From: CBS%UK.AC.EARN-RELAY::EARN.UTORONTO::LISTSERV 13-SEP-1989 12:11:49.85 To: ARCHIVE CC: Subj: File: "BIOGRAFY 2" being sent to you Via: UK.AC.EARN-RELAY; Wed, 13 Sep 89 12:11 BST Received: from UKACRL by UK.AC.RL.IB (Mailer X1.25) with BSMTP id 2967; Wed, 13 Sep 89 12:10:45 BS Received: from vm.utcs.utoronto.ca by UKACRL.BITNET (Mailer X1.25) with BSMTP id 5453; Wed, 13 Sep 89 12:10:44 B Received: by UTORONTO (Mailer R2.03A) id 5064; Wed, 13 Sep 89 07:00:38 EDT Date: Wed, 13 Sep 89 07:00:36 EDT From: Revised List Processor (1.6a) Subject: File: "BIOGRAFY 2" being sent to you To: ARCHIVE@UK.AC.OXFORD.VAX Autobiographies of HUMANISTs First Supplement Following are 20 additional entries to the collection of autobiographical statements by members of the HUMANIST discussion group and 1 update to an existing entry. Further additions, corrections, and updates are welcome, to MCCARTY at UTOREPAS.BITNET. W.M. 10 August 1987 ========================================================================= *Beckwith, Sterling 248 Winters College, York University, 4700 Keele St., North York, Ontario (416) 736-5142 or 5186. I teach at York University, have created and taught the only Humanities course dealing with computers, in the context of Technology, Culture and the Arts, and serve as director of computer music in the Faculty of Fine Arts, at York. ========================================================================= *Boddington, Andy Bitnet: a_boddington at vax.acs.open.ac.uk Academic Computing Service, Open University, Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA I am a Research Adviser at The OU responsible for advising a broad range of disciplines but specialising in the arts and social sciences. My particular interests professionally at the OU are in encouraging conferencing and developing data handling and data analysis packages for the non-scientist and the 'computer timid'. I also specialise in statistical analysis. I am an archaeologist by training and inclination I am particularly active in propagating computing as an analytical tool within archaeology; as well as the benefits of desk top publishing to a discipline which produces large volumes of printed emphemera. ========================================================================= *Brown, Malcolm gx.mbb@stanford.bitnet ACIS/IRIS Sweet Hall, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-3091 Humanities background. Undergraduate: UC Santa Cruz, BAs in Philosophy, German Literature Graduate: Universitaet Freiburg (two years); Stanford University (German Studies). Dissertation: "Nietzsche und sein Verleger Ernst Schmeitzner: eine Darstellung ihrer Beziehungen" Primary interests: European intellectual history from the Enlightenment to the present Computer background. Systems experience: IBM MVS, IBM VM/CMS; DEC TOPS-20; Berkeley 4.3 UNIX; PC- DOS and MS-DOS; Apple Macintosh. Current responsibilities. I support the Stanford Humanities faculty in all aspects of computer usage. We are currently looking at ways in which more powerful microcomputers (PS/2, Mac II) might assist humanist scholars in their research. Additional interests. all aspects of text processing, from data entry (such as scanning) to printing, which might loosely be called digital typography. Especially: page description (e.g. PostScript), typesetting (e.g. TeX, Interleaf, PageMaker etc), typeface design. ===================================================================== *Brunner, Theodore F. Theodore F. Brunner, Director, Thesaurus Linguae, Graecae, University of California Irvine, Irvine CA 92717. My telephone number is (714) 856-6404. Short description of the TLG: A computer-based data bank of ancient Greek literature extant from the period between Homer and A.D. 600 (we are now beginning to expand the data bank through 1453). ========================================================================= *Choueka, Yaacov Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel, 52100. Interests: full-text retrieval systems, computerized corpora, mechanized dictionaries, grammars and lexicons, ambiguity. ========================================================================= *Corns, Thomas N. Bitnet: v002 at vaxa.bangor.ac.uk I am the Secretary of the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing and a member of the editorial committee of Literary and Linguistic Computing, and co-author (with B. H. Rudall) of Computers and Literature: a Practical Guide, recently published by Abacus Press, along with a number of articles and papers on humanities computing. I look forward to hearing from you. ========================================================================= *Cover, Robin C. Assistant Professor of Semitics and Old Testament 3909 Swiss Avenue; Dallas, TX 75204 USA; I am the faculty coordinator of the (current) "Committee for the Academic Computerization of Campus"; we are just beginning to face up to the need for a distinct entity which will be responsible for academic applications of computers: software development for textual analysis; multi-lingual word processing; supervision of the student computer lab (with CAI for Koine Greek and Biblical Hebrew); purchase of workstation equipment dedicated to textual analysis (micro-IBYCUS, etc); faculty education in humanistic computing; etc. My specific role now is to represent to the administration the need for this new entity, the precedent for it (at other universities); definition of the role of the entity within institutional purpose; proposal for staffing, funding and organizational structure; etc. My special interests are in MRT archives and text retrieval programs to study encoded texts. ========================================================================= *Curtis, Jared Curtis Department of English, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6 (604) 291-3130 I conduct research in textual criticism, including the use of computers, teach "Humanities research and computers" to graduate students, and give advice to colleagues and students. ========================================================================= *Erdt, Terry Graduate Dept. of Library Science, Villanova University, Villanova PA 19085 (215) 645-4688 My interests, at this point in time, can be said to be optical character recognition, scholar's workstation, and the computer as medium from the perspective of the field of popular culture. ========================================================================= *Goldfield, Joel Bitnet: jdg at psc90.uucp Assistant Professor of French, Dept. of Foreign Languages, Plymouth State College, Plymouth, NH 03264; Tel. 603-536-5000, ext. 2277 My work focuses on stylostatistical and content analysis, especially in the field of 19th-century French literature. I am currently developing a sub-field called "computational thematics" wherein a selective database based on conceptually organized words and including frequency norms for appropriately lemmatized entries can be applied to thematic and content analysis. My current application is to the 19th-century diplomat and author, Arthur de Gobineau, his use of "tic words" and other stylistic traits disputed by Michael Riffaterre and Leo Spitzer. I attempt to resolve this controversy through this conceptual, thematic, and stylostatistical approach. See the project description listed by Klaus Schmidt in the latest newsletter/booklet from the Society for Conceptual and Content Analysis (SCCAC). I would welcome comments on database structures, stylostatistical applications and programming from other UNIX users, who may want to compare their experiences with those I described in my article for the ACTES of the ALLC meeting in Nice (1985), a 1986 publication by Slatkine, vol. 1. I am hoping to prepare a manuscript on humanities computing on the UNIX system for publication within the next 3 years and would welcome all suggestions for contributions. The scope may be restricted later to literary and linguistic applications, depending on contributions and an eventual publisher's preferences, but, for the moment, everything is wide open. The only real computer connection with what I teach here in the University System of New Hampshire (Plymouth State College) is computer-assisted instruction/interactive videotape & videodisk. My 4-course/sem. teaching load typically includes 2 beginning French course sections, 1 intermediate course, and an advanced one (translation, culture & conversation, 19th-cen. Fr. lit., or history & civ.). I also conduct innovative FL teaching methodology workshops and consult with various public school and college foreign language departments on evaluating, using and authoring CALI/interactive video. ========================================================================= *Hare, Roger Bitnet: r.j.hare at edinburgh.ac.uk Training Group, Computing Service, University of Edinburgh, 59 George Square, Edinburgh, Scotland. Graduated in Applied Physics from Lanchester Polytechnic (Coventry) in 1972. First exposure to computing in second year course (algol on an Elliot 803), and third year training period (Fortran on IBM and Honewell machines at UKAEA Harwell). Thereafter spent several years working in the hospital service in Manchester and Edinburgh, mostly in the area of respiratory physiology and nuclear medicine. Computing interests re-awakened on moving to Edinburgh in 1974. After a couple of years away from computing, followed by a couple of years working as an 'advisor/programmer/trouble-shooter' for a bureau, re-joined Edinburgh University in 1980 as an 'adviser/programmer/trouble-shooter' on the SERC DECSystem-10 in 1980. After three years or so in this job, joined the Training Unit of the Computer Centre (now the Computing Service) where I have remained. We teach various aspects of computing, but my own interests are in the Humanities area (amongst others), literary analysis, languages suitable for teaching computing to non-numerate non-scientists, computerised document preparation (I don't like the terms word-processing and text-processing) and puncturing the arrogant idea held by many scientists that computers are solely for use by scientists, etc. I am currently looking (or trying to find the time to look) at Icon, Prolog, Lisp, Simula, Pop (?), etc. (I gave up on C!), with a view to using one of these as a language to teach programming to humanists. The first thing I have noted is that my head is starting to hurt! The second is that Icon seems to be a good idea for this sort of thing, though I am not deep enough into the language yet to be sure. If anyone out there has any ideas/experience on this one, I'll be happy to pick their brains... ========================================================================= *Holmes, Glyn <42104_263@uwovax.UWO.CDN> Department of French, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada N6A 3K7. Phone: (519) 679-2111 ext. 5713/5700. Main area of research is computer-assisted language learning, with emphasis on input analysis and instructional design. Most of my publications have been in these areas. I have also taught a course on French and the Computer, which covered CALL, literary and linguistic computing, use of databases, etc. I am the editor of Computers and the Humanities. ========================================================================= *Hulver, Barron Houck Computing Center, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH 44074 My position is technical support analyst. Basically I assist students and faculty in trying to use our computers and networks. ========================================================================= *Kashiyama, Paul I AM A PHILOSOPHY PH.D. CANDIDATE AT YORK UNIVERSITY CONCENTRATING IN THE AREA OF ETHIC AND JURISPRUDENCE. I AM PARTICULARLY INTERESTED IN THE POTENTIAL ROLES COMPUTERS/AI WOULD PLAY IN FORMULATIONS OF ETHICAL/LEGAL JUDGMENTS; AND THE PHILOSOPHICAL QUESTION OF WHETHER SUCH JUDGMENTS ARE ADEQUATE REPLACEMENTS FOR HUMAN DECISIONS OR AT LEAST ADEQUATE MODELS OF ETHICAL AND LEGAL DECISION MAKING PROCEDURES. MY BACKGROUND IN COMPUTING INCLUDES PROGRAMMING IN BASIC,PASCAL, PROLOG, SOME C, APPLICATIONS PROGRAMMING IN FRED,DBASEIII+, TRAINING AND TEACHING EXPERIENCES IN DATABASE MANAGEMENT, SPREDSHEET ORGANIZATION, WORD PROCESSING AND INTRODUCTION TO PROGRAMMING FOR CHILDREN AND BUSINESS PERSONS USING PERSONAL / MICRO COMPUTERS. ======================================================================== *Matheson, Philippa MW Athenians Project, Dept. of Classics, Victoria College, Univ. of Toronto, Toronto, Canada M5S 1A1 (416) 585-4469 My university affiliation is the ATHENIANS project, Victoria College, University of Toronto, and my humanist computing activities are varied: programs for the Canadian classics journal, Phoenix; all forms of computer and scholarly aid for the ATHENIANS (Prosopography of ancient Athens) project; an attempt to establish a bibliography of articles in Russian (translated) on the subject of amphoras (ancient wine jars) on the EPAS machine; as well as trying to exchange amphora data for a database project on the stamps on ancient wine jars (called, imaginatively, AMPHORAS). I call myself a computer consultant, and am mostly consulted about how to make PCs deal with Greek... ========================================================================= *McCarthy, William J. Dept. of Greek and Latin, Catholic University of America, Wash., D.C. 20064 (202) 635-5216/7 Although untrained in computer science - and doubtless possessing little aptitude for it -, I have plunged considerable time into an effort to harness for myself and my colleagues the powerful tools of study and "productivity" which the computer offers to accommodating scholars. My hope is that groups such as HUMANIST will be able, in some way, to guide the development of a fruitful conjunction of technology and humanism. ========================================================================= *McGregor, John Bitnet: thl4 at mts.durham.ac.uk University of Durham, Abbey House, Palace Green, Durham DH1 3RS, UK Areas of interest: Septuagint/ Greek/ CALL/ Bible Present status: Developing CALL software for NT/Biblical Greek ========================================================================= *Roosen-Runge, Peter H. Dept. of Computer Science, York University, 4700 Keele St., North York (416) 736-5053 I have been involved with supporting and extending computing in the humanities for many years (I think I taught the first course at the UofT on computing for humanists in 1968!) Current projects include melody generation based on a model of a "listener" expressed in Prolog, and a music database system under Unix. I am also very interested in the impact of large comprehensive text databases on teaching, and the role of universities in creating and publishing such databases; but I am only in the early stages of formulating a research project in this area. ========================================================================= *Seid, Timothy W. 74 Clyde St., W. Warwick, RI 02983; (401) 828-5485 Religious Studies Dept., Box 1927, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912; (401) 863-3401 My involvement in computers started only when I came to Brown and began the doctoral program in History of Religions: Early Christianity two years ago. During last year, when TA positions were scarce, I was able to get a Computer Proctorship. Again, for this year, I hold such a position. The main project, for which we have an Educational Computing Grant from the university, will be to develop a CAI which will teach students about textual criticism. I've chosen to use Hypercard and am scanning in images with Thunderscan. This way I can show examples of manuscripts and have buttons which will enable the user to find out more about particular items. A personal project is a program written in Lightspeed Pascal that generates word-division options for ancient Greek. I'm also a member of Brown University's Computing in the Humanities User's Group (CHUG) and co-leader of the Manuscript Criticism Working group of CHUG. As a service to the department and the University at-large, I maintain RELISTU, a Religious Studies Common Segment on the mainframe on which I archive the ONLINE NOTES, the BIBLICAL SCHOLARS ON BITNET ADDRESS BOOK, and HUMANIST. I have an article appearing soon in a book ("Isocrates: A Guide to Antiquity" in The Impact of CD-ROM: Case Studies from a User's Perspective). ========================================================================= *Sitman, David Computation Centre, Tel Aviv University I teach courses in the use of computers in language study and I am an advisor on computer use in the humanities. ========================================================================= *Zayac, Sue I work for the Columbia University "Scholarly Information Center". This is an experimental union of the Libraries and the Computer Center designed to "stimulate and support the productive and creative use of information technology by our faculty and students" - Pat Battin, Vice President and University Librarian "Information technology" includes everything from parchment to CD-ROM, and from thumbing through a 3x5 card catalog to searching a database on a new supercomputer from the Vax workstation on your desk. My title is Senior User Services Consultant, Academic Information Services Group. My areas of responsibility are statistical programs, particularly SPSSX and SAS, word-processing, particular the mainframe text-formatting product, SCRIBE, and a smattering of anything and everything that anybody might ask me. I have a BA in Geology from Barnard College and a Masters from the Columbia University School of Public Health (major area was Population and Family Health). I'm one of the few people at the Computer Center who didn't major in Computer Science or Electrical Engineering. One of my great uses here is to play the part of "everyuser". Interests are classical archaeology (I almost majored in Greek and Latin, but realized in time I had no talent for languages), history of science, history in general, ballet, arm chair astronomy (I don't like the cold), gardening, and nature watching. I once did rock climbing but, like many of us in the computer field, I've gotten out of shape sitting in front of a monitor all day long. Mail is welcome, on any topic. ============================================================================