Dear CHI Colleagues, I pleased to let you know that Ben Shneiderman will receive an Honorary Doctorate of Science from Stony Brook University on May 21, 2015. http://sb.cc.stonybrook.edu/news/general/2015-04-20-stony-brook-universitys-honorary-degrees.php This honor will help make CHI and information visualization research more widely known. The University of Maryland prepared a 2-minute video announcement https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fM-bA4RRn44&feature=youtu.be * UMIACS Announcement < http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/about-us/news/shneiderman-receive-honorary-doctorate-stony-brook-university > * Newsday article < http://www.newsday.com/long-island/suffolk/billy-joel-charles-wang-ben-shneiderman-to-get-honorary-degrees-from-stony-brook-university-1.10304902 > Sincerely Catherine Plaisant Senior Research Scientist Human-Computer Interaction Lab University of Maryland http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/members/cplaisant --------------------------------------------------------------- For news of CHI books, courses & software, join CHI-RESOURCES mailto: [log in to unmask] To unsubscribe from CHI-ANNOUNCEMENTS send an email to mailto:[log in to unmask] For further details of CHI lists see http://listserv.acm.org ---------------------------------------------------------------