SIGCHI News

2006-03: SIGCHI congratulates this year's award winners. Lifetime Achievement Award Winners: Judith Olson and Gary Olson; CHI Academy Inductees: Michel Beaudouin-Lafon, Scott Hudson, Hiroshi Ishii, Jakob Nielsen, Peter Pirolli, and George Robertson; Lifetime Service Award: Susan Dray; SIGCHI Social Impact Award: Ted Henter.

SIGCHI congratulates Don Norman, a longtime member of our community, member of the CHI Academy, and SIGCHI Lifetime Achievement Award winner, has been awarded the 2006 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Computer and Cognitive Science for his work on "the development of the field of user-centered design, which utilizes our understanding of how people think to develop technologies designed to be easily usable."

2005-08: The SIGCHI organizational bylaws have been updated. These bylaws were approved some time ago, and the Web site is just now catching up.

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