Ted Selker

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Matt Bishop, computer science professor
David Chaum, inventor
David Dill, computer science professor
Brad Friedman, activist & blogger
Rop Gonggrijp, activist
Bev Harris, Activist
Richard L. Hasen, law professor
Gracia Hillman, EAC commissioner
Rush D. Holt Jr., U.S. Congressman
Doug Jones, computer science professor
R. Doug Lewis, Executive Director The The Election Center
Rebecca Mercuri, computer scientist
Greg Palast, Journalist
Ron Rivest, MIT Professor
Rosemary E. Rodriguez, EAC commissioner
Avi Rubin, Computer Science Professor
Ion Sancho, local election official
Ted Selker, MIT Professor
Alan T. Sherman, Computer Science Professor
Bradley A. Smith, former FEC commissioner
DeForest Soaries, former EAC commissioner
Hans A. von Spakovsky, FEC commissioner
Warren Stewart, advocate
David Wagner, Computer Science Professor
Britain J. Williams, computer scientist
Alec Yasinsac, computer science professor

Election Groups:

ACCURATE
U.S. Election Assistance Commission
The Election Center
Federal Voting Assistance Program
FairVote
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Overseas Vote Foundation
VerifiedVoting.org

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Dr. Ted Selker (Edwin Joseph Selker [1]), is an American computer scientist who headed the Context Aware Computing Group at the MIT Media Lab and is the MIT director of The Voting Technology Project and Design Intelligence. Selker holds 56 US patents, and is best known for developing the pointing stick (a.k.a TrackPoint) which forms the once distinctive feature of IBM ThinkPads.

Prior to joining MIT faculty in November 1999, Selker was an IBM Fellow and directed the User Systems Ergonomics Research lab. He has taught at Stanford University, Hampshire College, University of Massachusetts Amherst, and Brown University. Also he has worked at Xerox PARC and Atari Research Labs. His work often takes the form of bleeding edge prototype concept products, for example hybrid search engines, and is supported by cognitive science research into human computer interaction.

Selker is a graduate of Brown University, holds a Masters from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a PhD from City University, New York. He is regarded as a pioneer in the field of context awareness and is frequently cited in the media. Ted's new domestic technologies have been featured on Good Morning America, ABC, the Wall Street Journal, the BBC, NPR, and the Discovery channel among others. He was co-recipient of computer science policy leader award for Scientific American 50 in 2004. He now lives in Palo Alto, California and is married with two children.