Sun Microsystems
1992-2000. Human interface designer in the SunSoft, JavaSoft , and
Forte Tools divisions. I worked on a lot of different projects at
Sun, but my favorites were
HotJava
Views and the
Java Look
and Feel Design Guidelines.
Apple Computer
1989-1992. Human interface designer in the A/UX group, A/UX was
Apple's version of Unix. It is one of the forerunners of the
Macintosh OS X.
Philips
Laboratories
1986-1988. I worked on text retrieval problems and (with Hugo
Strubbe) developed a novel user model and interface for a combination
TV-VCR.
University of California, San
Diego
1971-1985. For the first year at UCSD, I did research on
neuro-enzymology in the UCSD Medical School, looking for the cause of
a disease called myasthenia gravis. But most of the time I worked
with Don Norman and Dave Rumelhart
in the LNR group and the
Cognitive Science Laboratory doing
cognitive psychology research in motor skills and learning.
University of Ghana, West
Africa
1968-1970. Taught in the Department of Chemistry.