Scott Hudson (computer scientist)
{{short description|American computer scientist}}
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| field = Human-Computer Interaction
| work_institutions = Carnegie Mellon University
| alma_mater = University of Colorado (PhD)
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Scott E. Hudson is a professor in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University.
Career
Hudson was previously an associate professor in the College of Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology, and prior to that, an assistant professor of computer science at the University of Arizona. He earned his Ph.D. in computer science at the University of Colorado in 1986.
He regularly serves on the ACM SIGCHI and UIST conference program committees. He is also a founding associate editor for ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction. Hudson was the first and founding director of the PhD program in Human-Computer Interaction at Carnegie Mellon University.
Research
Hudson has published over 150 papers and is the 17th most prolific author in the field.[http://www.hcibib.org/authors.html] "HCI Bibliography: Most Frequent Authors. URL retrieved 21 April 2008.[http://portal.acm.org/author_page.cfm?id=81328488846] "ACM Author Page: Scott E. Hudson. URL retrieved 22 April 2008. He is the most published author at the ACM UIST conference.{{Cite web|url = http://dl.acm.org/event.cfm?id=RE172|title = Event: UIST|website = dl.acm.org|access-date = 2016-03-21}}
Along with Robert Xiao and Chris Harrison, colleagues at CMU, he developed Lumitrack, a motion tracking technology which is currently used in video game controllers and in the film industry.{{Cite web|url=http://www.cmu.edu/news/stories/archives/2013/october/oct7_motiontracking.html|title=Press Release: Carnegie Mellon-Disney Motion Tracking Technology Is Extremely Precise and Inexpensive With Minimal Lag - News - Carnegie Mellon University|last=University|first=Carnegie Mellon|date=|website=www.cmu.edu|language=en|access-date=2019-10-23}}
Recognition
Hudson was elected to the CHI Academy in 2006. He was named as an ACM Fellow, in the 2024 class of fellows, "for contributions in user interface software, interactive devices, and computational fabrication applied to HCI".{{cite web|url=https://www.acm.org/media-center/2025/january/fellows-2024|title= 2024 ACM Fellows Honored for Contributions to Computing That Are Transforming Science and Society|publisher=Association for Computing Machinery|date=January 22, 2025|access-date=2025-01-22}}
References
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External links
- [https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~hudson Scott Hudson's website]
- [http://www.hcii.cmu.edu/ Human-Computer Interaction Institute]
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Category:American computer scientists
Category:Human–computer interaction researchers
Category:Human-Computer Interaction Institute faculty
Category:University of Arizona faculty
Category:University of Colorado Boulder alumni
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Category:2024 fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery