Author bios
Joan F. Musgrave
IBM Research Division, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, P.O. Box 218, Route 134, Yorktown Heights, New York 10598 (electronic mail: musgrave@watson.ibm.com). Ms. Musgrave is currently business manager and art director, Corporate Technical Publications. She is the author of "Experiments in Computer-Aided Graphic Expression,'' IBM Systems Journal, Volume 17, Number 3 (1978), and has received numerous graphic design awards for technical communications, including two Best of Show Awards from the Society of Technical Communications, a Cine Golden Eagle Award, and an IBM Division Award. Her work was presented in a one-person exhibition entitled "The Graphic Design of Technical Communication'' at Mohawk Valley Community College, Utica, New York, and the IBM Corporate Education Center in Thornwood, New York. Ms. Musgrave received her B.A. degree in fine arts from Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts, completing part of the degree requirements at the Ancien Faculté de Dijon, Dijon, France, and the Cité Universitaire, Paris, France.
Muriel R. Cooper
Professor Cooper was a professional designer, educator, and researcher whose commitment to computers and graphic design led to the founding of the Visible Language Workshop in 1975, of which she was director. She had a broad-based background in all forms of visual communication. Her work has been internationally acknowledged in innumerable exhibits and publications. Prof. Cooper's design work in print includes over 500 books, over 100 of which have been awarded recognition in various competitions. The second AIGA Design Leadership Award was awarded to MIT for the design excellence of the MIT Press, Design Services, and the VLW, all of which she founded and directed. She coordinated the overall plan for VLW research and education that investigates the intersection of graphic design research and artificial intelligence. Her own research concerns were the qualitative graphic filtering of information in a dynamic electronic environment, the relationship of traditional design knowledge of electronic media and the evolution of a new graphics design language for the new multimedia electronic medium. Muriel Cooper died in 1994.
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