Buxton-Microsoft Collection On the Importance of History Shaping the Future
Monday, April 29th 4:30pm
Friend Center, Convocation Room
Speaker: Bill Buxton, Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research
Free and open to the public. Registration required.

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History, backed up by current data, tells us that what we perceive as rapid technological change is generally due to a large number of technologies evolving slowly.
 
Over the past 45 years I have accumulated a collection of gadgets that captures the history of technological growth. For you, the value may just be nostalgia.  However, my hope is this.   In this age where the things which we produce create such a strong cultural impact, can we really afford not to take advantage of the learnings of the past hidden in plain sight?

BIO
A Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research, Bill has had a 40- year involvement in research, practice and commentary around design, innovation and human aspects of technology. Following a 20-year career as a professional musician, he morphed into a researcher and interaction designer, at the University of Toronto, Xerox PARC, Alias Research and SGI Inc. He has been awarded four honourary doctorates, is co-recipient of an Academy Award for Scientific and Technical Achievement, received an ACM/SIGCHI Lifetime Achievement Award, and is a Fellow of the ACM. Bill has published, lectured and consulted widely, and is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Toronto, and a Distinguished Professor of Industrial Design at the Technical University Eindhoven. Other than his family, mountains and rivers are his first love. For more information, see billbuxton.com