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Han debuting his initial multi-touch system at TED 2006.

Jefferson Y. "Jeff" Han (born 1975) is a computer scientist who worked for New York University's (NYU) Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences until 2006. He is one of the main developers of "multi-touch sensing", which, unlike older touch-screen interfaces, is able to recognize multiple points of contact.

Han also works on other projects in the fields of autonomous robot navigation, motion capture, real-time computer graphics, and human-computer interaction.

Career

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He presented his multi-touch sensing work in February 2006 at the TED (Technology Entertainment Design) Conference in Monterey, California. TED released the video online six months later and it spread quickly on YouTube.[1]

Han founded a company called Perceptive Pixel to develop his touch screen technology further, and he has already shipped touch screens to parts of the military.[2] Han's technology has been featured most notably as the "Magic Wall" on CNN's Election Center coverage.[3] Han's company was acquired by Microsoft in 2012, where he became Partner General Manager of Perceptive Pixel (later Surface Hub). Han left Microsoft in late 2015, shortly before Surface Hub's launch.[4]

Personal life

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He is the son of middle-class Korean immigrants who emigrated to the United States in the 1970s.

Education

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Han graduated from The Dalton School in New York in 1993 and studied computer science and electrical engineering for three years at Cornell University before leaving to join a start-up company to commercialize the CU-SeeMe video-conferencing software that he helped develop while an undergraduate at Cornell.[2]

Honors

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Han was named to Time magazine's 2008 listing of the "100 Most Influential People in The World".[5]

See also

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FingerWorks

References

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  1. ^ Jeff Han on TED Talks on YouTube
  2. ^ a b Can't Touch This Archived 2007-08-25 at the Wayback Machine Fast Company, February 2007
  3. ^ "CNN clarifies complex caucus cavalcade with new 'Magic Wall'". BroadcastEngineering. January 4, 2008. Archived from the original on February 21, 2008. Retrieved 2008-03-03.
  4. ^ "Microsoft Surface Hub chief, Holoportation researchers leave to form stealth startup". ZDNet. Retrieved 2016-12-14.
  5. ^ "Jeff Han – The 2008 TIME 100 – TIME". Time. 2009-04-30. Archived from the original on May 3, 2008. Retrieved 2010-05-06.
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