Brad Allan Myers[1] is a professor in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University and became its Director in 2023.
Myers received his BS degree in Computer Science and MS degree in Computer Science and Engineering under MIT in 1980, whilst simultaneously interning at Xerox Parc for his Master's thesis.
His work since the 1970s at many distinguished institutes including Xerox Parc, MIT Architecture Machine Group (Now the Media Lab), and the Three Rivers Computer Corporation pioneered many systems and innovations that are still in use today.
While working for PERQ Systems Corporation in the early 80s, Myers created Sapphire, one of the first commercial window managers with a number of features that later became widespread.
[5] Myers is a leading researcher in the field of programming by demonstration and created the Garnet and Amulet toolkits.