My research is in the area of Human-Centered Computing and draws heavily on computer science, applied psycholinguistics, and cognitive psychology. My long-term aim is to create information technology that is easily used and useful to all. My work contains a strong multi-disciplinary component and has been done in collaboration with researchers, practitioners, and industry leaders at institutions across North America and the UK.I am an ACM Fellow, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, a Fellow of the British Computer Society, and an elected to member of the National Academy of Engineering. I received the ACM SIGCHI Social Impact Award, the ACM SIGACCESS Award for Outstanding Contributions to Computing and Accessibility, the AnitaB.org Women of Vision ABIE Award for Social Impact, and the Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award. I was elected to the CHI Academy in 2017.In 2017, I received an Honorary Doctor of Science degree from the School of Computing at Newcastle University in England. Before becoming ACM’S CEO, I was a Distinguished Professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology (2013-2018), a Professor at the University of Dundee in Scotland (2009 – 2017), and a Research Staff Member at IBM’s Thomas J. Watson Research Center (1986-2008) where I founded the Accessibility Research Group.