Dr. Brad Myers

Biography

Brad Myers is the Charles M. Geschke Director and a Professor in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, affiliated with the Software Societal Systems Department. He is recognized for his outstanding contributions to the field of human-computer interaction, including receiving the ACM SIGCHI Lifetime Achievement Award in 2017. His book "Pick, Click, Flick! Story Interaction Techniques" won the CBI Human-Computer Interaction History Prize in 2025. In 2022, he received the Alan J. Perlis Award for his pioneering methods that democratize programming. An IEEE Life Fellow and ACM Fellow, Myers has published over 550 works, including papers and books, and serves on the editorial boards of eight journals. He has consulted for 90 companies on user interface design and teaches courses in this area. Myers completed his Ph.D. in computer science at the University of Toronto, where he developed the Peridot user interface tool, and holds MS and BSc degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he interned at Xerox PARC. His research interests encompass user interfaces, programming environments, programming language design, end-user software engineering, API usability, developer experience, interaction techniques, and mobile computing.

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