About
Peter Parente is a software developer in IBM's Emerging Internet Technology group. His past responsibilities included developing IBM's Linux Screen Reader and the Accerciser testing tool; working on the accessibility infrastructure of the GNOME desktop; participating in the W3C User Agent Accessibility Working Group (UAAG); and contributing to the QEDWiki and Mashup Hub projects, the proof-of-concept software that spurred the development of the IBM Mashup Center product. Currently he is part of IBM's Project Blue Spruce, an investigation of real-time Web collaboration.
Peter holds a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The topic of his dissertation is perceptually based, task oriented auditory displays for GUI applications. His goal was, and still is, to show that we can do better than reading the screen for many people with visual impairments and benefit mobile sighted users at the same time.
Parente's vocational and research interests include accessibility, usability, auditory display, visualization, and model-based user interfaces. He is a Python hacker-enthusiast, but has lived in the land of JavaScript as of late.
You can contact Peter via email: parente at cs dot unc dot edu.