From: CBS%UK.AC.EARN-RELAY::EARN.UTORONTO::LISTSERV 14-SEP-1989 15:24:15.35 To: ARCHIVE CC: Subj: File: "BIOGRAFY 6" being sent to you Via: UK.AC.EARN-RELAY; Thu, 14 Sep 89 15:24 BST Received: from UKACRL by UK.AC.RL.IB (Mailer X1.25) with BSMTP id 2199; Thu, 14 Sep 89 15:23:05 BS Received: from vm.utcs.utoronto.ca by UKACRL.BITNET (Mailer X1.25) with BSMTP id 7585; Thu, 14 Sep 89 15:23:01 B Received: by UTORONTO (Mailer R2.03A) id 8055; Thu, 14 Sep 89 10:21:02 EDT Date: Thu, 14 Sep 89 10:21:00 EDT From: Revised List Processor (1.6a) Subject: File: "BIOGRAFY 6" being sent to you To: ARCHIVE@UK.AC.OXFORD.VAX Autobiographies of HUMANISTs Fifth Supplement Following are 23 additional entries to the collection of autobiographical statements by members of the HUMANIST discussion group. Further additions, corrections, and updates are welcome, to mccarty@utorepas.bitnet. W.M. 16 December 1987 ========================================================================= *Atwell, Eric Steven Centre for Computer Analysis of Language and Speech, AI Division, School of Computer Studies, Leeds University, Leeds LS2 9JT; +44 532 431751 ext 6 I am in a Computer Studies School, but specialise in linguistic and literary computing, and applications in Religious Education in schools. I would particularly like to liaise with other researchers working in similar areas. ========================================================================= *Benson, Tom {akgua,allegra,ihnp4,cbosgd}!psuvax1!psuvm.bitnet!t3b (UUCP) t3b%psuvm.bitnet@wiscvm.arpa (ARPA) Department of Speech Communication, The Pennsylvania State University 227 Sparks Building, University Park, PA 16802; 814-238-5277 I am a Professor of Speech Communication at Penn State University, currently serving as editor of THE QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF SPEECH. In addition, I edit the electronic journal CRTNET (Communication Research and Theory Network). ========================================================================= *CETEDOC (CENTRE DE TRAITEMENT ELECTRONIQUE DES DOCUMENTS) CETEDOC, LLN, BELGIUM THE CETEDOC (CENTRE DE TRAITEMENT ELECTRONIQUE DES DOCUMENTS) IS AN INSTITUTION OF THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF LOUVAIN AT LOUVAIN-LA-NEUVE, BELGIUM. ITS DIRECTOR IS PROF. PAUL TOMBEUR. ========================================================================= *Chadwick, Tony Department of French & Spanish, Memorial University of Newfoundland St. John's, A1B 3X9; (709)737-8572 At the moment I have two interests in computing: one is the use of computers in composition classes for second language learners, the socond in computerized bibliographies. I have an M.A. in French from McMaster and have been teaching at Memorial University since 1967. Outside computers, my research interests lie in Twentieth Century French Literature. ========================================================================= *Coombs, James H. Institute for Research in Information and Scholarship, Brown University Box 1946, Providence, RI 02912 I have a Ph.D. in English (Wordsworth and Milton: Prophet-Poets) and an M.A. in Linguistics, both from Brown University. I have been Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in English and am about to become Software Engineer, Research, Institute for Research in Information and Scholarship (IRIS). I have co-edited an edition of letters (A Pre-Raphaelite Friendship, UMI Research Press) and have written on allusion and implicature (Poetics, 1985; Brown Working Papers in Linguistics). Any day now, the November Communications of the ACM will appear with an article on "Markup Systems and the Future of Scholarly Text Processing," written with Allen H. Renear and Steven J. DeRose. I developed the English Disk on the Brown University mainframe, which provides various utilities for humanists, primarily for word processing and for staying sane in CMS. I wrote a Bibliography Management System for Scholars (BMSS; 1985) and then an Information Management System for Scholars (IMSS; 1986). Both are in PL/I and may best be considered "aberrant prototypes," used a little more than necessary for research but never commercialized. I am currently working on a system with similar functionality for the IBM PC. Last year, I developed a "comparative concordance" for the multiple editions of Wordsworth's Prelude. I am delayed in that by the lack of the final volume of Cornell's fine editions. A preliminary paper will appear in the working papers of Brown's Computing in the Humanities User's Group (CHUG); a full article will be submitted in January, probably to CHUM. I learned computational linguistics from Prof. Henry Kucera, Nick DeRose, and Andy Mackie. Richard Ristow taught me software engineering management or, more accurately, teaches me more every time I talk to him. I worked on the spelling corrector, tuning algorithms. I worked on the design of the grammar corrector, designed the rule structures, and developed the rules with Dr. Carol Singley. Then I started with Dr. Phil Shinn's Binary Parser and developed a language independent N-ary Parser (NAP). NAP reads phrase structure rules as well as streams of tagged words (see DeRose's article in Computational Linguistics for information on the disambiguation) and generates a parse tree, suitable for generalized pattern matching. Finally, at IRIS, I will be developing online dictionary access from our hypermedia system: Intermedia (affix stripping, unflection, definition, parsing, etc.). In addition, we are working on a unified system for accessing multiple databases, including CD-ROM as well as remote computers. ========================================================================= *Dawson, John L. University of Cambridge, Literary and Linguistic Computing Centre Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge CB3 9DA England; (0223) 335029 I have been in charge of the Literary and Linguistic Computing Centre of Cambridge University since 1974, and now hold the post of Assistant Director of Research there. The LLCC acts as a service bureau for all types of humanities computing, including data preparation, and extends to the areas of non-scientific computing done by members of science and social science faculties. Much of our work remains in the provision of concordances to various texts in a huge range of languages, either prepared by our staff, by the user, or by some external body (e.g. TLG, Toronto Corpus of Old English, etc.) Some statistical analysis is undertaken, as required by the users. Recently, we have begun preparing master pages for publication using a LaserWriter, and several books have been printed by this means. My background is that of a mathematics graduate with a Diploma in Computer Science (both from Cambridge). I am an Honorary Member of ALLC, having been its Secretary for six years, and a member of the Association for History and Computing. My present research (though I don't have much time to do it) lies in the comparison of novels with their translations in other languages. At the moment I am working on Stendhal's "Le Rouge et le Noir" in French and English, and on Jane Austen's "Northanger Abbey" in English and French. I have contributed several papers at ALLC and ACH conferences, and published in the ALLC Journal (now Literary & Linguistic Computing) and in CHum. ========================================================================= *Giordano, Richard I am a new humanities specialist at Princeton University Computer Center (Computing and Information Technology). I come to Prinecton from Columbia University where I was a Systems Analyst in the Libraries for about six years. I am just finishing my PhD dissertation in American history at Columbia as well. ========================================================================= *Johnson, Christopher Language Research Center, Room 345 Modern Languages, University of Arizona Tucson, Az 85702; (602) 621-1615 I am currently the Director of the Lnaguage Research Center at the University of Arizona. Masters in Educational Media, Univeristy of Arizona; Ph.D. in Secondary Education (Minor in Instructional Technology), UA. I have worked in the area of computer-based instruction since 1976. I gained most of my experience on the PLATO system here at the University and as a consultant to Control Data Corp. Two years ago I moved to the Faculty of Humanities to create the Language Research Center, a support facility for our graduate students, staff, and faculty. My personnal research interests are in the area for individual learning styles, critical thinking skills, Middle level education and testing as they apply to computer-based education. The research interests of my faculty range from text analysis to word processing to research into the use of the computer as an instructional tool. ========================================================================= *Johansson, Stig Dept of English, Univ of Oslo, P.O. Box 1003, Blindern, N-0315 Oslo 3, Norway. Tel: 456932 (Oslo). Professor of English Language, Univ of Oslo. Relevant research interest: computers in English language research. Coordinating secretary of the International Computer Archive of Modern English (ICAME) and editor of the ICAME Journal. Member of the ALLC. ========================================================================= *Kalinoski, Ron Academic Computing Services, 215 Machinery Hall, Syracuse University Syracuse, New York 13244; 315/423-3998 I am Associate Director for Research Computing at Syracuse University and am interested in sponsoring a seminar series next spring focusing on computing issues in the humanities. I hope that this will lead to hiring a full-time staff person to provide user support services for humanities computing. ======================================================================== *Langendoen, D. Terence Linguistics Program, CUNY Graduate Center, 33 West 42nd Street, New York, NY 10036-8099 USA; 212-790-4574 (soon to change) I am a theoretical linguist, interested in parsing and in computational linguistics generally. I have also worked on the problem of making sophisticated text-editing tools available for the teaching of writing. I am currently Secretary-Treasurer of the Linguistic Society of America, and will continue to serve until the end of calendar year 1988. I have also agreed to serve on two working committees on the ACH/ALLC/ACL project on standards for text encoding, as a result of the conference held at Vassar in mid-November 1987. ========================================================================= *Molyneaux, Brian Department of Archaeology, University of Southampton, England. I am at present conducting postgraduate research in art and ideology and its relation to material culture. I am also a Field Associate at the Royal Ontario Museum, Department of New World Archaeology, specialising in rock art research. I obtained a BA (Hons) in English Literature, a BA (Hon) in Anthropology, and an MA in Art and Archaeology at Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario. My research interest in computing in the Humanities includes the analysis of texts and art works within the context of social relations. ========================================================================= *Olofsson, Ake I am at the Department of Psychology, University of Umea, in the north of Sweden. Part of my work at the department is helping people to learn how to use our computer (VAX and the Swedish university Decnet) and International mail (Bitnet). We are four system-managers at the department and have about 40 ordinary users, running word-processing, statistics and Mail programs. ======================================================================== *ORVIK, TONE POST OFFICE BOX 1822, KINGSTON, ON K7L 5J6; 613 - 389 - 6092 WORKING ON BIBLE RESEARCH WITH AFFILIATION TO QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY'S DEPT. OF RELIGIOUS STUDIES; CREATING CONCORDANCE OF SYMBOLOGY. HAVE WORKED AS A RESEARCHER, TEACHER, AND WRITER, IN EUROPE AND CANADA; ESPECIALLY ON VARIOUS ASPECTS OF BIBLE AND COMPARATIVE RELIGION. INTERESTED IN CONTACT WITH NETWORK USERS WITH SAME/SIMILAR INTEREST OF RESEARCH. ========================================================================= *Potter, Rosanne G. Department of English, Iowa State University, Ross Hall 203, (515) 294-2180 (Main Office); (515) 294-4617 (My office) I am a literary critic; I use the mainframe computer for the analysis of literary texts. I have also designed a major formatting bibliographic package, BIBOUT, in wide use at Iowa State University, also installed at Princeton and Harvard. I do not program, rather I work with very high level programming specialists, statisticians, and systems analysts here to design the applications that I want for my literary critical purposes. I am editing a book on Literary Computing and Literary Criticism containing essays by Richard Bailey, Don Ross, Jr., John Smith, Paul Fortier, C. Nancy Ide, Ruth Sabol, myself and others. I've been on the board of ACH, have been invited to serve on the CHum editorial board. ========================================================================= *Renear, Allen H. My original academic discipline is philosophy (logic, epistemology, history), and though I try to keep that up (and expect my Ph.D. this coming June) I've spent much of the last 7 years in academic computing, particularly humanities support. I am currently on the Computer Center staff here at Brown as a specialist in text processing, typesetting and humanities computing. I've had quite a bit of practical experience designing, managing, and consulting on large scholarly publication projects and my major research interests are similarly in the general theory of text representation and strategies for text based computing. I am a strong advocate of the importance of SGML for all computing that involves text; my views on this are presented in the Coombs, Renear, DeRose article on Markup Systems in the November 1987 *Communications of the ACM*. Other topics of interest to me are structure oriented editing, hypertext, manuscript criticism, and specialized tools for analytic philosophers. My research in philosophy is mostly in epistemic logic (similar to what AI folks call "knowledge representation"); it has some surprising connections with emerging theories of text structure. I am a contact person for Brown's very active Computing in the Humanities User's Group (CHUG). ========================================================================= *Richardson, John Associate Professor, University of California (Ls Angeles), GSLIS; (213) 825-4352 One of my interests is analytical bibliography, the desription of printed books. At present I am intrigued with the idea that we can describe various component parts of books, notably title pages, paper, and typefaces, but the major psycho-physical element, ink, is not described. Obviously this problem involves humanistic work but also a far degree of sophistication with ink technology. I would be interested in talking with or corresponding with anyone on this topic... ========================================================================= *Taylor, Philip Royal Holloway & Bedford New College; University of London; U.K; (+44) 0784 34455 Ext: 3172 Although not primarily concerned with the humanities (I am principal systems programmer at RHBNC), I am freqently involved in humanties projects, particularly in the areas of type-setting (TeX), multi-lingual text processing, and natural language analysis, among others. ========================================================================= *Whitelam, Keith W. Dept. of Religious Studies, University of Stirling, Stirling FK9 4LA Scotland; Tel. 0786 3171 ext. 2491 I have been lecturer in Religious Studies at Stirling since 1978 with prime responsibility for Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. My research interests are mainly aimed at exploring new approaches to the study of early Israelite/ Palestinian history in an interdisciplinary context, i.e. drawing upon social history, anthropology, archaeology, historical demography, etc. I have been constructing a database of Palestinian archaeological sites, using software written by the Computing Science department, in order to analyse settlement patterns, site hierarchies, demography, etc. The department of Environmental Science has recently purchased Laser Scan an offered me access to the facilities. This will enable me to display settlement patterns, sites, etc in map form for analysis and comparison. I am particularly interested in corresponding/discussing with others working on similar problems, particularly in Near Eastern archaeology. I have also been involved in exploring the possibilities of setting up campus-wide text processing laser printing facilities. It looks as though we shall be able to offer a LaTeX service in the New Year. We are also planning to offer a WYSIWYG service, such as Ventura on IBM or a combination with Macs for the production of academic papers. Again I have a particular interest in the use of foreign fonts, e.g. Hebrew, Akkadian, Ugaritic, Greek, etc. My teaching and research on the Hebrew Bible leads to a concern with developing computer-aided text analysis, although I have had little time to explore this area. We have OCP available on our mainframe VAX but my use of this has been very limited. I see this as an important area of future development in teaching and research along with Hebrew teaching. ========================================================================= *Wilson, Noel Head of Academic Services, University of Ulster, Shore Road Newtownabbey, Co. Antrim, N. Ireland BT37 0QB; (0232)365131 Ext. 2449 My post has overall responsibility for the central academic computing service, offered by the Computer Centre, to the University academic community. Within this brief, my Section is responsible for the acquisition/development and documentation of CAL and proprietary software. We currently provide a program library in support of courses and research which contains approx. 400 programs; of these approx. 80 are in-house developments, 50 proprietary systems and the remainder obtained from a variety of sources incl. program libraries (eg CONDUIT - Univ. of Iowa). We have only very recently addressed computing within the Faculty of Humanities; academic staff in the Faculty have used computers in a research capacity and are now turning towards the various u'grad. courses. Presently we hold a grant of 79,000 pounds from the United Kingdom Computer Board for Universities and Research Councils, for the development of CAL software in support of Linguistics and Lexicostatistics. Within this project we are attempting to develop courseware to support grammar teaching in French, German, Spanish and Irish (details of existing materials appropriate to u'grad. teaching would be most welcome!). We also are investigating the creation of software to support an analysis of text (comparative studies) - in this area we are looking at frequency counts assoc. with words/expressions/words within registers etc. - again help would be appreciated. I am happy to provide further details on any of the above points and wish to keep informed of useful Humanities-related CAL work elsewhere. We currently use the Acorn BBC micro. but are also moving in the direction of PC clones. ========================================================================= *Wood, Max Computing Officer, 403 Maxwell Building, The University of Salford The Crescent, Salford, G.M.C. ENGLAND; 061-736-5843 Extension 7399 We are involved in a project to introduce the use of computing in teaching here in the Business and Management Department of Salford University and I am keen to extend links to other Business schools both here in the U.K. and indeed in the U.S.A. Obviously therefore I would like to join your forum so as to possibly exchange ideas news etc. My background is essentially in computing and I mainly supervise the computing resources available to our Department, and have formulated much of the teaching systems we currently use. ========================================================================= *Wujastyk, Dominik I am a Sanskritist with some knowledge of computing. Once upon a time (1977-78) I learned Snobol4 from Susan Hockey at Oxford, where I did undergraduate and later doctoral Sanskrit. More recently, I have been using TeX on my PC AT (actually a Compaq III), and in the middle of this summer I published a book _Studies on Indian Medical History_, which was done in TeX and printed out on an HP LJ II, and sent to the publisher as camera ready. It all went very well. I have received the MS DOS Icon implementation from Griswold at Arizona, but have not spent time on it. I am trying to teach myself at the moment, just to learn enough to knock out ocassional routines to convert files from wordprocessor formats to TeX, and that sort of thing. (Probably reinventing the wheel.) At the present time I am editing a Sanskrit text on medieval alchemy, and doing all the formatting of the edition in LaTeX. Before I ever started Sanskrit, I did a degree in Physics at Imperial College in London, but that is so long ago that I don't like to think about it! ========================================================================= *Young, Charles M. Dept. of Philosophy, The Claremont Graduate School I am a member of the American Philosophical Association's committee on Computer Use in Philosophy. One of my pet projects is to find some way of making the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae database (all of classical Greek through the 7th century C.E.) more readily available to working scholars. =========================================================================