From: CBS%UK.AC.EARN-RELAY::EARN.UTORONTO::LISTSERV 13-SEP-1989 12:21:48.68 To: ARCHIVE CC: Subj: File: "BIOGRAFY 1" being sent to you Via: UK.AC.EARN-RELAY; Wed, 13 Sep 89 12:21 BST Received: from UKACRL by UK.AC.RL.IB (Mailer X1.25) with BSMTP id 3175; Wed, 13 Sep 89 12:20:31 BS Received: from vm.utcs.utoronto.ca by UKACRL.BITNET (Mailer X1.25) with BSMTP id 5599; Wed, 13 Sep 89 12:20:29 B Received: by UTORONTO (Mailer R2.03A) id 5049; Wed, 13 Sep 89 07:00:29 EDT Date: Wed, 13 Sep 89 07:00:25 EDT From: Revised List Processor (1.6a) Subject: File: "BIOGRAFY 1" being sent to you To: ARCHIVE@UK.AC.OXFORD.VAX Autobiographies of HUMANISTs The following is a collection of brief biographies written by members of HUMANIST. Many of these are spontaneous statements originally included in notes requesting membership in HUMANIST, and for this reason they share no common format, style, or scope. I have edited them only slightly. I am circulating the collection so that we can get an idea of who we are professionally and what range of interests and talents we possess. Later a more detailed and systematic questionnaire will be circulated. Additions, corrections, and updates are welcome, to MCCARTY at UTOREPAS.BITNET. W.M. 4 July 1987 ========================================================================= *Baldini, Pier (ATPMB@ASUACAD) Department of Foreign Languages, Arizona State University, Tempe AZ. Supporting applications in foreign languages. ========================================================================= *Balestri, Diane I am an Assistant Dean of the (undergraduate) College at Princeton University. The office is responsible for the undergraduate curriculum and life. So I do my share of advising students, but half of my time is given to nurturing the integration of computing into the curriculum. I work with faculty in all departments to help acquire resources that will (in my judgment) be put to the best possible educational use. I have written successful grant proposals with faculty to the state of NJ and to Apple. I also work very closely with the Office of Computing and Information Technologies to see that their planning is well coordinated with the educational goals of the university. This, happily, is a very constructive working relationship. We have been developing plans for student access to computing, for instance, as well as for faculty support. How I got to this position is odd, but not unusual. My PhD is in English. I taught fulltime for several years, moved with my husband, and ended up a part timer in composition at Bryn Mawr College; from there to Assistant Dean; to a FIPSE grant for coordinated teaching of writing and computer programming; to the chair of the FIPSE Technology Study Group (70 FIPSE project directors, FIPSE being a funding agency in the Dept. of Ed, who all are working with technology in post secondary settings)--that while at BMC--to Princeton. The Group is finishing a report directed at Academic Deans and those who implement academic decisions about computing, in which we lay out a series of recommendations about powerful applications of computing to learning along with some of the consequences for institutions which get into the computing game. That should be available sometime this fall, and coming from a set of innovative, mostly faculty, types, will be interesting. ======================================================================== *Bjorndahl, Sterling - Claremont Grad. School Institute for Antiquity and Christianity, Claremont Graduate School, Claremont, CA 91711 (714) 621-8066 (o) (714) 624-7110 (h) I am a graduate student in the New Testament program. I am resident computer consultant and programmer at the Institute for Antiquity and Christianity. I work mostly in the MSDOS and Ibycus microcomputer environments. ========================================================================= *Borchardt, Frank L. Department of German, Duke University, Durham, NC 27707 [919] 684-3836 [919] 489-5949 Principal Investigator, Duke University Computer Assisted Language Learning (DUCALL) Project. Should like access to HUMANIST. Have incipient interest in Neural Network Computing for natural language applications. ========================================================================= *Burkholder, Leslie Name: Leslie Burkholder Address: CDEC Bldg B CMU, Pittsburgh PA 15213, USA Phone: 412-268-8532 University affiliation: Carnegie Mellon University Description: Editor, The Computers and Philosophy Newsletter; development of instructional software in philosophy (in particular, logic); work on bibliography of available instructional software in PHILOSOPHY; INSTRUCTOR FOR COMPUTERS AND ETHICS COURSE. ========================================================================= *Burnard, Lou Educated mostly at Bristol Grammar School and Balliol College (Oxford) during the 1960s, many of the attitudes of which remain curiously entrenched. Graduated in English 1968; then took one year off to research swinging London subculture before returning to take BPhil in 19th c. English studies at Oxford 1969-71 (anywhere else it would be called a masters), specialising in Dickens, 19th c. theatre, gutter press etc. Took up lectureship in English at University of Malawi 1971-3 (essential 3rd World life experience, but academically and politically depressing). Gruelling apprenticeship at OUCS from 1974; involved learning PLAN (ICL 1900 assembler), doing Programme Advisory, writing GEORGE3 macros, installing and maintaining various odd software packages, some of which are still with us (Famulus, Snobol, etc) many of which are not. Software for which I can take some of the credit includes:- Oxeye (EYEBALL stylistic analysis prog rewritten in Snobol; now defunct); design of OCP command language and structure; FAMULUS77 (complete rewrite of Famulus package, now being distributed by U of Edinburgh). In 1976 formalised our ragbag of electronic texts into the Oxford Text Archive and went around begging for more. Text Archive gradually took over half of my life (see semi-official history of same, available on request). Over last two years have been tinkering with possibility of transforming suitable quantities of texts into online database; to this end developed PQR software to interface to ICL's CAFS (wizard hardware text searching engine; see various papers), tried it out with some success on Oxford Shakespeare texts, various bits of Thesaurus Linguae Graecae, Bodleian pre-1920 catalogue. In 1980 OUCS was one of first UK universities to dip a toe into the world of database systems for other than "defense" projects, cornershop accounting or comp sci fanatics. Design and construction of weird and wonderful database systems is what occupies the other half of my time. The first one was to do with the wild bird population of Wytham Woods and its breeding habits; the most recent with the Great Palace at Byzantium, in fact and fiction. In between I've had to become quasi-expert on Attic Red and Black Figure Vase Paintings, Greek Personal names, 17th c. assize court records, 19th c Philadelphia business, museum conservation and collection management etc etc. I'd really rather be working with literature, but the literary scholars don't beat on the door in the way the others do; I think humanities people in general remain depressingly ignorant about what database systems are and how they can be used. One day I hope to find time to write a book to try to change that. Meanwhile I only get to write the occasional book review, electronic mail message, conference paper, lecture etc., which is not enough. ======================================================================== *Bush, Chuck Humanities Research Center Brigham Young University (ECHUCK@BYUHRC) Interests: Language Corpora, Concordances, Humanities Computing Classes, Macintosh applications, Desktop Publishing. ========================================================================= *Cameron, Keoth DEPARTMENT OF FRENCH AND ITALIAN, UNIVERSITY OF EXETER, EXETER EX4 4QH GB 392-264209 Have and am working of computer-assisted concordances and research into development of expert system for teaching/correction of French and French phonetics. ========================================================================= *Camilleri, Lelio Professor of Computer Music at the Conservatory of Music "L. Cherubini", Florence and member of the research unit of the Musicological Division of CNUCE, Institute of the National Research Council of Italy. Research work concerns with the study of the cognitive processes underlying the musical knowledge by means of the automated tools; also on the application of the computational methodologies to music theory, analysis and composition. Recent publications are: Music, Mind and Programs (DIOGENES, 133, 1986), The Current State of Computer Assisted Research In Musicology in Italy (ACTA MUSICOLOGICA, LVIII/2, 1986), A Software Tool for Music Analysis (INTERFACE, XVI/1, 1987), Towards a Computational Theory of Music (SEMIOTIC WEB, 1987). He participates at the project Basic Concepts in the Study of Musical Signification. DIVISIONE MUSICOLOGICA DEL CNUCE/C.N.R. Conservatorio di Musica L. Cherubini Piazza delle Belle Arti 2 50122 Firenze ITALIA ++39-55-282105. ========================================================================= *Candlin, Francis E. I am the programmer at the DISH History and Computing Laboratory at Glasgow University, Scotland. DISH consists of a room of micros, where various lecturers at the History Departments have implemented teaching using machine readable sources such as the Census, Valuation Roll, Shipping records, Company accounts. We have a programme of software development, so far concentrating on flexible data entry and tabulation of data. Our address is: DISH History Computing Laboratory, University of Glasgow, 2 University Gardens, Glasgow G12 8QQ. ======================================================================== *Cartwright, Dana E. 3rd Director of Academic Computing Services, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, 13244-1260, 315-423-4504, DECARTWR@SUVM. Employed at Syracuse University since 1971. While my undergraduate degree is in Physics and my Master's is in Computer Science, I have a strong interest in fine arts, music, and the humanities, so when worrying about computing I pay special attention to those areas. I view my job as being a problem solver (in contrast with being a supplier or controller of computing). I happen to use computing to solve problems, but that is almost incidental. I am particularly fascinated with the way artists, musicians, and humanists interact with computing technology. A major thrust at Syracuse University is bringing such people into close contact with super- computers and advanced graphics devices (while not neglecting the Macintosh!). For example, I have just hired (into the Academic Computing Center!) an recent SU graduate with an MFA in Computer Art, who will help scientists and engineers better visualize the results of their research (and anyone else needing such help--it's just that I think those two groups need SERIOUS assistance). I am a dedicated Macintosh user (SE at the office, Plus at home). I primarily use WriteNow, PageMaker, SuperPaint, and FullPaint (this should give you some insight into my philosophy about computing). Professionally I am a programmer (Every nickel earned since 1969 has come from computing, first as a systems programmer on large IBM mainframes, then as a network software creator from 1977 through 1983), but inside of me lurks a writer, singer, and illustrator who justs happens to like computers. ========================================================================= *Evra, James W. van (PHILOSOPHY DEPT.) My primary interest is in the teaching of formal logic by computer. The information you requested is as follows: Name: James Van Evra Address: VANEVRA@WATDCS.BITNET Telephone: (519) 8851211x2449 Affiliation: Dept. of Philosophy, Univ. of Waterloo ========================================================================= *Gillette, Jeffrey William (DYBBUK at TUCCVM.BITNET or ducall!jeff at duke.edu) Humanities Computing Facility, 104 Languages Building, Duke University Durham, NC 27706; phone: 919/684-3637 As Associate in Research for the Humanities Computing Facility, I am responsible for all software development in the Duke project. The largest share of this consists of Calis, the "Computer Assisted Language Instruction System" which many universities and publishers use to provide supplemental computer exercises to foreign language students, and the Duke Language Toolkit - a package which allows IBM PCs to work with text in Russian, Greek, Hebrew, Coptic, and various other non- Roman languages. My academic work lies principally in the study of Christian Origins. I am interested in the use of computer assisted text research tools, particularly those which give access to antique and medieval documents in Greek, Latin, Coptic, and other relevant languages. The most interesting technologies for this include CD-ROMs, graphics packages, "electronic concordance" tools, and statistical applications My professional work focuses on the task of using computers in the acquisition of a second language. Here my interests center on the use of technology for second language learning, the implementation of language acquisition strategies in a computer medium, and the validation of computer assisted language learning applications. ========================================================================= *Griffin, Catherine I work at the Oxford University Computing Service in the Computing in the Arts section. While I help all arts users, my specialty is typesetting, and most of my time is spent helping users typeset a wide variety of languages and alphabets (from English and the european languages to Syriac and Hieroglyphs). My main duty at Oxford is to run the Oxford end of our national academic typesetting service (although for the 6 months and for the foreseeable future, d to lack of staff I have been running both the local and the national ends). I have taken part in broader-based computing in the arts seminars and conferences here and abroad, and have helped Susan for many years with her SNOBOL course and with her other courses. ========================================================================= *Hare, Roger I am involved in training here at the University of Edinburgh, and have a particular interest in Humanities Computing. (Training Group Computing Service University of Edinburgh 59 George Square Edinburgh Scotland ========================================================================= *Henry, Chuck I am the person in charge of the humanities and history division of the Columbia Libraries. ========================================================================= *Hockey, Susan (SUSAN%VAX2.OXFORD.AC.UK@UK.AC) After taking a degree in Oriental Studies (Egyptian with Akaadian) at Oxford University I worked as a programmer/advisor at the Atlas Computer Laboratory which at that time was providing large scale computing facilities for British Universities. There in the early 1970's I wrote programs to generate non-standard characters on a graph-plotter and was involved with the development of version 2 of the COCOA concordance program. In 1975 I moved to Oxford which now supports various services for computing in the humanities which are used by other universities. I am in charge of these facilities and also teach courses on literary and linguistic computing and on SNOBOL. Both of these courses have been turned into books. I have been a Fellow of St Cross College, Oxford since 1979 and I now look after the computing interests in college. I have lectured on various aspects of humanities computing in various corners of the globe, more recently on current issues and future developments for humanities computing, Micro-OCP and its uses and on computers in language and literature for a more general audience. My recent activities have been concerned with (1) Version 2 of the Oxford Concordance Program and Micro-OCP. Both are being tested now and are in the final stages of documentation. (2) The Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing of which I am currently Chairman and am on the editorial committee of Literary and Linguistic Computing. My next project will be concerned with the introduction of computers in undergraduate courses at Oxford. These courses consist almost entirely of the detailed study of set texts, and this project, which is funded under the UK government Computers and Teaching Initiative, will set up a University-wide system for analysis of these texts via IBM-PC workstations linked to a large VAX cluster at the central service. Susan Hockey, Oxford University Computing Service 13 Banbury Road Oxford OX2 6NN England Telephone: +44 865 273226 Arpa: Susan%vax2.oxford@cs.ucl.ac.uk / Susan%oxford.vax2@arpa.ucl-cs EARN/BITNET: Susan@vax2.oxford.ac.uk / Susan%oxford.vax2@ac.uk ========================================================================= *Ide, Nancy M. President of the Association for Computers and the Humanities. She holds a Ph.D. in English Literature with a Ph.D. minor (M.S. equivalent) in Computer Science from The Pennsylvania State University. Currently, she is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science and a member of the Cognitive Science faculty at Vassar College, where she teaches courses in programming language theory, compiler design, natural language processing, data structures, and computer architecture in addition to introductory programming. She also teaches courses in computing for students of literature and language as has written a textbook for use in such courses, entitled Pascal for the Humanities. Her research includes computer-assisted analyses of structure and theme in William Blake's The Four Zoas; her primary area of research interest is developing formal models and methods for analysis of meaning in literary texts. She has given numerous papers and lectures on her research as well as other aspects of humanities computing, and she organized and led a workshop on Teaching Computers and the Humanities Courses in summer, 1986. She is also active in the area of computer science education and is developing guidelines for the design of joint majors involving computer science and a second discipline. ======================================================================== *Jones, Sarah Rees (Bitnet: SRRJ1 at VAXB.YORK.AC.UK Janet: SRRJ1%UK.AC.YORK.VAXB@AC.UK) History Department, Vanbrugh College, University of York, Heslington, York, YO1 5DD U.K Tel. York (0904) 430000 ext. 5893 I am in the History Department of the University of York, U.K. For a while now I have been engaged in creating a data-base of medieval title deeds for the city of York for research purposes, and with 3 other colleagues am now planning ways of introducing data-processing techniques to undergraduates in our teaching next academic year. Humanist seems to be producing a lot of discussion which would be of great use to us as we "learn how to use the wheel". ========================================================================= *Katzen, May I am Project Manager of the Office for Humanities Communication. The Office is funded by the British Library, specifically to encourage the use of computers in the humanities. To this end we run HUMBUL, an online bulletin board for computing in the humanities, which is available on JANET, as well as a printed Newsletter, the Humanities Communication Newsletter which appears quarterly. We also arrange a series of conferences, workshops, and specialist meetings. Among our recent efforts have been an Anglo-French colloquium on the use of expert systems in research in the humanities, CATH87, a conference on computers and teaching in the humanities, a series of specialist meetings on computer applications in fields such as medieval studies, music, and so on, as well as demonstrations to alert potential users to the wide range of applications of computerised systems and services. In addition, the Office conducts research in these fields. Office for Humanities Communication,University of Leicester, Leicester LE1 7RH; phone: (Leicester) 522598 ========================================================================= *Kaufman, Steve, Hebrew Union College account I am editor of the new project: the Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon, centered at Johns Hopkins (CAL@JHUNIX). Steve Kaufman (BITNET address VSSVHUC@UCCCVM1) Hebrew Union College 3101 Clifton ave. Cincinnati, OH 45220 USA (phone #513-221-1875). ======================================================================== *Kennedy, Mark T. 815 Watson Labs, 612 W. 115th Street, Columbia University, New York, N.Y. 10025; phone: (212) 280-3259. affiliation: computer center staff. my internet email address is: mark@cucca-wp.columbia.edu. my bitnet email address (which you may use if your mailer doesn't reach the internet) is: mtkus@cuvma. what i do to support computing in the humanities: i'm the manager of what was the computer center's user services group (12 consultants, 1 technical writer, 4 administrative staff, 40 part-time student consultants). however, in an attempt to meet the growing needs of the entire university research community, the computing center and the university libraries have merged into one organization at columbia known as the 'S.I.C.', the Scholarly Information Center). my group works closely with reference librarians, faculty, and staff from the humanities in order to help them use computers and communications facilities to further their work. we also administer an IBM grant which has placed a large number of microcomputers in the hands of humanities faculty on campus. i will send you the latest copy of our SIC journal which contains a number of articles about computing in the Humanities. ======================================================================== *Kruse, Susan I am a Computer Advisor within the Humanities Division of the Computer Centre at King's College London. Although many Universities in Britain increasingly have a person within the Computer Centre who deals with humanities' enquiries, King's College is unique in having a Humanities Division. There are eight of us within the division, some with specific areas of expertise (e.g. databases, declarative languages) and others (like myself) who deal with general issues. Some of us are from computer backgrounds; others, like myself, are from a humanities background (in my case, archaeology). We cater to all users within the College but specialise in providing a service for staff and students in the arts and humanities. This involves advising, teaching, and writing documentation. The aims and activities of HUMANIST are therefore of some interest to me, and I would very much like to be placed on your list: Computer Centre King's College London Strand London WC2R 2LS England ======================================================================== *Lancashire, Anne (ANNE at UTOREPAS) As first Acting Chairman of the English dept. and now Vice-Provost (Arts & Science, Univ. of Toronto), I have been attemping to encourage use, by humanists, of computing technology in research and in teaching: though my personal use of computing has so far been pretty mundane--word-processing, indexing, electronic mail. I am now beginning to store on the computer the transcriptions from my current medieval and Renaissance theatre records project, with a view eventually to manipulating the data in various ways (e.g., sorting records by date, by type, etc.). ========================================================================= *Lowry, Anita I am a Reference Librarian in the Humanities and History Division of the Columbia University Libraries, with special responsibilities for providing information, training, resource development, etc. relating to computer applications in the humanities; areas of particular interest and expertise include information retrieval, bibliographic data base creation and management, and text analysis. I consult with faculty and students on projects, teach classes, write articles and training materials, and build collections of print and machine-readable resources to support computing in the humanities. I look forward to exchanging information and views with other HUMANISTs. Anita Lowry Reference Department Butler Library 325 Columbia University New York, NY 10027 (212)280-2242 (cul.lowry@cu20b.columbia.edu) ========================================================================= *Makkuni, Ranjit System Concepts Laboratory, Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, 3333 Coyote hill road, Palo Alto CA 94304. (415) 494-4387. My research explores the potential of electronic technologies -- computers and video -- towards preserving and disseminating traditional crafts. As a first experiment, I am setting up a project that will apply electronic technologies to the practice of Tibetan Thangka painting, which is endangered by external forces. My research explorations seek to demonstrate the relationship of electronic technologies towards preserving traditional values while, at the same time, illustrate the changes brought by electronic media to Thangka painting. ========================================================================= *McCarthy, William J. Dept. of Greek and Latin, Catholic University of America, Wash., D.C. 20064 (202) 635-5216/7 In our department I am the party responsible for acquiring and maintaining hard- and software. Although I have no training or particular interest in programming, I am interested in HUMANIST. ================================================================= *McCarty, Willard Centre for Computing in the Humanities, University of Toronto 14th floor, Robarts Library, 130 St. George Street, Toronto, Canada M5S 1A5 (416) 978-3974. I am an editor, researcher, academic consultant, and administrator in the Centre for Computing in the Humanities (CCH), and a Miltonist with strong interests in classical and biblical literature. In the former role I edit _Ontario Humanities Computing_, the newsletter of the provincial Ontario Consortium for Computing in the Humanities; with Ian Lancashire, _The Humanities Computing Yearbook_ (Oxford Univ. Press); HUMANIST; and occasional guidebooks. My research interests in computing centre on personal information systems, i.e., database software useful in an academic setting chiefly for management of source material and notes. On the basis of the experience with a prototype I wrote some time ago, I've designed a more adequate system and given papers on it. This design is currently being implemented commercially. Within the CCH I also supervise a couple of people, help organize conferences, and assist in other local work. Most recently I have completed a lecture tour of several European countries both preceding and following the ALLC/AIBI conference in Jerusalem (June 1988). In my latter role, as Miltonist, I have written an essay on the classical motif of descent into the underworld in relation to Satan's journey in Paradise Lost (UTQ 56.2) and, in support of research on Satan's narcissism, another on metaphorical mirroring in classical literature (Arethusa, forthcoming). At the moment I am finishing a chapter on Ovid's Narcissus for a book of collected essays. This recent writing is part of a larger investigation of the pragmatic and theoretical issues raised by Milton's use of biblical and classical sources. (Tracing and managing the evidence of such sources and discovering the patterns in them is work for which a computer is an admirable assistant.) Once the current project is out of the way, I plan to do work on the theory of allusion itself and to return to the focus of my Ph.D. thesis, the relation between Paradise Lost and the Bible. I am a founding member of the ACH/ALLC Special Interest Group on Humanities Computing Resources, of which HUMANIST is an expression, and an enthusiastic though critical proponent of e- mail. ========================================================================= *McCutchan, Walter Works for DCS, but he has a long history of interest in computing in the humanities and he does much of the humanities consulting over in DCS. Also has worked on projects at the Centre for the NOED. Particular responsibility at DCS is as the SPIRES expert. User Services Department of Computer Services, Math and Computer Building, University of Waterloo (519)-885-1211 x.6447 ========================================================================= *Mitchell, David (D.MITCHELL at QMC.AC.UK) Department of Geography and Earth Science, Queen Mary College University of London, Mile End Road, London E1 4NS England Tel. 01 980 4811 ext. 3631 I am a post-graduate researcher in human geography in the Department of Geography, Queen Mary College, University of London. I am part of the team who teach computing to the first year human geography under- graduates. I will also be involved in the instalation of software on the new departmental micro-Vax, and for general upkeep of the same system. Thus issues relating to teaching computing skills to humanities students are of great interest to me; as is any discussion on the specific problems faced in the implementation phase. My views on the general teaching of computing skills to non-computer science based and non-science based students will shortly be appearing in the Journal of Geography and Higher Education. Humanities consulting for Dept. of Computing Services. SPIRES; NOED ========================================================================= *Mok, Shu-Yan I am a Ph.D. student in the philosophy department of York University. Among my interests is formal philosophy. Recently I learnt PROLOG. Department of Philosophy, York University, North York, Ontario M3J 1P3 Telephone numbers: 736-5113(office); 736-1162(home). ========================================================================= *Nardocchio, Elaine Computer address: ELAINE AT MCMASTER or CJONES at UTOREPAS Affiliation: Dept of French, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario L8S 4M4 Interests: Computer aided analysis of dramatic texts Other info: President of Ontario Consortium for Computers and the humanities. ========================================================================= *Ore, Espen I am working at The Norwegian Computing Centre for the Humanities (there is a note about us on HUMBUL). Since we are a national service centre for computers in the humanities in general, our work is fairly varied. My field of interest is processing of non-English texts, with a bias towards papyrology, but I'm also working with different technologies for optical storage. ========================================================================= *Owen, David -UA CCIT Academic Computing Academic Computing, Center for Computing and Information Technology, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721. [602] 621-2835 or 2915 I am currently in Academic Computing at the University of Arizona, and have close links with the Language Research Center here. It is the closest thing we have to a Humanities Research Center. Next year I shall be joining the Philosophy Department and hope to introduce them to n e use of Computer Conferencing as a supplementary teaching tool. I will retain my links with the Language Research Center and hope to start some projects there. ========================================================================= *Page, Stephen I am completing a D.Phil. at Oxford on uses of computers in music research and music analysis, my main area of interest being database query systems for music. I also act as moderator for the music-research mailing list, which has a couple of hundred recipients interested in uses of computers in music research, music education, and other areas (although our scope normally excludes sound generation and music composition). Programming Research Group, Advanced Information Technology Group University of Oxford, Arthur Andersen & Co, Management Consultants, 11 Keble Road, 1 Surrey Street Oxford OX1 3QD London WC2R 2PS U.K. ========================================================================= *Rahtz, Sebastian (Bitnet: CMI011 at IBM.SOTON.AC.UK Janet: CMI011@uk.ac.soton.ibm) OR: spqr@uk.ac.soton.cm spqr@sot-cm.uucp (Internet) ...!ukc!sot-cm!spqr (old-style uucp) Computer Science, University, SOUTHAMPTON S09 5NH, UK 44 703 559122 ext 2435 (international) Sebastian Rahtz is a Lecturer in the Department of Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Southampton, UK, with responsibility for teaching courses for the Faculty of Arts. These courses are all examined, and count towards student degrees; they include an introductory course (3 terms) and several 1 term courses for the Archaeology Department. Research includes two joint projects with Archaeology (a graphical database, and excavation simulation for teaching), the Protestant Cemetery in Rome and various issues in electronic publishing. Prior to this appointment in 1985, worked for Project Pallas at the University of Exeter; previous incarnation were as a field archaeologist (from 1977 to 1984), as editorial assistant on the _Lexicon_of_Greek_Personal_Names_ (typesetting, mainly) and as a Classics and Modern Greek undergraduate. I teach courses for the Faculty of Arts here: - Introduction to Computing - Literary Computing - Archaeological Computing - Advanced Archaeological Computing - (from 1987) new MSc in Archaeological Computing (I am co-organiser, and teach part of one unit) All these courses are examined and form part of undergraduate degree. ======================================================================== *Richmond, S. (416)224-3180 (416)889-3558 17 Jonathan Gate Thornhill, ON L4J 3T9 Canada Presently I am attempting to develop socratic teaching computer systems. I am in the MA program at OISE in the department of Computer Applications to Education. I earn my living as a technical writer and technical support person in a Federal Government Department. Previously I taught philosophy and have a Ph.D from Boston University. What I am seeking to find how far one can go with simulating socratic teaching on the computer. I have written a socratic guided text storage system in dBASE. Now I am looking into the suitability of PROLOG systems for writing more advanced systems--such as a system that simulates "baby" learning as a subset of socratic learning. I would be interested in contacting humanists interested in the theory of learning, computer simulations of learning, computer simulations in general, PROLOG, or other AI-type languages available on PC's. ========================================================================= *Roberts, D. D. (PHILOSOPHY) Department of Philosophy, University of Waterloo, N2L 3G (519) 885 1211 x2638; res: (519) 885 0315 I do all my writing (early drafts, the whole bit) on the computer, using the UW 4341's, usually from a terminal at home (with a sytek connection on a dedicated phone line). All course descriptions, handouts, exams, etc. are also done on computer. My start, in 1970, was in connection with the chronological edition of the writings of Charles Peirce, which is centered at Indianapolis (Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis, IUPUI). Starting then on the projected 4th volume of the series (it is now at the printers, and is much changed from what we "finished" with 4 years ago) we began typing in previously unpublished manuscripts and we now have, in addition to the volume 4 material, two future volumes' worth of material in the computer--much of it proofread here (our "preliminary" proofing) and some of it proofread at Harvard, where the original mss are. Waterloo is a modest sized contributing part of the project, of which I am an associate editor. I have also been our department's "computer advisory (?) representative" and in that position have done a little individualized tutoring of the very basic use of computers, editors, formatters (though now many of our students know far more than I do, just as it is in philosophy proper). Just this past weekend I took part in a kind of brainstorming session at IUPUI whose purpose was to begin to define a project for computers in the humanities which would make use of such recent computerized editions of writings as the Peirce and Santayana editions, as well as other in the fields of literature and history. I was one of the novices in the group, which included Joe Raben, Mike Preston (U. Colorado), Helen Schwartz (Carnegie-Mellon and elsewhere, soon to be at IUPUI), and others. ========================================================================= *Sano, Haj I have a BS in Computer Science and Engineering from MIT (1982), am working on an MSEE in Digital Signal/Image Processing at USC, and am thinking of studying with Bill Buxton at U of T in a few years. My humanities interests are in music (I have been a pianist for 24 years, guitarist for 4 years, and have played brass and percussion instruments along the way), and psychology (my humanities concentration at MIT). I have always tried to balance my technical education with the humanities, and am interested in hearing about application of computers in the humanities. I may be reached at: 741 Mar Vista Avenue Pasadena, CA 91104 home: 818/797-5995 work: 818/354-0370 (JPL/Caltech) Email: sano@jpl-vlsi.arpa or sano@vlsi.jpl.nasa.gov ========================================================================= *Sousa, Ronald de Phone: 978-6789 (923-6987 h) Address/Affiliation: Philosophy Dept. U of T 215 Huron St. #907 How do I support the Aims and Aspirations of the group? Well, I don't have that much to contribute, but I'm full of enthusiasm and MORAL support and have a morbid interest in desktop publishing, playing with fonts, etc. I've been waging for years a now-no-longer-completely solitary campaign to get my colleagues to get onto & use E-mail. I know quite a bit about Nota Bene. ========================================================================= *Sperberg-McQueen, Michael Visiting Research Programmer at the University of Illinois at Chicago. I was trained in German and comparative literature at Stanford University, and went to work at the Princeton University Computer Center as the resident humanist about the time I finished my dissertation and saw just how many job opportunities there really are for Ph.D.'s in Middle High German and Old Norse philology. Since February 1987 I have been at the University of Illinois at Chicago, where the user services and system programming groups are currently trying to divide me between them. For user services, I support database work in Spires; for systems I work on CICS and support the library automation system (Notis). Personal interests include textual criticism, stylistics, metrics, and semantic studies, and I want someday to develop tools for such work. Day to day, however, my tasks have been largely dictated by my users, so my time has gone to less high-flown projects: font design for printers, PCs, and terminals; a Hebrew / Arabic / English version of Kedit for the Near Eastern Studies department; an online catalog database for the PUCC data library; a simple text collation program for correcting texts read twice with a Kurzweil machine; and so on. When I can, I work on database designs for intensive textual study, and am collaborating with Karen Kossuth of Pomona to produce a Prolog parser for Middle High German syntactic studies. I serve on the ACH executive council, the steering committee of this incipient Special Interest Group for Humanities Computing Resources, and on the ACH Working Committee on Text Encoding Practices, which is endeavoring to formulate guidelines for the encoding of texts for research and teaching, in collaboration with other interested groups. an amateur. ========================================================================= *Swenson, Eva V. As a coordinator for computer matters for central administration at the University of Toronto, it is my job to keep in touch with computer- related activities on campus. Personally, I am a consumer of humanist's products. I have a continuing connection with the Dept of Computer Science and teach the occasional course on Data Processing or Economics of Computers. ========================================================================= *Thornton, Dave or Department of English and Related Literature University of York Heslington York Y01 5DD Great Britain 0904-430000 extension 5880 Apart from the routine use of wordprocessor and database in my teaching and research, my special interests in computing related to the humanities are -work on a program to teach translation skills (French to English); establishing an email network between people working in the same areas of inquiry; designing software to teach the basic concepts and methods of science to non-scientists and to children. ========================================================================= *Weinshank, Don Computer Science Department, Michigan State University, East Lansing MI 48824 [517] 353-0831 Paul Barrett and I edit concordances to Charles Darwin's work. So far, Cornell University Press has published three: -- Origin of Species, First Edition -- Expression of Emotions -- Descent of Man (in press; will be published by early Fall) Other concordances are in process or expected for the near future: -- notebooks: See Barrett et.al. edition of the Notebooks, which Cornell lists in the Fall catalog. -- Beagle -- Origin of Species, Sixth Edition We very much would like to be added to your list. We undertake to provide computer-readable text either of the source text themselves or of the concordances to any legitimate researcher. ======================================================================== *Wiebe, M.G. My main computer interest is through the Disraeli Project, of which I am the head: we use the computer to process our materials all the way up to doing our own page-layouts and typesetting, mostly on a system originally developed in connection with the Project starting in the mid 70s. We also use the mainframe for running the indexing program CINDEX, for some communication, and for archiving materials. I am also the English Dept computing chairman, and have been involved with George Logan in devising departmental policy and installations for student and faculty computing. I am one of the Associates of the proposal submitted by Logan and David Barnard for a Centre of Excellence grant (Ian Lancashire has a copy of the application). My primary work however is in editing the Letters of Benjamin Disraeli: see Volume III just published by U of Toronto Press. ======================================================================== *Winder, Bill (WINDER at UTOREPAS) As a doctoral candidate at the University of Toronto's French Department, my activities -- computing and otherwise -- are circumscribed by my thesis topic: "Maupassant: predictability in narrative". One axis of research concerns automatic abstracting: precisely why do automatic abstracting techniques fail with literary texts? Maupassant's 310 short stories will be the literary corpus. The other main axis of research concerns critical model building and the semantic role of predictability in texts and in the critical model. More generally, my interest in computing lies in translating semiotic theories (particularly those of L. Hjelmslev and C. S. Peirce) into a semblance of computational form. This endeavour has led me to (Turbo) Prolog and Deredec. The use of the latter is presented in CHum's recent issue on France, where J. M. Marandin discusses "Segthem", a Deredec automatic abstracting procedure. My interest in Prolog developed out of my studies in logic (particularly combinatory logic and Peirce's existential graphs). As a teaching assistant for one of the French Department's computer application courses, my principal activities have been teaching Word Perfect and demonstrating packages such as Deredec, BYU concordance, TAT (my own French concordance package), COGS, and MTAS. ========================================================================= *Young, Abigail Ann Presently, I am part of the editorial team at the Records of Early English Drama (REED), doing checking of mediaeval and Renaissance MS sources, translation of Latin texts, and the compilation of Latin glossaries. But for a variety of reasons (primarily because the glossarial work rests on computer-generated concordances of the primary texts in our volumes) I have ended up co-ordinating computer work at REED. Most importantly, I take charge of the actual production of concordances, which includes transferring the text from a micro to a mainframe, and writing JCL to run the concordance package. I work with the typesetters to implement, maintain, and (when necessary) upgrade our computer-typesetting system, hardware and software; advise on the purchase of new hardware and software; write some programs to pre-process text for various applications, and generally troubleshoot computer problems at REED. My formal background is in Classical Languages, especially Latin, and Mediaeval Studies, especially the history of NT criticism in the 12th and early 13th centuries. I've learned what I know about computers from reading manuals, asking bushels of silly questions, and making lots of mistakes, especially when it came to learning C. ========================================================================= *Zacour, Norman Professor of Medieval History at the University of Toronto (just retired); interested especially in the history of the papacy of Avignon; just finished writing about the treatment of Jews and Muslims in 14th century legal works; now working on the history of the college of cardinals in the Middle Ages; has written a short manual on WordPerfect to get students of the Centre for Medieval Studies up and running on the IBM; and some quick programming for a blind friend who is a writer and a professor of English, to simplify his Life with DOS and Company, word processing in general, and keeping data about his students in particular. Interested in hearing about any software that will handle multiple variants of medieval mss., to produce notes giving the lemma, the line number, the variant(s) and their witnesses, etc. ========================================================================= [49 entries, 958 lines, ca. 50K]