Education
Reed College; Stanford University.
Reed College; Stanford University.
In particular his research in human-computer interaction is on designing for human values. He works on systems to support civic engagement and deliberation, and works on tools to make public transportation easier to use. He has also worked on constraint-based languages and systems, and cooperating constraint languages and solvers.
Borning received a Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics from Reed College in 1971.
He received a Master of Surgery in Computer Science from Stanford University in 1974 and a Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science from Stanford University in 1979. He then joined the Department of Computer Science at the University of Washington in 1980, where in 2014 he is still a professor there.
He is also an adjunct professor in the Information School, and a member of the Interdisciplinary Doctor of Philosophy Program in Urban Design and Planning.