EDUCATION

• A.B. summa cum laude, Psychology, 1974. Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
• Ph.D., Psychology, 1980. Stanford University, Stanford, California.
• Other Course work:
• Artificial Intelligence (N.Nilsson, SRI), 40-hour course, June 1982
• Databases (P.Bernstein, Harvard), BTL 40-hour course, Jan 5-11 1983

• Elected to the ACM CHI Academy, 2004
  
• Distinguished Member of Technical Staff Award, Bell Communications Research, 1988
• Danforth Fellow (1975-1980)
• NSF Graduate Fellowship (1975-1979)
• Harry Frederick Sheldon Fellow (1974-1975)
• Phi Beta Kappa (early award), 1973.
• National Merit Scholar, 1970-1974.
• Also:
• Vannevar Bush Award finalist for Best Paper, DL98
• Shneiderman Award for CHI paper with most impact in the period 1986-1998. (4/21/98)
• HyTech Hypertext Technology Award, for Effective View Navigation paper (2/24/98)

GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS

• “ITR: Collaborative Augmentation of Knowledge Production” (PI/Proj Dir) NSF-IIS-0345347  Sept 2003 - Aug 2007, Co-PIs: Mark Ackerman and Barbara Mirel, $1.1M
  
• CARAT/Rackham “Information Gathering and Sensemaking Supporting Workspace for Online Humanities Resources”, (Proj Dir) Sept 2003-Aug 2004, with Y.Qu $30,703
  "Enriching Interaction Space with Densely Graphical Computation (Intel)" (Proj Dir) Nov 1998 - Oct 2001, $175K Intel Corp.
• "Enriching Interaction Space with Densely Graphical Computation (NSF IIS-9877170)" (Proj Dir) May 1999 - April 2003, $400K, funded by NSF
• "Multiscale Collaborative 3D Virtual Worlds" (Proj Dir) Oct 1998-Sept 2001 $100K Microsoft Research
• "UMDL: University of Michigan Digital Library Project" (funded by NSF/ARPA/NASA - 1R1-9411287)  9/1/1994-8/31/2000, $4M,   Co-PI, head of Advanced User Interface Group.
• "Beyond Imitation: A strategy for building a new generation of HCI design environments". ARPA grant, 1994-1997 joint with Ken Perlin of New York University and Jim Hollan (PI), University of New Mexico. $3M for 3 yrs.
• Sloane Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Center for Cognitive Science, University of Texas at Austin. 10/83-6/84. (On leave from Bell Labs)

ASSOCIATION MEMBERSHIPS

• Association for Computing Machinery: SIGART (Artificial Intelligence), SIGCHI (Computer / Human Interaction), SIGIR (Information Retrieval), SIGGRAPH (Graphics)
• Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers: IEEE Computer Society 
• Classification Society of North America: Board of Directors, 1985-1987, Secretary/Treasurer, 1982-1985

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

• Associate Dean for Academic Strategy, School of Information, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 (7/02-Present)
•  Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 (7/95-Present)
• Professor, School of Information, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 (7/95-Present)
• Professor of Psychology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 (2002-present)

• Director (11/93 -- 6/95)
• Computer Graphics and Interactive Media Research
• Acting Director, Cognitive Science Research Group
Bell Communications Research, Morristown, New Jersey 07960

At School of Information, University of Michigan (since 7/95):

• Search and Retrieval (SI503) SI Foundations required course for master students presenting an integrated perspective on generalized search and retrieval in: IR, Human cognition, organizations, AI, design space,... School of Information, University of Michigan, W1998(w/AWarner), W1999(w/AWarner), W2000, W2001, W2003
• Information Visualization (SI 649) F1998. F1999, F2000.
• Design in the Mosaic of Responsive Adaptive Systems (MoRAS) (SI888 - Doc.Sem.; SI611 - Masters Seminar) F1998(SI888), F1999(SI611), F2000(SI888), F2002(SI888),F2003(SI619)
• The Future of Organization in the Age of Information (SI 611 - w/M. Cohen) W1997.
• Human Computer Interaction Software Project Lab (SI 613/ EECS 598-6) W1996, F1997.
• Future Visions of the Information Age (SILS 606) W1996.
• Information Visualization (SI 888 - Doc. Sem) F1995, F1996, F1997.

• "Multivariate Statistics: Multidimensional Scaling, Clustering and Factor Analysis," (One Semester Graduate Seminar) Princeton Psychology Department, Spring Semester 1983.
• "Multidimensional Scaling, Clustering and Factor Analysis," Stevens Technical Institute Co-taught with J.D. Carroll, J. P. Kruskal, J. E. Corter. Spring Semester, 1985.
• Various workshops and seminars on "Fisheye Views," and "Multidimensional scaling and related techniques in the analysis of proximity data", at Bell Labs, MCC, University of Texas.

Human Computer Interaction (HCI), Visualization, Statistical Graphics, Analysis of Structure in Proximity Data (Multidimensional Scaling, Clustering, etc.), Statistical Methods, Mathematical Psychology, Human Computer Interaction for Information Systems, Graphical Reasoning, Search and Retrieval

GENERAL RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Pixel Rewrite Systems, Interactive Pixel Rewrite Systems
• Human Computer Interaction: Information visualization, Information access - search and navigation, Strategies for dealing with size and complexity, Advanced graphical interfaces
• General frameworks for understanding and designing the nexus of information, technology and social systems.
• Dense graphical representations and their use in reasoning and HCI
• High Dimensional Statistical Graphics
• Proximity Scaling: Hierarchical clustering and tree representations, Metrics, Theory of similarity

• Zhang, X. & Furnas, G. W.: mCVEs: Using Cross-Scale Collaboration To Support User Interaction With Multiscale Structures. In PRESENCE: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments. Vol. 14, no. 1, Special issues on Collaborative Information Visualization Environments (Forthcoming in February 2005)
• Furnas, George W. and Qu, Yan, Using Pixel Rewrites for Shape-Rich Interaction, Proceedings of  the Human Factors in Computing Systems CHI2003 Conference, New York: ACM, 2003, 369-376. 
• Zhang, Xiaolong and Furnas, George W., The effectiveness of multiscale collaboration in virtual environments. Proceedings of  the Human Factors in Computing Systems CHI2003 Conference, New York: ACM, 2003, 790-791. 
  
• Zhang, Xiaolong and Furnas, George W., Social Interactions in Multiscale CVEs,  Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Collaborative Virtual Environments 2002 (CVE'02), Bonn, Germany, September 30 - October 2, 2002, 31-38
  
• Furnas, George W. and Qu, Yan,  Shape Manipulation using Pixel Rewrites, (at Visual Computation 2002) in Proceedings of the Distributed Multimedia Systems 2002, San Francisco, CA, Sept 26-29, 2002, 630-639.
  
• Furnas, George W., "Design in the MoRAS", Chapter 3 in Human Computer Interaction in the New Millennium, John M. Carroll (Ed.), Addison-Wesley. 2001, 53-73
  
• Furnas, George, "Future Design Mindful of the MoRAS", Human-Computer Interaction, 2000, Vol 15, 205-261.
• Furnas, George W. and Zhang, Xiaolong, "Illusions of Infinity: Feedback for infinite worlds", Proceedings of the 2000 ACM Conference in User Interface Software and Technology (UIST2000) , New York: ACM, 237-238.
• Furnas, George, Qu, Yan, Shrivastava, Sanjeev, and Peters, Gregory, The use of intermediate graphical constructions in problem solving with dynamic, pixel-level diagrams. Proceedings of the First International Conference on the Theory and Application of Diagrams: Diagrams 2000 Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, September 2000. Proceedings published as: Michael Anderson, Peter Cheng, Volker Harslev (Eds.) Theory and Application of Diagrams,Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence #1889 Subseries of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer Verlag, p314-329.
  
• Jul, Susanne and Furnas, George W., Critical Zones in Desert Fog: Aids to Multiscale Navigation, Proceedings of the 1998 ACM Conference in User Interface Software and Technology (UIST98), New York: ACM, 97-106.
• Furnas, George W. and Zhang, Xiaolong, MuSE: A multiscale editor, Proceedings of the 1998 ACM Conference in User Interface Software and Technology (UIST98), New York: ACM, 107-116.
• Furnas, George W. and Rauch Samuel J., Considerations for Information Environments and the NaviQue Workspace. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Digital Libraries, DL98, ACM, 1998, 79-88. - Finalist for Vannevar Bush Award for best paper.
• Furnas, George W., Effective View Navigation. In Human Factors in Computing Systems CHI ‘97 Conference Proceedings, ACM, 1997, 367-374.
• Furnas, George W. and Bederson, Benjamin B. Space-Scale Diagrams: Understanding Multiscale Interfaces. In Human Factors in Computing Systems CHI ‘95 Conference Proceedings, ACM, 1995, 234-241.
• Hill, W., Stead, L., Rosenstein, M. and Furnas, G., Recommending and evaluating choices in a virtual community of use. In Human Factors in Computing Systems CHI ‘95 Conference Proceedings, ACM, 1995, 194-201.
• Furnas, George W. and Zacks, Jeff. Multitrees: enriching and reusing hierarchical structure. Human Factors in Computing Systems CHI ‘94 Conference Proceedings, Boston Ma, ACM, 1994, 330-336.
• Furnas, George W. and Buja, Andreas, Prosection Views: Dimensional Inference through Sections and Projections, Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics (Publisher: Am Stat Assoc, Inst of Math Stat, Interface foundation of N Am), 3(4), 1994, 323-353. 
• Brothers, L., Hollan, J., Nielsen, J., Stornetta, S., Abney, S., Furnas, G., and Littman, M., Supporting informal communication via ephemeral interest groups. Proc. ACM CSCW’92 Conf. Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (Toronto, Canada, 1P4 November 1992), 84-90.
• Furnas, George W., New Graphical Reasoning Models for Understanding Graphical Interfaces, Human Factors in Computing Systems CHI ‘91 Conference Proceedings, New Orleans, April 28 - May 2, 1991, 71-78.
• Deerwester, S., Dumais, S. T., Furnas, G. W., Landauer, T. K., and Harshman, R. A., Indexing by latent semantic analysis , Journal of the American Society for Information Science , 1990, 41(6), 391-407.
• Furnas, George W., Metric family portraits. Journal of Classification, 6 (1), 1989, 7-52.
• Fairchild, K.M., Poltrock, S.E. and Furnas G.W., SEMNET: Three-Dimensional Graphic Representations of Large Knowledge Bases. in Guindon, R. (Ed.) Cognitive Science and Its Applications for Human Computer Interaction, Hillsdale, New Jersey: Lawerence Erlbaum, 1988, 201-233.
• Jones, W. P., and Furnas, G. W. Pictures of Relevance: A geometric analysis of similarity measures. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 38(6), Nov-Dec 1987, 420-442.
• Furnas, G.W., Landauer, T.K., Gomez, L.M., Dumais, S. T., The vocabulary problem in human-system communication . Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery, 30 (11), Nov 1987, 964-971.
• Furnas, G. W., Generalized fisheye views. Human Factors in Computing Systems CHI’86 Conference Proceedings , Boston, April 13-17, 1986, 16-23.
• Furnas, G. W., Experience with an adaptive indexing scheme. Human Factors in Computing Systems CHI ‘85 Conference Proceedings , April 14-18, San Francisco, 1985, 131-135.
• Furnas, George W., "Design in the MoRAS", Chapter 3 in Human Computer Interaction in the New Millennium, John C. Carroll (Ed.), Addison-Wesley. 2001, 53-73.

• Furnas, George W., "Foundations of Measurement, Vol. II: Geometrical, Threshold and Probabilistic Representations, by Patrick Suppes, David M.Krantz, R. Duncan Luce & Amos Tversky, New York: Academic Press, 1989", Applied Psychological Measurement , 15(1), 1991, 103-105.
• Furnas, G., "Envisioning Information by E.Tufte" Journal of Classification, 8, 1991.
• Furnas, George W., "Three-Way Scaling and Clustering, by Arabie, P., Carroll, J.D., and DeSarbo, W.S. Sage Publications, Newbury Park, CA, 1987", Journal of Classification, 5 (1), 1988, 121-125.

OTHER PUBLICATIONS

• Zhang, X. & Furnas, G. W.: Multiscale Space and Multiscale Place. In Davenport, E. & Turner, P. (Eds.): Space, Spatiality and Technologies. Kluwer Academic Publishers. (Forthcoming in 2004).
•  Zhang, X. & Furnas, G. W.: mCVEs: Using Cross-Scale Collaboration To Support User Interaction With Multiscale Structures. In PRESENCE: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments. Vol. 14, no. 1, Special issues on Collaborative Information Visualization Environments (Forthcoming in February 2005)
  
• Furnas, George, Qu, Yan, Shrivastava, Sanjeev, and Peters, Gregory, Richer Graphical Interaction using Interactive Pixel Rewrite Systems, In Human Factors in Computing Systems CHI2001 Conference, Extended Abstracts. New York:ACM, 2001, 9-10.
• Jul, Susanne, and Furnas, George W., Navigation in electronic worlds : a CHI 97 workshop, ACM SIGCHI bulletin, October 1997, 44-49.
• Bederson, B.B., Hollan, J.D., Perlin, K., Meyer, J., Bacon, D., and Furnas, G., Pad++: a zoomable graphical sketchpad for exploring alternate interface physics, Journal of Visual Languages and Computation , 7, 1996, 3-31.
• Furnas, George W., High dimensional representations and information retrieval. In, Diday, E., Lechevallier, Y., Schader, M., Bertrand, P., and Burtshy, B., (eds) New Approaches in Classification and Data Analysis , Springer-Verlag, 1994 Berlin, 559-568.
• Furnas, George W., Top level editing vs. top level information retrieval: scale in information manipulation. Proceedings of the CHI’92 Research Symposium.
• Furnas, George W., Reasoning with Diagrams Only. Proceedings of the AAAI Symposium on Reasoning with Diagrammatic Representations, Stanford, CA 3/25/92-3/27/92. (Also as Bellcore TM-ARH-020915)
• Furnas, George W., Formal models for imaginal deduction, Proceedings of the Twelfth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, July 25-28, 1990, Cambridge, Mass. Hillsdale,NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 1990, 662-669.
• Furnas, George W., A new class of models for thinking about graphical interfaces, in Proceedings of the Bellcore Symposium on User Centered Design: Making Contact, Bellcore Special Report SR-STS-001658, May 7- 9, 1990, 126-142.
• Furnas, George W., Dimensionality constraints on projection and section views of high dimensional loci. Computer Science and Statistics: Proceedings of the 20^th Symposium on the Interface . New York: American Statistical Association, 1988, 99-107.
• Furnas, G.W., Deerwester, S., Dumais, S.T., Landauer, T.K., Harshman, R.A., Streeter, L.A., and Lochbaum, K.E., Information retrieval using a singular value decomposition model of latent semantic structure. Proceedings of the 11^th International Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR’88), 465-480.
• Dumais, S.T., Furnas, G.W., Landauer T.K., Deerwester, S., and Harshman, R., Using latent semantic analysis to improve access to textual information. Proceedings of CHI’88, Washington, D.C., May 1988, 281-285.
• Deerwester, S. Dumais, S.T., Landauer, T.K., Furnas, G.W., Beck, L., Improving information retrieval using latent semantic indexing. Proceedings of 1988 annual meeting of the American Society for Information Science, 1988, 36-40.
• Furnas, G.W. The minimum additive constant problem for arbitrary weighted graphs. Extended abstract in Multidimensional Data Analysis De Leeuw, J., Heiser, W., Meulman, J. & Critchley, F., (Eds.), Leiden: DSWO press, 1986, 260-261.
• Green, B.F., Null, C.H., Furnas, G., Hagen, M., & Rummelhart, D. Advanced computing in psychology. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers 17(2), April 1985, 331-338.
• DeSoete, G., Desarbo, W.S., Furnas, G.W., and Carroll, J.D., Tree representations of rectangular proximity matrices. In Trends in Mathematical Psychology, (eds.) E. Degreef and J.Van Buggenhaut, New York: North Holland, 1984, 377-392.
• Furnas, G. W., Gomez, L. M., Dumais, S. T., Landauer, T. K., Statistical semantics: Analysis of the potential performance of keyword information access systems. Bell System Technical Journal, (Special Issue on Human Factors in Computer Systems), Vol 62(6), July-August 1983, 1753-1806. Reprinted in: Thomas, J.C., and Schneider, M.L., Human Factors in Computer Systems, Norwood, New Jersey: Ablex Publishing Corp., 1984, 187-242.
• Landauer, T. K., Dumais, S. T., Gomez, L. M., & Furnas, G. W., Human factors in data access. Bell System Technical Journal, (Special Issue on Data Bases), 61, 1982, pp. 2487-2509. Reprinted in: Journal of Information and Image Management. September, 1983, Vol 16(9), 18-29.
• Furnas, G. W., Gomez, L. M., Landauer, T. K. and Dumais, S. T., Statistical semantics: how can a computer use what people name things to guess what things people mean when they name things? Proceedings of Human Factors in Computer Systems , Gaithersburg, Maryland. March 15-17, 1982, 251-253.
• Furnas, George W., Objects and their features: the metric representation of two class data. (Dissertation, Stanford University, February 1980. Advisors: E. E. Smith, A. Tversky, R. N. Shepard).

• "Graphical Reasoning for Graphical Interfaces," in SIGGRAPH VIDEO #56.Shown in the Formal Video track of CHI’90, Seattle Washington, April 1990. Also shown in the INTERACT’90 video program, Cambridge England, August 1990.

Technical Reports:

• Furnas, G. W., The Fisheye List-Sampler System, Bellcore TM-ARH-020557, 1991.
• Furnas, G. W., The Fisheye Calendar System, Bellcore TM-ARH-020558, 1991.
• Furnas, G. W. and Lochbaum, K. E., Programs for Generating Random Trees, Bell Communications Research Technical Memorandum, 1986.
• Lochbaum, K.E. and Furnas, G.W., Additions to the FISHEYE software, Bell Communications Research Technical Memorandum, 1984.
• Furnas, G. W., The minimum additive constant problem for arbitrary weighted graphs, Bell Communications Research Technical Memorandum.
• Furnas, G. W., Superset invariance and the generation of random trees, Bell Communications Research Technical Memorandum.
• Furnas, G. W., The complement of the neighbor count matrix of an additive tree distance matrix is itself an additive tree distance matrix, with identical topology. Bell Communications Research Technical Memorandum.
• Furnas, G. W., A simple geometric interpretation of the correlation coefficient for elliptical point clouds. Bell Communications Research Technical Memorandum.
• Furnas, G. W., Penalty functions for the representation of three-mode three-way proximity data by single and multiple tree structure models. Bell Communications Research Technical Memorandum.
• Landauer, T.K., Dumais, S.T., Furnas, G.W., Gomez, L.M., Jones, W.P., Lochbaum, C.C., Nachbar, D.W., Remde, J.R. Work-stations for professionals and managers: recommendations for interface and functional design. BTL TM-83-11221-6, July 18, 1983.
• Furnas, G. W., The FISHEYE view: A new look at structured files. Bell Laboratories Technical Memorandum, #82-11221-22, Oct 18, 1982.
• Arias, J. P. and Furnas, G. W., FISHEYE: a program implementing fisheye viewing for hierarchically structured files. Bell Laboratories Technical Memorandum, 1982.

• Visual Languages and Computing 2004, Program Committee
• Visual Languages and Computing 2003, Program Committee
• Diagrams 2004, Steering Committee
  
• Diagrams 2002, Papers Committee
• Diagrams 2000, Papers Committee
• Diagrams journal, associate editor
• TOCHI special associate editor
  

• SIGCHI:

• "Computer Information Retrieval using Latent Semantic Structure," Scott Deerwester, Susan T. Dumais, George W. Furnas, Richard A. Harshman, Thomas K. Landauer, Karen E. Lochbaum, and Lynn A. Streeter. U.S. Patent 4,839,853 issued June 13, 1989. Also Canadian Patent number 1,306,062, issued August 4, 1992.