Lorraine Borman
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Ph.B. Northwestern University 1969
Lorraine Borman | |
|---|---|
| Citizenship | American |
| Education | M.A. History, Northwestern University 1971 Ph.B. Northwestern University 1969 |
| Alma mater | Northwestern University |
| Known for | Human-Computer Interaction |
| Awards | SIGCHI Lifetime Service Award Outstanding Contribution to ACM Award |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | computer science |
| Institutions | Northwestern University |
Lorraine Borman is an American computer scientist associated with Northwestern University who specializes in information retrieval, computational social science, and human–computer interaction. She was one of the founders of SIGCHI, the Special Interest Group on Computer–Human Interaction of the Association for Computing Machinery, and became its first chair.
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Borman worked at the Vogelback Computing Center of Northwestern University, where she published several works in information retrieval and computational social science.[1][2][3] By 1977, she was editor of the Bulletin of the ACM Special Interest Group on the Social and Behavioral Science of Computing (SIGSOC), and in that role traveled to China with a group of Northwestern faculty and toured the computing facilities there.[4]
