Richard Timothy Beckwith 1507 SE Spokane St. Portland, OR 97202 richard.beckwith@intel.com Home: (503) 230-7025 Work: (503) 264-1760 Education Teachers College, Columbia University Ph.D., January 1988, Developmental and Educational Psychology University of Massachusetts/Boston BA in Psychology, June 1981, Summa cum Laude Honors in Psychology and Linguistics Work Experience Intel Corporation, Intel Architecture Laboratory Research Psychologist 1996-present Work with social scientists and technologists to provide Intel engineers with a vision of computing five years out. Responsibilities include doing ethnographic fieldwork to support the development and evaluation of prototype hardware and software products, integration of qualitative field data with extant quantitative data, analysis of these data, and evangelizing research to internal and external customers. Northwestern University, The Institute for the Learning Sciences Research Scientist -- Assistant Professor 1991-1995 Associate Professor 1995-1996 Worked with various teams to support the development of training and educational software. Responsibilities included the design and supervision of all research involving human subjects. Activities included both data gathering for software design and evaluating software for training efficacy and usability. Methodologies included: user observations, structured interviews, surveys, focus groups, and history analysis. Princeton University, Cognitive Science Laboratory Research Associate 1988-1991 Worked with George MillerÕs team on the development of a lexical database organized on psycholinguistic principles. Responsibilities included surveying psycholinguistic and neuropsychological data and working with programmers to ensure that the structure of the database and the procedures involved in data access reflected salient properties as determined by these data. Teachers College, Columbia University Research Assistant 1981-1991 Worked with Lois BloomÕs team of researchers looking at language acquisition in the first two years of life. Oversaw the development and maintenance of a computer/video laboratory. Methodologies included quasi-naturalistic observations of mother-infant dyads, microanalysis of data, development of coding schemes and a suite of lag-sequential analysis tools, and the implementation of a language acquisition simulation. Selected Publication Miller, Beckwith, Fellbaum, Gross, and Miller (1991). Introduction to WordNet: An On-Line Lexical Database. International Journal of Lexicography, 3, 1-12. Beckwith and Miller (1991). Implementing a Lexical Network. International Journal of Lexicography, 3, 303-312. Bell, Bareiss, and Beckwith (1993-1994) The Role of Anchored Instruction in the Design of a Hypermedia Museum Exhibit. Journal of the Learning Sciences. Beckwith (1995) Strategies for Supporting the Design of Educational Software: A Look at Authoring Environments Put into Practice. Chaired at the American Educational Research Association, Spring 1995 meeting. Beckwith and Teibel (1998) The Creative PC in the Classroom. Presented at the International Conference on Technology and Education, Spring 1998 meeting.