From: CBS%UK.AC.EARN-RELAY::EARN.UTORONTO::LISTSERV 14-SEP-1989 15:25:23.07 To: ARCHIVE CC: Subj: File: "BIOGRAFY 8" being sent to you Via: UK.AC.EARN-RELAY; Thu, 14 Sep 89 15:25 BST Received: from UKACRL by UK.AC.RL.IB (Mailer X1.25) with BSMTP id 2215; Thu, 14 Sep 89 15:24:10 BS Received: from vm.utcs.utoronto.ca by UKACRL.BITNET (Mailer X1.25) with BSMTP id 7598; Thu, 14 Sep 89 15:24:06 B Received: by UTORONTO (Mailer R2.03A) id 8129; Thu, 14 Sep 89 10:22:08 EDT Date: Thu, 14 Sep 89 10:22:06 EDT From: Revised List Processor (1.6a) Subject: File: "BIOGRAFY 8" being sent to you To: ARCHIVE@UK.AC.OXFORD.VAX Autobiographies of HUMANISTs Seventh Supplement Following are 21 additional entries to the collection of autobiographical statements by members of the HUMANIST discussion group. HUMANISTs on IBM VM/CMS systems will want a copy of Jim Coombs' exec for searching and retrieving biographical entries; for a copy send a note to the undersigned. Further additions, corrections, and updates are welcome. Willard McCarty Centre for Computing in the Humanities, Univ. of Toronto mccarty@utorepas.bitnet 18 February 1988 ================================================================= *Bornstein, Jeremy I am an active member of CHUG, which is an acronym for Computing in the Humanities Users' Group. (This is an organization at Brown U.) I am also active in a CHUG subset called the Hypertext Working Group. In the H.W.G. we are attempting to design interfaces & data structures for our ideal hypertext system, and we've gotten pretty far and may be looking for funding soon. Another of my interests involves what my friends jokingly call 'hypotext', which refers to my practice of using computer programs to cut up and re-assemble compositions (which are later edited). Somewhat related to this, I am the moderator of a list, 'weird-l', which distributes pieces of strange creative writing, poetry, etc. Of course, I am interested in the ways which computers may aid people in non-scientific fields. ================================================================= *Cardullo, Pamela I am a technical writer for the Academic Computer Center at Georgetown University. I write documentation for our computer resources. I hold a BA in History from St. Mary's College of Maryland and an MA in Divinity from the University of Chicago. ================================================================= *Charlan, Maurice Communication, Concordia U. I am an assistant professor of Communication Studies at Concordia University. I have a PhD in Communication from the University of Iowa where I studied rhetoric and social theory with Michael McGee and communication, technology and culture with James Carey. Recent Publications: Technological Nationalism, Canad. J. pol. Soc. Theory, vol 10 L'informatique et la culture de la raison, Communication Information, vol 8 Constitutive Rhetoric: The Case of the Peuple Quebecois, Quart. J. Speech 73 On Rhetoric and Cultural Theory, Communication, in press. I am concerned with the relationship of discourse to social theory. This includes an interest in rhetorical theory, hermeneutics, ideological critique, theories of rationality and judgement. I am also interested in the relation- ship between technical or instrumental rationality and social or value rat. Next year, while on sabbatical, I intend to develop the concept of "critical phronesis" (where phronesis is practical wisdom) to develop a theory of judgement appropriate for social uses of technology. Finally, at Concordia, I am involved with our MA and PhD in Communication, where I teach seminars on the above, as well as on introductory theory. Oh, finally, re. computing. While I have written critically of the computer as a manifestation of the "dark side of the enlightenment" (cf. Adorno and Horkheimer), I also find it fascinating. I have a BA in mathematics and have a long background of programming experience. Consequently, I recognize the dangers of computing--of being "seduced" by the apparatus. In other words I am critical of computers because (1) they are poor substitutes for humans, (2) their significance to the human sciences can easily be exaggerated. There are those in communication who think that a computer based content analysis of a text constitutes an effective "reading" of its values or bias. (3)I am aware that I am somewhat prone to hacking, which is ultimately an obsessional waste of time. ================================================================= *Cloutier, Andre Telephone (807) 343 - 8620 Professor in Quebec literature and French as a second language. Work in computers has been limited to the class environment: - Use of Word Perfect to prepare documents and text indexing; - Also am using SSI data, awaiting Data Perfect for sorting text material. - Involving classes in using computers for class work and assignments. - Research into Concordance programs hoping to find way to sort large amounts of text data and put them into practical use in the near future. - Hopefully in the near future will be able to design computer assisted classes in languages and literature. - Also a member of the University Senate Computing Committee and since last September a representative of Lakehead University on the OCCH [Ontario Consortium for Computing in the Humanities. ================================================================= *Cranton, Brian 29 Hadwen Road, Worcester, Ma 01602; (617) 753-0235 I am currently a sophomore at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Worcester, Ma and I am majoring in Mechanical Engineering. My background with computers in the humanities is fairly broad. I was a computer consultant for Rockingham County Child and Welfare Office for approximately one year helping to integrate their filing system into a computer database. Also, I worked for several months at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (Regional MATH Network) under a government grant. The project being a supplementary math workbook for elementary school children written by math teachers in the Boston area. My job was to convert their notes to a desktop publishing program. In addition to those two formal jobs, I have acted as a consultant for several people attempting to integrate computers into their small businesses and have helped teach young children the basics of operating home computers. I do not belong to any formal organizations related to education or computing at the moment, but I do have a strong interest in the field. I look forward to being able to contribute to your group. ================================================================= *Durand, David My name is David Durand, and my current job is system programmer/system manager here at Brandeis. I have done a fair amount of work that could be considered ``applied humanities computing'', linguistically based work in English spelling correction and Spanish spelling correction (including a morphological parser for spanish that works from a 50,000 word dictionary). I was also involved in the design and implementation of a text-layout package based on SGML in 1983 for a company whose management was worse than its technical staff. I have been heavily involved with CHUG (the Computing and Humanities User Group) at Brown during the last year. My current interest is in hypertext systems to support scholarly research in the humanities. In particular I am trying to integrate descriptive markup, multiple-version handling, cross-linking and parallel texts into a single framework. Steve DeRose and I have solved many of the technical problems with implementing such facilities and are currently implementing the data- handling functions and starting to design the proper sorts of interface. My non-computer but relevant interests are analytic philosophy and early Maya Civilization. I'm looking forward to joining the discussion, as the samples that I've seen look very interesting. ================================================================= *Fortesque, Susan Joan I have a BA Honours degree in Italian and French from the University of Reading and an MA in Linguistics and English Language Teaching from the University of Leeds. I worked in Teaching English as a Foreign Language for 16 years, in Italy, Nepal and Britain, ending up at Eurocentre, Bournemouth, UK, where I was the teacher trainer. While there I set up a computer room and software library. My experiences are described in the book I co-authored with Christopher Jones - Using Computers in the Language Classroom (Longman 1987). While at Eurocentre, I also helped to design an interactive videodisc for learners of English as a foreign language. In January 1986 I accepted a post with Barclays Bank and worked for them as a course designer, interactive videodisc, until October 1987. The team of which I was a member was responsible for the design of interactive videodisc training materials for bank staff. In October 1987 I came to Heriot-Watt University where I am studying for an MSc by research in the Department of Computer Science. My research area is the application of AI techniques, particularly expert systems, intelligent tutoring systems and natural language interfaces, to the design of interactive videodisc training programmes. At the moment I am carrying out a review of the literature. ================================================================= *Germain, Ellen I'm a VM systems programmer in the Academic Systems group at Columbia University; I am also a graduate student in the English department, specializing in medieval literature. ================================================================= *Giampapa, Joe I am an undergraduate at Brandeis University ('89), studying Computer Science, with interests in: AI, NLP, Linguistics, educational and responsible computing, and Italian cultural studies. Presently, I am working on a Lisp structure ==> LaTeX formatter of Walpiri-English dictionary entries, as part of the Warlpiri Project at MIT's Center for Cognitive Science. Future plans involve writing a Lisp structure <==> SGML format generator/parser for the dictionary. I have been forwarded some mail messages from the Humanist network about SGML, and feel I could benefit and possibly contribute by direct contact with the network. ================================================================= *Guedon, Jean-Claude Institut d'histoire et de sociopolitique des sciences, Detache en Litterature comparee, Universite de Montreal, CP 6128, Succursale "A", Montreal, QC H3C 3J7; (514)-343-6208 (office), 343-6609 (secretary). By training, I am a historian and sociologist of science, but I also dabble in questions like science and literature, or utopias. My interest for computing, however, stems more from my sociological leanings. For example, I am presently undertaking a large socio-historical research project funded by SSHRC to study on a comparative basis career trajectories of French- and English-speaking engineers in Quebec since about 1800 until about 1965-70. A population of several thousand engineers such as the one that I am facing requires the use of a well thought-out database and I am presently investigating the possibilities of using 4th Dimension with a Macintosh II. Otherwise, I am interested by new communications technologies such as the Minitel in France and what social effects it will have in the near future. I am a full professor at the University of Montreal and I share my work between history and sociology of technology on the one hand, and the programme in comparative literature on the other. ================================================================= *Krovetz, Robert I'm a doctoral candidate at UMASS at Amherst in Computer Science. I'm working on how the use of natural language techniques can be used to improve the indexing of large text databases. I'm still in very early stages (literature review), but I hope to get a proposal done sometime this summer. I received my Master's degree at the University of Maryland in 1979 and then worked for several years at the National Library of Medicine. ================================================================= *Marcos-Marin, Francisco Ap. 46348, E-28080 Madrid, Spain.; Phone: (34)(1)3974529 Professor of General Linguistics, Doctor en Filosofia y Letras (Filologia Romanica), Universidad Autonoma de Madrid; Director of the Madrid team of EUROTRA (Machine Translation, European Communities); Developer of UNITE, a package for computer aided philological editing. ================================================================= *Neuman, Michael Academic Computer Center, Reiss Science Building, Room 238, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. 20057; (202) 687-6096 After earning a Ph.D. in English and working my way through the labyrinth of tenure and promotion, I became the Director of Academic Computing at my institution (Capital University in Columbus, OH). My "conversion experience" was occasioned by a review of Writer's Workbench with a friend who worked at Bell Labs; I discovered then that computers could provide my students with services beyond what I was capable of as an individual professor. Currently, as an Assistant Director of the Academic Computer Center at Georgetown University, I am exploring the ways that computers can help colleagues teach writing and do research in literary analysis. Kurzweil, WordCruncher, programs for stylistic analysis -- these are becoming a part of my professional life, though some day I am sure to return to the my own classroom with a storehouse of tales of my adventures with computers. ================================================================= *Nye, E.W. Assistant Professor Dept. of English, Box 3353 University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY 82071, U.S.A.; 307-766-3244 I have been a visiting fellow at University of Edinburgh. I'm now in the English department at the University of Wyoming. 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. Since reaching Edinburgh on a visiting fellowship, e-mail and bulletin boards have become for me a vital connection with people and projects left behind. I'm now at work 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? ================================================================= *Paramskas, Dana Professor of French and Director of French Studies, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ont. N1G 2W1 (519) 824-4120 x 3164 BSL and MSL (Georgetown) in Applied Linguistics/French and Ph.D. (Laval) in 20th century French Drama. Interests: pedagogy of second language teaching/learning, audiovisual technology and methods. In CAI: design of instructional materials, templates and limited parsers. Experience: in CAI since 1979, part of the team which developed CLEF (Computer-assisted Learning Exercises for French), a set of 62 lessons covering basic French grammar, for IBM and Commodore machines. With Donna Mydlarski, author of PROMPT, a template for contextualized reading comprehension exercises for French, English, Italian, German, Spanish and Latin. Currently collaborating with Mydlarski on DICTATE, a template for dictation exercises in same languages (except Latin, of course). Own project (now being programmed): GRAMMA, a pedagogical parser for French as a second language. In planning stages: a French videodisc for aural comprehension (with Mydlarski) plus a variety of oddball ideas.... Interested in hearing from anyone involved with courseware for French, especially anyone working in the area of pedagogical parsers (parsers limited to the analysis of surface grammar, of the stylistic level typical of a second language learner at beginning-intermediate stages, with ability to spot and identify most morphological and basic syntactical deviations. ================================================================= *PHI (The Packard Humanities Institute) 300 Second Street, Suite 201, Los Altos, California 94022 USA; (415) 948-0150 All of our activity currently involves collecting and analyzing bodies of text for eventual inclusion in a CD-ROM: 1. We are collecting all Latin writings through some undecided cutoff date. We issued in December 1987 PHI Experimental CD-ROM #1, which contained: - 4 million Latin words processed by PHI. These include most of the authors of the Republic. For example, Cicero is complete. Several of these texts have not been available before in machine- readable form, e.g. Quintilian, Celsus, Seneca the Elder. - IG 1 and 2, produced at Cornell University under a grant from The David and Lucile Packard Foundation. - A number of miscellaneous texts produced by the Center for the Computer Analysis of Texts at the University of Pennsylvania. Many of these were previously included in the Pilot CD-ROM of the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae. Biblical texts include the Septuagint, New Testament, Hebrew Old Testament, Authorized and Revised Standard Versions. Other texts include Arabic, Syriac, Coptic, Aramaic, French, Danish and English. - Experimental CD-ROM #1 will be ready for distribution by the end of February 1988. The cost will be very low. 2. PHI is working with outside scholars to produce complete morphological analyses of the Hebrew Old Testament and the Greek New Testament. Various other projects are being considered and even dabbled at, but the Latin CD-ROM should occupy us for quite a while. Main PHI personnel: Director: David W. Packard Associate Directors: Stephen V.F. Waite, John M. Gleason ================================================================= *Radai, Yisrael Computation Center, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Givat Ram, Jerusalem 91904, Israel; telephone: +972-2-584536 I am a senior programmer at the Computation Center of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. My major tasks are providing consultation and preparing instructions on the use of applications software on our mainframe (CDC Cyber 180-855 operating under NOS) and on IBM and similar personal computers. [Since the campus where I am located is devoted to the natural sciences, most of my consultation and writing is for the benefit of natural science researchers, but humanities and social science researchers are also served.] My main interest outside of work is in various aspects of modern philosophy (mainly analytic philosophy and the philosophy of science) and at present I am preparing on a paper in this field. [Here there is a more direct connection with the humanities, but computers enter the picture only in that I use editors and word processors to prepare the paper.] ================================================================= *Rudman, Joseph Department of Physics (or) Department of English, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213; (412) 243-7063 [home], (412) 268-2775 [work] Doctor of Arts in English from Carnegie Mellon University. Scientific Project Administrator in High Energy Physics and Sometime Instructor in English at Carnegie Mellon University. Treasurer of the ACH. Researching and teaching computers and the humanities courses since 1974. Currently setting up a clearinghouse of information on computers and the humanities courses. Currently working on stylistic and authorship attribution problems in the canon of Daniel Defoe. ================================================================= *Smith, Randall M. <6500rms@????> Department of Classics, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106 (805) 961-3556; 707 Bolton Walk, Apt. 202, Goleta, CA 93117, (805) 685-8078 I am a graduate student in Classics at the University of California at Santa Barbara. I am currently working on my PhD., and I intend to specialize in ancient philosophy, science and mathematics. For the past two years I have been working as a research assistant to bring computer aided research to our department. The main project has been setting up an MS-DOS system which uses the TLG CD-ROM #B. I have been adapting Greg Crane's UNIX software to run under MS-DOS, and I have also written an interactive user interface to drive the modified versions of his programs. Once this software is running smoothly I will probably start working with the new PHI CD-ROM and the new TLG CD-ROM C. I also do general computer consulting for the Classics department whenever other questions arise. ================================================================= *Spolsky, Bernard Department of English, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel My introduction to computing in the humanities was a post- doctoral seminar that Paul Garvin ran at the 1964 Linguistic Institute; Paul and I co-edited the papers in what is one of the earliest collections in the field. While I was teaching at the University of New Mexico, we did a good deal of work with Navajo on the computer, the results of which have been published. I now teach linguistics in an English Department; I am now a user (of word-processing, statistical packages and electronic mail) rather than a researcher in the field, but like to keep in touch. My main research interests now are sociolinguistics, applied and educational linguistics, and language testing. ================================================================= *Young, Nora Fleming (Stormwalker) P.O. Box 80866, Fairbanks, Alaska 99708; (907) 479-8160. Born in Aberdeen, Scotland; presently residing in interior Alaska. B.A. in Sociology B.S.; area of specialty, Social Work, B.S. Human Resource Management, area of specialty, Counseling. M.A. in Public Administration, area of specialty, the administration of state-funded counselling programs. PhD in Psychology, area of specialty, Applied Psychology. I am interested in the interface between the scientific application of computers and human beings, i.e. can computers enhance or inhibit human creativity and learning? Can we use the computer to enlarge the scope of human experience as opposed to organizing and standardizing as much as some of my more technical friends would like? I became hooked on computers when I had to write a doctoral thesis and did not know what a floppy disk was! I learned, I really learned! I am not so much interested in technology as I am in the effect of computers on creativity. I appreciate my friends who write brilliant programs (actually I am thoroughly cowed by them); however, are the programs easy to use? simple to learn? will they enrich or simply occupy time and energy? how and why does it apply and should it? When I write poetry on my computer it gives me great freedom and I enjoy that. The tactile pleasure of a big yellow pad and pencil still seems to be important. Can I learn to use my computer in new ways? I am interested in what has been done to date with computers. I am fascinated at what might be done, could be done, undreamed of things that one day will become reality. From 124 miles south of the arctic circle, Nora F. Young P.S. My job: I am in private practice. I do a great deal of marriage and family therapy, work with drug and alcohol abuse, a number of public offender type clients, human beings in the process of change, and five computers. I also test psychological software for others in the field of psychology. That is to say, if it has bugs I find them, or my clients do, and we all learn. =================================================================