From: CBS%UK.AC.EARN-RELAY::EARN.UTORONTO::LISTSERV 14-SEP-1989 15:31:15.02 To: ARCHIVE CC: Subj: File: "BIOGRAFY 7" being sent to you Via: UK.AC.EARN-RELAY; Thu, 14 Sep 89 15:30 BST Received: from UKACRL by UK.AC.RL.IB (Mailer X1.25) with BSMTP id 2342; Thu, 14 Sep 89 15:30:07 BS Received: from vm.utcs.utoronto.ca by UKACRL.BITNET (Mailer X1.25) with BSMTP id 7687; Thu, 14 Sep 89 15:30:03 B Received: by UTORONTO (Mailer R2.03A) id 8121; Thu, 14 Sep 89 10:22:00 EDT Date: Thu, 14 Sep 89 10:21:54 EDT From: Revised List Processor (1.6a) Subject: File: "BIOGRAFY 7" being sent to you To: ARCHIVE@UK.AC.OXFORD.VAX Autobiographies of HUMANISTs Sixth Supplement Following are 20 additional entries to the collection of autobiographical statements by members of the HUMANIST discussion group. Further additions, corrections, and updates are welcome. Willard McCarty mccarty@utorepas.bitnet 24 January 1988 ================================================================= *Beeman, William O. Associate Director for Program Analysis, Institute for Research in Information and Scholarship (IRIS), Brown University Providence, Rhode Island 02912 U.S.A. I am a linguistic anthropologist at Brown University, and I also direct the Office of Program Analysis of Brown's Institute for Research in Information and Scholarship. Our office conducts social science research on the effects of intensive computing on academic life. We are interested in learning not only how computers have changed various aspects of academic work for students, teachers and administrators, but also how academic work is conducted per se. We have recently completed a study in conjunction with the Getty Art History Information Program entitled: OBJECT, IMAGE AND INQUIRY: THE ART HISTORIAN AT WORK, which explores the work and career patterns of researchers in art history in advance of designing computer applications which might apply to the field. We have also just finished a three year study of the use of an experimental hypertext/hypermedia development system: INTERMEDIA, developed at Brown and taught in an English literature survey course, and a cell biology course. The project was sponsored by the Annenberg/CPB Project of Washington, D.C.. The final report, INTERMEDIA: A CASE STUDY INNOVATION IN HIGHER EDUCATION, a book-length monograph, will be released soon. We are also studying the effects of the introduction of on-line catalogues for library systems, the effects of computing on scholarly writing, and a number of other projects. We have a number of other papers and publications available at cost through our office. ================================================================= *Brunet, Jean Professor; Communication, Psychosociology, Universite du Quebec a Montreal, (514) 282-4897, 282-3620 University education: engineering and administration. Orientation: system theory, cybernetics, social networks, computing. Work in the area of computing: development of software for the social sciences; Area: factorial analysis, clustering; Computer: macintosh; Applications and documentation available in French and English; this material has been tested in M.A. and Ph.D. methodology courses ================================================================= *DeRose, Steven J. Summer Institute of Linguistics, 7500 W. Camp Wisdom Rd., Dallas, TX 75236. I am a computational linguist, interested mainly in the representation and analysis of text and discourse by computers. I hold an Sc.B in Computer Science, A.B.s in Linguistics and New Testament / Linguistics, and an A.M. in Computational Linguistics. I am currently writing a dissertation in CL with Henry Kucera at Brown University, concerning algorithmic resolution of grammatical category ambiguity in English and Greek prose. A portion of it is forthcoming in Computational Linguistics. With James Coombs and Allen Renear, and our colleagues Elli Mylonas (Harvard Perseus Project) and David Durand (Brandeis), I have been active in the Computing and the Humanities Users' Group at Brown, and in advocating the use of descriptive markup systems (see Coombs, Renear, and DeRose, "Markup Systems and the future of scholarly Text Processing", in CACM 11/87). I have served as a consultant to Language Systems, Inc., developing linguistically- based spelling and grammar correction systems, large dictionary databases, and other products. I have been involved in hypertext systems since 1979, when I became a director of the FRESS hypertext system project at Brown. Currently, I am working with the Summer Institute of Linguistics, which carries out linguistic research, literacy work, and translation with minority language groups. Our research group at SIL is developing hypertext systems for the management of linguistic and literary research data, combining methods from hypertext, knowledge representation, and information retrieval. I am also a consultant to several other system development projects, including the Brown- sponsored Document Interchange Project. ================================================================= *Di Lella, Alexander A., O.F.M. Catholic University of America, Washington, DC 20064 U.S.A.; 202- 635-5657. I am professor of Biblical Studies at Catholic University. I used an IBM PC AT with two hard disks, 30 Mb and 60 Mb. I do research in the various texts of the Bible: the Massoretic Text, the Septuagint, Vulgate, Peshitta, and the Greek New Testament. I have Compucord and CompuBible on my 60 Mb hard disk; the former is a highly sophisticated search and concordance program on the Massoretic Text of the O.T. I also have the R.S.V. Bible on the 30 Mb hard disk and the Greek N.T. I use my AT in doing concordance work and word studies that would otherwise take me loads of time and effort. I am awaiting the arrival of the Septuagint and, I hope, the Peshitta. ================================================================= *Faulhaber, Charles B. Department of Spanish & Portuguese, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720 (415) 642-2107 My primary interests in humanities computing are in bibliographical data bases for cataloguing rare books and MSS, which I've been doing for about ten years. I am currently designing a data base using Advanced Revelation to support my ongoing Bibliography of Old Spanish Texts, a union catalogue of medieval MSS and incunabula --the primary sources for the study of medieval Spanish literature. I have been heavily involved with computing at Berkeley (chair of Academic Senate Computing Committee and of the UC system committee), chair of faculty steering committee for our Advanced Education Projects grant from IBM. As a result of these activities I have been recently exposed to the capabilities of advanced function workstations (Microvax, Sun, RT/PC, etc.) and am convinced that within three to five years they are going to be as ubiquitous as PCs and Macs are today. I am extremely interested in information about humanities programs for these machines, especially those which have been designed with the ICEC academic workstation environment in mind. ================================================================= *Flaherty, Tom Academic Affairs and Research, Connecticut State University, New Britain, Connecticut 06050 USA; (203) 827-7700 I am now serving as Acting Assistant Vice President for Academic Affairs and Research for the Connecticut State University system -- enrolling about 35,000 students. When I am not so acting, I am a Professor of Psychology at Central Connecticut State U. In both of these roles I have found myself increasingly enmeshed in discussions/arguments regarding the role of the humanities. But let me back up a bit. I have been a computer lover since just about the time computers actually became available. My first exposure was to the IBM 1620 in the early 60's. Since that time, I have used computers wherever possible: data collection, data analysis, simulation, databases, word processing, etc. I, along with many others would find it hard to function if computerless. My training was in Experimental Psychology. No humanist stuff there; just rat psychology and later psychophysics. In the 60's, it was not fashionable (at least in my kind of Psychology) to talk about non-Behavioral things (note the "B", not "b"). More recently, I have been interested in cognitive processes and AI; decidedly non-Behavioral, but naturals for folks with my predilections. In my administrative role, I have seen students use computers in ways that convince me that their role in non-technical education can and will be much greater. For instance, in watching a student use a cd-rom-equipped pc to do a search using the Psychological Abstracts, it became apparent to me that this was more than a souped-up way to accomplish the same old literature search. The student was actually forming and refining concepts and research questions based upon the feedback from queries. A far different phenomenon than could ever take place through page flipping. The short version is that I am interested in the applications of computing to the study of any discipline, and I believe that important and exciting advances in such applications in the humanities (research and teaching thereof) are upon us. ================================================================= *Flikeid, Karin Dept. of Modern Languages and Classics, Saint Mary's University, Halifax, N.S. B3H 3C3 (902) 420-5813 To sum up my computer-related interests: I use a number of computer applications primarily for my research on Acadian spoken language texts. These form a database of 800,000 words, presently on our VAX mainframe, where I do searches using the Oxford Concordance Program. I am however now in the process of downloading these texts to an IBM-AT and have started using WordCruncher. Most of my research is in sociolinguistics, where I use several statistics and graphics applications. These I do on the Macintosh Plus, as well as most of my word-processing. I use S.P.S.S.-X and Varbrul-2S on the VAX as well. Current preoccupations include using phonetic transcriptions in the IBM environment and streamlining the IBM/Macintosh/VAX linkups. I am also exploring ways to link the computerized database to the original voice recordings. Like most of us, my "support" of Humanities computing takes place within the informal network of exchange among colleagues. I have introduced a number of colleagues to humanities computing, in particular helping with the choice of computer environments. I also tend to be consulted on down- and up-loading and transfers between IBM and Mac. Within the framework of my French classes, I do 3-4 week introductory sessions in our IBM and Mac labs. I am a member of the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing and the Association for Computers in the Humanities. Last spring I attended the Computers and the Humanities Conference in Toronto, which I found extremely stimulating. I am Associate Professor of French (Linguistics) at Saint Mary's University in Halifax. ================================================================= *Goerwitz, Richard III Graduate Student, University of Chicago, Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations, 5410 S. Ridgewood Ct., 2E Chicago, IL 60615; 312- 643-4377 Undergraduate degree - Linguistics Master's - Bible Ph.D. (in process) - Comparative Semitics; Computer languages: C, Icon, BASIC, some Pascal (mostly Icon right now) Natural languages: Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Aramaic (old to middle), German, French, Akkadian, a little Dutch; more to come. Interests: Natural language processing in all its shapes and sizes; Semitic languages & historical linguistics in general. I'm interested in the HUMANIST group because I'm a little isolated right now. Computer-oriented scholars in the humanities are spread quite thinly over the face of academia. I guess I'm hoping to find some kindred spirits. ================================================================= *Lambert, Ian Mitchell Tangnefedd, Windmill Road, Weald, Sevenoaks, Kent TN14 6PJ U.K.; +44 (0)732 463460 I am a fulltime mature MA research student in Theology at the University of Kent at Canterbury. My thesis is entitled "Structuralist modeling and computer modeling of the biblical text". It thus covers (a) structuralism (b) computerising structuralism and (c) structuralism as an exegetical method. My interest derives from noting the closeness of structuralism's binary opposition concepts with computer modeling, and I therefore seek to see whether there is common ground in reality. If so, what are the implications for biblical exegesis? I am the only research student in both Theology and Computing Departments at the moment, and would welcome dialogue with others in similar fields and/or research. My supervisor is Dr John Court, Keynes College, University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent, CT2 7NL, Tel: +44 (0)227 764000 ================================================================= *Lang, Francois-Michel 230 South 21st Street Philadelphia PA 19103 (215) 665-1849 (hone); Paoli Research Center P.O. Box 517 Paoli, PA 19301 (215) 648-7469 (work). BA with High Honors in Classics, 1981, Princeton University. Senior thesis topic: Homeric Speech Formulae MS in Computer and Information Science, 1986, University of Pennsylvania. Major areas: Computational Linguistics and Artificial Intelligence. Currently enrolled in PhD program in Computer and Information Science, University of Pennsylvania, and full-time employee as Research Scientist, Paoli Research Center, Unisys, Paoli PA. My work with Unisys deals with maintainability and portability of large natural-language understanding systems. While working on my master's degree at Penn, I was employed for two years by Jack Abercrombie of the University of Pennsylvania, and helped develop CAI software and word processors for non-Roman alphabets. ================================================================= *Marker, Hans Joergen Danish Data Archives, Odense University, Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense M, Denmark I am a historian of background and employed as associate professor at the Danish Data Archives, Odense University. My job consists among other things in advising users in the field of history on the choice of methods and software in research projects that involve the usage of EDP. My own research centres on the prices and wages of Denmark in the first half of the 17th Century, and on historical informatics, methodology of computer programming and usage for the historical sciences. In the later research area I am working in close cooperation with people from other European countries, such as for instance Manfred Thaller from Goettingen, FRG and Kevin Schurer from the Cambridge Group, UK. In the field of computer programming I am currently working on some pieces to the Kleio project, which is centered at the MPIG in Goettingen and involves historians from a great number of European countries. ================================================================= *McDonald, J. K. An Darach RR#1 Hartington, Ontario K0M 1W0; (613) 372-2071. B.A. (UBC), A.M. (Oregon), Ph.D. (Berkeley) Canadian. 1951- 1987: Department of Spanish and Italian, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6 Current Status: Early Retirement; ongoing activity in CALL and text management. Co-founder of Italian Q'VINCI system (1981- ). Visiting scholar, Summer 1987, at Linguistic Institute, Stanford University, CA. Participant: 1986-, in multi-lingual funded VINCI research in CALL at Queen's University (with LESSARDG@QUCDN, BASTIANU@QUCDN, LEVISON@QUCIS, et al). Interested in mutual benefits of literary stylistics (Mexican, Italian) and linguistics. Languages, in descending order: English, Spanish, Italian, French, Latin, German, Greek, Esperanto, Celtic (smatterings). Member of the Association for Computers in the Humanities. ================================================================= *Mylonas, Elli Department of the Classics 319 Boylston Hall, Harvard University Cambridge, MA 02138 I am currently a research associate in the Classics Department at Harvard, working on the Perseus Project. I am at the same time a graduate student at Brown University, finishing a dissertation in Classics on the structure of the prologues in Ovid's Fasti. My interest in computing began at Brown, about 5 years ago. It arose out of personal fascination, and continued because of the serendipitous coming together of a group of humanists and computer people. I passed through the usual phases of preparing electronic manuscripts for publication, and of being the resident "computer person" for the Brown Classics Department. (On that see my article in Scope, March 1987.) While I was at Brown, I also worked for the Computer Center, developing and teaching minicourses on using the mainframe and as a user services specialist my last year at Brown. Both these jobs made clear to me the problems facing the humanist who wants to use a computer in her daily work. While at Brown I also worked briefly for IRIS, on the Isocrates Project. My role was to write a user interface for the Harvard Search Programs that search the TLG database, and to help the Classics department to use the programs. I am also one of the early (and continuing) members of CHUG, the Computing in the Humanities Users Group. I am currently working on the textual side of the Perseus Project. Funded by Annenberg/CPB, this is a project based at Harvard and Boston University. We are building a large database of text and images from Classical Greece that will be linked together and will be provided with various scholarly tools, such as a morphological parser, an apparatus criticus, and spatial browsers for images. The first version will primarily be useful in teaching, but we think that later versions will have enough information to support scholarly research. At the moment we are prototyping in Hypercard on Macintoshes. My interests in humanities computing lie in both teaching and research. Key interests are Hypertext--Perseus is essentially a Hypertext/media project--SGML--all our texts will exist in tagged SGML compatible form--and the role of the humanist in originating and creating the software they need. ================================================================= *Neu, Joyce Department of Speech Communication 305 Sparks Penn State University, University Park, PA 16802 (814) 863-3361 I am an Assistant Professor of Speech Communication at Penn State University where I specialize in cross-cultural communication and second language research and teaching. I received my doctorate in linguistics from the University of Southern California. Since 1983, I have used personal computers for instructional purposes, innovating the use of the PC in the ESL (English as a second language) classroom for teaching writing. Currently, I am attempting to establish an international intercultural newsletter. This newsletter will be sent to people around the world who have volunteered to participate in this exchange, and the newsletter will be written by students enrolled in my cross- cultural communication course around issues that we discuss in class. NOTE: If anyone is interested in more information about this newsletter, or in participating, please send me an e- mail note. ================================================================= *Nye, E.W. Assistant Professor, Dept. of English, Box 3353 University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY USA 82071; (307) 766-3244 My experience with mainframe computers began with the text editors at the University of Chicago (Amdahl) where I keyed my own doctoral thesis on Coleridge a few years ago, and at Cambridge University where I keyed my wife's doctoral thesis in geology. Admittedly this didn't take me very far into computer science, but the merits of the keyboard were confirmed, and I have since devoted some time and money to the use and study of micros, PCs. This interest has earned me a spot as unofficial computer consultant in the humanities building at the University of Wyoming, recommending hardware and software, installing the same, and working in conjunction with our computer services who are networking (Ethernet) the campus. I have an active interest in telecommunications and digital switching, though only a smattering of the theory. After my recent visiting fellowship at Edinburgh, I have returned to Wyoming where work continues on my several jobs of editing, foremost among which is the Collected Letters of John Sterling (1806-1844) which I hope to publish from electronic manuscript in two volumes within a few years. Could any of your readers share with me stories about major university presses and their success or failure setting e-mss? ================================================================= *Parker, Randolph College of Arts and Sciences, Kirkwood Hall 104, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405; (812) 335-1646 Dipl. in English Linguistics, Edinburgh Univ (Scotland), MA, PhD (English Lang and Lit), Cornell Univ; faculty member or administrator, Indiana Univ, since 1972; present position: Asst Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, Indiana University. Research interests: Stylistic analysis of texts (especially dramatic texts), Linguistic and discourse theory; Administrative responsibility relative to computing: Coordinating the development of academic computing in the humanities area of the College of Arts and Sciences. Specific areas of concern: Computer techniques for textual analysis, Development of CAI for foreign languages and ESL, Innovative uses of database systems for research/teaching in humanities fields. Training and experience in computing: Coursework in data structures, theory of programming languages, and In AI (Indiana Univ). Practical experience designing and writing programs for linguistic analysis, bibliographical searches, and administrative computing (using mainframes, minis, and micros), Use of relational data-base, text processing, and concordance packages. ================================================================= *Peterson, Mary Computer Specialist/Communications, Stoke Hall, University of New Hampshire Durham, NH 03824 I am a computer specialist for communications at the University of New Hampshire, which means that I am responsible for documentation, promotional and informative materials, brochures, announcements, annual report, and proposals for University Computing. In my previous position I was a senior writer/editor with University Communications. I also taught basic composition and fiction writing with UNH's English Department for several years. This semester I will be helping the English Department set up a Macintosh writing laboratory. Next fall I may help an instructor in basic composition team-teach a course in writing on the Macs. I am very interested in the use of computers in teaching composition. In my own work, I have found the computer to be an invaluable tool -- the only method of writing yet that is fast enough for me. I believe computers promote writing as a process, which is exactly the attitude students need to have to write many (improved) drafts of a paper on their way to polished, final work. I am also working on a basic composition textbook, now in production with a publisher in Boston, together with two colleagues. Our book is called WRITING MATTERS: FROM COMMITMENT TO COMPOSITION. I am interested in developing software that could accompany this textbook (perhaps in a year or two). I would appreciate and welcome correspondence regarding the use of computers in teaching writing -- composition, journalism, fiction, or poetry -- as well as correspondence regarding such writers' aids as PROSE. It would be nice to receive copies of documents other teachers and researchers have used in writing laboratories. I would share the same, as we produce materials. ================================================================= *Roper, John Paul Goy University of East Anglia, Computing Centre, NORWICH, NR4 7TJ, UK Telephone 0603 592379 Telex 975197 FAX 0603 58553 Deputy Director of University Computing Centre Ex-Treasurer, current committee member of ALLC SIG chairman for microcomputers. General interest in use of computers for Literary and Linguistic research, Currently special interest in use of optical disks for storage and retrieval of images such as museum objects or documents. ================================================================= *Tosh, Wayne Director CAI Lab--English Dept. St. Cloud State University St. Cloud, MN 56301; 612-255-3061. Ph.D. in Germanic philology, University of Texas/Austin, 1962; Special Research Associate, Linguistics Research Center, Austin, TX, 1960-68. Currently professor of linguistics, Dept. of English, St. Cloud State University since 1969. Chair of department's computer committee, member and past chair of university computer committee. Use word-processing in freshman composition, various language analysis programs in linguistics courses, computer-based drills in teaching freshman German. Self-taught programmer in SNOBOL4, having learned via electronic conferencing with colleagues at the University of Minnesota and elsewhere in the state. Teach an introductory course in SNOBOL4 to English and computer science majors. Direct operations and staff of a word- processing and computer-based instructional lab, perform light maintenance and repairs, prepare annual budget for department's computer equipment, conduct workshops for faculty in the use of word- processing, spreadsheets, and a variety of utility software. Interested in computer applications to the analysis and manipulation of language. Member of ACH. ================================================================= *Young, Charles M. Department of Philosophy, The Claremont Graduate School, Claremont, CA 91711, (714) 621-8082. I am an associate professor of philosophy with a special interest in ancient Greek phil-osophy. In computing, I am mainly concerned with finding ways to make machine-readable versions of Greek texts more readily available to working scholars. (My department owns a baby IBYCUS system.) Until July 1988, I am a member of the American Philosophical Association's Committee on Computer Use in Philosophy. =================================================================