My research interests are in the multi-disciplinary areas of perception, design, and interactive visualization. Broadly speaking, I am interested in understanding why good principles of visual design work cognitively and perceptually, and how they can be applied to computer-generated visualizations, presentations, and interfaces.
email: mstone@acm.org
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Tableau Research
Senior Principal Research Scientist (retired June 1, 2022)
Director, Tableau Research (2017-2021)
Research Manager (2015-2017)
Research Scientist (2012-2015)
Consultant, color palette design and UX (2004-2011)
Independent consultant, worked on legal and technical projects in digital color, visualization, graphics and human-computer interaction.(1998-2012)
Principal Scientist (1994-1998)
Research Manager (1989-1994)
Member of the Research Staff (1980-1989)
Member of the Programming Staff (1978-1980)
University of Washington, Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering (Nov. 2022-present)
Adjunct Professor, visual analysis, digital color, accessibility
Simon Fraser University, School of Interactive Arts and Sciences (2006-2014)
Adjunct Professor, worked on research projects with Lyn Bartram, John Dill, Brian Fisher and their students.
University of Washington, iSchool (2006, 2007)
Guest Faculty, co-taught (with Polle Zelleweger) the undergraduate infoVIS course Fall 2006 and 2007.
Stanford University, Graphics and HCI labs (2000-2003)
Consultant, iRoom research and development, with Pat Hanrahan, Terry Winograd and their students.
University of Waterloo, Computer Graphics Lab (1988-1989)
Visiting Scientist, worked on research projects with William Cowan, John Beatty, Kelly Booth and their students (6-month sabbatical)
California Institute of Technology, M.S. in Computer Science (1978)
University of Illinois, M.S. in Electrical Engineering (1975)
University of Illinois: B.S. in Computer Engineering (1973)
Association for Computing Machines (ACM) Associate Editor of Transactions on Graphics, 1987–1993; Member of the Executive Committee for SIGGRAPH, 1988–1990; Technical Papers Chair for the 1987 SIGGRAPH Conference; Member of the SIGGRAPH technical papers committee in 1983, 1984, 1986, 1987 and 1995 (member 1978–present)
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Advisory board for Computer Graphics and Application (CG&A), 2014-present. Editor-in-Chief of CG&A 2007–2009, Associate Editor in Chief, 1999–2007, CG&A board member, 1998-2010 (member IEEE, 1990–present)
Society for Imaging Sciences and Technology (IS&T) Color Imaging Conference: Technical papers committee, 2000, 2001 (member 1997-2018).
Web3D Consortium Co-chair of the VRML Conformance and Interoperability Working Group (focus on Color Fidelity), 1997–1999; Co-chair of the VRML 98 technical papers committee, member of the VRML 99 papers committee.
IEEE Visualization Academy (2020)
Xerox Corporate Research Group Excellence in Science and Technology Award, for the Magic Lens technology (1993)
Xerox Corporate Research Group Excellence in Science and Technology Award, for the Gargoyle Illustration System (1987)