| Born: | April 12, 1956, Montreal, Canada
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| Citizenship: | Canada, United States (Naturalized May 11, 1993)
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| Status: | Married with 2 children
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| Address: | 4688 Westmount Ave., Westmount, Quebec, H3Y-1X1 Canada
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| Phone: | 514-482-4905
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| Email: | perlman@acm.org
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| Home Page: | http://hcibib.org/perlman/
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| Objective: | To improve the quality of how people use
technical information by the development of
information artifacts and software systems
that increase the productivity of people
working with information.
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| Interests: |
- Hypertext and Information Retrieval
- Software Engineering
- Human Factors and Ergonomics
- Applied Statistics
- Technical Communication
- Science/Technology and Mathematics Education
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| 1996- | Consulting Research Scientist,
OCLC Online Computer Library Center,
Dublin, Ohio.
Focus:
web-based bibliographic and full text retrieval.
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| 1984-98 | Consultant on UNIX software and user
interfaces for many software companies.
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| 1988-96 | Assistant Professor of Computer and
Information Science, Ohio State University,
Columbus, Ohio.
Research:
human-computer interaction,
information retrieval.
Courses:
software engineering,
information retrieval,
user interface development,
empirical methods.
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| 1987-90 |
President, Northern Lights Software Corporation
Focus:
information retrieval software.
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| 1987-88 |
Visiting Scientist,
Software Engineering Institute,
Carnegie Mellon University,
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Focus:
user interface development.
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| 1987-88 |
Visiting Research Scientist,
Sloan School of Management,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Focus:
information management.
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| 1984-87 | Assistant Professor of Information
Technology, Wang Institute of Graduate
Studies, Tyngsboro, Massachusetts.
Courses:
programming methods,
user interface development,
systems analysis.
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| 1982-84 | Member of Technical Staff, Bell
Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey.
Focus:
user interface software tools,
particularly for the S statistical system.
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| Systems: | UNIX (since 1977), DOS/Windows, Macintosh
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| Languages: | expert in Java, C and HTML/CGI,
competent with Visual Basic, JavaScript, CSS, Perl, SQL,
some experience with Lisp, Pascal, FORTRAN
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| Other: |
- User interface design and evaluation methods
- Internet information services
- International user interface implementation
- Disbility accessible software development
- UNIX Programming and CASE tools
- Software Analysis, Design, Coding, Testing
- Experimental design and statistical data analysis
- Information storage and retrieval algorithms
- Writing, editing, formatting, and presentation skills
- French (working knowledge)
- Photography (digital and film) and video amateur
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| 1999-2000 |
FirstSearch User Interface Architecture
is a web-based system for bibliographic and
full text retrieval for many levels of users,
in many lanaguges, available on many Web platforms.
Demo Version of FirstSearch
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| 1998 |
Web-Based User Interface Evaluation with Questionnaires
is a perl CGI script that reads questionnaires and options
from files and form data, administers a questionnaire,
and e-mails data to the administrator,
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| 1995 |
Human Factors Perspectives on Human-Computer Interaction
is an
edited collection of the best HCI papers from the
HFES annual meeting proceedings of 1983-1994
(co-edited with Georgia Green and Mike Wogalter).
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| 1993- | The HCI Education Survey
is an online
database describing 77 graduate
education programs, 193 faculty, and 174
courses on human-computer interaction.
The survey was designed and conducted
entirely via electronic mail on the Internet
(with Jean Gasen).
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| 1990- |
The Semi-Structured Toolkit is a C
function library that represents semi-structured
information (e.g., mail, news,
bibliographic / biographical information,
calendars, etc.) as frame-like structures, and
provides a comprehensive set of functions
(e.g., search, sort, format) without imposing
changes to proprietary file formats.
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| 1989- | The HCI Bibliography
is a free access
online bibliography on human-computer
interaction. The database contains over
20,000 entries compiled over the Internet
with the help of over 100 volunteers.
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| 1987 | NaviText SAM is a PC-based hypertext
interface to MITRE's 944 guidelines on user
interface development. The system, written
in C, was made into a commercial product.
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| 1980- | |STAT
is a data manipulation and analysis
package of over 25 programs running on
UNIX and DOS. Written in highly portable
C in the early 1980s, it has been in use on dozens of platforms
on thousands of machines around the world.
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