From: CBS%UK.AC.EARN-RELAY::EARN.UTORONTO::LISTSERV 14-SEP-1989 18:29:18.69 To: ARCHIVE CC: Subj: File: "BIOGRAFY 10" being sent to you Via: UK.AC.EARN-RELAY; Thu, 14 Sep 89 18:28 BST Received: from UKACRL by UK.AC.RL.IB (Mailer X1.25) with BSMTP id 4648; Thu, 14 Sep 89 18:00:18 BS Received: from vm.utcs.utoronto.ca by UKACRL.BITNET (Mailer X1.25) with BSMTP id 8181; Thu, 14 Sep 89 18:00:17 B Received: by UTORONTO (Mailer R2.03A) id 8155; Thu, 14 Sep 89 10:22:50 EDT Date: Thu, 14 Sep 89 10:22:42 EDT From: Revised List Processor (1.6a) Subject: File: "BIOGRAFY 10" being sent to you To: ARCHIVE@UK.AC.OXFORD.VAX Autobiographies of HUMANISTs Ninth Supplement Following are 27 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 can be found on the file-server; see the Guide to HUMANIST for more information. Further additions, corrections, and updates are welcome. Willard McCarty Centre for Computing in the Humanities, Univ. of Toronto mccarty@utorepas.bitnet 31 March 1988 ================================================================= *Adman, Peter I am the Assistant Director at Hull University Computer Centre, responsible mainly for User Services. The University has strong departments in humanities, two thirds of the students being in non-science subjects. Although I am a graduate in Mathematics my main interests have been in humanities, having got involved in using computers on historical data consisting of poll-books (18th and 19th century) and census schedules (1851, 1861). To manipulate such data without having to use standard, general purpose database systems I implemented MIST (Manipulative Interactive Software Tools) which runs on mainframe and minis, and subsequently on micros. Recently most of my work concentrated on intelligent user- interfaces (PROFILE - A Humanities Computing Workbench) and some linguistic applications. I would be happy to receive mail from people with similar interests. ================================================================= *Anderson, Troy I am currently doing work at Stanford University on the extinct langauge of my ancestors the Lower Coquille Indians of the Central Oregon Coast. My method for going about reconstructing a dead language is as follows. I originally did a whole lot of bibliographic work trying to gather as much info on the language as I could. I ended up with about 300 pages of texts and about 10 hours of tapes. The textual material is half published and the other half unpublished. The published material was gathered by Melville Jacobs in his 1932 vol.8 University of Washington Coos Myth Texts and Narrative and Ethnologic texts. The unpublished material is from J.P. Harrington's collection ( I question it's validity). The computer has played a big part of my research. I sent the texts in published form to BYU to get optically scanned on to DOS text files which I have modified on to Word Perfect. I am now trying to reformat the texts so that the line up phrase by phrase. Let me back up. The texts I have for Mel are translated clause by clause, and I would like to make a dictionary and a list of morphemes. The way I am going about running through all these texts is by sending the formatted texts through a program called Word Cruncher. This used to be called the BYU concordance program (?). So it will make a concordance, clause by clause of the texts picking out the words so that I can analyze the texts morpheme by morpheme. Once again I must back up ... the texts are transcribed morpheme by morpheme but the translation is free. I need to find out how the translation works literally. From there all my problems should be solved, and it will be just a matter of picking up a totally foreign language and then trying to make a grammar book out of it. I am currently in the formatting of texts to Word Cruncher format stage. My technical expertise prevents me from making a program to merge the English and the Miluk files ( two seperate files ) which are lined up perfectly by number of clauses but not by number of pages. ================================================================= *Bernhardson, Steven Department of Physical Education, University of Saskatchewan (306) 374-6472 Officially, my background is more in the computer side of things as opposed to the humanities side of things. I have a B.Sc. High Honors in Computational Science and am working now as a computer resource person; however, my electives were all in English and I almost have enough for a degree there too. Maybe next year! My interest right now is in using computers to a) teach writing skills to weak/struggling/beginning writers and b) using computers to automate the editting process. I have been tutoring English for about a year now. One of the things that I do is read over student essays and give evaluation. I have developed a set of tools that allow me to quickly generate comment sheets that target a specific students problems. For instance, typing in mixed metaphor, cliches, and split infinitives generates the standard spiel about these common problems. Then I can drop in examples from the students paper to make my comments more relevant. Ideally, this would all be built into the word processing system that the student is writing his or her essay on. Then when they type "Everyone take their seats." a pop-up window would appear, letting the student know that *everyone* is singular. Of course, I am also interested in how this tutoring can be done most effectively: do you interupt the writing process, to you wait until a later analyze stage, do you do some things right away and wait with others? On the editing side of things, I have some crude tools that allow me to check up stylistic concerns. (I have edited a book as well as some articles.) As I type in the text, I might want to pop-up a window showing what the *New York Times* policy is on the word *soviet*. Or I might what to block off a paragraph in a sociology article and make sure all the numbers are treated the same--e.g. 30%, 50 per cent, and eighty-two percent are all different and should be brought to some common standard. I am interested in putting several sourcebooks on line--Chicago Manual of Style, New York Times Style Book etc. etc.--and improving my access to relevant sections. ================================================================= *Conner, Patrick W. Associate Professor of English, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV. 26506, (304) 293-3100. I am the founder of ANSAXNET, a group of scholars interested in Anglo-Saxon studies and Old English language and literature with members in the US, Canada (incl. Old English Dictionary Project at Toronto), UK, the Netherlands, and Australia. ================================================================= *Eisinger, Marc IBM France, 68-76 Quai de la Rapee, 75592 Paris Cedex 12, France I'm a system engineer in the branch office dealing with Universities and public research centers in and around Paris area. Although most of my customers are "Hard Science" specialists, more and more are in the Humanities: linguistics, sociology, geography, history and so on. They badly need information on what is done in foreign countries and I do think that the kind of tool you propose with HUMANIST is a need for them. As most of them are on EARN/BITNET I will suggest them to join HUMANIST. On the other hand, I'm working myself on precolumbian Mexico and specialy on the aztec language, the nahuatl. For the time beeing my main subject is to implement a lexicographic data base to deal with this agglutinative language. I'm working to in a team from the CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique) on the description of precolumbian Codices. ================================================================= *Falsetti, Julie Hunter College/IELI, 695 Park Ave., New York, NY 10021, (212) 772-4297; P.O. Box 801, New York, NY 10021, (212) 628-3641 I am the Testing Coordinator at the International English Language Institute of Hunter College in New York City. The IELI is a non-credit program that teaches English as a second language. We have about 800 students every eight weeks. At present, we are just beginning to use computer assisted learning in the classroom. I teach word processing as part of a writing course. We have the use of the college computer lab on a limited basis. I am interested in what software is available for ESL and how it is used in other programs. For testing, I use SPSS PC to evaluate the students progress on placement and exit tests. ================================================================= *Gasque, Tom I am Prof. of English at Univ. of South Dakota in Vermillion, SD 57069 (605) 677-5229. Also am the new editor of NAMES, journal devoted to study of onomatics--personal, place, literary. This is only my third week with BITNET, but so far have received two journal submissions this way. I have done writing on placenames and personal names and on medieval literature. Next year, beginning in July, will be spent in Germany on exchange. I will continue to edit NAMES and am looking for a way to keep in touch via BITNET. I know that the place I will be is on the system, Univ. of Oldenburg (DOLUNI1), but I don't know anyone's ID there. I look forward to staying in touch with you and others who may share my interest in names and the use of computers in the humanties. ================================================================= *Gillison, David Associate Prof, Department of Art, Lehman College, CUNY. Bronx New York 10468. phone 212) 960-8356. I am an instructor in photography and art and am presently exploring ways of using micro and mini computers for computer assisted instruction, and also for image enhancement in graphic art and photography. ================================================================= *Gorodetsky, Gabriel Russian and East European Research Center, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel, Tel: 03 5459608 (office); 13 Mordechai St., Jerusalem, Israel, Tel: 02 719831 (hone). I am a Professor of History at the Department of History at Tel Aviv University and a Senior Research Fellow of the Russian and East European Center of that University. My major interests (in broad lines) are the history of Soviet foreign policy, British modern history, and the history of the Second World War. Two of my books have been published by Cambridge University Press: The Precarious Truce: Anglo-Soviet Relations, 1924-27 (1976), and Sir Stafford Cripps' Mission to Moscow, 1940- 1942 (1984), and various articles in scholar journals. I am involved with the people developing the Hebrew version of NotaBene, and a keen user of ASKSAM (Seaside Software) -- A text based management system which I use to compile a bibliography of the Second World War and various guides to archival sources relating to the Grand Alliance in the Second World War. At present I am writing a book on Politics and Strategy: The Formation of the Grand Alliance in the Second World War. ================================================================= *Harder, Raymond G. Dept. of Computer Science, Azusa Pacific University, POB APU, Azusa, CA 91702, USA; 818-969-3434, ext 3556; ICAI, MRT, Hypermedia, AI, Microcomputer text tools, Computational Linguistics. B.A. Bible, M.A. ANE Languages and Cultures (UCLA), Ph.D in progress UCLA ANELC. Diss: Translation Technique in the Syriac of John (NT). I have written programs for the contextual formatting of RTL lang (eg Arabic & Syriac), CAI and text study of minor languages (MAC only). Prefer Macintosh but own IBM xt clone too. Have HP-3000 and MicroVaxII at school. Pascal & Hypertalk programming. Extensive MAC font develpmt - bitmap and postscript I will be reading a paper at the AIBI/ALLC meetngs in Jerusalem in June. I hope to meet you there. I have just finished a mmicrocomputer version of the Syriac NT. I will be transfering the COPTIC Nag Hammadi texts to MAC format for D Parrot at UC Riverside tomorrow. My main interests are in making this stuff widely available for individual study on Microcomputers. My background is mainly humanities - the computers are just to pay the bills, it's nice to combine the two! ================================================================= *Harrison, Terri Department of Language, Literature, & Communication, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Troy, NY 12180 USA (518) 276-8261 I co-edit "Comserve", an electronic information and discussion service, available through Bitnet, for individuals in the humanities and social sciences who are interested in human communication. My responsibilities involve maintaining and developing a data base of information relevant to the activities of students, faculty, and professionals in communication. The data base consists of bibliographies; other research and instructional materials; announcements of conferences, grant opportunities, calls for papers, etc.; and descriptions of graduate programs in communication. Comserve users also have the opportunity to participate in discussion groups relating to various themes within the field. We currently offer 15 discussion groups on topics such as rhetoric, philosophy of communication, ethnomethodology, communication education, mass communication, and intercultural communication. I teach undergrad and grad courses in Communication at RPI, specializing in organizational communication and communication theory. My research has little to do with computing; I am interested in organization as a form of social structure and its implications for communication processes. My particular focus is on the possibilities for, and fate of, strategies for extending democratic practices to the workplace. ================================================================= *Hayward, Malcolm I teach in the English Department at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. I use computers quite a bit in my composition courses. I also edit a journal, Studies in the Humanities; most phases of our operations are computerized. I am particularly interested in contacting other journal editors for exchanging information. ================================================================= *Hibler, David I've been teaching English for over twenty years, specializing the past twelve in composition and computers. I am particularly interested in linking with anyone sharing an interest in the areas of composition, grammar, and/or the general impact of machines upon the development of thought and our perceptions of ourselves. ================================================================= *Hopkins, John D. American Studies, University of Tampere, Box 607, SF-33101 Tampere, FINLAND; telephone: 011- 358-31-156116 office direct [+2 hours GMT]. I am a U.S. citizen resident in Finland for 18 years, a tenured Senior Lecturer in English Translation at the University of Tampere, Finland. I serve as Coordinator of the American Studies Program, and Director of the Office For U.S. Exchange Programs at the University of Tampere, and have been past Chair of the English Division of the Department of Translation Studies. I have also served on the Board of Directors of the Fulbright Commission in Finland for nine years. My computer background includes the directorship of our 1984-87 "CompTrans" project, which established a coordinated microcomputer and mainframe curriculum within the Department of Translation Studies which now serves nearly 100% of our students and staff. In 1984, our 12-unit Kaypro CP/M lab -- in addition to our DEC 2060 mainframe resources -- was the first department- wide Humanities microcomputer facility in Finland, and received considerable attention on the national level. From 1985-87 we added MS/DOS micros, and included a Senior Fulbright Professor in Computational Linguistics and Computer Assistance in Translation Work with whom we expanded our curriculum considerably. A summary of the CompTrans project is available via Bitnet. I also was co-organizer of the First and Second Tampere CAI/CALL Conferences in 1983 and 1985, among the speakers of which were David Wyatt and Graham Davies, known to Scope readers. I have spoken on microcomputer usages in Translation and general Humanities work in Finland, the U.S. and Canada, and served as a consultant. I have also organized three international American Studies Conferences in Tampere in 1983/85/87, the most recent of which was the largest American Studies conference in Europe in 1987 with over 300 participants from 17 countries. I have written or edited a number of textbooks and conference proceedings within the field of American Studies, upper-secondary EFL texts, and guide/Orientation booklets in the field of Educational Exchange. The organizational work for these conferences, and for our American Studies Resource Center, Center For American Studies, and Office For U.S. Exchange Programs, has involved considerable computer work, notably in mass mailing, databasing, and printing/publishing. Primary software is WordPerfect 4.2, Reflex, Ventura Publisher, Softcraft Fancy/Laser Fonts, and a host of utilities. I currently use Kaypro and Unisys AT- compatibles connected via modem using Kermit onto the DEC2060 or VAX711 with the Ministry of Education VAX as the Bitnet server. ================================================================= *Johnson, Joanna Computing Services Co-ordinator (Humanities), McMaster University; Humanities Computing Centre, CNH-428, (416) 525-9140, ext. 4155, 1280 Main Street West Hamilton, Ontario, Canada L8S 4L9 I am the contact person for Humanities faculty and staff members regarding any computing questions or problems. If I am unable to answer the question or deal with the problem myself, I try to help the user find a solution within the available resources (including personnel, time and facilities). I am involved in software development (currently in Computer Aided Instruction in second languages) and in the assessment of new hardware and software packages of potential benefit within the Faculty. BACKGROUND: B. Sc. (Applied Mathematics and Computer Science), McMaster University. I have worked in academic computing user services at McMaster for the past 10 years. ================================================================= *Kiener, Ronald C. Trinity College, Department of Religion, 70 Vernon Street, Hartford, CT 06106, (203) 527-3151 ext. 519 I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Religion, concentrating in Judaic and Islamic Studies. My particular area of specialization is the history of Jewish Mysticism. My computer work involves Hebrew text editing, and I am currently producing on my microcomputer (an AT clone) a critical edition of a medieval philosophical text that bears on the development of early Kabbalah. Thus, I am particularly interested in Hebrew- based computer applications. I also use e-mail extensively to stay in touch with colleagues and Hebrew-based computer consulatants. I am interested in working towards a North American-based database of post-Biblical Jewish texts. ================================================================= *Kirkham, Victoria I am in the Dept. of Romance Langs. at Penn and principal investigator for Penn Boccaccio, a project to convert the works of Boccaccio and their Renaissance illustrations to machine- readable form. I am new to computing and particularly interested in learning about digitizing images and interactive text-image programs by getting in touch with others working along similar lines. ================================================================= *MacNeil, Heather Heather MacNeil c/o University of Toronto Archives, (416) 978- 5344. My educational background is an M.A. in English and an M.A.S. (Master of Archival Studies). My interest in computing in the humanities is both personal and professional. I want to know the kinds of conversations the humanities community is engaged in and I want to know, as someone whose occupational focus is ways and means for supporting research in a wide variety of areas, what models are emerging and what questions are being asked. ================================================================= *Maynor, Natalie Mississippi State University, MS 39762, USA, (601)323-8384 (home) or (601)325-3644 (office). Although I am still a computer novice, I am making rapid progress (i.e., I'm becoming a computer addict). My educational background is in English literature (Ph.D., University of Tennessee, 1978). My research and publications during the past eight or nine years have been in linguistics. I am Associate Professor of English at Mississippi State University. I have had a computer for about three months and a modem for about three weeks. Because of my fascination with the world of computing, I am now a member of the English Department Computer Use Committee, a committee that was formed last fall to make plans for the computer-assisted writing lab that we hope to have in place within the next six months. As a linguist, I am looking forward to learning enough to be able to use my computer for compiling and analyzing linguistic data. In addition, I hope to be able to exchange data with colleagues via Bitnet. ================================================================= *Morgan, Martha Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation, 3500 W. Balcones Center Dr., Austin, Texas 78705 USA Telephone (512) 338-3431 During this decade, I have worked in computational lexicography: originally, with Siemens' German/English machine translation project, METAL, at the University of Texas, and presently with the natural language project at MCC. My research interests revolve around robust, re-usable, and extensible lexicography for artificial intelligence applications, including knowledge representation. ================================================================= *Newman, Judith I teach in education at MSVU. Work with teachers helping them learn about reading and writing and we use computers for doing that. Mostly I don't teach about the computer but USE it. The students (all active teachers) write to one another, to me, to people in places like Calgary, Bloomington Indiana, McGill using email. The focus of what we do is reading and writing but in the process we use the technology to let us do both of those activities in new ways. I have even taught a distance education course with nine teachers in two locations: Charlottetown and Amherst using Netnorth. I corresponded with the students, both individually and as a group. The exprience was most astonishing as the quantity of writing both they and I found ourselves doing. So yes, I'm a humanities teacher, teaching, reviewing software, answering questions, giving advice, supporting research and teaching using computers and would like to have contact with others doing some of the same. ================================================================= *Schostak, John Lecturer in Education, School of Education, University of East Anglia, Norwich NR4 7TJ. Tel - 0603 -56161. Ext 2643 Interests. Generally, the impact of computers on schooling. The potential for changing relationships in education, particularly the potential offered by electronic mail. I have also done research on violence, disaffected youth. Recently I've edited a book on information technology and its impact on schooling, its potential for liberating the individual as well as its more sinister potential for controling the individual. ================================================================= *Schuette, Wade 1581 Slaterville Rd., Ithaca, NY 14850 (607) 277-0132 (home); Computing Services, Johnson Graduate School of Management, 102 Malott Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853-4201, (607) 255-9426 (office). AB (Physics), 1968, Cornell U. College of Arts & Sciences; MBA (Quantitative Analysis), 1976, Cornell U.; 1976-present, various analysis/computing positions at Cornell, including Co-Director, Dept. of Institutional Planning and Analysis (1980). Presently Database Administrator/Research Support Specialist at Johnson Graduate School of Management (Cornell). Taught: Microcomputers for Business (1985); Database Management (1987); Member: Institute on Religion in an Age of Science; Hobbies: Private pilot; avid GO player (Japanese board game) Specialization: Management Information Systems, distributed relational database/decision systems, small group cooperative computing; graphics and AI-assisted user interfaces. Experienced with IBM/370; VAX 8530; PC's; Macintosh; MARK IV, ADABAS, Rdb, dBase-III, OPS5, M1, Oracle. Wife, Judy S. Ogden, (AB (Cornell) English/Psychology '70, MPS/Health & Hospital Service Administration '76, JD '77) teaches "Legal Aspects of Health Care Delivery" in Cornell's Dept. of Human Service Studies, and is a Partner with local law firm True, Walsh, & Miller. Neither of us is officially in a "research" role; however, we are interested in any work related to making large, complex organizations better capable of making rational decisions with a long-term focus. This includes uses of (and limits of) computing related to making "hard choices" in government, health care, defense, etc; design of truly useful Information/Command and Control Systems that do a good job of perception-fusion instead of insulating and blinding the people at the top; organizational change and behavioral decision theory; leadership; role of ethics/theology in making an organization with power to build and grow without becoming corrupt; self-organizing systems; cross- fertilization between Computer Science, AI, and Management science in knowledge-representation and design of robust, reliable control systems that evolve well; qualitative physics and graphical (analog) statistical techniques, including multi- dimensional scaling in non-Euclidean perception space; and definitions of "health" and "quality" that can assist in making social resource allocation decisions and tradeoffs between cost- containment and "quality of health care." ================================================================= *Slattery, Susan Yale University, Project Eli, 175 Whitney Ave., Yale Station 2112, New Haven, CT 06520, (203) 432-6680 I am a user support specialist at Project Eli, which is in charge of instructional computing on campus. I am also a poet (MFA from UMass). I help support hardware and software problems from faculty who are working on instructional software. ================================================================= *Willee, Gerd Institute for Communications Research and Phonetics, University of Bonn, Poppelsdorfer Allee 47, D-5300 Bonn 1, Tel. W-Germany- 0228 - 73 56 20 I'm working as a scientific associate in the fields of computational linguistics, with stress on morphology (especially of German); I'm teaching students (as well form comp.linguistics as from other domains from the humanities, say philologies and linguistics); I give computer courses mainly in PL/I; I'm working as a consultant for the use of computers in the philologies and linguistics. ================================================================= *Wolper, Harlan 170C Old North Road Kingston, RI 02881 (401) 782-8693 . I am currently a 2nd semester (graduating) senior at the University of Rhode Island. As a Speech Communication Major and a Sociology Minor, I have a background in the Humanities. Special interests I have had include the use of electronic-mail and teleconferencing. Our institution has its own teleconferencing system called Participate. Currently, the system is expanding, and I was part of a grant and a project to experiment with the use of such a system in a variety of disciplines including natural sciences, business fields, as well as others. I have studied the effects of electronic "communication" vs. "face to face" communication and have found some interesting results. I think that this discussion group would be of interest and value to me. ================================================================= *Zweig, Ron I lecture in contemporary Jewish history, at Tel Aviv University. Particular fields are the history of the British Mandate; and the reconstruction of Jewish life in the immediate post-WW II years. I edit a scholarly journal on the history of the Zionist movement and the Arab-Israeli conflict. The journal has published an annotated bibliography of articles and books in these fields annually for the last eight years. I have just completed a collated disk version of the bibliography, which includes a software search engine (provided gratis by Seaside Software of Florida, publishers of ASKSAM). The bibliography contains over 3150 items. I would be pleased to make it available (no charge) to anyone with an interest in computerised bibliographies, or to anyone interested in the contemporary Middle East and/or Jewish history. I am keenly interested in the use of databases in managing historical research projects. I use a freetext database called ASKSAM, and would be happy to swap notes on that or any other freetext database. =================================================================