[947 ~ The Evolution of the Student [xperience Interviews with Stuart Card and James Foley James E. Pitkow The First Society in Computing Given the commemorative nature of this special issue of SIGCHI Bulletin, the student editors set out to crawl into the minds and times of two leading H C I figures, Dr. James Foley (of Georgia Tech's Graphics, Visualization, & Usability (GVU) Center) and Dr. Stuart Card (of Xerox PARC's User Interface Research Lab). Below we present the recollections of these world-renowned researchers on their student experiences, observations of current HCI students, and prescriptions for the future, based on an electronic interview with them. Let's start with your beginnings, what led you to HC[? Foley: It's a long story. When I was a kid, my grandparents gave me a Lionel train set. I kept on expanding it, and needed to learn more about electricity so I could do the wiring with blocks for controlling multiple trains. This led to a decision to study Electrical Engineering, which I did at Lehigh University. During my senior year there I became interested in computers, because our circuit synthesis professor had just come back from sabbatical at IBM and taught
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