Jefferson Han
Jefferson Y. "Jeff" Han (born 1975) is a computer scientist who worked for New York University's (NYU) Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences until 2006. He is one of the main developers of "multi-touch sensing", which, unlike older touch-screen interfaces, is able to recognize multiple points of contact.
Han also works on other projects in the fields of autonomous robot navigation, motion capture, real-time computer graphics, and human-computer interaction.
Career
[edit]He presented his multi-touch sensing work in February 2006 at the TED (Technology Entertainment Design) Conference in Monterey, California. TED released the video online six months later and it spread quickly on YouTube.[1]
Han founded a company called Perceptive Pixel to develop his touch screen technology further, and he has already shipped touch screens to parts of the military.[2] Han's technology has been featured most notably as the "Magic Wall" on CNN's Election Center coverage.[3] Han's company was acquired by Microsoft in 2012, where he became Partner General Manager of Perceptive Pixel (later Surface Hub). Han left Microsoft in late 2015, shortly before Surface Hub's launch.[4]
Personal life
[edit]He is the son of middle-class Korean immigrants who emigrated to the United States in the 1970s.
Education
[edit]Han graduated from The Dalton School in New York in 1993 and studied computer science and electrical engineering for three years at Cornell University before leaving to join a start-up company to commercialize the CU-SeeMe video-conferencing software that he helped develop while an undergraduate at Cornell.[2]
Honors
[edit]Han was named to Time magazine's 2008 listing of the "100 Most Influential People in The World".[5]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Jeff Han on TED Talks on YouTube
- ^ a b Can't Touch This Archived 2007-08-25 at the Wayback Machine Fast Company, February 2007
- ^ "CNN clarifies complex caucus cavalcade with new 'Magic Wall'". BroadcastEngineering. January 4, 2008. Archived from the original on February 21, 2008. Retrieved 2008-03-03.
- ^ "Microsoft Surface Hub chief, Holoportation researchers leave to form stealth startup". ZDNet. Retrieved 2016-12-14.
- ^ "Jeff Han – The 2008 TIME 100 – TIME". Time. 2009-04-30. Archived from the original on May 3, 2008. Retrieved 2010-05-06.
External links
[edit]- Jeff Han's Multitouch Demo (II) (2007Mar21)
- Jeff Han: A year later (Wired Magazine)
- Jeff Han demonstrating multi-touch interface on big screen
- Jeff Han's 10 min Talk at TED Conference (2006) Monterey, CA
- Jeff Han homepage at NYU
- Specific Multi-Touch Sensing work – includes video
- Transcript of a presentation delivered at ETech on 7 March 2006
- Presentation over YouTube
- Perceptive Pixel Archived 2013-05-27 at the Wayback Machine
- The Untold Story of Microsoft's Surface Hub
- Jeff Han at TED
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