Ted’s Bio

Ted’s innovation has been written about in publications from Wall street journal to Information week and presented on Good morning America, CNN, ABC, CBC BBC etc.

He has spent half his career in industry for example becoming an IBM Fellow and the other half in academia as a professor or consulting professor MIT, CMU, Stanford, and others. His innovation is responsible for profitable and award winning products ranging from notebook computers to operating systems. For example, his design of the TrackPoint in-keyboard pointing device is used in many notebook computers. His visualization and visual interface work has made impacts in the performance of the PowerPC, usability in OS/2, ThinkPad setup, Google maps, etc.

His adaptive help system has been the basis of products as well. Ted’s work has resulted in numerous awards, patents, and papers. Ted was co-recipient of the Computer Science Policy Leader Award for Scientific American 50 in 2004, the American Association for People with Disabilities Thomas Paine Award for his work on voting technology in 2006 and the Telluride Tech fest award in 2008.

Ted consults and has been a speaker on innovation, product design and user experience at hundreds of venues from universities and scientific conferences to corporate events.