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http://research.microsoft.com/~sdrucker

Phone: 425-643-4408

Mobile: 425-999-9871

Summary
20+ year career in computer research and development focusing on graphics, interfaces, and information visualization. Developed prototypes, products and websites; managed several groups; published over 50 papers; and filed over 120 patents.

Education

Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Media Laboratory, 9/89-6/94
Ph.D. in Arts and Media Technology: advisor Professor David Zeltzer. Committee: Dr. Alex Pentland, Dr. Pattie Maes, and Glorianna Davenport.
Thesis title: Intelligent Camera Control for Graphical Environments. Research topics: virtual environments, graphical simulations, human-computer interaction, telerobotics, and parallel computer graphics algorithms.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, 9/86-6/89
M.S. in Brain and Cognitive Sciences. Research topics: machine learning, robot juggling, the Utah-MIT dexterous four-fingered robotic hand, tactile sensing systems, human hand capabilities, and real time vision systems.GPA: 5.0/5.0.
Brown University, 9/81-6/84
Graduated Magna Cum Laude with Honors, Sc.B. in Department of Neural Sciences.

Employment

Microsoft Research, Principal Researcher, Manager of the Visual User Experience (VUE) Group, 10/10 - present Managing a group of researchers and developers working on information visualization.
Microsoft Research, Principal Researcher, Member of the vXTeam, 04/08 - 10/10 Worked on information visualization and scalable computational systems and displays.
Microsoft LiveLabs Research, Senior Scientist, 4/06-present
Leading a group investigating user interface, information visualization, and graphics. Produced a web-site ‘Thumbtack’ for collecting, organizing, and sharing information on the web.
Microsoft Next Media Group, Microsoft Research, Senior Researcher, 10/99-3/06
Researched novel interaction in media and information visualization Demonstrated UI research prototypes with Bill Gates at CES 2002.
Microsoft Virtual Worlds Group, Microsoft Research, Lead-researcher, 6/95-9/99
Directed research efforts in social computing and virtual environments. Delivered V-Chat and V-Worlds programs for graphical, social enviornments.
Interzone Inc., Co-founder 6/94 to 5/95
Designed and implementing early wine purchase system over the World Wide Web.
Medical Media Systems, Consultant 6/93 to 3/95
User Interface design and graphics systems programming for Medical Computer Graphics company.
MIT Media Laboratory, Teaching Assistant, 9/89 to 6/94
Teaching Assistant and Research Assistant in Computer Graphics and Animation.
NHK Japan Broadcasting, Tokyo, Consultant, 1/93
Consultant. Installed and taught an experimental 3D graphics system and interfaced with 3D input device.
Thinking Machines Corporation, Summer Intern 6/91, 6/92
Developed algorithms for massively parallel linedrawing, raytracing, and radiosity..
MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Research Assistant 9/86 to 6/89
Developed learning algorithms for controlling a juggling robot.
Institute for Information and Scholarship - Brown University, Full-time Employee, 9/84 to 8/86 Developed prototype Hypertext system and implemented framework layer of Intermedia, a hypermedia system. Development platforms included UNIX 4.2 BSD on Sun Workstations, IBM PC/RTs and Apple Macintoshes.
Neural Science Department - Brown University , Research Assistant 9/82 to 6/84
Research Assistant in Neural Science Lab. Led to eventual honors work in plasticity in cat visual system and motion gated visual environments.
Gould Laboratory , Brown University, Technical Support Staff Leader, 9/82 to 6/84
Leader of group of students assigned to diagnose and correct problems related to the experimental classroom of networked Apollo Workstations.
Computer Science Department , Brown University, Research Assistant, 6/82 to 9/82
Implemented three-dimensional model of the human brain, later used in introductory neuroscience class.

Skills/Interests

Programming Languages/Environments: C,C++,C#, Python, Javascript, Lisp, Scheme, DirectX, OpenGL
Applications: Photoshop, Illustrator, Premier, After Effects, R, Matlab, Processing
Information Visualization, UI design, UI testing, Information Exploration

Press

Beauty and the Beastly PC: Microsoft discovers that software should be—surprise!—a thing of beauty. Steven Johnson, Discover Magazine, Vol. 25, No. 4, May, 2004.
Imagining a digital future: Passion for science drives research to open new Windows, Jim Jamieson, The Province, April 4, 2004.
Navigating Home Networks, Michel Marriott, New York Times, February 19, 2004.
Gates previews 'amazing decade.' Wired Magazine, January 8, 2004.
CES Keynote Speech With Bill Gates, (towards the end of transcript) CES, January, 2004.
StepMail/StepPhoto (Ars Electronica, 3/1/2006)
Spectator: Microsoft 5000th Patent (XGP Gaming, 3/2006)
At home with Microsoft Research (ITBusiness.ca, Interview 4/13/2006)

Invited Presentations

Georgia Tech (Atlanta, GA)
SFU (Vancouver, BC)
PARC (Palo Alto, California)
USC (LA, Calilfornia)
CMU (Pittsburgh, PA)
E3 (Electronic Entertainment Exposition) “Educational Game Technology”
GDC (Game Developer Conference) “MSR Graphics and Game”
Microsoft Faculty Summit
Microsoft South American Faculty Summit
MIT CSAIL, Media Laboratory (Cambridge, MA)
Keynote demo, Bill Gates Presentation Consumer Electronics Show
Keynote demo, Bill Gates, MGB
Berkeley, (Berkeley, CA)
Kunsthochshule für Medien(Cologne, Germany)
GMD (Bonn, Germany)
NACB (Providence, RI)
NHK (Japan)
Dartmouth University (NH)
MERL (Cambridge, MA.)

Making Tools for Making Games, Presented at Education Arcade, E3, May, 2004.
Creating Novel Experiences for interacting with media, Presented at Strategy Day, November, 2004
Information Overload meets Information Visualization: Building user interfaces to deal with too much information, MIT, 2006.
Dealing with your Digital ‘Stuff’: Lessons from Information Visualization for Interacting with collections. Georgia Tech, SFU, 2012.

Reviews and Committees

iCampus Joint Steering Committee (Microsoft-MIT Educational Technology Grant)
Graphics Interface Program Committee
SIGCHI Program Committee
ISWC (International Semantic Web Conference Program Committee)
WWW Conference, Program Committee
Communications of the ACM, Guest Editor
SIGGRAPH, SIGCHI, UIST, SIGCHI, TOG reviewer

Publication List

Helping Users Sort Faster with Adaptive Machine Learning Recommendations,, Steven M. Drucker, Danyel Fisher, and Sumit Basu, in Proceedings of Interact 2011, Springer, September 2011
Assisting Users with Clustering Tasks by Combining Metric Learning and Classification , Sumit Basu, Danyel Fisher, Steven M. Drucker, and Hao Lu,, in Proceedings of the Twenty-Fourth Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2010), American Association for Artificial Intelligence , July 2010
Prospect: Using Multiple Models to Understand Data, Patel, K, S.M.Drucker, J. Fogarty, A. Kapoor, D.S.Tan, , Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2011)
Visualizations Everywhere: A Multiplatform Infrastructure for Linked Visualizations ,Danyel Fisher, Steven Drucker, Roland Fernandez, and Scott Ruble, , in Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, IEEE, Salt Lake City, UT, November 2010
Gestalt: Integrated Support for Implementation and Analysis in Machine Learning, Patel, K, N. Bancroft, S.M.Drucker, J. Fogarty, A. Ko, J.Landay, , UIST, New York, NY, 2010.
Visual Snippets: Summarizing Web Pages for Search and Revisitation,,Teevan, J. Cutrell, E., Fisher, D., Drucker, S.M., Ramos, G., Andre, P., Hu, C., SIGCHI, Boston, MA, 2009.
Exploring Websites through Contextual Facets, Medynskiy, Y., Dontcheva, M. Drucker, S.M, SIGCHI 2009.
Attaching UI Enhancements to Websites with End Users, Toomim, M., Drucker, S.M., Dontcheva, M., Rahimi, A., Thomson, B., Landay, J.A., SIGCHI 2009.
Annotating Gigapixel Images , Luan, Q, Drucker, S.M., Kopf, J., Xu, Y, Cohen, M.F, UIST 2008
Pixaura: Supporting Tentative Decision Making when Selecting and Sharing Digital Photos , Elgart, Kamppari, Lewis, Prasad, Rhee, Satpathy, Drucker, HCI 2008
Relations, Cards, and Search Templates: User-guided Web Data Integration and Layout,, Dontcheva, M, Drucker, S.M., Cohen, M., Salesin, D. UIST, 2007
Comparing and managing multiple versions of slide presentations. Drucker, S.M. , Petschnigg, G., and Agrawala, M. 2006. In Proceedings of the 19th Annual ACM Symposium on User interface Software and Technology (Montreux, Switzerland, October 15 - 18, 2006). UIST '06. ACM Press, New York, NY.
Summarizing personal web browsing sessions. Dontcheva, M., Drucker, S.M., Wade, G., Salesin, D., and Cohen, M. F. 2006.. In Proceedings of the 19th Annual ACM Symposium on User interface Software and Technology (Montreux, Switzerland, October 15 - 18, 2006). UIST '06. ACM Press, New York, NY, 115-124.
The Cartoon Animation Filter, Jue Wang, Drucker, S.M. Agrawala, M., and Cohen, M.F, ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 2006), July 2006
Thumbnails: Using Spatial Memory to Navigate Source Code. DeLine, R., M. Czerwinski, B. Meyers, G. Venolia, S.M. Drucker, and G. Robertson. Proc. VL/HCC 2006
Introduction. Communications of the ACM . White, R. W., Kules, B., Drucker, S.M. and schraefel, m. 2006. 49, 4 (Apr. 2006), 36-39.
Find that photo!: interface strategies to annotate, browse, and share. Shneiderman, B., Bederson, B. and Drucker, S.M. 2006 Commun. ACM 49, 4 (Apr. 2006), 69-71.
Dance your work away: exploring step user interfaces. Meyers, B., Brush, A. B., Drucker, S.M., Smith, M. A., and Czerwinski, M. 2006. In CHI '06 Human Factors in Computing Systems (Montréal, Québec, Canada, April 22 - 27, 2006). CHI '06. ACM Press, New York, NY, 387-392.
The visual decision maker: a recommendation system for collocated users. Drucker, S.M, Regan, T., Roseway, A., and Lofstrom. M, , DUX 2005.
v4v: a View for the Viewer, Dontcheva M., Drucker, S.M., and Cohen M, Proceedings DUX 2005.
Time Quilt: Scaling up Zoomable Photo Browsers for Large, Unstructured Photo Collections. Huynh, D., Drucker, S.M., Baudisch, P., and Wong, C. CHI 2005. Portland, OR. Apr. 2005
Interactive Digital Photomontage. Aseem Agarwala, Mira Dontcheva, Maneesh Agrawala, Drucker, S.M, Alex Colburn, Brian Curless, David Salesin,and Michael CohenACM Transactions on Graphics (Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 2004), 2004.
MediaBrowser: Reclaiming the Shoebox. Drucker, S.M., C. Wong, A. Roseway, S. Glenner, S. De Mar, in Proceedings of AVI2004, Gallipoli, Italy, 2004.
Toward universal mobile interaction for shared displays, T. Paek, M. Agrawala, S. Basu, S. Drucker, T. Kristjansson, R. Logan, K. Toyama & A. Wilson.. Proceedings of CSCW 2004, 2004, pp. 266-269.
Photo-triage: Rapidly annotating your digital photographs. Drucker, S.M., C. Wong, A. Roseway, S. Glenner, S. De MarMSR Tech Report.
Spectator Games: Drucker, S.M, Li-wei He, Michael Cohen, Curtis Wong, and Anoop Gupta, A New Entertainment Modality for Networked Multiplayer Games, 2003.
MyLifeBits: Fulfilling the Memex Vision. Gemmell, J. G. Bell, R. Lueder, Drucker, S.M., C. Wong. ACM Multimedia, 02, France. 2002
SmartSkip: Consumer level browsing and skipping of digital video content Drucker, S.M., Glatzer, A., De Mar, S and Wong, C. . In Proceedings of CHI 2002, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 2002
Graphical Enhancement For Voice Only Conference Calls. Alex Colburn, Michael F. Cohen, Steven M. Drucker, Scott Lee-Tiernan, Anoop Gupta, MSR-TR-2001-95, 2001.
The Role of Eye Gaze in Avatar Mediated Conversational Interfaces. Alex Colburn, Michael F. Cohen, Steven M. Drucker, MSR-TR-2000-81, July, 2000
The Effect of Communication Modality on Cooperation in Online Environments. Jensen, C., Farnham, S., Drucker, S.M., & Kollock, P. In Proceedings of CHI 2000, The Hague, Netherlands March 2000.
The Social Life of Small Graphical Chat Spaces Smith, M., and Farnham, S, and Drucker, S.M. In Proceedings of CHI 2000, The Hague, Netherlands March 2000.
Visualizations of Collaborative Information for End-Users Rebecca Xiong, Marc A. Smith, and Drucker, S.M. Internal Report, 1999.
The Effect of Communication Modality on Cooperation in Online Environments, Carlos Jensen, Shelly D. Farnham, Drucker, S.M. and Peter Kollock, , Microsoft TR99-75
The Commons: A Toolkit for the Quantitative Analysis of Factors in the Success or Failure of Electronic Societies . Joshua Berman, Drucker, S.M., and Peter Kollock, Internal Report, 1999.
The Commons: A Toolkit for the Quantitative Analysis of Trust and Cooperation in Online Environments Drucker, S.M., Joshua Berman, Peter Kollock, , Internal Report, 1999.
Moving from MOOs to Multi-user Applications, Drucker, S.M., Internal Report, 1999.
Chat as a Streaming Media Data Type, David Vronay, and Marc Smith, Steven M. Drucker, Proc. of UIST 1999.
The Architecture of a Distributed Virtual Worlds System, Vellon, M. K. Marple,, D. Mitchell and S.M. Drucker, 4th Conference on Object-Oriented Technologies and Systems (COOTS) 1998.
Intelligent Camera Control for Graphical Environments Drucker, S.M, PhD Thesis, MIT Media Lab. 1994.
CamDroid: A System for Intelligent Camera Control. Drucker, S.M and Zeltzer, D. SIGGRAPH Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics, 1995.
Intelligent Camera Control in a Virtual Environment Drucker, S.M. and Zeltzer, D Graphics Interface '94.
CINEMA: A System for Procedural Camera Movements. Drucker, S.M. and Galyean, T.A., and Zeltzer, D. SIGGRAPH Symposium on 3D Interaction. Cambridge, MA. 1992.
A Virtual Environment System for Mission Planning. Drucker, S.M. and Zeltzer, D. Proc. 1992 IMAGE VI Conference. Phoenix, AZ. 1992.
Fast Radiosity:A Data Parallel Approach Drucker, S.M and Schroeder, P.. 3rd Workshop on Photorealistic Rendering, Bristol, U.K. 1992.
Data Parallel Raytracing Schroeder, P. and Drucker, S.M., Graphics Interface '92. Vancouver, B.C. 1992.
Radiosity: An Illuminating Perspective. Drucker, S.M, General Exam Summation. MIT Media Laboratory. 92.
Task Level Learning on a Complex Task", Drucker, S.M, Master's Thesis, MIT AI Lab, 1989.
Task Level Learning on a Juggling Task Aboaf, E, Drucker, S.M. and Atkeson, C.G.IEEE Robotics Conference. Scottsdale, AZ. 1989.
"Texture from Touch", Drucker, S.M. in Natural Computation, Ed. Whitman Richards. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1988.
Connections in Context: the Intermedia Systems Yankelovich, N, Haan, B.J. and Drucker, S.M. International Conference on Systems Sciences, Vol. 2 pp. 715-724, January: 1988.
INTERMEDIA: The Concept and Construction of a Seamless Environment Yankelovich, N, Haan, B.J., Meyrowitz, N. and Drucker, S.M., IEEE Computer, January: 1988.
Quantification of Precision Grasp Capabilities. Drucker, S.M. and Hollerbach, J.M., in Humans. Society of Neurosciences Abstracts. New Orleans, LA. 1987.
Performance Analysis of a Tactile Sensor. Siegel, D.M., Drucker, S.M.and Garabieta.,. IEEE Robotics Conference. 1987

Issued Patents (63 issued out of 125 filed as of March 12, 2012)

Final Application Title	Date Filed	Granted Date	Patent Number
User-created Trade Cards	12/21/2007	3/22/2011	7909238
Accounting For Behavioral Variability In Web Search	9/26/2007	6/22/2010	7743047
Automatic Configuration of Devices Based on Biometric Data	6/25/2007	9/27/2011	8027518
Face Recognition Using Discriminatively Trained Orthogonal Tensor Projections	6/15/2007	5/3/2011	7936906
Image Organization Based on Image Content	3/15/2007	9/27/2011	8027541
Persistent Spatial Collaboration	2/27/2007	12/14/2010	7853886
Persistent Collaborative Framework for Interactive Web Applications	1/6/2007	11/24/2009	7624145
Dynamic Thumbnails For Document Navigation	10/27/2006	6/15/2010	7739622
Media Variations Browser	10/10/2006	8/3/2010	7769832
Relationship View	10/2/2006	3/30/2010	7689525
Transportable Identifier and System and Method to Facilitate Access to Broadcast Data	8/11/2006	7/15/2008	7401121
User Interface and Method to Facilitate Hierarchical Specification of Queries Using an Information Taxonomy	4/7/2006	7/1/2008	7395511
Media Frame Object Visualization System	3/20/2006	2/2/2010	7657845
Spectator Experience for Network Gaming	12/19/2005	11/4/2008	7446772
A Foot-Based Interface for Interacting with a Computer	2/8/2006	11/9/2010	7830359
High Density Visualizations for Threaded Information	1/13/2006	10/6/2009	7600184
View Dependent Tiled Textures	11/10/2005	9/18/2007	7271811
Shared Object Stores for a Networked Computer System	9/29/2005	10/5/2010	7809798
Flow Computing	5/9/2005	8/10/2010	7774299
Digital Image Browser	3/31/2005	5/25/2010	7725837
Automatic Layout of Items Along an Embedded One-Manifold Path	3/21/2005	5/4/2010	7710423
A Presentation Viewing Tool Designed For The Viewer	2/15/2005	6/3/2008	7383495
Media Authoring and Presentation	12/10/2004	7/13/2010	7757171
Media Authoring and Presentation	12/10/2004	5/25/2010	7725829
Manipulating Association of a Data with a Physical Object	11/22/2004	4/15/2008	7358962
Rapid Visual Sorting of Digital Files and Data	7/17/2004	10/14/2008	7437005
Using a Physical Object to Control an Attribute of an Interactive Display Application	6/30/2004	5/27/2008	7379047
Using Physical Objects to Adjust Attributes of an Interactive Display Application	6/30/2004	6/22/2010	7743348
Mediacube	6/17/2004	1/30/2007	7168813
Selectable Projector and Imaging Modes of Display Table	5/4/2004	11/14/2006	7134756
System and Method for Content Retrieval	4/21/2004	3/30/2010	7689589
Interactive Media Frame Display	7/1/2003	6/15/2010	7739597
A System And Process For Controlling A Shared Display Given Inputs From Multiple Users Using Multiple Input Modalities	1/15/2004	11/25/2008	7458029
A System And Method For Image Editing Using An Image Stack	8/4/2003	4/14/2009	7519907
Relationship View	4/22/2003	10/10/2006	7120619
Random Access Editing Of Media	1/21/2003	6/3/2008	7383497
Rapid Media Group Annotation	1/21/2003	3/8/2011	7904797
Selection Bins	1/21/2003	3/24/2009	7509321
Media Frame Object Visualization System	1/21/2003	10/3/2006	7117453
Media Variations Browser	6/18/2002	3/20/2007	7194527
User Interface and Method to Facilitate Hierarchical Specification of Queries Using an Information Taxonomy	5/8/2002	12/12/2006	7149983
Media Authoring and Presentation	1/23/2002	6/15/2010	7739601
A Media Browsing System Displaying Thumbnails Images Based on Preferences of Pluraity of Users and Placing the Thumbnails Image at a Scene Change	1/23/2002	7/31/2007	7251790
System and Method to Provide a Spectator Experience for Network Gaming	8/22/2001	2/14/2006	6999083
Shared Object Stores for a Networked Computer System	8/24/2010	2/7/2012	8112492
User Interface and Method to Facilitate Hierarchical Specification of Queries Using an Information Taxonomy	6/30/2008	1/5/2010	7644371
Manipulating Association of Data with a Physical Object	4/14/2008	1/20/2009	7479950
Transportable Identifier and System and Method to Facilitate Access to Broadcast Data	6/28/2001	8/29/2006	7099952
Shared and Private Object Stores for a Networked Computer Application Communication Environment	10/30/2000	9/19/2006	7111037
System and Method for Content Retrieval	9/7/2000	6/8/2004	6748375
System and Method for Identifying Audio/Visual Programs to b e Recorded	8/29/2000	7/12/2011	7979881
System and Method to Facilitate Selection and Programming of an Associated Audio/Visual System	8/29/2000	11/22/2005	6968364
System and Method for Providing Program Criteria Representing Audio and/or Visual Programming	8/29/2000	3/2/2010	7673315
Improved Visualizations for Collaborative Information	9/9/1999	7/15/2003	6594673
Social Dilemma Software for Evaluating Online Interactive Societies	9/9/1999	12/7/2004	6829569
High Density Visualizations for Threaded Information	9/9/1999	2/28/2006	7007226
View Dependent Tiled Textures	11/18/1998	7/4/2006	7071949
Dynamic Inheritance Of Software Object Services	2/24/1998	4/3/2001	6212436
Distributed Object Oriented Multi-User Domain with Multimedi a Presentations	2/24/1998	12/26/2000	6166732
Software Object Security Mechanism	2/24/1998	1/9/2001	6173404
Virtual Environment Bystander Updating in Client Server Arch itecture	2/24/1998	2/19/2002	6349301
Compression of Graphic Data Normals	3/19/1996	4/7/1998	5736987