(2003-02-27) Boutin On Spring

Paul Boutin/Ny Times on Spring Desktop. Human-computer interaction research has traditionally been the work of behavioral psychologists in the employ of Microsoft, IBM and other big desktop vendors, with advances proposed in research papers, conferences and committees... Yet Mr. Robb Beal's work, it turns out, parallels a quiet evolution at Microsoft and Apple, whose desktops appear on most of the world's screens.