BEN SHNEIDERMAN (http://www.cs.umd.edu/~ben) is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Founding Director (1983-2000) of the Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory (http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/) at the University of Maryland. He was elected as a Fellow of the Association for Computing (ACM) in 1997, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2001, a Member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2010, and a Member of the National Academy of Inventors in 2016. He received the ACM SIGCHI Lifetime Achievement Award in 2001. Ben likes skiing, hiking, biking, and working with his students on new ideas. He developed the visual interface idea for the hyperlink with grad student Dan Ostroff in 1984, pioneered information visualization concepts with Christopher Ahlberg (who went on to found Spotfire, based on these concepts), developed the treemap concept, which was first implemented by grad student Brian Johnson, and participates in the NodeXL network analysis tool project. Current projects focus on electronic health records with the EventFlow tool (http://hcil.umd.edu/eventflow) and promoting The New ABCs of Research (www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/newabcs). He believes computer science should be more directly devoted to making the world a better place.