Mark Malamud (born 1960) is the principal and manager of
Busymonster LLC, a consultancy focused on advanced user interface and design.
During his 10-year tenure at Microsoft, Malamud became the company's first User Interface Architect, leading design teams in the Advanced Windows, Consumer, Systems, and Research groups.
In addition to designing the fundamental conceptual, user, and interaction models for
Windows 95
Windows 95 is a consumer-oriented operating system developed by Microsoft and the first of its Windows 9x family of operating systems, released to manufacturing on July 14, 1995, and generally to retail on August 24, 1995. Windows 95 merged ...
and future versions of
Windows NT
Windows NT is a Proprietary software, proprietary Graphical user interface, graphical operating system produced by Microsoft as part of its Windows product line, the first version of which, Windows NT 3.1, was released on July 27, 1993. Original ...
, Malamud also pursued future user interface abstractions. Some of his work involved creating psychosocial models of users to improve the interaction between people and machines. Malamud produced
Bill Gates
William Henry Gates III (born October 28, 1955) is an American businessman and philanthropist. A pioneer of the microcomputer revolution of the 1970s and 1980s, he co-founded the software company Microsoft in 1975 with his childhood friend ...
’ groundbreaking demo, “Information at Your Fingertips,” which was shown at Fall
Comdex in 1990.
Before joining
Microsoft
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, Malamud contributed his expertise to a variety of trade magazines and educational publications. He has created several award-winning educational adventure games for
Scholastic Books
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, and he has worked on various multimedia projects, including
Nam June Paik's "Good Morning, Mr. Orwell" for WNET in New York.
Malamud studied at
Brown University
Brown University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. It is the List of colonial colleges, seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the US, founded in 1764 as the ' ...
where he received his A.B. in psychology. He holds over 200 major patents in the area of user interface and has been named as an inventor on over 880 US patents and numerous patents pending.
Malamud has participated in several
Intellectual Ventures’ invention sessions relating to user interface, human-technology interaction, information processing, and health informatics. He is on the
List of prolific inventorsWorldwide Patents of Mark Malamud
/ref> and in 2012 was the 8th most-prolific inventor of US patents.
See also
* List of prolific inventors
References
External links
Intellectual Ventures
busymonster
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Microsoft employees
Living people
1960 births
21st-century American inventors