Career
During his 10-year tenure at Microsoft, Mr. Malamud became the company’s first User Interface Architect, leading design teams in the Advanced Windows, Consumer, Systems, and Research groups. In addition to designing the fundamental conceptual, user, and interaction models for Windows 95 and future versions of Windows Northwest Territories, Mr.
Malamud also pursued future user interface abstractions.
Some of his work involved creating psychosocial models of users to improve the interaction between people and machines. Mr. Malamud produced Bill Gates’ groundbreaking demo, “Information at Your Fingertips,” which was shown at Fall Comdex in 1990.
Before joining Microsoft, Mr. Malamud contributed his expertise to a variety of trade magazines and educational publications.
He has created several award-winning educational adventure games for Scholastic Books, and he has worked on various multimedia projects, including Nam June Paik"s "Good Morning, Mr.
Orwell" for W National Educational Television in New New York Mr. Malamud studied at Brown University where he received his Bachelor of Arts in psychology. He holds over 20 major patents in the area of user interface and has been named as an inventor on over 311 United States patents and numerous patents pending.
Mark Malamud has participated in several Intellectual Ventures’ invention sessions relating to user interface, human-technology interaction, information processing, and health informatics.
