| 2012 | OOPSLA | Internet voting: an idea whose time has not come. | Barbara Simons |
| 2005 | ESORICS | Computerized Voting Machines: A View from the Trenches. | Barbara Simons |
| 1999 | CHI | SIGCHI's role in influencing technology policy. | Jeff A. Johnson, Ben Shneiderman, Elliot Soloway, Austin Henderson, Barbara Simons |
| 1999 | CHI | Plenary: how to become an internet felon in three easy steps: will digital libraries become digital stores? | Barbara Simons |
| 1997 | SAC | Copyright and the net: is legislation the answer? (panel session). | Barbara Simons, Pamela Samuelson, Mark Stefik, Gio Wiederhold |
| 1996 | SPAA | Anticipatory Instruction Scheduling. | Vivek Sarkar, Barbara Simons |
| 1992 | ICS | Compile-time analysis of communicating processes. | Peter B. Ladkin, Barbara Simons |
| 1990 | ICCI | Is there Science and Technology (Funding) after the Cold War? | Barbara Simons |
| 1990 | SPAA | A Foundation for Sequentializing Parallel Code. | Barbara Simons, David Alpern, Jeanne Ferrante |
| 1988 | ICS | Generating sequential code from parallel code. | Jeanne Ferrante, Mary E. Mace, Barbara Simons |
| 1987 | ICS | Scheduling Sequential Loops on Parallel Processors. | Ashfaq A. Munshi, Barbara Simons |
| 1986 | PODC | On Fault Tolerant Routings in General Networks. | David Peleg, Barbara Simons |
| 1984 | PODC | Fault-Tolerant Clock Synchronization. | Joseph Y. Halpern, Barbara Simons, H. Raymond Strong, Danny Dolev |
| 1984 | STOC | Efficient Fault Tolerant Routings in Networks | Andrei Z. Broder, Danny Dolev, Michael J. Fischer, Barbara Simons |
| 1984 | STOC | A New Look at Fault Tolerant Network Routing | Danny Dolev, Joseph Y. Halpern, Barbara Simons, H. Raymond Strong |
| 1980 | FOCS | A Fast Algorithm for Multiprocessor Scheduling | Barbara Simons |
| 1978 | FOCS | A Fast Algorithm for Single Processor Scheduling | Barbara Simons |