Steven M. Drucker

http://research.microsoft.com/~sdrucker
sdrucker [at] microsoft.com
Affiliate Faculty
Microsoft Live Labs Research, Computer Science & Engineering

Dr. Steven M. Drucker is a Principal Scientist at the LiveLabs Group at Microsoft. He is working on user interaction and information visualization for web based projects. He is also an affiliate professor at the University of Washington. Previously, he was a researcher at Microsoft Research for 11 years. First, as a lead researcher for the Next Media Research Group in Microsoft Research for 6 years where he examined how the addition of user interaction transforms conventional media. Particular interests included database visualization for consumers or where art meets technology for user interfaces. While in the group, he filed 38 patents and published papers on technologies as diverse as remotely operated personal video recorders, spectator oriented gaming, and new visualization techniques for media databases. Previous to that, he was the lead researcher in the Virtual Worlds Group also in Microsoft Research. During his tenure there he helped architect a platform for multi-user virtual environments, filed an additional 12 patents, and published papers in subjects ranging from architectures for multi-user, multimedia systems to online social interaction. Before coming to Microsoft, he received his Ph.D. from the Computer Graphics and Animation Group at the MIT Media Lab in May 1994. His thesis research was on intelligent camera control interfaces for graphical environments. Dr. Drucker graduated Magna Cum Laude with Honors in Neurosciences from Brown University and went on to complete his masters at the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at MIT doing research in robot learning. His published papers have been in such areas as information visualization, multi-user environments, online social interaction, hypermedia research, human and robot perceptual capabilities, robot learning, parallel computer graphics, and human interfaces for camera control.