Background
Selker, Edwin Joseph Ted was born on April 9, 1956 in Spokane, Washington, District of Columbia, United States. Son of Alan Herman and Lisallotta (Ursell) Selker.
Selker, Edwin Joseph Ted was born on April 9, 1956 in Spokane, Washington, District of Columbia, United States. Son of Alan Herman and Lisallotta (Ursell) Selker.
Bachelor of Science in Applied Mathematics with honors, Brown University, 1979. Master of Science in Computer Science and Information Services, University Massachusetts, Amherst, 1981. Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science, City University of New York, 1992.
Television/radio repair Alvin television Repair, 1969—1971. Mechanic Longview Bike Shop, 1972—1974. Research intern Weyerhaeuser Research, 1974—1976.
Research assistant Brown University, 1976—1978. Product designer Brown and Sharpe, 1978. Staff lecturer Hampshire College, Amherst, Massachusetts, 1979—1980.
Director Hampshire Laboratory for the Cognitive Sciences, 1979—1980. Research assistant University Massachusetts, Amherst, 1980—1981, teaching assistant, 1980—1981. Research assistant, robotics laboratory Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, 1981-1983, research engineer, computer science, 1981—1983, lecturer, 1984, teaching fellow, computer science, 1984—1985.
Research scientist Atari Sunnyvale Research Center, 1983-1984, T.J. Watson Research Center International Business Machines Corporation, Yorktown Heights, New York, 1985-1992. Manager USER (User Systems Ergonomics Research Lab) research group International Business Machines Corporation Almaden Research Center, San Jose, California, 1992—1995, senior manager, 1995—1999, International Business Machines Corporation Fellow, 1996—1999. Visiting associate professor, media lab Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1998—1999, research scientist, Media Lab, 1999—2000, associate professor, Media Lab (media arts and sciences), Benesse Career Development professor media arts and sciences, since 2000.
Co-director Massachusetts Institute of Technology/Caltech Voting Project, since 2004. Invited lecturer, since 1981. Adjunct associate professor computer science Stanford University, since 1993.
Corporation Technology Committee Force activity: member Ease of Use Task Force International Business Machines Corporation, 1995—1998, Corporation Technology Committee Force activity: chair User Interface Earthquake, 1996—1997, Corporation Technology Committee Force activity: member Pervasive Computing Task Force, 1996—1997, member advisory committee mobile computing technical, 1993—1999, academy member, 1995—1999, member advisory committee mobile computing science, 1998—1999. Consultant Communications Intelligence Corporation, 1984, XEROX Palo Alto Research Center, 1985, Cybertronics International, 1985, Pacific Bell, 1985, VA Rehabilitation research and development center, 1985, International Business Machines Corporation, 2000—2002, City of Philadelphia, 2001—2002, Ergodex, since 2001, Nexgen, 2002—2003, American Civil Liberties Union, 2002—2003, Google, Inc., since 2002, MasterCard, 2003—2004, Twin Cities Public television, 2003—2004, France Telecom, since 2003, Sony, 2003—2004, Design Continuum, since 2003, Department Of Defense Serve project, 2004, Brennan Center for Justice, 2004. Founder Exsel Design, since 1999.
Board advisor, consultant Xift, 1999—2000, Find the Dot, 1999—2002, Vert, 2000—2001, Atigo, since 2004. Board advisor Message Machines, 2000—2002, Getgo.com, 2000—2002. Expert witness Geoworks, 2000, California Attorney Gen/, 2004, AAPD, since 2004.
Director ML SIG Counter Intelligence, since 2000. Member DCGS, Media Lab Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003—2005. Advisory board member Department Of Defense SERVE Security, 2003—2004.
Member advisory board computer engineering Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology Brown University, since 2004. Member Digital Life Consortium Massachusetts Institute of Technology, member, Things That Think, member, Counter Intelligence. Member Institution of Electrical Engineers 1583 Committee on Voting System Standards.
Member of Human Factors Society, Computer Human Interaction, Institute Electronic Engineers, Industrial Designers Society Association American, Association of Computer Machinery.
Married Ellen Marie Shay, August 26, 1989.