Hi, undergrads! Professor Richard Ladner has been a faculty member here for decades, with a wide range of interesting and impactful CS work. He’s nationally recognized for his important work making technology more accessible to users with disabilities. Come celebrate his career with this lecture reviewing his life as a UW CSE faculty member!
My 45+ Years at UW
This lecture will be sign language interpreted.
This talk will be a remembrance of my 45+ years at the University of Washington and a thank you to all who helped make it happen. My long career can be broken up into different dimensions: teaching, research, service, and outreach. I will highlight my students, colleagues, staff members, and community members who influenced me along the way.
Bio
Richard E. Ladner is a Professor Emeritus in Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington where he has been on the faculty since 1971, becoming emeritus in February, 2017. His current research is in the area of accessible computing which is an important subarea of human-computer interaction (HCI). Before that he had a research career in theoretical computer science. He has supervised or co-supervised 27 Ph.D. students with 4 more in the pipeline. He has also supervised the research of more than 100 undergraduate students, 23 of whom won Mary Gates Research Scholarships, and 2 who won CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Awards. He has been awarded more than 25 National Science Foundation (NSF) grants worth over 17 million dollars. He is currently the Principal Investigator (PI) for the NSF-funded AccessComputing Alliance that has the goal of increasing participation of students with disabilities in computing fields. He is also a PI for the NSF-funded AccessCSforAll that is helping prepare K-12 computer science teachers to be more inclusive in their courses with students with disabilities. From 2007-2013, he directed the Summer Academy for Advancing Deaf and Hard of Hearing in Computing. He served as Pacific Region Representative on the Council of the ACM. He served as Chair of the ACM Special Interest Group in Algorithms and Computation Theory (SIGACT) from 2005-2009. He was a member of the Board of Trustees of Gallaudet University from 2007-2016. He is a recipient of the 2004 Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring (PAESMEM) and the 2008 A. Nico Habermann Award. He is the winner of the 2014 SIGCHI Social Impact Award and 2016 SIGACCESS Award for Outstanding Contributions to Computing and Accessibility. He is an ACM Fellow and an IEEE Fellow. He was a Guggenheim Fellow in 1986 and Fulbright Scholar in 1993. At the University of Washington he received the Boeing Professorship in Computer Science and Engineering (2004-2012), Undergraduate Research Mentor Award (2010), Samuel E. Kelly Distinguished Faculty Lecture Award (2010), and Outstanding Service Award (2009).