Research Coordinator, Brown University Computer Graphics group. (1998-present)
Webmaster, Memex, STC, and Graphics Group web sites, Brown University Computer Graphics group. (1996-present)
President, Information Programming. (1986-present)
User Interface Specialist, LISP Machine Inc. (1984-1986)
Director of Educational Systems, Access Technology Inc. (1983-1984)
Market Research Specialist, Pixel Corporation. (1982-1983)
Senior Technical Writer, Prime Computer. (1977-1981)
Marketing Writer, Digital Equipment Corporation. (1975-1977)
Senior Software Instructor, Digital Equipment Corporation. (1973-1975)
Systems Programmer, IBM CP-67/CMS Development Group. (1969-1972)
Systems Engineer, IBM, Cambridge GEM (Government, Education, and Medical) office. (1967-1969)
Chemistry Technician, Tufts University Medical School. (1965-1966)
Chemistry Teacher, Newburyport High School. (1964-1965)
Indexed the proceedings for Hypertext '87, '91, '93, and ECHT '94 conferences. Currently am creating a global index and hypertext for all the SigWeb (formerly SigLink) hypertext conferences since 1987.
"Concurrency Programming in Java" by Lea.
"Design Patterns" by Gamma, Helm, Johnson, and Vlissides, in progress.
"Models of Computation" by John Savage.
"Operating Systems" by Silberschatz.
"Pattern Hatching" by Vlissides.
"PLoPD3 (Pattern Languages of Program Design 3)", Martin, Riehle, and Buschmann, editors.
"The Computer in the Visual Arts" by Spalter.
"The Design Patterns Smalltalk Companion" by Alpert, Brown, and Woolf.
"The Java Class Libraries" all versions and editions, by Chan and Lee.
"The Java Programming Language" editions one and two. by Arnold and Gosling.
"The Java Specification" by Gosling, Joy, and Steele.
"The Java Virtual Machine Specification" by Lindholm and Yellin.
Indexed The Macintosh System 7 User and Networking Manuals.
Created a comprehensive stand-alone index, "Common LISP - the Index", for Guy Steele's 'Common LISP - the Language", as well as indexes for all of Coral's LISP and Logo manuals. "Common LISP - the Index" was the exhibit Nancy Mulvany, President of the American Society of Indexers, used in obtaining a ruling from the U.S. Copyright Office that indexes are created, not compiled, works and are therefore copyrightable.
Provided paper and online indexes for over 30 Education Services student manuals.
Indexed:
"X Window System C Library and Protocol Reference", by Scheifler, Gettys, and Newman.
"VAX/VMS: Writing Real Programs in DCL" by Paul Anagnostopoulos.
"X Window System ToolKit" by Asente and Swick.
"VAX/VMS Internals and Data Structures, Version 5" by Goldenberg and Kenah.
Indexed "An Introduction to Compiler Construction" by Waite and Carter.
Designed and implemented a global market research index covering over 600 market research reports and newsletters.
Created a global market research index for market research reports and newsletters.
Created an integrated index for both the paper and online versions of the LISP Machine Manual.
Indexed the "Design/CPN User Guide and Programmers Reference" and the "Design/IDEF User's Guide".
Indexed the first and second editions of "The KornShell Command and Programming Language" by Bolsky and Korn.
Created a global index for all of Stardent's technical documentation.
Indexed the first and second editions of "The Internet Navigator" by Gilster.
Brown University: Designing ConceptLab, a software laboratory that provides facilities for exploring and extending a cognitive domain, for generating new ideas relative to that domain, and for modifying the domain to reflect the impact of the new ideas, enables users to discover relationships among concepts that they would not have otherwise discovered using currently available tools such as search engines (Google, Altavista, etc) and citationbases (CiteSeer).
LISP Machine Inc.: Designed and implemented the prototype for LMI-Gateway, a hypertext system which ran as a window system application. Portions of this research project resulted in an Online Documentation System - LMI-ODM, which ran as a major mode of the ZMACS editor and was part of Release 3 of the LMI system software.
Pixel Corporation: Designed and implemented an interactive information retrieval system, using UNIX utilities and shell facilities, to manage both technical and marketing information on over 50 of Pixel's competitors. This system - the ISHELL - was featured in an article on UNIX utilities in the September, 1983 issue of BYTE magazine.
Access Technology: Designed and managed production of a Supercomp-Twenty application notes series.
Coral Software: Provided the technical research and organization for the Pearl LISP manual.
Digital Equipment Corporation: Wrote technical summaries for the DECsystem-10 and DECSYSTEM-20. Wrote a coordinated series of hardware and software product bulletins for the PDP-11.
Meta Software Inc.: Wrote the "Design/CPN User Guide and Programmers Reference" for Version 2.0.
Pixel Corporation: Complete responsibility, from design through production, for all software, hardware, and third party product bulletins.
Prime Computer: Complete responsibility, from design through production, for systems level documentation, including systems architecture, assemblers, loaders, and debuggers.
Boston University: Taught a DECsystem-10 Macro Assembler course for Met College.
Digital Equipment Corporation: Designed and taught DECsystem-10 Macro Assembler, DECsystem-10 Users, TOPS-10 Monitor Overview, and TOPS-10 Monitor Internals courses.
Editorial Services: Designed and taught an indexing workshop. Clients have included Digital Equipment Corporation, Apollo, Data General, Unisys, Bachman, as well as numerous general technical writing audiences.
MIT: Designed and taught an MIT High School Studies Program course on Computers and Creativity.
S360 Assembler- Wrote utilities for CMS. Ported POPS compiler to CMS. Wrote a test suite for CP-67/CMS system testing.
APL - Wrote an educational game authoring system that was reported on at ACM '72.
Cambridge GEM (Government, Education, and Medical) office
S360 Assembler- Wrote registration utilities for Boston University.
RPG - Wrote a library cataloging system for Graham Junior College.
ACM Computing Surveys: ACM Computing Surveys Hypertext Symposium Hypertext Testbed
ACM SigWeb: Memex and Beyond Hypermedia Resource Base
ACM Hypertext 2001: paper, software demo, hypertext memoir, spatial hypertext workshop participant
ACM Hypertext 2000: paper
ACM SigCSE '99: paper
ACM SIGGRAPH '99: Electronic Schoolhouse lecture
ACM Hypertext '93: Moderator for "Hypertext Writing and Publishing" commercial symposium
ACM Hypertext '87, '91, '93, ECHT '94, Hypertext '99, 2000 : Indexed proceedings
ACM Hypertext '89: panelist
ACM SigDoc '89: paper
ACM SigChi '86: poster
ACM SigUCCS '85: panelist
User-System Interfaces Workshop, Austin, Texas, January 1986: paper
ACM '72: Technical Program Co-Chairman, Proceedings Chairman, Session Chairman, Paper contributor.
BA in History, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA. (1963).
[Peterson & Shields 1971] Theodore I. Peterson and Rosemary Shields. The Ecology Decision Game: Game Authoring. T.I. Peterson and Rosemary Shields, Cambridge Scientific Center Report, IBM, 1971.
[Peterson & Shields 1972] Theodore I. Peterson and Rosemary Shields. "Computer-Aided Schema for Instructional Gaming" in Proceedings of ACM '72, ACM, 1972.
[Shields 1972] Rosemary Shields, editor. Proceedings of ACM '72, 1972.
[Simpson et. al., 1986] Rosemary Simpson, John Mann, and JoAnn Brooks. "LMI-Gateway: Syntactic Tool for Organizing Hetergeneous Data Sets." Submitted to AAAI '86, 1986.
[Waite & Simpson 1996] William M. Waite and Rosemary Michelle Simpson. "The Lab and the Web: Transforming the Sophomore Experience", in Proceedings of ASEE '96, 1996.
[Simpson et al. 1996] Rosemary Michelle Simpson, Allen Renear, Elli Mylonas, and Andries van Dam. "50 years after 'As we may think': the Brown/MIT Vannevar Bush symposium" in ACM Interactions, 3:2, March 1996.
[Simpson 1996] Rosemary Michelle Simpson. "Beyond the Plane: Spatial Hypertext in a Virtual Reality World" in ACM SIGLINK Newsletter, 5:3, October 1996.
[Ashman et al. 1999] Helen Ashman, Paul Thistlewaite, and Rosemary Michelle Simpson, editors. "Computing Surveys' Electronic Sympsoium on Hypertext and Hypermedia: Editorial" in ACM Computing Surveys, Vol. 31, No. 4, pp. 325-334, December 1999.
[Gould et al. 1999] Daniel L. Gould, Rosemary Michelle Simpson, and Andries van Dam. "Granularity in the Design of Interactive Illustrations" in Proceedings of ACM SigCSE '99, 1999.
[Simpson 1999] Rosemary Michelle Simpson. "Exploratories: An Educational Strategy for the 21st Century", extended abstract in Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH '99 Electronic Schoolhouse, 1999.
[Spalter & Simpson 2000a] Anne Morgan Spalter and Rosemary Michelle Simpson. "Reusable Hypertext Structures for Distance and JIT Learning" in Proceedings of ACM Hypertext 2000, ACM SigWeb, Austin, Texas, June 2000.
[Spalter & Simpson 2000b] Anne Morgan Spalter and Rosemary Michelle Simpson. "Integrating Interactive Computer-Based Learning Experiences Into Established Curricula: A Case Study" in Proceedings of ITiCSE 2000, The 5th Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, University of Helsinki, Finland, July 11-13, 2000.
[Spalter et al. 2000] Anne Morgan Spalter, Philip A Stone, Barb J. Meier, Timothy S. Miller, and Rosemary Michelle Simpson. "Interaction in an IVR Museum of Color" in Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH 2000 Electronic Schoolhouse, ACM SIGGRAPH, New Orleans, Louisiana, August 2000.
[van Dam et al. 2000] Andries van Dam, Andrew S. Forsberg, David H. Laidlaw, Joseph J. LaViola, and Rosemary M. Simpson. "Immersive VR for Scientific Visualization: A Progress Report" in IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, Vol. 20, No. 6, Nov/Dev, 2000.
[Simpson 2001a] Rosemary Michelle Simpson. "Experiences with Web Squirrel: My Life on the Information Farm" in Proceedings of ACM Hypertext 2001.
[Simpson 2001b ] Rosemary Michelle Simpson. "Requirements, Characteristics, and Issues for an Information Structures Spatial Hypermedia Environment" in First Workshop on Spatial Hypertext (Arhus, Denmark - August 14).
[Simpson 2001c ] Rosemary Michelle Simpson. "ConceptLab: An Information Structures Spatial Hypermedia Environment" in Poster Proceedings of the ACM Hypertext 2001 Conference, Aarhus, Denmark. ACM Press.
[van Dam et al. 2002] Andries van Dam, David H. Laidlaw, and Rosemary M. Simpson. "Experiments in Immersive Virtual Reality for Scientific Visualization" in Computers and Graphics, 26 (2002), 535-555, Elsevier Publications, 2002.
[van Dam et al. 2005] Andries van Dam, Sascha Becker, and Rosemary M. Simpson. "Next-Generation Educational Software: Why We Need It and a Research Agenda for Getting It" in Educause Review, March/April 2005, Vol. 40, No. 2, 2005.
The Assembly Language Programmer's Guide. FDR3059, 1978.
Assembly Language Programmer's Companion. FDR3340, 1978.
Reference Guide, System Architecture and Instructions. IDR3060, 1979.
Reference Guide, System Architecture. PDR3060, 1979.
Reference Guide, System Architecture. PDR3060, 1981 (complete revision).
Reference Guide, LOAD and SEG. IDR3524, 1979.
Reference Guide, Source Level Debugger. IDR4033, 1980.
DECscope (VT50, VT50H, VT52). ED06198, 1976.
RSX-11S Execute-Only Real-Time System, Version 1. ED05879, 1976.
RSX-11M Real-Time Operating System, Version 2. ED05888, 1976.
RSX-11D Real-Time Operating System, Version 6. ED05881, 1976.
IAS Interactive Application System, Version 1. ED05882, 1976.
CAPS-11. ED05002, 1976.
RT-11 Single-User Operating System. ED05848, 1976.
RSTS/E Timesharing System, Version 6. ED05847, 1976.
MUMPS-11 Timesharing System. ED05846, 1976.
FORTRAN IV. ED06003, 1976.
FORTRAN IV-Plus. ED06006, 1976.
2780 Emulator. ED06005, 1976.
Prime 550-II System. 1981.
Prime 750 System. 1981.
UNIX Operating System. 160455-03, 1982.
Third Party Software. 160455-33, 1982.
Pixel Customer Support. 160455-55, 1982.
APL.68000. 160455-53, 1982.
TeleSoft Ada. 160455-40, 1982.
C Systems Language. 160455-54, 1982.
SMC BASIC. 160455-22, 1982.
SVS BASIC-PLUS. 160455-23, 1982.
Micro Focus LEVEL II COBOL. 160455-63, 1982.
RM/COBOL. 160455-21, 1982.
SVS PASCAL. 160455-20, 1982.
How to Select a Database - Part One. 160455-12, 1982.
How to Select a Database - Part Two. 160455-13, 1982.
How to Select a Database - Part Three. 160455-15, 1982.
How to Select a Database - Part Four. 160455-16, 1982.
MicroINGRES. 160455-41, 1982.
MBDS III. 160455-52, 1982.
SMC IDOL. 160455-44, 1982.
UNIFY. 160455-35, 1982.
Pixel Spreadsheet. 160455-08, 1982.
Pixel Word Processor. 160455-06, 1982.
How to Select Financial Packages. 160455-19, 1982.
BACS. 160455-17, 1982.
MBSI. 160455-50, 1982.
SUNBURST. 160455-18, 1982.
Pixel System Summary. 160455-70, 1983.
Pixel Languages. 160455-71, 1982.
Pixel Database. 160455-72, 1983.
DECSYSTEM-20. ED06076, 1976.
PDP-11V03. EA06572, 1976.