Jefferson Han Addresses U-M’s Architectural and Design Community on Future of Multi-Touch Sensing

Perceptive Pixel founder to lecture on design and technology enhancing data access, use Jefferson Han, inventor of the multi-touch screen for scalable use, will lecture about its use in design on March 9, 2010, 6:30 p.m. at the University of Michigan’s Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning. Han, founder and Chief Scientist of Perceptive Pixel, develops and markets the most advanced multi-touch solutions in the world to the geo-intelligence, medical, energy exploration, defense, broadcast, creative and entertainment industries, with clients ranging from CNN to the Central Intelligence Agency. The technology transformed the way the 2008 Presidential election coverage was viewed, with ABC, CNN and Fox using the touch-technology to examine voting trends across the nation. Han developed the technology at New York University’s Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences as a means of visually presenting connected layers of data for more accessible use. The multi-touch screens were first unveiled to the technology community at a TED Conference, which was the launching point for his business, in Feb. 2006. www.ted.com/talks/jeff_han_demos_his_breakthrough_touchscreen.html Perceptive Pixel won a 2009 National Design Award from the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, and Han was named Time Magazine’s “One of the World’s 100 Most Influential People” in 2008.