Biography
Allison Woodruff is a research scientist at
Intel Research. Her primary research interests include technologies for
domestic environments, computer-mediated communication, ubiquitous computing,
and information visualization. She has published articles on a wide range of
topics from computer architecture to human perception.
Woodruff holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley, an MS in Computer Science and an MA in Linguistics from the University of California, Davis, and a BA in English from California State University, Chico. While at the University of California, Berkeley, Woodruff was a member of the database research group led by Michael Stonebraker.
Her dissertation focused on the generation of database visualizations that
conform to the Principle of Constant Information Density. After graduating from
the University of California, Berkeley, Woodruff worked as a research scientist
at PARC from 1998-2004. In her spare time, she studies
singing.