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Aaron Marcus
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Aaron Marcus

American computer interface designer (born 1943)

Aaron Marcus (born 22 May 1943) is an American user-interface and information-visualization designer, and a computer graphics artist.2

From Wikipedia’s article on Aaron Marcus (this version), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Born May 22, 1943.1

Companies

Early life and education

  • Date not recordedYale University3
  • Date not recordedPrinceton University3
  • Date not recordedOmaha Central High School3

Career

Occupation: businessperson, designer, graphic designer, computer scientist, graphic artist.5

In 1967, Marcus spent a summer making ASCII art as a researcher at AT&T’s Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey.

From 1968 to 1977, Marcus taught at Princeton University in the School of Architecture and Urban Planning and in the Visual Arts Program.

In 1969-1971, he programmed a prototype desktop publishing page-layout application for AT&T Bell Labs, and in 1971-1973, while a faculty member at Princeton, he claims to have programmed some of the first virtual reality art/design spaces.

In the early 1980s, he was a staff scientist at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory in Berkeley, as well as a faculty member of the University of California at Berkeley’s College of Environmental Design.

In 1982, he founded Aaron Marcus and Associates, Inc. (AM+A), a user-interface design and consulting company, one of the first such independent, computer-based design firms.

From Wikipedia’s article on Aaron Marcus (this version), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Personal life

  • BornMay 22, 1943, Omaha6
  • CitizenshipUnited States7

Awards

  • 2011ACM Distinguished Member8 10
  • 2009CHI Academy8
  • 1994Bristol-Myers Squibb Award for Distinguished Achievement in Cardiovascular Research8 9

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