• Suky
    After Bixy's demise, a new cat from Angell Animal Hospital, Boston
    Photo page
  • Munich, Germany München, Deutschland
    Bronze statue before a newspaper printing house
    Photo page
  • The temple of peace, established by Emperor Augustus
    1st century Roman alter, restored and on display in Rome
    Photo page
  • Store-bought flowers and the iPhone
     
    Photo page
  • Roman incised letters - Hadrian's Column
    The model of perfection in the Latin alphabet, Rome.
    Photo page
  • Red Dinghy, Chatham Town Dock
    Chatham, Mass., the elbow of Cape Cod
    Photo page
  • Bee in flower, Portsmouth, NH
    Trying to eat lunch when the bees appear.
    Photo page
  • View of the Pacific from Big Sur Ranch
    Hiking the original Coast Highway, Monterey, California
    Photo page
  • De Medici family statue
    On an open-air public patio at the end of the Uffizi, Florence.
    Photo page
  • St. Peter's, The Vatican
    Bernini and Michaelangelo
    Photo page
  • Victor Emmanuel II Monument
    Rome
    Photo page
  • Église St. Pierre, Paris
    Probably the oldest extant church in Paris, built around 1100.
    Photo page
  • Roman cat
    The Roman cat sanctuary is on the site of Julius Caesar’s death
    Photo page
  • Monterey pine, Carmel, California
    The type of trees that attracted early photographers to Carmel-by-the-Sea.
    Photo page
  • Michele Cloonan, Dean of GSLIS...
    and her amusing, well-educated, and modest mate, Sid Berger. Dinner party for Candy Schwartz
    Photo page
  • Statue to craftsmanship and manual labor
    Amsterdam, NL.
    Photo page
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  • The Pantheon
    Ancient Rome's monument to all the gods and mystery of concrete construction.
    Photo page
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The site is being re-constructed August 2010. | Come back soon!

Because of a computing catastrophe when Simmons Technology deleted entire research projects drive, this site and associated projects pages are being reconstructed. Apologies for the inconvenience.

Information Science Specialization


is supported by the Curriculum Committee, Oct 21, 2010.
Next is faculty approval. See the one page description of 2 sub-tracks: Users & Use and Systems & Informatics. Here’s the link

Student Record and Registration Program


Academic Technology supports alpha-testing of my recordkeepping, advising, and registration modules by campus units. That office will call for testers in mid-November.

Digital Library & Integrated Data Unity Projects


Read about Peabody Essex Museum's Data Unity Project at this link and auroraDL, a full-feature, free record creation, search engine, and research platform. Read the documentation from this site

Welcome | Bienvenue | 欢迎

Welcome to G. Benoit's homepage for the Fall 2010 term.

This site contains links to course materials, research activities, software projects (and their code and documentation). Students are asked to read the "About the class" website to learn how classes operate, expectations, and so on. Researchers are invited to review and to comment on published papers, drafts, projects, and collaborations across all fields are welcome and eagerly solicited.

Consulting

Small and large companies, institutions, libraries, and museums have large stores of legacy systems, poorly integrated data, unknown impacts that new systems will exert on work flow and information needs. I provide systems analysis, documentation, instruction, and software systems to help groups address their data needs in lightweight interactive models and applications. My client list includes Thompson Learning, McGraw-Hill, Cendage, Harvard University, Boston Public Library, Peabody-Essex Museum, and University of California-Davis. Feel free to contact me or past clients about how we can improve and facilitate your work.

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Research and Software Projects
  • auroraDL
    Research project
    Project Homepage
  • Peer-reviewed papers
    posters, drafts, and ideas
    CV with Publications
  • Software Projects - Open to all
    Various standalone, applets,
    and servlets for education,
    building collections from DLs,
    full-text and user-interaction studies
  • Ming Wa
    Brilliant Baby’s site - under development
    Ming Wa
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Please read about classes and some of my expectations. | See also the student contact site
Courses
  • Statistics, LIS642 Statistics
    New course this Fall
    Tuesdays, 9:30-12:20
    Homepage
  • Visual Communication Visual Communication
    Redesigned for Fall ’10
    Thursdays, 9:30-12:20
    Homepage
  • Doctoral Seminar Doctoral Seminar
    for new Ph.D. students
    Tuesdays, 2:30-5:20
    Homepage
  • Tech for Info Profs
    Online text and quizzes
    Homepage
  • XML
    Tech version of course
    Homepage
  • Info Retreival
    Full- and free-text
    search engine design
    Homepage
  • Information Visualization
    Visualization and HCI
    Offline
  • Evaluation Research
    LIS403
    Offline
  • Database Design
    LIS458 - RDBMS
    Offline
  • Biomedical Informatics
     
    Offline
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G. Benoit, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Computer Science & GSLIS, Simmons College, 300 The Fenway, Boston, MA, USA | SCR Associate, Adams House, Harvard University, welcomes collaborations and consulting opportunities. Email me at Simmons or Harvard accounts. Updated August 30, 2010.