Brad Myers
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"Brad Allan Myers" is a professor in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. He earned his PhD in computer science at the University of Toronto in 1987, under Bill Buxton.

Myers was the fourth most published author in the field of Human-Computer Interaction. He was elected to the prestigious CHI Academy in 2004 as one of the "principal leaders of the field" of HCI and is an IEEE Fellow and an ACM Fellow. Myers is a leading researcher in the field of programming by demonstration and created the Garnet and Amulet toolkits.

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You have aspirations of doing things, and it's kind of neat to see everything fall together. The parents and the alumni are really the people that's made it happen. Everything has kind of snowballed.

I hate that some of the big-league guys have chosen to do that. Those guys are who the high school guys look up to, and when they do stuff like that it makes it OK in their eyes. That's the worst part about it.

I think everything trickles down. It starts at the big leagues, and then it comes into college. Whatever goes on in college usually starts creeping into high school stuff ? all the good stuff and the bad.

If they end up doing that, it could possibly lead to good things immediately, but in the long run, you just hope they're going to see the bad in it. I've had some buddies that played in the big leagues, and you see a lot more injuries now. These guys bulk up, and the tendons really can't handle all the muscle tissue that these guys put on.

It's kind of got the feel of a major league clubhouse on a smaller scale. The guys hang out and sit around in the clubhouse. They're playing video games. I really think it's helped the camaraderie.

What's the saying? With everything, there's a price. I think we better make it to the state tournament this year. It would be a shame to be getting the field ready for someone else to play.

It was a challenge moving into a larger theater, but we found it actually plays better in bigger space. You get a better sense of the remoteness of the Grand Canyon setting.