program committee member CHI'89;
  • Member SIGCHI Advisory Board 1986-1988; Conference co-chair, CHI +GI'87; Conference and program committee member, CHI'86; Organizer of two panels, CHI'86: The Computer as Musical Accompanist and Human Interface Design and the Handicapped User; Program committee member CHI'85.
  • Member advisory board: New Media Program of the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona.
  • Member advisory board: School of Image Arts at Ryerson Polytechnical University, Toronto.
  • Visiting Professor at National Centre for Computer Animation in the School of Media Arts & Communication, Bournemouth University, 2000-2005.
  • Special advisor on innovation to the Premier of Ontario, 1998-99.
  • Consulting Research Scientist, Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) (1/2 time Sept. 1989 -June 1994).
  • Visiting Scientist, Rank Xerox EuroPARC, Cambridge, UK (June 1987- July 1989).
  • Editorial Board, Book Series in Human-Computer Interaction, Cambridge University Press .
  • Editorial Board, ACM Interactions, 1994 - 2000.
  • Editorial board, Human-Computer Interaction, 1985-1989.
  • Chairman of the Editorial Board, the Computer Music Journal (MIT Press), 1982-1989.
  • Prix Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria: Music Jury, 1988, 1989; Interactive Art Jury, 1990, 1991;  Animation and Visual Effects Jury, 2002.
  • Co-organizer of British Computer Society Workshop on Visual Programming, Rank Xerox EuroPARC, Cambridge, March 15, 1988.
  • Canadian Man-Computer Communications Society. Conference co-chair, CHI +GI'87; Panels Chairman for 1GI'84; Co-program Chair, GI'82.
  • Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Research Grants Adjudication Committee for applications in the fine arts (1986).
  • President, Board of Directors, The International Computer Music Association, 1982-1987.
  • Board of Governors, Frontier College (1983-1987).

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

  • University of Toronto (September 1979 - June 1987): Lecturer, Department of Computer Science; Undergraduate courses: Introduction to Programming, Programming Applications, Introduction to Computer Graphics, Computer Organization. Graduate Level: Advanced topics in Interactive Computing, Interactive Computer Graphics.
  • Institute of Sonology, Utrecht State University (1974/75): Lecturer in computer music techniques.
  • Tutorial on User Interface Design: Graphics Interface '82, Toronto, 1982; ACM/SIGCHI Conference, CHI '83, Boston, 1983; Graphics Interface '84, Ottawa, 1984.
  • Tutorial on Manual Input Techniques: NORSIG Annual Meeting, Oslo, Norway, Nov. 1984; ACM/SIGCHI Conference, CHI '85, San Francisco, 1985; IEEE Compint Conference, Montreal, 1985; Human Factors Society Annual Meeting, Baltimore, 1985; Society for Information Display, Anaheim, 1988; British Computer Society HCI Conference, 1988; CHI'89, Austin Texas; CHI'90, Seattle, WA.; GI'92, Vancouver.
  • Tutorial on Selected Topics In Human-Computer Interaction: CHI'86, Boston, Graphics Interface '86, Vancouver; SIGGRAPH '86, Dallas; SIGGRAPH '87, Anaheim; CHI '88, Washington D.C.;
  • Tutorial on Integrating Music and Graphics: SIGGRAPH '86, Dallas; SIGGRAPH '87, Anaheim.
  • Tutorial on the Use of Nonspeech Audio at the Interface (with Gaver & Bly) at CHI'89, Austin Texas; CHI'90, Seattle, WA. ; CHI '91, New Orleans; IPO, Eindhoven, Netherlands (Oct. 1991).

SELECTED CONSULTING EXPERIENCE

  • Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK
  • Symbol Technologies, Long Island, NY
  • XEROX Palo Alto Research Center, Palo Alto, CA.
  • Digital Media Networks, Toronto.
  • Commodore Business Machines, West Chester, PA.
  • Philips Electronics, Eindhoven, Holland
  • Apple Computer Corp., Cupertino, CA.
  • Anderson Consulting, Chicago and New York
  • Mattel Electronics, Games Division, Hawthorne CA.
  • Federal Dept. of Communications, Ottawa.
  • I.B.M. Research, Yorktown Heights, USA
  • Pacific Bell, San Ramon, CA
  • Tektronix Corp, Portland OR
  • Wang Computer, Lowell, MA

MISC. HONOURS & DISTINCTIONS

SELECTED INVITED LECTURES, EXHIBITIONS, etc.

  • August 7, 2008, T.S. Eliot's "The Rock" and the Uncertain Path from Noise to Wisdom.  Opening Keynote, 77th Annual Summer Conference, Lake Couchiching, Ontario, Canada..
  • June 15-20, Keynote, Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL'08), Pittsburgh, PA.
  • June 11, 2008, Invited Lecture, CHIFOO, Computer-Human Interaction Forum of Oregon, Portland, OR.
  • June 7-8, nextMedia Conference, Banff, Alberta
  • May 27th.  Keynote, Ontario Universities Computing Conference, Toronto.
  • May 22, 2008, Guest speaker, Design Thinking in the Wild,  IIT Institute of Design Strategy Conference, Chicago IL.
  • May 20, 2008. Does Location Matter? CBC interview with Nora Young on topic, Mesh Conference, MaRS Centre, Toronto
  • May 15, 2008.  Keynote, Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) Toronto's 16th Annual Technical Seminar.
  • May 6, 2008.  Keynote.  Form+Function.  SEMS Corporate Research, 3M, St. Paul, MN.
  • April 24th:2008. Talk, KMDI Series, Design Research:  Views from Across the Disciplines, University of Toronto.
  • April 14, 2008.  Design Thinking Speaker Series,.  Rotman School of Business, University of Toronto.
  • April 10, 2008, Closing Plenary, ACM SIGCHI Conference, Florence, Italy.
  • March 25,2008, Lecture, l'École de Design Industriel, l'Université de Montréal
  • Feb. 21st.  Talk, Author's Lecture Series,  Microsoft Research, Redmond WA. (1:30 pm, 99/1919)
  • Feb. 20, 2008. Webcast Talk. 2008 Microsoft/IDSA Spotlight Speaker Series.
  • Feb. 10, 2008, Keynote, IxDA Interaction 08, SCAD, Savanna, GA.
  • Feb. 4, 2008, Plenary, IEEE International Solid State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), San Francisco.
  • Nov. 15, 2007. Keynote, French HCI Conference, Paris, France.
  • Nov. 12, 2007. Keynote, Human-Computer Interaction and Audiovisual Production Workshop, IRCAM, Paris.
  • Oct. 29, 2007. Keynote, Business of Software Conference, San Jose Marriott.
  • Oct. 26, 2007. Invited Talk, TU Eindhoven Design Forum, Eindhoven, NL.
  • Oct. 18, 2007.  Keynote, Canadian Business Leadership Forum, Toronto, Canada.
  • Oct. 13, 2007. Design Education Panel, AIGA Conference, Denver, CO.
  • Oct.. 4, 2007 Invited Talk, Expression Around the Clock.  Toronto, Ontario.
  • Sept. 14, 2007:  Invited talk, HCI Seminar Series at MIT's Computer Science and AI Lab (CSAIL), Cambridge, MA.
  • June 18, 2007: TorCHI talk on Sketching Experience. Toronto chapter of ACM SIGCHI
  • June 13, 2007, Austin TX: Keynote talk, Annual conference of the Usability Professional's Association.
  • June 7,2007, Department of Computer Science, Linköping University, Sweden.
  • June 1, 2007, Stanford University: HCI Seminar on People, Computers and Design, Sketching and Experience Design.
  • May 31, KnowHow Talk, IDEO, Palo Alto CA.
  • May 11,2007, Banff, Alta: Keynote talk, 2007 WWW Conference.
  • May 10,2007, Boston MA: Keynote talk, Front End of Innovation Conference sponsored by the Product Development and Management Association (PDMA).
  • ROI-The Innovation Equation workshop, Industrial Designers Association of America (IDSA), Museum of the City of New York, NYC. Dec. 7-8 2006
  • Workshop on Research in Practice, Ontario College of Art and Design,  Toronto, Nov. 23rd 2006.
  • Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Music, Media and Technology, McGill University, Montreal, Nov. 16th 2006
  • Boston Chapter of SIGCHI, Nov. 13, 2006
  • School of the Future World Summit 2006, School of the Future. Nov. 13 2006, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
  • Closing Plenary talk at the ACM conference on Computer Supported Collaborative Work (CSCW), Nov. 8: 2006, Banff, Alberta
  • Massive Change: The Future of Global Design, The exhibit included a room devoted to my collection of interaction technologies. This was in collaboration with Bruce Mau Design.  Vancouver Art Gallery, October 2004.  Art Gallery of Ontario, June, 2005.
  • Simplicity Forum, Ars Electronica Festival, Linz, Austria.  Sept. 2, 2006
  • First Annual Ingenuity Lecture, Nov. 22, University of Lethbridge, Nov. 23, University of Calgary, Nov. 25, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta. [ video of lecture ]
  • Sketching and Experience Design, Oct. 31, 2005, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Calgary.
  • Invited Lectures: Digital Cinema and Sketching and Experience Design, University of California, Santa Barbara, October 2005
  • Keynote Speaker, Sketching and Interaction Design, INTERACT, Rome, Sept.. 14, 2005
  • Invited Speaker, Information Esthetics Series talk, Chelsea Art Museum, NYC, June 16
  • Keynote talk, Special Libraries Association, Toronto, June 7.
  • Keynote talk, New Instruments for Musical Expression (NIME'05) Conference, Vancouver BC, May 26-28.
  • Invited co-lecturer (with Sir Harry Kroto) as part of the Massive Thinkers Forum series, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, May 13, 2005.
  • Keynote Talk, Graphics Interface Conference, Victoria BC, May 9-11, 2005.
  • Keynote Talk: Less-is-More Symposium, Cambridge UK, April 27-29, 2005.
  • Invited Talk: Usability Professionals Association, Cambridge UK: April 20, 2005.
  • Keynote Talk: Creativity and Cognition Conference, 12-15 April, 2005, London, UK.
  • Keynote Talk, ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics, Providence R.I., 27-30/4/97
  • Invited Talk, ACM SIGCHI Conference, Atanta, GA., 25-27/3/97
  • Keynote Talk, Australia / New Zealand Conference on Human Machine Interaction, OZCHI'96, Hamiton, New Zealand., 26/11/96
  • Keynote Talk, ACM Multimedia '96 Conference, Boston, MA., 22/11/96
  • Keynote Talk, German Conference on Computer Supported Collaborative Work, DCSCW, Stuttgart, Germany, 2/10/96
  • Invited Talk, Annual Meeting of the Telecommunications Research Institute of Ontario (TRIO), Ottawa, Ont., 26/9/96
  • Invited Talk, Portland Creative Conference, Portland, OR., 21/9/96
  • Keynote Talk, HCI'96 Conference, Imperial College, London, 23/8/96
  • Invited Talk, 1996 International Workshop on Dependability in Advanced Computing Paradigms, DACP-96, Hitachi Research Laboratory, Hitachi City, Japan, 20/6/96
  • Keynote Talk, Canadian Cable Television Association (CCTA) Conference, Edmonton, Alta., 3/6/96
  • Keynote Talk, ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST'95), Pittsburgh, PA., 17/11/95
  • Convocation Speaker, Animation Program, Sheridan College, Toronto, 9/6/95.
  • Invited talk, Imagina Festival, Monte Carlo, Monaco., 3/2/95
  • Keynote Talk, PacRim Comdex, Vancouver, BC., 19/1/95
  • Plenary Talk, ERGO.IA 94, Biarritz, France, 28/10/94
  • Plenary Talk, COMDEX/Canada, Toronto, Ontario, 3/7/94.
  • Keynote Talk, POTS-to-PANS Workshop, Sponsored by British Telecom, Ipswich, UK., 28/3/94
  • Keynote Talk, British Computer Society Conference on Interacting With Images. London, England, 10/2/93
  • Keynote Talk, Workshop on the Global Workplace, to celebrate the opening of Eurecom Institute, Sofia Antipolous, France, 2/7/93
  • Keynote Talk, Vienna Conerence on Human-Computer Interaction, Technical University, Vienna, 20/9/93
  • Keynote Speaker, "Doors of Perception" Conference, Netherlands Design Institute, Amsterdam, 30/10/93.
  • CHI'92, opening plenary speaker.
  • OOPSLA, Dec. 1990, Ottawa: Banquet Speaker.
  • CRAI International Seminar on Human-Computer Interfaces, Capri, May 1989, Invited Speaker.
  • French Colloquium on the Engineering of Human-Computer Interfaces, INRIA Sophia Antipolis, May 1989. Invited Speaker.
  • Dutch Computer Society 1988 HCI Conference, Eindhoven, The Netherlands. Keynote Speaker.
  • Siggraph 1988 Workshop on User Interface Software, Banff, Alberta, Canada. Keynote Speaker.
  • First International Symposium on Electronic Art, Utrecht, The Netherlands. Plenary speaker.
  • British Computer Society Seminar on Graphis Tools for Software Engineering: Visual Programming and Program Visualisation, London, March 16, 1988. Keynote Speaker.
  • Panel on User Interfaces for Music and Audio Systems, 83rd Technical Meeting of the Audio Engineering Society, October 1987, New York: Chair, participant and Organizer.
  • Invited speaker, World Computer Conference, IFIP, Dublin, September, 1986.
  • Panelist, Digital Audio, panel, Banff Television Festival, May, 1986
  • Panelist, User Interfaces in the Year 2000, panel, CHI'86, Boston.
  • Panelist, Microcomputer User Interface Toolkits panel, CHI '85 Conference on Human Factors in Computer Systems, San Francisco, April, 1985.
  • Chair, Communicating with Sound panel, CHI '85 Conference on Human Factors in Computer Systems, San Francisco, April, 1985.
  • MCC Dialog Management Tools Symposium, Austin Texas, October 1984.
  • NCGA Panel on User Interface Management Systems, Anaheim, CA, May 1984.
  • GI '84 Panel on User Interface Management Systems (Chairman), Ottawa, May 1984.
  • IBM / Arizona State University Workshop on Engineering Support Systems, April, 1984.
  • Artist in Residence, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, February 1984.
  • Panelist, session on Human-Computer Interaction, IEEE CompCon, Washington DC, October 1983.
  • Keynote Speaker, IEEE Symposium on Small Computers in the Arts, Philidelphia, PA, October 1982.
  • Panelist, session on Social and Intellectual Implications of Communications Technology in the Home, in the Cooperative on Information Technology sponsored workshops, Research Challenges in Information Technology, University of Waterloo, October 4, 1982.
  • Conference on Making Telidon Work, UBC, Vancouver, August 1982.
  • Panel Session on Graphical Input and Interaction Techniques, ACM-SIGGRAPH Conference, August 1982, Boston.
  • Chairman, Videotex Panel, Graphics Interface 82, May 1982, Toronto.
  • Chairman, Artist in the Lab Panel, Graphics Interface 82, May 1982, Toronto.
  • Keynote Speaker, Seminar on Telidon and Education, sponsored by the CVCC sub-committee on education, Sidney Nova Scotia, February 1982.
  • Video Panel Session on Interactive Systems, ACM-SIGGRAPH 1981 Conference, Dallas, Texas, August 1981.
  • IEEE Circuits and Systems Socety Conference, April 1981, Chicago. Workshop on Digital Generation and Processing of Musical Signals.
  • Third Workshop on the Physical and Neuropsychological Foundations of Music, Ossiach, Austria (August 1980).
  • UNESCO Workshop on Computer Music, Institute for Musicology, Arhus, Denmark (Summer 1978).
  • International Society for Contemporary Music (ISCM) special workshop on computer music, Electronic Music Studio, Stockholm, Sweden (Spring, 1978).
  • Presentations at numerous institutions, including: Univ. of Waterloo, George Washington Univ., Brown Univ., New York Univ., SUNY Buffalo, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Univ. of Windsor, Univ. of Western Ontario, Stanford Univ., Queen's Univ., Mc Master Univ., Dartmouth College, Eastman School of Music, Univ. of Quebec at Montreal, Canadian National Research Council, Xerox Palo Alto Research Centre, University of British Columbia, IBM San Jose Research Centre, MIT, Brooklyn College, York Univ., Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, Los Alamos Scientific Labs, National Bureau of Standards, Washington, UCSD, the Wang Institute, Wang Labs, Bell Labs, Murray Hill, N.J., Carnegie Mellon Univ., University of Glasgow, The Open University, Queen Mary College, London, Kingston Polytechnic, London, St. Andrews College of Art, London, University of York, England, University of Oregon, Boeing Research, Seattle, University of Washington, Seattle, DEC LAbs, Cambridge MA, MIT Media Lab, Carleton University, Ottawa, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Brown University, R.I..

PATENTS & INVENTION DISCLOSURES

Issued Patents

  1. Balakrishnan, R., Buxton, W., Fitzmaurice, G. & Kurtenbach, G., Digital tape drawing system  US Patent 7,102,642,  Sept. 5, 2006.

  2. Balakrishnan, R., Buxton, W., Fitzmaurice, G. & Kurtenbach, G., Digital tape drawing system  US Patent 6,642,927,  November 4, 2003.

  3. Baudel, T., Buxton, W., Fitzmaurice, G., Harrison, B., Kurtenbach, G. & Owen, R., Clickaround tool-based graphical interface with two cursors. US Patent 5,666,499, Sept. 9, 1997.

  4. Baudel, Thomas, Fitzmaurice, George, Buxton; William, Kurtenbach, Gordon, Tappen, Charles, Liepe, Peter, Drawing system using design guides,  US Patent 6,377,240, April 23, 2002

  5. Bier; Eric A., Buxton; William A. S., User interface having movable sheet with click-through tools, US Patent 5,581,670, Dec. 3, 1996.

  6. Bier, Eric A., Buxton; William A. S. & Stone; Maureen C., User interface having click-through tools that can be composed with other tools. US Patent 5,617,114, April 1, 1997.

  7. Buxton; William Arthur Stewart (Toronto, CA); Bell; Jeffrey Allen. System for maintaining orientation of a user interface as a display changes orientation, US Patent 6,115,025, Sept. 5, 2000.