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<A NAME="Alyce" ><p class="main"><B>Alyce Kaprow</B>, principal of <B>the new studio</B>, is a consultant to developers and users of graphic interface-interaction design and applications in interactive new-media. Her work includes system design, functionality specification and user interface/interaction design. Additionally, her research specializes in cross-media and multimedia opportunities for the graphics arts industries and applications and equipment specification for graphic designers/artists and print production specialists. Current research in this area includes a study for the International Prepress Association on "Opportunities in Cross-Media and New-Media Applications".</p>
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Ms Kaprow has worked as a designer, a professional photographer; and a teacher of photography, design, media technology and computer graphics for over twenty years. She has lectured extensively at many conferences and workshops throughout the USA, Canada, and Europe, and is a contributing editor to various publications.
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Ms Kaprow's design, photography, and illustration have appeared in numerous shows and publications both nationally and internationally. She has written on a wide range of subjects within the art/design/computer graphics applications areas, including two text books: Digital Halftone Technology and A Graphics Arts Production Primer, and has written and edited two additional texts on new media applications for art and design and issues on user interface design.
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As curator of the Designing Technology show at the 1993 <A HREF="http://www.siggraph.org" target="_blank">SIGGRAPH</A> conference, she presented work focusing on a study of collaborative, multi-disciplinary work-teams for product development and on the contributions that industrial, graphic and interface designers bring to that effort.
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Ms Kaprow received a BFA in Design (Industrial Design and Information Graphics) from Syracuse University, an MFA in Photography from the <A HREF="http://www.calarts.edu/" target="_blank" >
California Institute of the Arts</A>, and Certificate Degrees from the Agfa-Gevaret Technikum and the Linhof Institute, both in Munich, Germany. She did post-graduate research in computer graphics and media technologies at the Visible Language Workshop, MIT (now part of the <A HREF="http://www.media.mit.edu/" target="_blank">MIT Media Lab</A>).</p>
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<A NAME="David"><p class="main"><B>David Backer, PhD</B>, has been involved in the field of multimedia for over twenty years, and is now a principal with <B>the new studio</B> in the areas of multimedia publishing via on-line services and CD-ROM. He has participated in the development of software and content for award-winning multimedia products, has spoken at many conferences about multimedia, and has written about the industry.
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He was recently the Director of the International Thomson Publishing Multimedia Consortium, and a member of the ITP Internet task force which created Thomson's corporate presence on the Internet (<A HREF="http://www.thomson.com/" target="_blank">www.thomson.com</A>). Before that he was a founder and Vice President of Engineering at Fluent Machines Inc., and managed software development as Director of Videodisc Systems at Mirror Systems Inc., a subsidiary of the Times Mirror company in the 1980's.
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He is one of the first three graduates of the Doctoral program at the <A HREF="http://www.media.mit.edu/" target="_blank">MIT Media Laboratory</A>. He holds an MS in Computer and Information Science from UMASS, Amherst, where he taught computer graphics in the Department of Fine Arts, and he also holds a BS in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science from Washington University in St. Louis.
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David contributed to <!-- A HREF="heg-school.aw.com/cseng/authors/buford/mmsys/mmsys.html" target="_blank" -->Multimedia Systems, edited by John Kogel Buford<!--/A-->, published by ACM Press and Addison Wesley. He is also a member of <!--A HREF="http://www.acm.org" target="_blank">ACM</A > and--> the <A HREF="http://www.ieee.org" target="_blank">IEEE</A>.</p>
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