Gary Perlman
was born and raised in Montreal.
Dr. Perlman's Ph.D. is in experimental psychology
from the University of California, San Diego.
In additional to over 20 years of consulting
in information technology,
he has held research and academic positions
at Bell Labs in Murray Hill, New Jersey,
Wang Institute of Graduate Studies,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Carnegie-Mellon University, Ohio State University,
and at the
OCLC Online Computer Library Center,
where he is a consulting research scientist and is
primarily responsible for the
the OCLC
FirstSearch user interface.
His research interests are in making information
technology more useful and usable for people.
He is the author of over 75 journal and conference articles.
He is best known in the HCI community as
the director of the HCI Bibliography,
http://www.hcibib.org/,
a free-access online resource of over
20,000 records searched hundreds of thousands
of times each year.
He has held elective office in
ACM SIGCHI,
both at the local and international level,
and has received the SIGCHI Distinguished Service Award.