Artifact Details

Title

Siewiorek, Dan (Daniel P.) oral history

Catalog Number

102738150

Type

Document

Description

Daniel Siewiorek is a pioneer of wearable and mobile computing. He is a professor at Carnegie Mellon University and the Director of the Mobile and Pervasive Computing Laboratory there.

He and his students and colleagues have developed rugged wearable computers with head-up displays (HUD) and new kinds of pointing devices for military purposes. He was involved in the creation of a mobile system for the maintenance of U.S. Army amphibus tractor, which was designed to help technicians quickly diagnose and repair issues with the amphibious tractors while in the field.

Siewiorek's research on wearables has also focused on designing devices for healthcare monitoring and improving the user experience of wearable technology. Siewiorek has collaborated with personal wearable pioneers Thad Starner and Greg Priest-Dorman, who were part of the Google Glass effort and have also provided an oral history to CHM.

In addition to his mobile and user experience work, Siewiorek has designed or been involved with the design of nine multiprocessor systems and been a key contributor to the dependability design of over two dozen commercial computing systems. He has written nine textbooks in addition to over 475 papers.

Siewiorek's extensive research in wearable and mobile computing has earned him several accolades, including induction into the National Academy of Engineering and the IEEE Computer Society's Pioneer Award. He has also been named a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. He holds doctorate and masters degrees in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, and a bachelors degree in the same field from University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Date

2016-05-23

Contributor

Siewiorek, Daniel P., interviewee

Weber, Marc, videographer

Weber, Marc, interviewer

Publisher

Computer History Museum

Place of Publication

Mountain View, CA

Extent

30 p.

Format

PDF

Subject

Wearable; mobile computing; Smarwatch; Healthcare monitoring; user experience; Multiprocessors; design automation; military system; Carnegie Mellon University; Augmented Reality; Maintenance; Rapid prototyping; Reliable computing

Collection Title

CHM oral history collection

Credit