Austin Henderson

D. Austin Henderson is a Canadian computer scientist who pioneered work in email,^[1] virtual desktops,^[2] computer-supported collaboration, and human computer interaction.^[3]

He chaired one of the first SIGCHI CHI conferences in 1985.^[4]

He was chair of ACM SIGCHI, the special interest group in computer-human interaction from 1991 to 1993^[5]

He is an inductee of the CHI Academy.

References

^ David H. Crocker; John J. Vittal; Kenneth T. Pogran; D. Austin Henderson, Jr. (21 November 1977). Standard for the Format of ARPA Network Text Messages. doi:10.17487/RFC0733. RFC 733.
^ D. Austin Henderson, Jr.; Stuart Card (1 July 1986). "Rooms: the use of multiple virtual workspaces to reduce space contention in a window-based graphical user interface". ACM Transactions on Graphics. 5 (3): 211–243. doi:10.1145/24054.24056. S2CID 1157369.
^ Donald Norman; Jim Miller; Austin Henderson (7 May 1995). "What You See, Some of What's in the Future, And How We Go About Doing It: HI at Apple Computer". Proceedings of CHI 1995. Denver, Colorado, USA. doi:10.1145/223355.223477.
^ Pemberton, Steven (1996). "The CHI Conference: Interviews with Conference Chairs". SIGCHI. Archived from the original on 23 May 2010. Retrieved 29 September 2008.
^ Pemberton, Steven (1996). "SIGCHI: The Later Years, Interviews with Past Chairs". SIGCHI. Archived from the original on 26 April 2012. Retrieved 29 September 2008.