Cathy Marshall (hypertext developer)
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Cathy Marshall is a Principal Researcher in Microsoft Research
's Silicon Valley Lab. She is currently working on Community Information Management applications and issues associated with personal digital archiving. She has led a series of projects investigating analytical work practices and collaborative hypertext, including two system development projects, Aquanet (named after the hairspray) and VIKI. Marshall is mainly interested in studying human interaction when mediated by technology. From her early experiences with hypertext
, Marshall discovered the negative effects of having analysts work with formal representation. Marshall learned that information which does not fit in formal representation gets lost as people try to force it into this area. She worked at the Fuji Xerox Palo Alto lab for 20 years.
Between 1993 and 1996, while working with PARC, Judy Malloy
and Cathy Marshall collaborated on Forward Anywhere
: Notes on an Exchange between Intersecting Lives, a hypernarrative work based on electronic communication that passed between the two in which they sought "to exchange the remembered and day-to-day substance of our lives". In the essay, "Closure was never a goal in this piece," the two, (Judy Malloy and Cathy Marshall) share their experiences and thoughts about collaborating in "Forward Anywhere," excerpts of which can be found in the site itself. She has also produced works such as "Do Tags Work?" which is a narrative on the effectiveness of archive tagging on the internet.
Microsoft Research
Microsoft Research is the research division of Microsoft created in 1991 for developing various computer science ideas and integrating them into Microsoft products. It currently employs Turing Award winners C.A.R. Hoare, Butler Lampson, and Charles P...
's Silicon Valley Lab. She is currently working on Community Information Management applications and issues associated with personal digital archiving. She has led a series of projects investigating analytical work practices and collaborative hypertext, including two system development projects, Aquanet (named after the hairspray) and VIKI. Marshall is mainly interested in studying human interaction when mediated by technology. From her early experiences with hypertext
Hypertext
Hypertext is text displayed on a computer or other electronic device with references to other text that the reader can immediately access, usually by a mouse click or keypress sequence. Apart from running text, hypertext may contain tables, images and other presentational devices. Hypertext is the...
, Marshall discovered the negative effects of having analysts work with formal representation. Marshall learned that information which does not fit in formal representation gets lost as people try to force it into this area. She worked at the Fuji Xerox Palo Alto lab for 20 years.
Between 1993 and 1996, while working with PARC, Judy Malloy
Judy Malloy
Judy Malloy is a poet whose works embrace the intersection of hypernarrative, magic realism, and information art. Beginning with Uncle Roger in 1986, Malloy has composed works in both new media literature and hypertext fiction...
and Cathy Marshall collaborated on Forward Anywhere
Forward Anywhere
Forward Anywhere is a hypertext narrative created by writer Judy Malloy and scientist Cathy Marshall. They started working together in 1993 through the PAIR program at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center...
: Notes on an Exchange between Intersecting Lives, a hypernarrative work based on electronic communication that passed between the two in which they sought "to exchange the remembered and day-to-day substance of our lives". In the essay, "Closure was never a goal in this piece," the two, (Judy Malloy and Cathy Marshall) share their experiences and thoughts about collaborating in "Forward Anywhere," excerpts of which can be found in the site itself. She has also produced works such as "Do Tags Work?" which is a narrative on the effectiveness of archive tagging on the internet.
External links
- "Cathy Marshall Interview" ACM SIGWEB Newsletter, Winter, January 2009