The Celebration Continues HCIL 98 Trip Report Tonya Sullivan, Jeff Merhout and Jean B. Gasen Another cake, another candle, another year! The Human-Computer Interaction Lab (HClL) at the University of Maryland-College Park celebrated a year of research and scholarly activity on May 29th, 1998 at the 15th Anniversary Symposium and Open House. Led by Dr. Ben Shneiderman, director of the HCIL, the symposium offered the 220 attendees a showcase of presentations, demonstrations and one-on-one discussion around two central themes - information visualization and the design of learning tools. The Symposium reflected the breadth and depth of HCI expertise across the University with participation from departments, colleges and institutes including: the Department of Psychology, College of Education, College of Library and Information Services, Department of Computer Science and Institute for Systems Research at the University of Maryland. Financial support from agencies and corporations such as NASA-Goddard Space Flight Center, IBM Watson Research Labs, Trivista Corporation and Apple Computer along with software donated by Microsoft Corporation provided a solid foundation for a high degree of technological synergy across these departments. Symposium participants arrived on campus to experience the buzz of excitement generated by leading experts in the field of Human
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