Jones was the technical advisor for HBO's documentary on electronic voting machine issues, "Hacking Democracy", that was released in 2006.

On December 11, 2009, the Election Assistance Commission appointed Douglas Jones to the Technical Guidelines Development Committee.

[7] Jones's most widely cited work centers on the evaluation of priority queue implementations.

[8] This work has been credited with helping relaunch the empirical study of algorithm performance.

[10][11][12] Jones's PhD thesis was in the area of capability-based addressing,[1] and he has occasionally published on other aspects of computer architecture.