Submitted by jburka (not verified) on Mon, 2007-09-10 02:36.
Um, yeah. See, there's this thing called google, and you can use it to learn all about interesting things. Like, maybe, treemaps.
They were invented in the early 90's at the University of Maryland's human-computer interaction lab (HCIL) by Ben Shneiderman. The algorithm and samples of the first implementation were published in March of '91. That implementation happened to be done on a mac, though at the time the HCIL was also doing a lot of work with sun boxen and some windows machines. They were also playing with Neuron Data's cross-platform window toolbox.
I was never a part of the HCIL, but I was a grad student at UMd in the early to mid 90s and my department/advisor had close ties to Shneiderman's department. We had a number of fieldtrips over to the HCIL to see their work and exchange ideas, and I presented at the HCIL's 13th annual symposium.
I had nothing to do with treemaps, other than being a big fan of the concept.
But the point is...reckon all you like, but you're just being a fanboi if you insist that the treemap was "ripped off of a good idea in linux"
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Um, yeah. See, there's this
Um, yeah. See, there's this thing called google, and you can use it to learn all about interesting things. Like, maybe, treemaps.
They were invented in the early 90's at the University of Maryland's human-computer interaction lab (HCIL) by Ben Shneiderman. The algorithm and samples of the first implementation were published in March of '91. That implementation happened to be done on a mac, though at the time the HCIL was also doing a lot of work with sun boxen and some windows machines. They were also playing with Neuron Data's cross-platform window toolbox.
I was never a part of the HCIL, but I was a grad student at UMd in the early to mid 90s and my department/advisor had close ties to Shneiderman's department. We had a number of fieldtrips over to the HCIL to see their work and exchange ideas, and I presented at the HCIL's 13th annual symposium.
I had nothing to do with treemaps, other than being a big fan of the concept.
But the point is...reckon all you like, but you're just being a fanboi if you insist that the treemap was "ripped off of a good idea in linux"