Before Jeff Hawkins ever started making the original Palm Pilot digital organizer, he prototyped it as a block of wood with fake buttons and a paper screen. To this day the Palm Pilot is a successful ...

PITTSBURGH—Barbara Liskov, a pioneer in programming languages and distributed systems, and Scott Klemmer, whose human-centered approach is changing the way online systems are designed, are recipients ...

Today, I enjoyed a lecture from Scott Klemmer, a professor at UC San Diego, about the work of his Design Lab in education. Klemmer is best known for advancing the use of peer assessment in large-scale ...

Barbara Liskov, an MIT professor known for her work in programming languages and distributed systems, and Scott Klemmer, a Stanford University associate professor who co-directs the Human-Computer ...

If you like (or dislike) the design of this or any Web page, you can view the source code and see just how our designers created it—the option is under the “Tools” menu of many browsers. This openness ...