Clifford Nass

Education

Princeton University.

Career

He was also known for his work on individual differences associated with multitasking. Nass was the Thomas M. Storke Professor at Stanford and held courtesy appointments in Computer Science, Education, Law, and Sociology. He was also affiliated with the programs in Symbolic Systems and Science, Technology, and Society.

Nass was born in Jersey City, New Jersey and raised in Teaneck, the son of Florence and Jules Nass.

Nass earned a Bachelor of Arts cum laude in mathematics from Princeton University in 1981. He then conducted research in the areas of computer graphics, data structures and database design for International Business Machines Corporation and Intel before returning to Princeton for graduate school.

He got his Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy in sociology from Princeton in 1986, and joined the faculty at Stanford University. Nass died, age 55, of a heart attack in November 2013.

Achievements

• Nass was the director of the Communication between Humans and Interactive Media (CHIMe) Laboratory, co-director of Kozmetsky Global Collaboratory (KGC) and its Real-time Venture Design Laboratory (ReVeL), and a co-founder of TeachAIDS.