SIGCHI Lifetime Research Award: James Landay

Part of the 2024 ACM SIGCHI Awards Talks series, James Landay shares his story in accepting a SIGCHI Lifetime Research Award.

• Title: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Farm

• Friday, June 14, 1:30pm PDT (Time and date around the world)

• Session Chair: Sunny Consolvo, Google

• Register on Zoom: https://stanford.zoom.us/j/93470176511?pwd=REnL84eofKX7yBIQpmcpOeIqEmsXaR.1

James Landay is a Professor of Computer Science and the Anand Rajaraman and Venky Harinarayan Professor in the School of Engineering at Stanford University. He co-founded and is Co-Director of the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI). Landay and his students/collaborators have made research contributions in many areas of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), including technology to support behavior change, demonstrational interfaces, mobile & ubiquitous computing, and user interface design tools. Landay previously was a tenured faculty member at Cornell Tech, the University of Washington, and UC Berkeley. Landay is well known for founding and building vibrant HCI and Human-Centered AI research communities at Berkeley, Washington, and Stanford. He was also Director of Intel Labs Seattle and co-founder of NetRaker. While on sabbatical at Microsoft Research Asia in Beijing, he taught at Tsinghua University. Landay received his BS in EECS from UC Berkeley, and MS and PhD in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University. He is a member of the ACM SIGCHI Academy and an ACM Fellow. He served on the NSF CISE Advisory Committee for six years.