Ronald Baecker

Ronald Baecker is an Emeritus Professor of Computer science and Bell Chair in Human-Computer Interaction at the University of Toronto, and Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at Columbia University. He was the co-founder of the Dynamic Graphics Project (DGP), and the founder of the Knowledge Media Design Institute (KMDI) and the Technologies for Aging Gracefully Lab (TAGlab) at U of T. He was the founder of Canada's research network on collaboration technologies (NECTAR), a founding researcher of AGE-WELL, Canada's Technology and Agine research network, the founder of Springer Nature's Synthesis Lectures on Technology and Health, and the founder of computers-society.org. He also started five software companies between 1976 and 2015. He is currently an ACM Distinguished Speaker.

Education

Baecker received a B.Sc. in physics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1963, an M.Sc. in electrical engineering from MIT in 1964, and a Ph.D. in computer science from MIT in 1969. ==Summary of research interests==

Summary of research interests

Baecker is an expert in human-computer interaction (HCI), user interface (UI) design, software visualization, multimedia, computer-supported cooperative work and learning, entrepreneurship in the software industry, and the design of technologies for aging gracefully. ==Honors and awards==

Honors and awards

• ACM Distinguished Speaker, 1 March 2022 - 28 February 2025. • Social Impact Award from the ACM Special Interest Group on Computers and Human Interaction (SIGCHI), 2020. • Lifetime Achievement Award from the Canadian Association of Computer Science/Association d’informatique Canadienne, the national organization of Canadian Computer Science Departments/Schools/Faculties, May 2015. • Given the 3rd Canadian Digital Media Pioneer Award, GRAND Network of Centres of Excellence, May 2013. • Elected as an ACM Fellow, November 2011. • Second-place recipient, University of Toronto Inventor of the Year Award, Information and Computer Technology, January 2011. • Awarded the 2007 Leadership Award of Merit from the Ontario Research and Innovation Optical Network (ORION) in June 2007. • Awarded the Canadian Human Computer Communications Society Achievement Award in May 2005. • Elected to the ACM SIGCHI CHI Academy in February 2005. • Named one of the 60 Pioneers of Computer Graphics by ACM SIGGRAPH in 1998. ==References==

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