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I Am Building SLS: Robert Hoffman, Team Lead, Integration and Test of Vehicle Avionics and Software

I am a team lead for Integration and Test of Vehicle Avionics and Software at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. Our branch is responsible for building and operating the Systems Integrated Test Facility, where avionics are configured and tested for NASA's Space Launch System (SLS). When completed, SLS will be the most powerful launch vehicle to take us on deep-space missions.

My primary responsibility was to get the Systems Integrated Test Facility assembled for SLS core stage First Light, a major milestone in getting the avionics system powered up and ready for testing. I have helped piece together the infrastructure, with the avionics components in flight configuration. The Systems Integration Test Facility is the first step in proving that all of the avionics boxes, in conjunction with all of the cabling and software, will actually control the SLS vehicle with no anomalous behavior.

My interest in testing hardware began when I took a job with the Naval Surface Weapons Center in Washington. I started working for NASA in 1984 running the thermal vacuum test chambers. I've held several positions since then doing different types of testing, including on payloads. When the opportunity presented itself to build the SLS avionics test facilities, I took it. I love the work I do.
My advice to students would be to find a career that you look forward to going to in the morning, and hate leaving in the evening. I saw a quote from one of the scientists when I was working for the U.S. Navy: "If they didn’t pay me to do this job…I’d pay them." For most of my career, I have felt that way about my job. It makes every aspect of your life better when you love what you do. And whatever you do, always do it to the best of your ability.

Synthetic Methods. Part 39. Reactions and Rearrangements in 2-Oxa(3.2. 0)bicycloheptanones

The furan-fused chlorocyclobutanone 6 undergoes reaction with O, N, S, C nucleophiles at a much slower rate than its pyran homolog, which is attributed to a reluctance to enolization. Instead of substitution products, rearranged products were formed. For instance, 7-membered ring lactones 8 and 9 were derived via vinyl ketenes, while 5-membered ring lactones 12, 19, and 20 resulted from opening of the cyclobutanone and/or of the tetrahydrofuran ring. Phenylthiolate behaved exceptionally as a nucleophile, leading, presumably via electron transfer, to ipso substitution and then to a naphthofuran.

Monday, 19 October 2015

Robert E Hoffman MBA Financial Advisor

These days, it's hard to talk about college without mentioning financial aid. Yet this pairing isn't a marriage of love, but one of necessity. In many cases, financial aid may be the deciding factor in whether your child attends the college of his or her choice or even attends college at all. That's why it's important to develop a basic understanding of financial aid before your child applies to college. Without such knowledge, you may have trouble understanding the process of aid determination, filling out the proper aid applications, and comparing the financial aid awards that your child receives.
But let's face it. Financial aid information is probably not on anyone's top ten list of bedtime reading material. It can be an intimidating and confusing topic. There are different types, different sources, and different formulas for evaluating your child's eligibility. Here are some of the basics to help you get started.
WHAT IS FINANCIAL AID?
Financial aid is money distributed primarily by the federal government and colleges in the form of loans, grants, scholarships, or work-study jobs. A student can receive both federal and college aid.
Grants and scholarships are more favorable than loans because they don't have to be repaid--they're free money. In a work-study program, your child works for a certain number of hours per week (either on or off campus) to earn money for college expenses. Obviously, an ideal financial aid package will contain more grants and scholarships than loans.
NEED-BASED AID VS. MERIT AID
Financial aid can be further broken down into two categories--need-based aid, which is based on your child's financial need; and merit aid, which is awarded according to your child's academic, athletic, musical, or artistic merit.
The majority of financial aid is need-based aid. However, in recent years, merit aid has been making a comeback as colleges (particularly private colleges) use favorable merit aid packages to lure the best and brightest students to their campuses, regardless of their financial need. However, the availability of merit aid tends to fluctuate from year to year as colleges decide how much of their endowments to spend, as well as which specific academic and extracurricular programs they want to target.
SOURCES OF MERIT AID
The best place to look for merit aid is at the colleges that your child is applying to. Does the college offer any grants or scholarships for academic, athletic, musical, or other abilities? If so, what is the application procedure? College guidebooks and individual college websites can give you an idea of how much merit aid (as a percentage of a general student's overall aid package) each college has provided in past years.
Besides colleges, a wide variety of private and public companies, associations, and foundations offer merit scholarships and grants. Many have specific eligibility criteria. In the past, sifting through the possibilities could be a daunting task. Now, there are websites where your child can input his or her background, abilities, and interests and receive (free of charge) a matching list of potential scholarships. Then it's up to your child to meet the various application deadlines. However, though this avenue is certainly worth exploring, such research (and subsequent work to complete any applications) shouldn't come at the expense of researching and applying for the more common need-based financial aid and/or college merit aid.
SOURCES OF NEED-BASED AID
The main provider of need-based financial aid is the federal government, followed by colleges. States come in at a distant third. The amount of federal aid available in any given year depends on the amount that the federal budget appropriates, and this aid is spread over several different financial aid programs. For colleges, need-based aid comes from a college's endowment, and policies may differ from year to year, resulting in an uneven availability of funds. States, like the federal government, must appropriate the money in their budgets.
The federal government's aid application is known as the FAFSA, which stands for Free Application for Federal Student Aid. The federal government and colleges use the FAFSA when federal funds are being distributed (colleges are responsible for administering certain federal financial aid programs). When colleges distribute their own financial aid, they use one of two forms. The majority of colleges use the PROFILE application, created by the College Scholarship Service of Princeton, New Jersey. A minority of colleges use their own institutional applications. The states may use the FAFSA or may require their own application. Contact your state's higher education authority to learn about the state aid programs available and the applications that you'll need to complete.
The FAFSA is filed as soon after January 1 as possible in the year your child will be attending college. You must wait until after January 1 because the FAFSA relies on your tax information from the previous year. The PROFILE (or individual college application) can usually be filed earlier than the FAFSA. The specific deadline is left up to the individual college, and you'll need to keep track of it.
HOW IS MY CHILD'S FINANCIAL NEED DETERMINED?
The way your child's financial need is determined depends on which aid application you're filling out. The FAFSA uses a formula known as the federal methodology; the PROFILE (or a college's own application) uses a formula known as the institutional methodology. The general process of aid assessment is called needs analysis.
Under the FAFSA, your current income and assets and your child's current income and assets are run through a formula. You are allowed certain deductions and allowances against your income, and you're able to exclude certain assets from consideration. The result is a figure known as the expected family contribution, or EFC. It's the amount of money that you'll be expected to contribute to college costs before you are eligible for aid.
Your EFC remains constant, no matter which college your child applies to. An important point: Your EFC is not the same as your child's financial need. To calculate your child's financial need, subtract your EFC from the cost of attendance at your child's college. Because colleges aren't all the same price, your child's financial need will fluctuate with the cost of a particular college.
For example, you fill out the FAFSA, and your EFC is calculated to be $5,000. Assuming that the cost of attendance at College A is $18,000 per year and the cost at College B is $25,000, your child's financial need is $13,000 at College A and $20,000 at College B.
The PROFILE application (or the college's own application) basically works the same way. However, the PROFILE generally takes a more thorough look at your income and assets to determine what you can really afford to pay (for example, the PROFILE looks at your home equity and retirement assets). In this way, colleges attempt to target those students with the greatest financial need.
What factors the most in needs analysis? Your current income is the most important factor, but other criteria play a role, such as your total assets, how many family members are in college at the same time, and how close you are to retirement age.
HOW DOES FINANCIAL NEED RELATE TO MY CHILD'S FINANCIAL AID AWARD?
When your child is accepted at a particular college, the college's financial aid administrator will attempt to create a financial aid package to meet your child's financial need. Sometime in early spring, your child will receive these financial aid award letters that detail the specific amount and type of financial aid that each college is offering.
When comparing awards, first check to see if each college is meeting all of your child's need (colleges aren't obligated to meet all of it). In fact, it's not uncommon for colleges to meet only a portion of a student's need, a phenomenon known as getting "gapped." If this happens to you, you'll have to make up the shortfall, in addition to paying your EFC. College guidebooks can give you an idea of how well individual colleges meet their students' financial need under the entry "average percentage of need met" or something similar. Next, look at the loan component of each award and compare actual out-of-pocket costs. Remember, grants and scholarships don't have to be repaid and so don't count toward out-of-pocket costs. Again, you would like your child's need met with the highest percentage of grants, scholarships, and work-study jobs and the least amount of loans.
If you'd like to lobby a particular school for more aid, tread carefully. A polite letter to the financial aid administrator followed up by a telephone call is appropriate. Your chances for getting more aid are best if you can document a change in circumstances that affects your ability to pay, such as a recent job loss, unusually high medical bills, or some other unforeseen event. Also, your chances improve if your child has been offered more aid from a direct competitor college, because colleges generally don't like to lose a prospective student to a direct competitor.
HOW MUCH SHOULD OUR FAMILY RELY ON FINANCIAL AID?
With all this talk of financial aid, it's easy to assume that it will do most of the heavy lifting when it comes time to pay the college bills. But the reality is you shouldn't rely too heavily on financial aid. Although aid can certainly help cover your child's college costs, student loans make up the largest percentage of the typical aid package, not grants and scholarships. As a general rule of thumb, plan on student loans covering up to 50 percent of college expenses, grants and scholarships covering up to 15 percent, and work-study jobs covering a variable amount. But remember, parents and students who rely mainly on loans to finance college can end up with a considerable debt burden.

ROBERT S. HOFFMAN, MD, FACPS

BIO

 Robert S. Hoffman, M.D. completed National Science Foundation Fellowships in microbiology at Syracuse University and forest pathology at Cornell University, was music and movie reviewer, then literary editor of the award winning Union College (NY) Concordiensis newspaper, first French hornist with the Union-Skidmore Orchestra, and member of the Union woodwind quintet, Albany Symphony, and first tenor in the Union chorus, before being elected to Phi Beta Kappa and graduating cum laude with Honors in English from Union. He received a National Institutes of Health Fellowship to the Albert Einstein College of Medicine (New York), where he performed research in cytogenetics and received his MD. After graduation, he completed a medical internship at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Dr. Hoffman then fulfilled his military obligation as Lieutenant Commander and Service Unit Director of the Fort Yuma Indian Hospital, practicing family medicine (treating illness, delivering babies, setting fractures, etc), and was awarded special recognition for his outstanding service. While in Yuma, he was first horn with the Yuma Symphony. He then received his residency training at the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute while continuing to practice emergency and general medicine at various hospitals in the Los Angeles area.

Immediately upon graduation, he was appointed Assistant Professor in Residence, UCLA, and Chief, West Valley-Coastal Community Mental Health Center at the VA Medical Center, Sepulveda. In his final year at the VA, he was Clinical Director of the Alcohol Treatment Unit before joining the first comprehensive Breast Center in the world as Director of Psycho-oncology. He remained there for almost twenty years, evaluating and treating more than two thousand cancer patients. He has been in the private practice of psychiatry and integrative medicine since 1975, providing psychodiagnostic evaluation, individual, couple, family and group psychotherapy, (integrating insight-oriented, psychodynamic, cognitive-behavioral, object relations, interpersonal, mindfulness based and transpersonal approaches), psychopharmacotherapy, and expert witness consultation and testimony.

Author and co-author of numerous scholarly journal articles and book chapters, Dr. Hoffman has lectured on subjects ranging from psychoneuroimmunology to bipolar disorder, anxiety, depression and psychopharmacology, locally, nationally and internationally. He has special expertise in psychopharmacology, including the management of sleep disorders, chronic pain and migraine headache. A pioneer in integrative (or mind-body) medicine, he integrates traditional and "alternative/complimentary" approaches, as well as scientific and spiritual practices. Dr. Hoffman has also provided expert witness testimony in many legal cases, (including several high profile and precedent setting cases), involving medical malpractice, personal injury, worker compensation and child custody. In addition, he has provided script consultation to the entertainment industry, and was techinical advisor to the award winning Showtime Series "Huff."

Dr. Hoffman is Assistant Clinical Professor, UCLA Department of Biobehavioral Sciences, Diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, and Fellow of the American Board of Forensic Examiners. He is a founding member of the International Psycho Oncology Society, and member of the Southern California Academy of Clinical Oncology, the New York Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Pain Management, the American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry, the American Society of Clinical Psychopharmacology, and the Sleep Consultant Network.

In his "spare" time, Dr. Hoffman has played with the Los Angeles Doctors Symphony, the Palisades Symphony, the Topanga Symphony, and currently is a member of the Gold Coast Wind Ensemble, which performs at the Thousand Oaks Civics Arts Center. He also occasionally performs with the Channel Islands Chamber Orchestra, Ventura Symphony and other local instrumental groups.

Dr. Hoffman's hobbies include daily exercise, hiking and backpacking, fishing, reading, movie and concert going. He has traveled extensively in North America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia, and intends to continue to travel as time permits when he and his wife are not visiting their children and grandchildren. 

R. Hoffman, Barbell Firm Owner

YORK, PA. — Robert Hoffman, a once-sickly child who built himself into ``Mr. Physical Fitness,`` has died in his hometown of York. He was 86.
Mr. Hoffman, who as a youth used weights to help work his way to health and who later founded the York Barbell Co., died Thursday. Funeral Services will be held in the Weightlifting Hall of Fame that he established in York, an official of his firm said.
Mr. Hoffman, who turned his passion for health and fitness into prominence in weight lifting as performer, coach and manufacturer, shared the fortune he made from weight lifting and physical fitness equipment with York.
A native of Georgia, he began weight lifting when his family moved to Pittsburgh in 1909 and he fashioned weights from cog wheels and junk metal found in a junkyard. Regular workouts won him recognition in track, rowing, sculling and canoeing.
In 1930 he formed the York Barbell Team and took it to the 1932 Olympics as the United States` representative. Four years later, at the games in Berlin, Terry Terlazzo, a member of Mr. Hoffman`s team won a gold medal.
A member of the Amateur Athletic Union and U.S. Olympic committees, Mr. Hoffman also coached U.S. Olympic weight lifting teams from 1948 to 1956.
His gifts to the York area include a softball stadium complex that has been the scene of state and national championships, a 1,100-acre mountain that is the Hoffman-York YMCA Camping Center, York Hospital`s physical therapy center, community handball courts and an annex to the Salvation Army center.
Mr. Hoffman is survived by his wife, the former Alda Ketterman, and two stepdaughters.

Rob Hoffman

Rob Hoffman is a highly sought-after trial lawyer, helping clients in major exposure lawsuits around the U.S. A senior in-house counsel at a publicly traded company said, "I had the pleasure of working with Rob on a complex commercial matter involving multi-jurisdictional issues and international parties. As in-house litigation counsel for a large publicly traded company, I work with many lawyers but rarely encounter attorneys who excel both at high level strategy and court room mastery. Rob is a clear exception."
Rob represents clients across the United States in all aspects of complex litigation, including contract breach, fraud, malpractice, construction, insurance coverage, bad faith claims and class action suits. Rob looks at each case as a collection of puzzle pieces, with the fervent confidence that there’s always a way for the pieces to successfully come together in his clients' behavior. The proof: Rob has won virtually every case he’s handled over the last decade, whether by a favorable jury verdict, dispositive motion, or settlement for a few pennies on the dollar.
Rob has served as General Counsel of The General Counsel Forum, an association consisting of approximately 700 general counsel and managing counsel, for the past 15 years. He is also a member of the Forum’s Board of Directors and its Executive Committee.
In 2013, 2014 and 2015, Rob was acknowledged by The Best Lawyers in America in the area of Commercial Litigation. He was also recognized as one of the Top 15 Corporate Defenders in the Dallas/Fort Worth area in 2010 by the Dallas Business Journal. Furthermore, D Magazine named Rob one of The Best Lawyers in Dallas. His talent as a commercial litigator has earned Rob recognition in Texas Super Lawyers each year since its inception in 2003, and has earned him recognition in Super Lawyers in the separate Corporate Counsel edition.
The Dallas Morning News included Rob’s business-related advice columns each week for several years, and he has authored and presented many legal articles, including a series regarding legal ethics for practitioners that appeared in Texas Lawyer.

Publications

  • Co-Author with Christopher W. Martin, "Ready for Trial: Lessons Learned from Successfully Defending Large and Medium Insurance Cases," Texas Bar CLE's 11th Annual Advanced Insurance Law Course (April-June 2014).
  • Co-Author with Jaclyn M. O'Sullivan, "What the Insurance Code Giveth, the Courts Cannot Taketh Away: Judicial Confusion Over Whether Insurance Policy Proceeds Can Be Trebled," 11:3 J. Tex. Ins. L. (Winter 2011).
  • Co-Author with Richard O. Faulk and Diana P. Larson, "Effective Challenges to Unreliable Expert Opinions," Tex. Law., June 4, 2007.
  • Co-Author with Richard O. Faulk, "Avoiding and Exploiting ‘Analytical Gaps’ in Expert Testimony," 6:3 Expert Evidence Rep., BNA (Feb. 6, 2006).
  • Co-Author with William E. Matthews and Dan Scott, "Conflicting Loyalties Facing In-House Counsel: Ethical Care and Feeding of the Ravenous Multi-Headed Client,"St. Mary's L.J. (2006).
  • Co-Author, "Beyond Daubert and Robinson: Avoiding and Exploiting ‘Analytical Gaps’ in Expert Testimony," The Advoc., St. B. Tex. Litig. Sec. Rep. (Winter 2005).
  • Co-Author, "Recovering Lost Profits for Startup Companies," The Value Examiner(November/December 2005).
  • Co-Author, "Recovering Lost Profits for Startup Companies: A Balancing Test," 4:7Nat'l Litig. Consultants' Rev. (December 2004).
  • Co-Author with J. Palazzo, "The Art of Peace: Tort Reform’s New Settlement Scheme," The App. Advoc., 17:2 St. B. Tex. App. Sec. Rep. (Fall 2004).
  • Author, "Reduce Legal Costs by 40 percent. A Cure for Every Company’s Common Cold," Tex. B.J. (March 2002).
  • Author, "Deceptive Trade Practices and Commercial Torts," Sw. L.J. (a publication of Dedman School of Law, SMU).
  • Author, "Ethical Considerations and Malpractice Prevention for the Trial Lawyer, How to Offer and Exclude Evidence Seminar," University of Houston Law Foundation.
  • Co-Author, "The HIPAA Privacy Answer Book for TPAs."
  • Co-Author, "Privacy Issues," Ft. Worth Bus. Press (November 2002).
  • Co-Author, "The Outsiders," Tex. Law.
  • Co-Author, "The Statute of Limitations in Legal-Malpractice Claims," Tex. Law.
  • Co-Author, "Referrals Don’t Always Pay Off," Tex. Law.
  • Co-Author, "Beware of the Hazards of Contingent-Fee Cases," Tex. Law.

In The News

  • Guest Commentator, NewsRadio 1080 KRLD, CBS DFW (March 4, 2013)
  • Guest Commentator, Nightly Business Report, PBS (2007)
  • Instructor, Damages Recoveries for Major Accounting Firm Seminar (November 2003)
  • Instructor, "Employee Fraud, Theft and Embezzlement: Prevention and Detection," Lorman Education Services Seminar, Dallas, Texas
  • Instructor, "Ethical Considerations and Malpractice Prevention," Family Law Seminar, University of Houston, Houston, Texas
  • Interview, "National Privacy Act," CBS Television Affiliate, Dallas (October 2002)
  • Quoted, "National Privacy Issues," Ft. Worth Star-Telegram (February 2003; April 2003)
  • Quoted, "Privacy Issues," Ft. Worth Star-Telegram (October 2002)
  • Quoted, "National Litigation Trends," Corp. Legal Times (April 2002; September 2002)

Events

  • Speaker, "Mock Trials and Shadow Juries, When and How to Include in Your Litigation Management Strategy," presented to Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty (December 16, 2014).
  • Speaker, "Proven Methods to Avoid Texas Bad Faith Liability," presented to Fireman's Fund Insurance Company (September 23, 2014).
  • Panelist, 11th Annual Advanced Insurance Law Course 2014: "Ready for Trial: Lessons Learned from Successfully Prosecuting and Defending Insurance Cases," Houston (April 24, 2014).
  • Co-Speaker with David J. Schubert, Address at the 16th Annual Insurance Law Institute: "The Independent Injury Rule – Can Denied Policy Benefits Be Trebled as Damages under Texas Insurance Code Chapter 541?" (November 4, 2011).
  • Speaker, Address at the St. Mary’s University Law Journal Fifth Annual Symposium on Legal Malpractice and Professional Responsibility: "Conflicting Loyalties Facing In-House Counsel: Ethical Care and Feeding of the Ravenous MultiHeaded Client" (February 24, 2006).
  • Speaker, Address at AICPA: Recovering Lost Profits for Startup Companies A Balancing Test (September 2004).
  • Speaker, Address at Milkie/Ferguson Investments Inc.: Broker-Customer Disputes.

Professional Recognition

  • The Best Lawyers in America, Commercial Litigation (2013-2016) and Insurance Law (2016)
  • Top 15 Corporate Defenders in Dallas/Fort Worth, Dallas Business Journal (2010)
  • Recognized among the "Best Lawyers" in Dallas in Business Litigation, D Magazine(2011, 2012, 2015)
  • Top Attorney in Business Litigation in the U.S., Super Lawyers Magazine (Business Edition) (2008-2011)
  • Texas Super Lawyer in Business Litigation, Texas Monthly (each year since its first publication in 2003)
  • National Registry of Who's Who
  • AV® Preeminent™ 5.0 out of 5 Peer Review Rated, MartindaleHubbell® PEER REVIEW RATINGS™

Robert Hoffman

Senior Research Scientist

Robert R. Hoffman, Ph.D. is a Fellow of the American Psychological Society, recipient of a Fulbright Scholar Award, and an Honorary Fellow of The British Library, Eccles Center for American Studies.
He received his B.A., M. A., and Ph.D. in experimental psychology at the University of Cincinnati, where he receivedMcMicken Scholar, Psi Chi, and Delta Tau Kappa Honors. After a Postdoctoral Associateship at the Center for Research on Human Learning at the University of Minnesota, Hoffman joined the faculty of Adelphi University. There, he received awards for outstanding research and service, and also served as Chair of the Institutional Review board and the University Grants Officer. He joined the IHMC as a Research Associate in 1999.
Hoffman’s early research was in the area of psycholinguistics, where he helped pioneer the experimental study of the comprehension of figurative language (metaphor, proverbs). His first book, Cognition and Figurative Language, co-edited by his mentor Richard Honeck of the University of Cincinnati, is now regarded as a classic. Hoffman went on to help found the journal, Metaphor and Symbol, for which he remains Associate Editor.
Another focus of Hoffman’s early work, an interest that continues to this day, is the psychology and history of science. Hoffman has published analyses of the use of metaphor in science, the philosophy of contextualism, and reviews of the histories of task analysis, cognitive psychology, and applied psychology.
After his Postdoctoral Associateship, Hoffman’s research took an applied direction. Hoffman helped launch an Annual Conference on Applied Experimental Psychology–one of which was the Ebbinghaus Centennial Conference (Gorfein & Hoffman, 1987), and another of which was an initial meeting of what would become the International Society for Ecological Psychology.
Hoffman has been recognized internationally for his research on expertise, on the methodology of knowledge elicitation, and on human factors issues in the design of workstation systems and knowledge-based systems. He is Series Editor for the book Series, “Expertise: Research and Applications.”
To realize his goals for research in applied cognitive psychology, Hoffman received grants from the U.S. Army and U. S. Air Force to receive training in remote sensing, including aerial photo interpretation, terrain analysis, radar interpretation, and meteorological satellite image interpretation. Ultimately, Hoffman qualified to teach remote sensing in environmental science, as well as human factors psychology.
Current projects include an effort to define the methodologies for human-centered computing and cognitive technologies, an effort to forge a general theory of macrocognitive work systems and an effort to develop measures and metrics for evaluating cognitive work.
Hoffman is a member of Human Factors & Ergonomics Society, the American Association for Artificial Intelligence, the IEEE and the American Meteorological Society.
Hoffman has published widely, in journals including Human Factors, Memory & Cognition, Organizational Behavior & Human Decision Processes, The Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society, The Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, Ecological Psychology, Applied Cognitive Psychology, Metaphor and Symbol, The AI Magazine, Weather and Forecasting, and The Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence. He is a member of the Board of Editors for the journals Human Factors andCognitive Engineering and Decision Making.
Also an award-winning teacher, Hoffman has offered courses in General Psychology, Experimental Psychology Laboratory, Cognitive Psychology, Developmental Psychology, Problem Solving, Psycho-linguistics, Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Psychology, History of Science, Human Factors, and Remote Sensing.
Hoffman has also worked as a Ranger/Naturalist in the Green Mountains of Vermont and is an accomplished blues drummer. In his spare time he likes to restore Art Deco period furniture.

Selected Publications


Recent Books

Hoffman, R. R. and Militello, L. G. (2008). Perspectives on Cognitive Task AnalysisHistorical Origins and Modern Communities of Practice. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press/Taylor and Francis.
Crandall, B., Klein, G., and Hoffman R. R. (2006). Working Minds: A Practitioner’s Guide to Cognitive Task Analysis. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Hoffman, R. R. (Ed.) (2007). Expertise out of context: Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Naturalistic Decision Making. Boca Raton FL: Taylor and Francis.
Ericsson, K. A., Charness, N., Feltovich, P. J. and Hoffman, R. R., (Eds.) (2006). Cambridge handbook of expertise and expert performance. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Recent Journal Articles

Hoffman, R. R., Marx, M., Amin, R., & McDermott, P. (2010). Measurement for evaluating the learnability and resilience of methods of cognitive work. Theoretical Issues in Ergonomic Science, in press.
Hoffman, R. R., Lee, J. D., Woods, D. D., Shadbolt, N., Miller, J. & Bradshaw, J. M. (2009, November/December). The dynamics of trust in cyberdomains. IEEE Intelligent Systems, pp. 5-11.
Stappers, P. J. & Hoffman, R. R. (2009, September/October). Once more into the soup. IEEE Intelligent Systems, pp. 9-13.
Hoffman, R. R., & McNeese, M. (2009). A history for macrocognition. Journal of Cognitive Engineering and Decision Making, 3, 97-110.
Hoffman, R. R., Eskridge, T. & Shelly, C. (2009). A naturalistic exploration of the forms and functions of analogical reasoning.Metaphor and Symbol24, 125-154.
Hoffman, R. R., Norman, D. O. & Vagners, J. (2009, May/June). Complex Sociotechnical Joint Cognitive Work Systems? IEEE: Intelligent Systems, pp. 82-89.
Hoffman, R. R., Fiore, S. M., Klein, G., Feltovich, P. & Ziebell, D. (2009, March/April). Accelerated learning (?). IEEE: Intelligent Systems, pp. 18-22.
Moon, B., Hoffman, R. & Ziebell, D. (2009, Jan/Feb). How did you do that? Utilities Develop Strategies for Preserving and Sharing Expertise. Electric Perspectives, 34, 20-29.
Hoffman, R. R. (2008, November/December). Influencing versus informing design, Part 2: Macrcognitive modeling. IEEE: Intelligent Systems, pp. 86-89.
Hoffman, R. R. & Deal, S. V. (2008, September/October). Influencing versus informing design, Part 1: A gap analysis. IEEE: Intelligent Systems, pp. 72-75.
Hoffman, R. R., Neville, K. N. & Fowlkes, J. (2009). Using cognitive task analysis to explore issues in the procurement of intelligent decision support systems. Cognition, Technology, and Work, 11, 57-70.
Hoffman, R. R. (2008). Human factors contributions to knowledge elicitation. Human Factors (50th Anniversary Special Issue), 50(3), 481-488.Update for Hoffman info at the web site
 
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