Alan Stuart Cheuse was an American writer, editor, professor of literature, and radio commentator. A longtime NPR book commentator, he was also the author of five novels, five collections of short stories and novellas, a memoir and a collection of travel essays. In addition, Cheuse was a regular contributor to All Things Considered. His short fiction appeared in respected publications like The New Yorker, Ploughshares, The Antioch Review, Prairie Schooner, among other places. He taught in the Writing Program at George Mason University and the Community of Writers.
Alan Cooper is an American software designer and programmer. Widely recognized as the "Father of Visual Basic", Cooper is also known for his books About Face: The Essentials of Interaction Design and The Inmates Are Running the Asylum: Why High-Tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How to Restore the Sanity. As founder of Cooper, a leading interaction design consultancy, he created the Goal-Directed design methodology and pioneered the use of personas as practical interaction design tools to create high-tech products. On April 28, 2017, Alan was inducted into the Computer History Museum's Hall of Fellows "for his invention of the visual development environment in Visual BASIC, and for his pioneering work in establishing the field of interaction design and its fundamental tools."
Alan Cooper es un diseñador de software y programador estadounidense. Dirige una empresa de diseño de interacción y escribe libros acerca de cómo crear software.
Alan Cooper est un développeur pionnier dans la réflexion sur conception de logiciels prenant en compte l'utilisateur final. Il est reconnu comme le père du langage visual Basic et comme inventeur des personas, ces archétypes d'utilisateurs possibles auxquels les ergonomes peuvent se référer lors de la conception d’une interface.
Alan Cooper è un informatico e progettista statunitense, noto per aver contribuito allo sviluppo di Visual Basic, diffuso linguaggio di programmazione ad eventi che deriva da uno dei suoi programmi, chiamato Tripod.
Alan Cooper ist ein US-amerikanischer Software-Designer und Autor. Seit 1992 ist er Inhaber der Firma Cooper mit Sitz in Palo Alto. Er gilt als „Vater“ der Programmiersprache Visual Basic, der Persona-Methode und beschäftigt sich aktuell mit Interaktions-Design für Software, Hardware und webbasierte Anwendungen.
Alan Coren was an English humourist, writer and satirist who was a regular panellist on the BBC radio quiz The News Quiz and a team captain on BBC television's Call My Bluff. Coren was also a journalist, and for almost a decade was the editor of Punch magazine.
