Ian E. Smith

699 Ponce de Leon Ave, Unit #226

Atlanta, GA 30308

(404) 817-7684(home) / (404) 894-6266 (office)

Email: iansmith@cc.gatech.edu
URL:http://www.cc.gatech.edu/gvu/people/Phd/Ian.Smith.html


Education

Advisor: Scott E. Hudson

Thesis: Support For Multi-Viewed Interfaces

Employment

Research Scientist I, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA

Research Assistant, Multimedia Computing Group, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA

Summer Intern, JavaSoft, Cupertino California

Summer Research Intern, Xerox PARC, Palo Alto California

Summer Research Intern, Xerox PARC, Palo Alto California

Summer Research Intern, Xerox PARC, Palo Alto California

Summer Research Intern, Xerox PARC, Palo Alto California

Instructor, Georgia Tech Educational Extension, Atlanta, GA

Research Assistant, Army Institute for Research in Communications and Computer Science,
Atlanta GA

 

Teaching

Instructor, Georgia Institute Of Technology, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA

Taught a course for sophomores titled "Knowledge Representation and Processing" which is chiefly about functional programming using Lisp and the representation of complex structures in abstract data types. Delivered all lectures and developed course materials for this course including lectures, laboratory assignments, programming projects, and tests. More information can be found at http://www.cc.gatech.edu/gvu/people/Phd/Ian/cs2360.html . Winner of the 1995 Georgia Tech Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award for this work.

Instructor, Georgia Institute Of Technology, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA

Developed a course to teach senior undergraduates and graduate students the Java programming language with a focus on developing interactive applications for the World Wide Web. Developed all lectures, programming assignments, and tests. More information can be found at http://www.cc.gatech.edu/computing/classes/cs3802_96_spring.

 

 

 

Current Fields Of Interest

 

 

Publications

"Systematic Output Modification In A User Interface Toolki,t" ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, October 1997, p. 151-158. (with Scott Hudson, Roy Rodenstein, Joshua Marinacci, Keith Edwards, and Thomas Rodriguez)

" Debugging Lenses: A New Class Of Transparent Tools for UI Debugging," ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, October 1997, p. 179-187. (with Scott Hudson, and Roy Rodenstein)

"Supporting Dynamic Downloadable Appearances In An Extensible UI Toolkit," ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, October 1997, p159-168. (with Scott Hudson)

"Authoring And Navigating Video In Space And Time, " To appear in a special issue of IEEE Multimedia, winter 1998. (with David Balcom and Nitin Sawheny)

"Ultra-Lightweight Constraints," ACM Symposium On User Interface Software And Technology (UIST), November 1996, p. 147-155.

"Techniques for Addressing Fundamental Privacy and Disturbance Tradeoffs In Awareness Support Systems", ACM Conference On Computer Supported Cooperative Work, November 1996, p. 248-257 (with Scott Hudson).

"Toolkits For Multimedia Awareness", ACM Conference On Computer Human Interaction (CHI)Conference Companion, April 1996, p. 59-60.

"Electronic Mail Glaces Using Non-Speech Audio", ACM Conference On Computer Human Interaction (CHI) Conference Companion, April 1996, p. 237-238 (with Scott Hudson).

"HyperCafe: Narrative And Aesthetic Properties of Hypervideo", ACM Conference On Hypertext 1996, March 1996 p.1 -10. Winner of 1996 Doug Engelbart Best Paper Award (with Nitin Sawheny and David Balcom).

"A Confederation Of Tools For Capturing And Accessing Collaborative Activity", ACM Conference On Multimedia, November 1995, p. 523-533. Winner of Best Paper Award for 1995 ACM Multimedia (with Scott Minneman, Steve Harrison, Bill Janseen, Gordon Kurtenbach, Thomas Moran, and Bill Van Melle).

"Low Disturbance Audio For Awareness And Privacy In Media Space Applications," ACM Conference On Multimedia, November 1995, p. 91-98(with Scott Hudson).

"Applying Cryptographic Techniques To Problems In Media Space Security," In Proceedings of ACM Conference On Organizational Computing Systems, August 1995, p. 190-196 (with Scott Hudson, Beth Mynatt, and Robert Selbie).

"A Practical System For Compiling One-Way Constraints Into C++ Objects," Georgia Tech Graphics Visualization and Usability Center Technical Report, currently under review for journal publication (with Scott Hudson).

"Automatic Generation Of Starfield Displays Using Constraints," In Proceedings of ACM Conference On Computer Human Interaction (CHI) Conference Companion, May 1995, p. 202-203 (with Scott Hudson).

"Knowledge Weasel: A Hypermedia Annotation System," In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Hypertext 1993, November 1993 (with Daryl Lawton).

"Wordspotting", ACM Conference On Computer-Human Interaction (CHI) Video Program, May 1992 (with Marcia Bush and Lynn Wilcox).

"The Image Understanding Environment (IUE) User Interface", DARPA Image Understanding Workshop, Washington D.C., April 1993 (with Daryl T. Lawton, David Dai, MaryAnn Frogge, Warren F. Gardner, Heather Pritchett, Andrew Rathkopf, and the IUE committee).

 

Professional Activities

Paper Reviewer for 1995, 1996, 1997 ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology.

Paper Reviewer for ACM Transactions on Computer Human Interaction.

Invited Presentations

Tutorial presenter, ACM Conference On Computer Human Interaction 1996.

Tutorial presenter, ACM Conference On Hypertext 1996.

 

Honors And Awards

Winner of 1995-1996 Intel Fellowship.

Winner of 1995 Graphics, Visualization, and Usability Center's Student Research Award.

Winner of 1995 ACM Multimedia Best Paper Award.

Winner of 1996 Doug Engelbart Best Paper Award (at ACM Hypertext `96)

Winner of 1995 Georgia Tech Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award.

Participant in the ACM SIGCHI Doctoral Consortium 1996