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Scott E. Hudson Information Page
Scott E. Hudson

Scott Hudson is an Associate Professor in the
College of Computing
at
Georgia Tech
and a member of the
Graphics, Visualization, and Usability Center
where he recently served as Associate Director for Research Computing.
He was previously an Assistant Professor
of Computer Science at the
University of Arizona.
He earned his Ph.D. in computer science at the
University of Colorado
in 1986. He has regularly served on
program committees for the
SIGCHI
and
UIST
conferences, and served as Program Chair for UIST '90 and Symposium Chair for UIST '93. He currently serves as an Associate
Editor for
ACM Transactions on Computer Human Interaction.
Research Interests
Scott's research interests cover a broad range of topics in user interface software,
including:
interaction techniques,
user interface toolkits, high-level specification
techniques for user interfaces, constraint systems in user interfaces, tools to support user
interface evaluation, multimedia, collaborative work, new input modalities, interfaces to
digital libraries and other large information spaces, visualization techniques,
and
end-user programming systems.
His recent research funding has been from the National
Science Foundation, ARPA, and from Intel.
For a list of selected publications, click here.
Teaching and Students
The recipient of a Faculty of Science Distinguished Teaching Award at the University of Arizona in 1991, Scott has taught a wide range of computer science courses including:
user interface design and human factors, user interface software, beginning and advanced computer graphics, beginning and advanced compiler construction, principles of programming languages, operating systems, and system software.
In addition to many graduate and undergraduate students,
Scott's former Ph.D. students include:
Tyson Henry a Visiting Assistant Professor of Computer Science
at the University of New Mexico,
Shamim Mohamed a Visiting Assistant Professor of Mathematics
at Idaho State University,
Gary Newell an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Simpson College in Iowa,
and
Bruce Schatz an Associate Professor of Library and Information Science
and Computer Science at the University of Illinois, and Research Scientist at the National
Center for Supercomputing Applications.
Scott's current Ph.D. students include: Chen-Ning Hsi, Andrey Yeatts, and Bob Simms,
who are all expected to graduate from the University of Arizona in 1994, as well as
Ian Smith ,
Krishna Bharat, and
Veerasamy Aravindan at Georgia Tech.
Other Interests
On the rare occasions when he is not working, Scott can usually be found hanging out
with his wife and best friend Mary Seeley, and/or taking his dog
Sammie
for a walk. Both Scott and
Mary are occasional scuba divers and enjoy other water sports such as laying on the
beach in the sun.
Contact information:
Scott E. Hudson
Graphics, Visualization & Usability Center
College of Computing
801 Atlantic Drive
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, GA, 30332-0280
E-mail :
hudson@cc.gatech.edu