Sandy has been involved with a variety of interactive computer graphics and video technologies for almost twenty years. After completing an MFA degree (from Rutgers University) in the visual arts (computer graphics) he conned some people at AT&T Bell Laboratories into hiring him. While at Bell Labs he created a number of innovative computer graphics demonstrations on a real time animation system. He was involved in the prototype development of a video disk information kiosk which later became part of Disney's Epcot center. Following Bell Labs he became part of a now defunct video game start-up company which created a real time video disk surrogate travel system.

He is author of Perspectives on Electronic Publishing and co-author of Life with UNIX (both of Prentice-Hall). He is also the author of a course for a subsidiary of Addison-Wesley entitled Multimedia Development-A Hands-On Workshop.

Currently he is a member of the Information Technology Laboratory at the National Institute of Standards and Technology involved with work on user interfaces. His motto: "I want to play and get paid for it." continually gets him in trouble.

Reviewed books: