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• International Press (Nov 2002 onwards) - International Children's Digital Library application.

• "View With a Zoom: Browse and Zoom Digital Images in One Application" describes PhotoMesa on Sun's Java website August 1, 2001.

• "Treemaps Bloom" describes PhotoMesa in Computerworld, July 2, 2001.

• "Software for the 4th Dimension" describes TimeSearcher in Computerworld, June 4, 2001.

• Jazz, KidPad and Fisheye menus in New Scientist magazine, August 12, 2000.

• "Zoomin' Ahead" Computerworld, June 26, 2000.
• Interview with Prof. Allison Druin
  On her work with children's technology in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - June 20, 2000

• Once upon a time there was a hedgehog...
  An article in the Swedish daily newspaper Dagens Nyheter about the work of Ben Bederson and Allison Druin with children by Kerstin Lundell, August 26, 1999.

• An interview with Ben Bederson by Sun Microsystems on their Java web site
  "Face-to-Face" (HTML)
  by Jon Byous, September 23, 1999.

• HCIL, KidPad and Jazz Appeared on PBS: On Thursday, January 28, 1999, at 8pm, MPT presented a television segment entitled Maryland Sate of Mind. It highlights HCIL Professor Allison Druin's work with children.

• An article about the work of HCIL Professors Allison Druin and Ben Bederson about their work with children appeared in the Baltimore Sun on Monday, December 21, 1998.
• The Chronicle of Higher Education on April 4th, 1997,
  "New Ways of Organizing Data Could Change Nature of Computers" (HTML)
  by Jeffrey R. Young

• Nov'Art in February, 1997, a French Magazine sponsored by Art3000, a society devoted to integration of technology and art.

• The New York Times Online (CyberTimes) on October 23rd, 1996,
  "Seeing the Forest of Knowledge for the Trees of Data" (HTML)
  by Ashley Dunn

• The X Advisor, June 1995,
  "Peripheral Visions: Zooming Through Information Space on Pad++" by Gary Welz
  Postscript (256K), PDF (141K)