Ben Shneiderman is an emeritus distinguished university professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Maryland. His widely used contributions include clickable highlighted weblinks, high-precision touchscreen keyboards for mobile devices, and tagging for photos. Shneiderman's information visualization innovations include dynamic query sliders for Spotfire, development of treemaps for viewing hierarchical data, novel network visualizations for NodeXL, and event sequence analysis for electronic health records. Shneiderman is also the Founding Director (1983-2000) of the Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory, and a member of the UM Institute for Advanced Computer Studies (UMIACS) at the University of Maryland. He is a Fellow of the AAAS, ACM, IEEE, NAI, and the Visualization Academy and a Member of the US National Academy of Engineering, in recognition of his pioneering contributions to human-computer interaction and information visualization.
