Shneiderman, Ben

Professor of Computer Science and pioneer in the field of human-computer interaction.

Ben Shneiderman was born on August 21, 1947 to Samuel and Eileen Shneiderman. His parents were Polish-born journalists who immigrated to New York from Paris in 1940 with their two-year-old daughter, Helen. While growing up on Manhattan's Upper West Side, Shneiderman enjoyed stamp collecting, photography, building electronics projects, and playing baseball. During summers spent in the country on a chicken farm, which the Shneidermans owned jointly with four other families, he became familiar with agricultural chores like gathering eggs and plowing fields.

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