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Gina Venolia

I am a senior researcher with Microsoft Research in the Human Interactions of Programming group. My research focuses on understanding how knowledge flows among people and building systems to make it flow more freely.

I am currently studying co-located and geographically distributed software development teams, building tools that help developers find and communicate about the knowledge behind the code, and developing systems that exploit spatial memory to support navigation, team awareness, and communication about code.

Current Projects

Some Recent Projects

Some Recent Publications

More About Me

Before joining Microsoft, I was at Cosmo Software, a now-defunct division of the all-but-defunct Silicon Graphics. My main contribution there was the user interface design for Cosmo PageFX, a novel tool for developing animated elements for web pages using VRML. PageFX had a very cool visual language for describing the causal chain of events and animation effects.

Before that, I was at Apple Computer for 15 years. Most of my time there was spent in the Advanced Technology Group. I shipped a number of things, including the QuickDraw 3D User Interface Guidelines and Toolbox, the Apple Game Sprockets APIs, mouse acceleration (twice!) and LisaTerminal.

I'm a California native.  I enjoy learning to play jazz piano, flying kites and playing with my two dachshunds.

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