From: CBS%UK.AC.EARN-RELAY::EARN.UTORONTO::LISTSERV 14-SEP-1989 15:26:10.55 To: ARCHIVE CC: Subj: File: "BIOGRAFY 9" 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 2239; Thu, 14 Sep 89 15:24:58 BS Received: from vm.utcs.utoronto.ca by UKACRL.BITNET (Mailer X1.25) with BSMTP id 7616; Thu, 14 Sep 89 15:24:56 B Received: by UTORONTO (Mailer R2.03A) id 8144; Thu, 14 Sep 89 10:22:27 EDT Date: Thu, 14 Sep 89 10:22:15 EDT From: Revised List Processor (1.6a) Subject: File: "BIOGRAFY 9" being sent to you To: ARCHIVE@UK.AC.OXFORD.VAX Autobiographies of HUMANISTs Eighth 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; a copy will be found on HUMANIST's file-server. Further additions, corrections, and updates are welcome. Willard McCarty Centre for Computing in the Humanities, Univ. of Toronto mccarty@utorepas.bitnet 13 March 1988 ================================================================= *Boggess, Julian Eugene (Gene) III Mississippi State University Department of Computer Science P. O. Drawer CS Mississippi State, MS 39762; (601) 325-2756 (main office); (601) 325-2079 (local). I am a humanities retread, with a B.A. in Philosophy and English, an A.M. in Linguistics, and a Ph.D. in Communications (Psycholinguistics) from the Univ. of Illinois. I spent several frustrating years trying to teach Speech and English, but job opportunities looked much better in Computer Science, so I picked up a Master's in CS recently and am currently back to teaching (CS) full time after serving as the campus microcomputer consultant for the Computing Center for several years. Although my time has been dominated by my teaching and consulting duties, I have been involved, to a small extent, with two humanities- related projects: obtaining a computerized writing lab for the English department, with the intent of eventually using the lab for all writing courses here, and working on a communication-facilitation computer system for communication- impaired individuals. In addition, next Fall I will be teaching an honors seminar in Cognitive Science, in which I hope to tie computer concepts back to some fundamental issues in Philosophy, Psychology, and Linguistics. Any suggestions with regard to what textbook(s) I should use for the course, or what articles or books I should be reading to prepare myself for the course, would be welcome. I think that HUMANIST, or something like it, has been needed for quite a while now. ================================================================= *Brook, Andrew I do very little to support computing in the humanities, though I use my PC constantly. Basically, my use of the computer is restricted to word-processing and Email. I use Wordperfect and that is the only word-processing package I know. I have discovered a couple of things about it that are not in the manual but basically I am just a user. And my use of Email is similarly unadventuresome -- I just use it. But I am interested in com- puting in the humanities and I find the mail that rolls by on HUMANIST very interesting. ================================================================= *Cioran, Samuel D. McMaster University, Department of Modern Languages; (416) 525- 9140 (x7012) Activities: Director of Humanities Computing Centre (responsibilities: administrative, instructional and research computing in the Faculty of Humanities). Interests: Analysis and development of multilingual authoring language systems (Latin and Cyrillic languages); natural language processing and parsing in languages other than English; Projects: mcDRILLmaster II, a text-based multilingual authoring language system with multiple-windowing capability for storage and retrieval of lexicons, reference files, hypertext notation and orthographic parsing (spelling conventions, punctuation, etc.) ================================================================= *Clayton, Dave University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI 02881 (401) 792-2501 I am Assistant Director of Academic Computing at the University of Rhode Island. My academic background is not particularly applicable to my present activities since I am a "re-tooled" biologist having done graduate research in plant physiology before having grown tired of standing around up to my elbows in chemical soup. At present Academic Computing reports to the Vice President for Academic Affairs although a reorganization is planned in the next (???) year(s) and the reporting structure will change. Academic Computing is responsible for support of all educational and research computing at the University, providing a variety of services including centralized computing, planning, installation, and facilities management for local (department/college) computing sites, consultation and educational support, and software review/installation/mainte- nance. Specifically, as Assistant Director, I have responsibility for long-range planning and "outreach"--our efforts at contacting and assisting new and different user communities within the University. At present use of computing in the humanities is very basic at URI. The primary application is word processing though recently interest has been increasing. A MacIntosh teaching/research/study lab is currently being developed designed specifically for use by faculty and students in the humanities. Faculty from Art, Languages, and English have all been active participants in design and hardware/ software selection for this facility. A microcomputer-based writing laboratory was opened in September, 1987, and has been very actively used this year. A few faculty members, primarily in English, are using computing applications for analytical work and there is increasing interest in such projects. I expect my participation in HUMANIST will provide me with ideas and material which will prove beneficial in assisting humanities faculty in applying computing to their class and research activities. ================================================================= *Coombs, Norman R. Professor of History, Rochester Institute of Technology, College of Liberal Arts, 1 Lomb Memorial Dr., Rochester Ny 17623 I have been teaching at RIT since 1961. My original doctoral research was in the history of Christian Socialism in the Church of England. Gradually, I moved into American history. With the aid of an NEH grant, I researched and wrote _Black Experience in America_ published 1972. During recent years I have become a computer enthusiast. I am totally blind, and a PC with speech synthesizer has taken over much of my reading needs. Students now submit all papers and essay take-home exams on electronic mail. Also, during recent years I have been using computer conferencing to reach distance learners. I have written 3 articles describing this work, one published and 2 forthcoming. I was a co-presenter of papers at the Second Guelph symposium on Electronic Conferences and at the Third Conference on Computers and the Handicapped at Cal. State Northridge. I am planning to assist in a communications course on computer and audio conferencing next year which will mainly be taught through conference systems. I also have 6 articles on Black history being published in an encyclopedia on American Immigration. Presently, the courses I teach are freshman level American history, (one version through the College of Continuing Education combining telecourse materials and a computer conference.) Also, I teach upper level courses in Black history and the history of Christianity. ================================================================= *Corbett, John My scholarly background is in Classics (Roman History); and my undergraduate teaching at Scarborough College in the University of Toronto is also for the most part concerned with Classics ( history, literature, civilization). I have graduate cross appointments to the Centre for Religious Studies and the Centre for Medieval Studies, where I teach various courses on religion and religious literature in Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages. Within this broad area my own research is unified by its focus on religion and social change; in the course of this study I have had occasion to add the semitic languages to the Latin and Greek of my original Classics training: here my work is for the most part concerned with biblical and rabbinic Hebrew (Aramaic) and Syriac (on the early Christian side). A current major research interest is the comparative study of biblically based liturgical poetry (hymns) in Jewish and early Christian traditions (with emphasis on Hebrew Syriac and Greek). As for humanistic computing I am interested in word processing and text analysis in non-Roman character fonts; as yet I have encountered much frustration and made little progress (though I am hopeful for Nota Bene). My work at the Centre for Computing in the Humanities has involved chairing the Electronic Text Archive Committee and bringing to Toronto on-line access to the Global Jewish Database from Bar-Ilan in Israel. The Univ. of Toronto is the first university outside Israel to have access to this most imortant research tool. I would be pleased to cooperate with anyone working with biblical Jewish or early Christian texts, especially those who know something about computer applications. ================================================================= *Davis, Douglas A. Department of Psychology, Haverford College, Haverford, PA 19041 (215)649-7717 I am a psychologist working on Freud biography. I teach a humanities-oriented personality course and am eager to stimulate more Haverford interest in humanities computing and networking. ================================================================= *Delaney, Paul I'm a Professor of English at SFU, particularly interested in Macintosh applications. Am working with George Landow at Brown/IRIS on some Hypercard units to integrate with his Context32 English course--at present, a unit based on the full text of *Joseph Andrews*, later, perhaps, one on Joyce's *Ulysses*. ================================================================= *Even-Zohar, Itamar (B10@TAUNIVM) Porter Institute School of Cultural Studies, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, 69978 Israel Tel. +972-(0)3-427233 or 5459-420. Professor of Poetics and Comparative Literature and Artzt Chair Professor of History of Literature, Tel Aviv University. I am Director of The Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics and previously (1973-1982) also Bernstein Chair Professor of Translation Theory. I have studied at the Universities of Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Oslo and Copenhagen and have been research fellow in many European and American universities and institutes. I am also editor-in-chief of *Poetics Today*, an international journal for the science of literature and adjacent fields. Main fields: theory of literature, semiotics of culture, historical poetics, transfer studies (interference and translation). Main work since 1970 has been developing polysystem theory, designed to deal with dynamics and heterogeneity in culture. My research has been based on a vast field work on cases as Hebrew (especially in its relations with Old Mesopotamian and Middle Eastern cultures, Arabic, Russian and Yiddish), French, Russian, Old Icelandic and Italian. I have published mainly in Hebrew, English and French. My enlarged collection of papers, entitled *Polysystem Studies* (after my *Papers in Historical Poetics*, 1978) is now in preparation for the press. I have been relatively active in introducing the use of computers and more sophisticated softwares to my department. We currently work chiefly with Nota Bene, which also has developed the best software for Hebrew. I have actually introduced Nota Bene to Tel Aviv University, where it gradually becomes a popular software even among non-academic staff. I have developed enhancements for Nota Bene by writing some 80 programs with its unique programming language. Many of these programs are not just utilities but research-oriented routines. The capacity of Nota Bene to store information and the variety of ways material can be organized for retrievals also has encouraged some of my younger colleagues and students to find ways of exploiting to the utmost the incredible potentialities of NB. I have just established, together with Davis Sitman from Tel Aviv Computers Centre, a Nota Bene list (NOTABENE@TAUNIVM), as well as put all my programs (both actual programs and documentation) at LISTSERV@TAUNIVM. Among my other computer-orineted activities I have encouraged our faculty to work increasingly with BITNET and its electronic bulletins, have opened a direct channel at our institute for DIALOG and am now a member of Tel Aviv University Computer Users' Committee. ================================================================= *Haberland, Hartmut Roskilde University Center, POB 260, 4000 Roskilde, Denmark Academic background: Studied in Stuttgart and West Berlin (Germany). M.A. with a thesis on automatic syntax analysis in 1971. Since 1974, associate professor of German linguistics at Roskilde University Center, Denmark, with brief stints at Duesseldorf University (Germany, 1980/1) and Copenhagen University (1983-6 part time). Publications: a book on sociolinguistics (in German), and several articles (in English, Danish and German) mostly on semantics and pragmatics of natural languages. Since 1977, co-editor (with Jacob Mey, and now Jan-Ola Oestman) of Journal of Pragmatics (North-Holland Publishers, Amsterdam). My active interest in computers is (apart from word processing, of course) at the moment limited to using electronic mail, mostly in connection with my editorial work with the Journal of Pragmatics. But I am also interested in cognitive science/AI, although more on the basis of a general interest in the field, not as an active researcher. ================================================================= *Haviland, John B. Reed College, Portland, Oregon 97202 U.S.A. I am Associate Professor of Linguistics and Anthropology at Reed College. Before that I was at the CASBS in Stanford, the UNAM in Mexico City, and the ANU in Canberra. I work on Tzotzil (Mayan), Guugu Yimidhirr (Paman), and Mixtec (Oto-manguean), doing linguistic, sociolinguistic, and ethnographic work in both Mexico and Australia. My recent work has been on verbal fights, evidentials, Aboriginal social history, and flower-selling among Mayan peasants. ================================================================= *Johnson, Eric Professor and Head, Division of Liberal Arts, 114 Beadle Hall, Dakota State College, Madison, South Dakota 57042 USA; (605) 256-5270 I am a Ph.D. (Notre Dame, 1977) in English (specializations in nineteenth-century literature and in literary criticism). My dissertation is on the novels of Dickens and the theory of the novel. I became interested in computing shortly after I received my Ph.D. I studied a series of languages and operating systems. I am most interested in programming in SNOBOL4 and SPITBOL: dangerously powerful languages for string manipulation and non- numeric processing. I am the Director of a conference called ICEBOL: the International Conference on Symbolic and Logical Computing. ICEBOL3 will feature a series of presentations about non-numeric computing in SNOBOL4, SPITBOL, Icon, Prolog, and LISP on April 21-22, 1988 (contact me for additional information). WACKFORD, STRONG, BLIMBER, and MICAWBER are production programs I have written to help identify writing blunders and make suggestions for revision (I name my programs after literary characters, usually bunglers from Dickens novels).I have also written programs for literary analysis. They are written for MS- DOS microcomputers and IBM mainframes using VM/CMS. I have published articles and read conference papers about programming in SNOBOL and about computing in the humanities. ================================================================= *Kennedy, Alan KENNEDY@DALAC Subject: for HUMANIST To: mccarty@UTOREPAS X-VMS-To: IN%"mccarty@utorepas" During the past year the computing centre at Dal has installed a small lab of Atari St1040's (six of them) in the English Dept, with dedicated connections to the vax8800. We use WordPerfect primarily, but don't bother giving a lot of instruction in it. We assume our students will pick it up as they need it and that has been the case. The lab is too small now for anything much more than graduate student use, but it will expand to 12 stations next year, and add a laser printer. That should allow us to run some tutorials in composition for our undergrads. One of my undergraduate classes, english 204: on The European Novel, is making use of the CoSy facility this year. CoSy stands for Conferencing System, and it is a kind of electronic message center. Students can enter their reactions to the books we are discussing in class, they can argue with each other, they can ask questions of me, and I can reply, intervene,keep silent, send them mail messages, or post information that they can get back to on numerous occasions. I find it an exciting activity, and so do some of the students. ================================================================= *Labbett, Beverley. ( M110%UK.AC.UEA.CPC865 ) Lecturer in Education, School of Education, University of East Anglia, Norwich NR4 7TJ. Tel - 0603 -56161. Ext 2640. Interests. The use of data bases and interactive video in the teaching and learning of "The Humanities." ================================================================= *Massirer, Mary English Department, Baylor University, Waco, Texas 76798 (817) 755-1768 I am teaching both technical writing and freshman comp. at Baylor and have been for 20 years. Our university joined BITNET about 18 months ago, so we are comparatively new at it. As far as I know, I am the only person in the English Dept. who is using BITNET so far. We are using Macintosh computers in our composition courses and are especially interested in new developments and methods in composition teaching. I'll be eager to hear from all of you. ================================================================= *Piovesan, Walter I am head of the Data Library at Simon Fraser University. We manage and provide access to textual and numeric data in Machine Readable form. ================================================================= *Richmond, Ian M. <42100_1156@uwovax.UWO.CDN> Department of French, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada N6A 3K7. 519-661-2163 Ext 5703 also IMR@UWOVAX.BITNET I have a Ph.D. in French literature with a specialization in the seventeenth- century area. In this field, I have published a number of articles, a book (*Heroisme et galanterie*, Naaman: Sherbrooke, 1977) and two collections of colloquium acts. I have also published articles and given papers on the question of French immersion programs in Canada, and have given papers on Esperanto literature. In the area of computing, I have prepared an electronic, bilingual lexicon of microcomputing terms, published in 1986 by Linguatech as part of the Termex/Mercury series. I have also written and programmed *Teaching Assistant* a grade-book program currently under consideration by Gessler Publishing, revised (language content and program code) a series of CAI lessons in Esperanto for the *Esperanto Press* (Bailieboro, Ontario), and am currently working on CAMA (Correspondence des Affaires en Modules Automatises), a CAI project in French business correspondence funded by the Ministry of Colleges and Universities with funds provided by the Secretary of State. My present position is that of Chairman of the Department of French at the University of Western Ontario. In this capacity, I use a microcomputer constantly for correspondence, administration, preparation of teaching materials, grades management (using *Teaching Assistant*), and research (storage and retrieval of research notes, as well as word processing). My primary computing interests lie in 1) the use and development of applications to improve the efficiency of researchers in the humanities and to ease the difficulties they encounter (particularly in the foreign languages) in producing a hard copy of their finished product; 2) CAI; and 3) programming. ================================================================= *Rumery, Kenneth Music Department, box 6040, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona 86011 (USA); (602) 523-3850 I teach advanced theory, analysis, and 20th century music. I supervise activities in music CAI and synthesis. I have conducted surveys and written articles on computer use in music. I have written several music tutorials for the Macintosh using Hypercard and CourseBuilder. I am working on the identification and description of musical thought processes as these relate to the music maker's use of pattern perception and memory. Evidence of musical thought is present in compositions, improvisation, and all facets of performance. Am interested in making a connections between pattern of musical thought and patterns of thinking in other arts. ================================================================= *St. George Art University of New Mexico, CIRT, 2701 Campus Blvd., NE, Albuquerque, NM 87131 (505) 27708046 I'm presently the Director of External Networking and Supercomputing at the Computing Center and an Associate Professor of Sociology. I received my Ph.D. from the University of California in Sociology. For a number of years I was the Director of User Services at the Computing Center and in that capacity provided all consultative services to users, including those in the humanities. I have retained a strong interest in providing computing services to those users not in traditional areas of computing: english, philosophy, history, and so on. My research interests are eclectic and range from historical research on trails to the social impact of computing. ================================================================= *Sinclair, Gerri I run a Centre at Simon Fraser University called EXCITE (EXemplary Centre for Interactive Technologies in Education) in the Faculty of Education. ================================================================= *Stampe, David FROM INTERNET: stampe@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu FROM UUCP: ihnp4,uunet,dcdwest,ucbvax}!ucsd!nosc!uhccux!stampe LAST RESORT: stampe%uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu@rutgers.edu Dept. of Linguistics, Univ. of Hawaii/Manoa, Honolulu HI 96822; 808-948-8602, 808-396-9354 (home). I'm a linguistics professor at the University of Hawaii. I was at Ohio State University 1966-85. I am best known as the founder of the theory of natural phonology. At UH I also teach computational linguistics, the whole gamut, and support a number of projects in computational support for linguistic research. Most important of our projects, perhaps, is a network archive file server we are constructing as a public repository for Pacific and Asian language data of all sorts, and for supporting software for text, lexicographic, and grammatical analysis. I'm also quite interested in verse and music analysis (not limited to western styles) and software in support of that. =================================================================