Benjamin Bederson, PhD Biography
- Title:
- Director of Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory at the University of Maryland
- Position:
- Con to the question "Do Electronic Voting Machines Improve the Voting Process?"
- Reasoning:
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“Many Maryland voters may have a tougher time picking a governor this November than they expect – unless election officials fine-tune the new voting machines they bought and teach nearly half the voters in the state how to use them.”
“Debugging Maryland Balloting,” Washington Post, May 12, 2002
- Involvement and Affiliations:
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- Director, Computer-Human Interaction Lab, University of Maryland
- Conducted review of voter verification technology in electronic voting systems for the Maryland State Board of Elections, 2006
- IBM Faculty Award, 2006
- Gave presentation about electronic voting systems and ballot design to the National Association of State Election Directors, 2005
- First Place, Information Visualization Benchmarks Contest, 2004
- Commissioned by the Maryland State Board of Elections to review the usability Diebold AccuVote TSx electronic voting system, 2002
- Gave presentations about usability and electronic voting machines before the Association of Computing Machinery and the Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, 2002
- Education:
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- PhD, Computer Science, New York University
- MS, Computer Science, New York University
- BS, Computer Science, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
- Other:
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- None found
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