Thomas P. Moran is a Distinguished Engineer at the IBM Almaden Research Center in San Jose, California.
He has been active in the field of human computer interaction for a very long time.
In 1983 the book he wrote along with Stuart Card and Allen Newell The Psychology of Human-Computer Interaction was published.
It became a very influential book in the field, partly for introducing the Goals, Operators, Methods, and Selection rules (GOMS) model.
He is one of the first CHI Academy members and won ACM SIGCHI's 2004 Life Time Achievement Award.