Authors:
Bill Curtis
The mid-1980s were the first golden age for the user-interface community. The first Human Factors in Computer Systems Conference had just been completed, launching the CHI conference series. The Media Lab was being built at MIT. Groundbreaking research and books were emerging from Xerox PARC, IBM Watson, and top universities on both sides of the Atlantic. To top it off, the Macintosh would win the 1984 Super Bowl, announcing to the world that computing was coming to ordinary folks. In 1983, 20 American companies joined to form the Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation (MCC), a research consortium in Austin,…
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