Ramana Rao

Author: Ramana Rao

I'm a "beyond search" entrepreneur, now at iCurrent. I was a HCI/CS researcher at PARC and spun out Inxight, now part of SAP. Formally, I studied computer science at MIT, but I range broadly. Say: Shoestring Traveler, TED-ster, Runner, Rambler.

Publications

Publication period start: 1997
Number of co-authors: 28

Co-authors

Number of publications with favourite co-authors
John Lamping
3
Jock D. Mackinlay
4
Stuart K. Card
6

Productive Colleagues

Most productive colleagues in number of publications
George G. Robertson
61
Stuart K. Card
73
Catherine Plaisant
78

Publications

Rao, Ramana (1999): Reflections: seegomanifesto. In Interactions, 6 (5) pp. 64. https://www.acm.org/pubs/articles/journals/interactions/1999-6-5/p64-rao/p64-rao.pdf

Rao, Ramana (1997): From Research to Real World with Z-GUI. In IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, 17 (4) pp. 71-73. https://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/38.595274

Pirolli, Peter, Pitkow, James, Rao, Ramana (1996): Silk from a Sow's Ear: Extracting Usable Structure from the Web. In: Tauber, Michael J., Bellotti, Victoria, Jeffries, Robin, Mackinlay, Jock D., Nielsen, Jakob (eds.) Proceedings of the ACM CHI 96 Human Factors in Computing Systems Conference April 14-18, 1996, Vancouver, Canada. pp. 118-125. https://www.acm.org/sigchi/chi96/proceedings/papers/Pirolli_2/pp2.html

Hascoet-Zizi, Mountaz, Plaisant, Catherine, Ahlberg, Christopher, Chalmers, Matthew, Korfhage, Robert R., Rao, Ramana (1996): Where is Information Visualization Technology Going?. In: Kurlander, David, Brown, Marc, Rao, Ramana (eds.) Proceedings of the 9th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology November 06 - 08, 1996, Seattle, Washington, United States. pp. 75-77. https://www.acm.org/pubs/articles/proceedings/uist/237091/p75-hascoet-zizi/p75-hascoet-zizi.pdf

Lamping, John, Rao, Ramana (1996): The Hyperbolic Browser: A Focus + Context Technique for Visualizing Large Hierarchies. In J. Vis. Lang. Comput., 7 (1) pp. 33-55.

Lamping, John, Rao, Ramana, Pirolli, Peter (1995): A Focus+Context Technique Based on Hyperbolic Geometry for Visualizing Large Hierarchies. In: Katz, Irvin R., Mack, Robert L., Marks, Linn, Rosson, Mary Beth, Nielsen, Jakob (eds.) Proceedings of the ACM CHI 95 Human Factors in Computing Systems Conference May 7-11, 1995, Denver, Colorado. pp. 401-408. https://www.acm.org/sigchi/chi95/proceedings/papers/jl_bdy.htm

Mackinlay, Jock D., Rao, Ramana, Card, Stuart K. (1995): An Organic User Interface for Searching Citation Links. In: Katz, Irvin R., Mack, Robert L., Marks, Linn, Rosson, Mary Beth, Nielsen, Jakob (eds.) Proceedings of the ACM CHI 95 Human Factors in Computing Systems Conference May 7-11, 1995, Denver, Colorado. pp. 67-73. https://www.acm.org/sigchi/chi95/proceedings/papers/jdm_bdy.htm

Rao, Ramana, Pedersen, Jan O., Hearst, Marti A., Mackinlay, Jock D., Card, Stuart K., Masinter, Larry, Halvorsen, Per-Kristian, Robertson, George G. (1995): Rich Interaction in the Digital Library. In Communications of the ACM, 38 (4) pp. 29-39.

Rao, Ramana, Card, Stuart K. (1994): The Table Lens: Merging Graphical and Symbolic Representations in an Interactive Focus+Con. In: Adelson, Beth, Dumais, Susan, Olson, Judith S. (eds.) Proceedings of the ACM CHI 94 Human Factors in Computing Systems Conference April 24-28, 1994, Boston, Massachusetts. pp. 318-322. https://www.acm.org/pubs/articles/proceedings/chi/191666/p318-rao/p318-rao.pdf

Lamping, John, Rao, Ramana (1994): Laying Out and Visualizing Large Trees Using a Hyperbolic Space. In: Szekely, Pedro (eds.) Proceedings of the 7th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology November 02 - 04, 1994, Marina del Rey, California, United States. pp. 13-14. https://www.acm.org/pubs/articles/proceedings/uist/192426/p13-lamping/p13-lamping.pdf

Johnson, Walter, Jellinek, Herbert, Klotz Jr, Leigh, Rao, Ramana, Card, Stuart K. (1993): Bridging the Paper and Electronic Worlds: The Paper User Interface. In: Ashlund, Stacey, Mullet, Kevin, Henderson, Austin, Hollnagel, Erik, White, Ted (eds.) Proceedings of the ACM CHI 93 Human Factors in Computing Systems Conference April 24-29, 1993, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. pp. 507-512. https://www.acm.org/pubs/articles/proceedings/chi/169059/p507-johnson/p507-johnson.pdf

Rao, Ramana, Russell, Daniel M., Mackinlay, Jock D. (1993): System Components for Embedded Information Retrieval from Multiple Disparate Information S. In: Hudson, Scott E., Pausch, Randy, Zanden, Brad Vander, Foley, James D. (eds.) Proceedings of the 6th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology , 1993, Atlanta, Georgia, United States. pp. 23-33. https://www.acm.org/pubs/articles/proceedings/uist/168642/p23-rao/p23-rao.pdf

Rao, Ramana, Card, Stuart K., Jellinek, Herbert, Mackinlay, Jock D., Robertson, George G. (1992): The Information Grid: A Framework for Information Retrieval and Retrieval-Centered Applica. In: Mackinlay, Jock D., Green, Mark (eds.) Proceedings of the 5th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology November 15 - 18, 1992, Monteray, California, United States. pp. 23-32. https://www.acm.org/pubs/articles/proceedings/uist/142621/p23-rao/p23-rao.pdf

Mackay, Wendy E., Malone, Thomas W., Crowston, Kevin, Rao, Ramana, Rosenblitt, David, Card, Stuart K. (1989): How Do Experienced Information Lens Users Use Rules?. In: Bice, Ken, Lewis, Clayton H. (eds.) Proceedings of the ACM CHI 89 Human Factors in Computing Systems Conference April 30 - June 4, 1989, Austin, Texas. pp. 211-216.

Malone, Thomas W., Grant, Kenneth R., Lai, Kum-Yew, Rao, Ramana, Rosenblitt, David (1987): Semistructured Messages Are Surprisingly Useful for Computer-Supported Coordination. In ACM Transactions on Information Systems, 5 (2) pp. 115-131.

Kurlander, David, Brown, Marc, Rao, Ramana (eds.) Proceedings of the 9th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology November 06 - 08, 1996, Seattle, Washington, United States.

Pirolli, Peter, Rao, Ramana (1996): Table lens as a tool for making sense of data. In: Catarci, Tiziana, Costabile, Maria Francesca, Levialdi, Stefano, Santucci, Giuseppe (eds.) AVI 1996 - Proceedings of the workshop on Advanced visual interfaces May 27-29, 1996, Gubbio, Italy. pp. 67-80. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/948449.948460

Tenev, Tichomir, Rao, Ramana (1997): Managing multiple focal levels in Table Lens. In: InfoVis 1997 - IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization October 18-25, 1997, Phoenix, AZ, USA. pp. 59-. https://csdl.computer.org/comp/proceedings/infovis/1997/8189/00/81890059abs.htm