Biography of James
Landay 
James Landay is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley. He is also the CTO and co-founder of NetRaker. He received his B.S. in electrical engineering and computer science from Berkeley in 1990 and his M.S. and Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University in 1993 and 1996 respectively. His Ph.D. dissertation was the first to demonstrate the use of sketching in user interface design tools. He has published extensively in the area of user interfaces, including articles on user interface design tools, gesture recognition, pen-based user interfaces, mobile computing, and visual languages.
Landay has also contributed to a number of important user interface systems, including the Garnet and RUSE user interface management systems at CMU, and the ROCKIT constraint specification tool at Digital's Paris Research Laboratory. He also explored the problems in scaling user interfaces to large display surfaces at Xerox's Palo Alto Research Laboratory (PARC). In addition, he developed the user interface for Software Publishing Corp's database product, PFS: Professional File 2.0. He has also worked at several well-known Silicon Valley start-ups, including GO Corporation and Ardent Computer. Most recently, Landay co-founded the NetRaker Corporation, helping companies make their web sites more effective using NetRaker's suite of on-line usability, market research, and performance monitoring tools.