Interview with Frank Shipman

Abstract

Frank Shipman is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Associate Director of the TEES Center for the Study of Digital Libraries. He has been pursuing research in the areas of hypermedia, computer-supported cooperative work, multimedia, computers and education, and intelligent user interfaces since 1987. Dr. Shipman's work at Baylor College of Medicine, the University of Colorado, Xerox PARC, and Texas A&M University investigates the design and use of media combining informal and formal representations and methods for supporting incremental formalization. This work included helping in the design and development of a number of collaborative hypermedia systems including the Virtual Notebook System, the Hyper-Object Substrate, VIKI, the Visual Knowledge Builder, Walden's Paths, and Hyper-Hitchcock.