The press release about the name change also mentions the effort to coordinate the human-computer interaction work going on all over campus. I remember when I started working in this area at the University of Michigan School of Information, and worrying that it was all so new and might not catch on and I’d be an academic outcast wandering in the interdisciplinary desert. Sometimes it still feels that way, but it’s great to know that there are oases where research on the human side of computing is in full bloom!