| 2006 | CHI | Information visualization and interaction techniques for collaboration across multiple displays. | Lucia Terrenghi, Richard May, Patrick Baudisch, Wendy E. Mackay, Fabio Patern, James J. Thomas, Mark Billinghurst |
| 1996 | VR | Interactive Information Visualization for Exploratory Intelligence Data Analysis. | John S. Risch, Richard May, James J. Thomas, Scott Dowson |
| 1994 | SSDBM | Information Visualization: Data Infrastructure Architectures. | James J. Thomas, Shaw Bohn, James C. Brown, Kelly Pennock, Anne Schur, James A. Wise |
| 1983 | SSDBM | Management and Display of Data Analysis Environments for Large Data Sets. | Robert A. Burnett, Paula J. Cowley, James J. Thomas |
| 1983 | SSDBM | ALDS Project: Motivation, Statistical Database Management Issues, Perspectives, and Directions. | James J. Thomas, David L. Hall |
| 1982 | SIGGRAPH | Graphic input interaction techniques(Panel Session). | James J. Thomas |
| 1981 | SSDBM | Data Management Support for Statistical Data Editing and Subset Selection. | Robert A. Burnett, James J. Thomas |
| 1981 | SSDBM | The Impact of Large Data Sets on Interaction Style for Data Manipulation Languages. | James J. Thomas |
| 1975 | SIGGRAPH | On the organization of a remote low cost intelligent graphics terminal. | John C. Dill, James J. Thomas |