Kevin Schofield
General Manager, Strategy and Communications
Microsoft Research
Microsoft Corp.

Kevin Schofield is general manager for Strategy and Communications at Microsoft Research. His organization drives consensus on technical strategy and priorities for Microsoft Corp.’s research efforts. He is also responsible for developing Microsoft Research’s relationships with customers, members of the press, analysts and Microsoft’s own product groups. Schofield joined Microsoft in 1988 and has worked in Microsoft Research since 1997. Over the course of his tenure at Microsoft, he worked in both development and program management for a number of Microsoft product efforts, including networking, operating systems, MSN and multimedia authoring tools.

Schofield has been deeply involved with the Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) research field for a number of years. He has been involved for many years with the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction (SIGCHI), and previously served as chair of SIGCHI and co-chair of the “CHI 96” Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. He serves on the advisory board of the Computer Science Teachers Association (CSTA), the board of directors of the Friends of the University of Washington Libraries, the development advisory board of the University of Washington Friday Harbor Laboratories, and the leadership council of the Princeton University School of Engineering and Applied Science. He is the co-author of three issued patents and several pending ones.

Schofield is a magna cum laude graduate of Dartmouth College with a bachelor’s degree in computer science. He lives in Washington state with his two daughters. He also writes a blog that can be found at http://kschofield.spaces.live.com.