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Welcome to G Benoit's website. I‘m associate professor, Computer Science and GSLIS, Simmons College, Boston. Affiliated with Adams House SCR, Harvard College. | CV pdf

Bienvenue au site web du professeur Benoît, professeur titulaire de l’informatique et des sciences d’information à Simmons College, Boston, MA, USA, et associé d’Adams House, Harvard University.

Willkommen zu Website Prof Benoits, fest angestellter Professor in Informatik und Informationswissenschaft.

Students: Welcome to our class.
Advising site (demo for comment) link
Course planning (demo for comment) link
Tech Assessment (demo for comment; for waiving LIS488) link
Please read this note about expectations.


Liens | Links

auroraDL
is a digital library development plus an interface for searching, annotating, and building specialized collections, designed to support K-20 education and facilitate the use of digital objects in schools and colleges. Read more about the project here.

Contact
Simmons College
300 The Fenway
Boston, MA 02113 USA
benoit@simmons.edu
benoit@fas.harvard.edu

Lecture Series (Research Colloquia)
Thursday lunchtime lecture series: all are invited to attend and to speak.

Projects | Interests
Link
Research projects are described on the research link on the left. Some current projects are In-house Academic Records Management Application, general purpose Info Visualization Tool (tested using biomedical, financial, image and other data), philosophy of aesthetics and systems design, and digital object repurposing. Links are being added.
Conferences
Summer 2009 - The “beautiful” in information: philosophy of aesthetics and information visualization, 2nd Int'l Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval, Cambridge, UK
Iraq's Digital Dilemma: digital libraries and cultural artifacts (ASIST, Vancouver, BC)
Digital Object Repurpose: seven case studies (ASIST, Vancouver, BC)
Posted Sept 11, 2009