Presenter

Jan Searleman taught Computer Science at Clarkson University for 37 years, retired in 2015, and since retirement has been an Adjunct Research Professor at Clarkson. Her research areas are Virtual Environments, Human-Computer Interaction, and Artificial Intelligence. A senior member of the ACM since 1976, and of SIGGRAPH since 1978, Jan established Clarkson’s ACM student chapter in 1980 and SIGGRAPH student chapter in 2006. Jan serves on two ACM SIGGRAPH standing committees: Digital Art and History. She co-directs, along with Bonnie Mitchell, the ACM SIGGRAPH History Archive. In addition, Jan co-directs the ISEA Symposium Archive with Bonnie Mitchell, Wim van der Plas, and Terry Wong.