Ben Bederson's Press Page

Some projects that I have worked on have been in the popular press from time to time:
  2006  
Web WAMU Kojo Nnamdi Show Wiki Sites, One hour discussion about wikis and democratic web sites, hosted by Kojo Nnamdi
  2005  
Flow Washington Business Journal What was I doing, again? by Jennifer Nycz-Conner
Children
Digital Libraries
c|net News.com The ‘millenials’ usher in a new era (about ICDL) by Stefanie Olsen
Children
Digital Libraries
Chicago Parent Screen time=reading time by Jane Huth
Children
Digital Libraries
Delphos Herald Site Seeing
Children
Digital Libraries
Chicago Parent Explore the world by turning pages by Judy Belanger
Mobile Devices EE Times Microsoft touts ‘thumb-as-stylus’ interface progress by Nicolas Mokhoff, April 5, 2005
Flow folha equilibrio (Brazil) Cibertentações (article about computer-based distraction, describing some of my work.) by Sérgio Rizzo, March 10, 2005
Interview Radio City (Ecuador) / BBC Affiliate 5 minute radio interview (performed in English, translated into Spanish), March, 2005
Flow The Statesman (India) Webcrawler: All About E-Attention Deficit Disorder by Stanley Theodore, March 1, 2005
Children
Digital Libraries
Washington Times New Chapter in Online Books by Ann Geracimos, February 28, 2005
Flow North Carolina State Technician Research Targets Computer Distraction Such As AIM, by Danny Frye, February 18, 2005
Flow Bloomberg Radio Simply Put, 9 minute interview with Michael Goldman & Tom Moroney, February 13, 2005
Flow New York Times You There, at the Computer: Pay Attention, by Katie Hafner, February 10, 2005
Reprinted in:
  • International Herald Tribune (France)
  • ABS CBN News (Philippines)
  • CNET News.com
  • Spartanburg Herald (SC)
  • Wilmington Morning Start (NC)
  • Minneapolis Star Tribune (MN)
  2004  
Children Maryland Public Television Message in a Bottle, by Frank Batavick, November 11, 2004 (5 minute segment within 30 minute "Bob the vid-tech" special
Children Baltimore Sun Research Lab Crosses Cultures, by Elizabeth Schuman, May 7, 2004
  2003  
Mobile Devices The Feature A View Into Your Phone, by Jeff Goldman, October 20, 2003
  The Independent Treemap Offers a New Way of Visualizing Complex Data. Nothing Beats it for Simplicity and the "wow!" effect when you first use it, by Charles Arthur, October 10, 2003
Children
Digital Libraries
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Web Site Invites Children to Read Online: International Children's Digital Library Caters to Young Around the Globe, by Karen MacPherson, July 7, 2003
Children
Digital Libraries
San Antonio News 9 Website a Fun Way to Encourage Kids to Read, by Michael Garfield, June 15, 2003
Mobile Devices San Jose Mercury News Designing New Handhelds to Improve Interactions Between Humans, Computers", by Dan Gillmor, April 11, 2003
Children
Digital Libraries
Tech TV Live Easy Online Reader: An International Online Nook for Children's Books,
by Peter Barnes, February 12, 2003
Children
Digital Libraries
Voice of America 4.5 minute video of children's design team focusing on ICDL
  2002  
Voting Baltimore Sun Two Study Intricacies of Voting Machines, December 16, 2002
Children
Digital Libraries
All ICDL Press Over 40 articles about the International Children's Digital Library (ICDL), including:
  • Le Monde - Livres en Ligne pour Internautes en Herbe, December 9, 2002
  • New York Times - Online Library Project Plans a Digital and Cultural Trove for Children, December 5, 2002
  • Washington Post - A Library for Young Browsers, November 21, 2002
  • National Public Radio - Library for Kids Goes Online, November 18, 2002
ZUIs Digital Computer Magazine Review of PhotoMesa, October 2002
Mobile Devices Computer Sweden Square Zoom in the Hand, September 23, 2002
Voting Ohio Repository Ensuring Validity is a Big Concern in Electronic Voting, August 19, 2002
Voting Ohio Repository Voting Test Shows Pros, Cons, August 18, 2002
Mobile Devices eWeek DateLens Stays Organized in C#, August 12, 2002
Mobile Devices GRID Today Bill Gates Highlights Academic Collaboration Key to Future, August 5, 2002
Mobile Devices eWeek Gates: .NET Won’t Happen Overnight, July 29, 2002
Mobile Devices InfoWorld Gates, Academics Joins on Security, Shared Source, July 29, 2002
Voting Washington Post Debugging Maryland Balloting, May 12, 2002
Interview Washington Post Human-Computer Interaction Lab at the University of Maryland, May 9, 2002
Image Browsing Washington Post A Visual Rather Than Verbal Future, May 9, 2002
  2001  
ZUIs Sun Microsystems View With a Zoom: Browse and Zoom Digital Images in One Application, August 1, 2001
ZUIs Computer World Treemaps Bloom, July 2, 2001
ZUIs Computer World Software for the 4th Dimension, June 4, 2001
Children Computer Sweden Children are the World's Best Program Testers, May 9, 2001
2000
ZUIs New Scientist Magazine Maximising Minimalism, August 12, 2000
ZUIs Computer World Zoomin' Ahead June 26, 2000
1999
Interview Sun Microsystems Face to Face, September 1999
Children Dagens Nyheter Once Upon a Time There Was a HedgeHog, August 26, 1999
1998
Children Baltimore Sun Whiz.kids December 21, 1998
1997
ZUIs Chronicle of Higher Education New Ways of Organizing Data Could Change Nature of Computers, April 4, 1997
ZUIs Nov'Art in a French Magazine sponsored by Art3000, a society devoted to integration of technology and art.
  1996  
ZUIs New York Times Online (CyberTimes) Seeing the Forest of Knowledge for the Trees of Data, October 23, 1996
1995
ZUIs X Advisor Peripheral Visions: Zooming Through Information Space on Pad++, June 1995