About Ben Shneiderman

Ben Shneiderman is a full professor at the (computer science department of the) University of Maryland. Around 1983 he started a research project to develop "The Electronic Encyclopedia System", originally called TIES, but later renamed to Hyperties because of a trademark conflict.

The Hyperties system is available on the IBM PC, and is marketed by Cognetics Corporation. The research at the University of Maryland continues, and a version which runs on Sun Workstations, with the NeWS window system, has been developed.

Together with Greg Kearsley, Shneiderman wrote the book Hypertext Hands-On! which comes in printed and electronic form.

Shneiderman continues to do research on novel user-interface techniques for different types of information systems.