From: CBS%UK.AC.EARN-RELAY::EARN.UTORONTO::LISTSERV 13-SEP-1989 12:14:51.49 To: ARCHIVE CC: Subj: File: "BIOGRAFY 15" being sent to you Via: UK.AC.EARN-RELAY; Wed, 13 Sep 89 12:14 BST Received: from UKACRL by UK.AC.RL.IB (Mailer X1.25) with BSMTP id 3041; Wed, 13 Sep 89 12:13:32 BS Received: from vm.utcs.utoronto.ca by UKACRL.BITNET (Mailer X1.25) with BSMTP id 5498; Wed, 13 Sep 89 12:13:31 B Received: by UTORONTO (Mailer R2.03A) id 5086; Wed, 13 Sep 89 07:00:57 EDT Date: Wed, 13 Sep 89 07:00:55 EDT From: Revised List Processor (1.6a) Subject: File: "BIOGRAFY 15" being sent to you To: ARCHIVE@UK.AC.OXFORD.VAX * * File "BIOGRAFY 15" contains records larger than 80 characters. * It is consequently being sent to you in "Listserv-Punch" format. * * You can get information about that format by sending the following command * to LISTSERV@UTORONTO.BITNET: "Info LPunch" * ID/BIOGRAFY 15 V 00142 73/1/========================================================================= 26/1/Date: 19 November 1988 55/1/From: Willard McCarty 38/1/Subject: 14th supplement, biographies 1/1/ 1/1/ 47/1/ Autobiographies of Humanists 44/1/ Fourteenth Supplement 1/1/ 55/1/Following are 24 additional entries and 1 revised entry 62/1/to the collection of autobiographical statements by members of 30/1/the Humanist discussion group. 1/1/ 63/1/Humanists on IBM VM/CMS systems will want a copy of Jim Coombs' 142/2/exec for searching and retrieving biographical entries. It is kept on Huma nist's file-server; for more information, see the Guide to Humanist. 1/1/ 56/1/Further additions, corrections, and updates are welcome. 1/1/ 15/1/Willard McCarty 56/1/Centre for Computing in the Humanities, Univ. of Toronto 23/1/mccarty@utorepas.bitnet 16/1/19 November 1988 65/1/================================================================= 33/1/*Chisholm, David 1/1/ 61/1/Professor of German, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, 30/1/Tel.(602)621-5924 or 621-7385. 1/1/ 61/1/Member of ACH and ALLC, Computer-aided research on German and 55/1/English language and literature, concordances to German 38/1/literature; metrics and versification. 65/1/================================================================= 34/1/*Clausing, Stephen 1/1/ 56/1/Assistant Professor, German Department, Yale University. 1/1/ 62/1/I am also a computer programmer and the author of an authoring 64/1/system for the Macintosh called the Private Tutor System (not to 61/1/be confused with the IBM system of similar name). My research 60/1/interests include Germanic Philology and Linguistics and the 64/1/application of computers to pedagogical and linguistic problems. 57/1/I have published in the area of pedagogy,linguistics, and 17/1/computer science. 65/1/================================================================= 43/1/*Culy, Christopher 42/1/ 1/1/ 63/1/Ph.D. Student in Linguistics, Stanford University, 438 W. Sixth 44/1/St., Claremont, CA 91711 USA; (714) 626-3392 1/1/ 63/1/Even though my background in mathematics (B.S.) and linguistics 57/1/(M.A. and Ph.D. in progress), I have only recently become 59/1/interested in computing for the humanities. I am especially 64/1/interested in the inputting and use of dictionaries and texts in 64/1/various languages. I recently wrote an interface to a program to 60/1/search an on-line English dictionary, and I am exploring the 62/1/possibility of putting a Dogon-French dictionary on-line. I am 63/1/also interested in the possible uses of computers in connection 61/1/with literacy programs in developing countries. Finally, I am 57/1/interested in clear, relatively simple interfaces so that 37/1/computers are accessible as possible. 65/1/================================================================= 50/1/*Davies, Anna Morpurgo 1/1/ 44/1/Somerville College, Oxford OX2 6HD, England. 1/1/ 62/1/I am a professor of comparative philology at the University of 55/1/Oxford (England) and am interested in computers and the 65/1/application of computers to written texts. I have been working on 60/1/ancient Indo-European Languages especially Ancient Greek and 60/1/Latin and ancient Anatolian Languages (Hittite, Hieroglyphic 13/1/Luwian etc.). 65/1/================================================================= 37/1/*Dumont, Stephen D. 1/1/ 60/1/Senior Fellow, Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 59 62/1/Queen's Park Crescent East, Toronto, Ontario, M5S 2C4, Canada, 21/1/(416) 926-1300 x3232. 1/1/ 55/1/In 1974 I graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Wabash College, 61/1/Crawfordsville, Indiana with a double major in philosophy and 64/1/English literature. All my graduate studies were pursued at the 62/1/Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto (M.A. 1976, 61/1/Ph.D 1983) and the Pontifical Institute for Mediaeval Studies 64/1/(M.S.L. 1979). In 1982 I was appointed instructor at the School 64/1/of Philosophy at the Catholic University of America, Washington, 60/1/D.C., and in 1983 assistant professor. In 1985 I accepted an 64/1/appointment as Junior Fellow at the Pontifical Institute and was 38/1/promoted to Senior Fellow 1 July 1988. 1/1/ 65/1/My area of interest and research was and continues to be medieval 65/1/philosophy and theology, especially after Aquinas. I have focused 60/1/most on the philosophy of Duns Scotus and his school, and my 57/1/doctoral thesis was on the Subtle Doctor's proofs for the 65/1/existence of God. I am currently revising the thesis into a more 62/1/general treatment of natural theology in the late middle ages. 58/1/Concurrently, I have published a number of articles on the 62/1/central philosophical contributions by Scotus and traced their 55/1/fate at the hands of his fourteenth century critics and 64/1/disciples. As most of my research is based on unedited sources, 64/1/I have recently investigated computer assisted critical edition. 65/1/================================================================= 30/1/*Heino, Aarre 1/1/ 62/1/University of Tampere, P.O. Box 607 SF-33101, TAMPERE Finland; 14/1/+358 31 156274 1/1/ 63/1/I have worked almost twenty years at the university of Tampere, 65/1/the last ten years as second professor of comparative literature. 65/1/My main fields are German literature and the theory of the novel. 59/1/I teach and write about the phenomena of literature and the 63/1/function of arts. I try to bring every term a group of students 65/1/together with computers, which is here not so simple for students 62/1/of the human faculty. At the moment I am planning a seminar in 65/1/co- operation with my colleague in Indiana. Her students and mine 65/1/write about the same topics, then we change papers via BITNET and 34/1/also give each other the feedback. 1/1/ 58/1/In these years I have had much to do with the Institute of 58/1/extended studies of my university, where I now develop the 64/1/distance education and the multimedia-teaching. I hope I can use 34/1/also computers for these purposes. 1/1/ 64/1/In short I try to develop my teaching as a whole so that I could 64/1/get the major benefit of computers. The hypertext and hypermedia 63/1/programs seem to have qualities that I perhaps could use in the 60/1/future. Until now my main software is MS-WORD, GrandView and 38/1/Tornado, which I use in my daily work. 65/1/================================================================= 35/1/*Hill, Lamar M. 1/1/ 58/1/Professor of History, Department of History, University of 54/1/California, Irvine, CA 92717 USA; (714) 856-6524, 6521 1/1/ 64/1/NOTA BENE: I am not responding "for" for School of Humanities at 60/1/UCI but I shall try to distribute HUMANIST items when I can. 63/1/Access to this network by humanists is limited by the generally 65/1/apathetic (to hostile) relationship of humanists to computers for 58/1/more than word processing and by a woeful lack of funds to 64/1/support computer communication. I hope that the later will be a 61/1/non-issue in the short-term future. The former is a far more 64/1/intractable problem but we are working on it ("we" being a small 57/1/number of us in the School who use computers comfortably. 1/1/ 60/1/I do early modern English history with a special interest in 63/1/legal history. I also teach the Reformation. I received my AB 62/1/from Kenyon College in history (and nearly two other majors in 65/1/English and political science), my MA from (then) Western Reserve 65/1/University after having done a year of law at Cornell, and my PhD 59/1/from the University of London (University College). I am a 63/1/Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and am active in several 59/1/professional organizations, particularly the North American 30/1/Conference on British Studies. 1/1/ 59/1/My publications have centered around the legal writings and 59/1/public career of Sir Julius Caesar, an Elizabethan/Jacobean 63/1/lawyer, judge, and bureaucrat. I am now working in an entirely 60/1/new area, civil litigants and civil litigation in the period 62/1/1558-1625. The two discrete studies I am presently working on 58/1/are : (1) "Mistress Bourne's Complaint" the anatomy of the 63/1/breakdown and dissolution of a late-sixteenth century marriage, 64/1/and (2) "The Jacobean Court of Requests and its Litigants: 1603- 57/1/1625" a study of an equity court, its process, personnel, 60/1/litigants and their litigation. In both instances I am using 61/1/conventional historical and legal-historical methodologies as 65/1/well as trying to develop critical apparatus for reading verbatim 42/1/pleadings and the deposition of witnesses. 65/1/================================================================= 30/1/*Hough, Michael 1/1/ 65/1/I work at Seneca College in the Placement Office. I have a degree 60/1/in English from the University of Western Ontario in London, 59/1/Ontario and I am currently taking courses in History at the 59/1/University of Toronto during the evenings. I have a strong 60/1/interest in the Arts. I play the piano, I enjoy painting in 63/1/water colours and I like to write stories. I also read as often 64/1/as I can. I use my computer at home to write and to explore the 64/1/world via modem. I like to keep in touch with the social issues 61/1/that are going on in the world and for this purpose, I try to 63/1/read all that I can from reliable sources rather than tabloids. 1/1/ 65/1/I am interested in joining this service because I feel that I can 62/1/effectively add my knowledge and experiences to the debate. I 57/1/have travelled over much of Europe and I intend to travel 55/1/extensively around the rest of the world in the future. 1/1/ 63/1/I am 25 years old and I was born in Bolton, England. I am more 61/1/Canadian than English however as I moved here when I was five 10/1/years old. 65/1/================================================================= 44/1/*Kippen, Jim 1/1/ 64/1/Research Fellow, Dept Social Anthropology & Ethnomusicology, The 65/1/Queen's University of Belfast, Belfast BT7 1NN, Northern Ireland, 64/1/UK; Telephone (UK) 0232 - 245133 Ext.3706, (International) +44 - 21/1/232 - 245133 Ext.3706 1/1/ 60/1/I began, as many ethnomusicologists do, as a trained Western 64/1/classical musician with an undergraduate degree in music (1978). 56/1/I specialised in piano, conducting, and composition. My 58/1/fascination for world music was kindled at that time and I 55/1/explored performance techniques of several North Indian 61/1/instruments, finally settling for specialisation in the tabla 64/1/(two-piece, tuned drum set). As a supplement to practical work, 63/1/I began reading the anthropological literature to get some idea 63/1/of the cultural structure and social organisation of the people 62/1/who played tabla for a living. I then enrolled for a Ph.D. in 56/1/social anthropology/ethnomusicology (1979) and undertook 57/1/fieldwork to study the music and the lives of traditional 64/1/musicians in Lucknow. Subsequently, I published a book on tabla 61/1/and tabla musicians (1988) based largely on my thesis (1985). 1/1/ 60/1/My work on the verbal representations of tabla music (quasi- 57/1/onomatopoeic mnemonic syllables used for transmission and 61/1/sometimes performance) suggested that techniques derived from 63/1/formal linguistics (generative grammars) could be developed for 64/1/the description of the percussion "language". Yet by hand, such 64/1/descriptions were not feasible, and so grammars were implemented 64/1/in an expert system designed for a microcomputer portable enough 58/1/for experimental work on location. The aim was to involve 63/1/informants as analysts in the experimental process: the machine 62/1/generated music which was assessed for quality and accuracy by 64/1/the musicians, and the musicians in turn supplied improvisations 61/1/that were analysed by the machine to test the validity of the 63/1/grammars. By means of this interaction, models were constantly 64/1/modified and more accurate hypotheses of musical structure (with 61/1/greater cognitive validity?) were arrived at. (This work has 65/1/been the subject of numerous articles.) However, shortcomings in 60/1/the research theory and method forced a re-evaluation of the 56/1/usefulness of the expert system/informant interaction as 65/1/articulated by an intermediary analyst (researcher). As a result, 61/1/a learning module has now been added to the expert system and 63/1/research is currently being undertaken to assess whether or not 63/1/machine-learning is the solution to problems encountered in the 50/1/transfer of knowledge from informants to machines. 65/1/================================================================= 37/1/*Landow, George P. 1/1/ 59/1/Professor of English, and Art Faculty Fellow, Institute for 63/1/Research in Information and Scholarship (IRIS), Box 1946, Brown 62/1/University, Providence, Rhode Island 02912 USA; 401 751-7493. 1/1/ 65/1/George P. Landow, who holds the AB, MA, and PhD from Princeton U. 63/1/and an MA fr om Brandeis, has also done graduate work at the U. 62/1/of London. Landow, who has written on 19th-century literature, 65/1/art, and religion as well as on educational computing, has taught 62/1/at Columbia, the U. of Chicago, Brasenose College, Oxford, and 61/1/Brown Universities. He has been a Fulbright Scholar (1963-4), 59/1/twice a Guggenheim Fellow (1973, 1978), and a Fellow of the 61/1/Society for the Humanities at Cornell U. (1968-9), and he has 63/1/received numerous grants and awards from the National Endowment 62/1/for the Humanities and the National Endowment for the Arts. He 64/1/has organized with others several international loan exhibitions 62/1/including *Fantastic Illustration and Design in Britain, 1850- 63/1/1930* (1979), and his books include *The Aesthetic and Critical 62/1/Theories of John Ruskin,* *Victorian Types, Victorian Shadows: 60/1/Biblical Typology and Victorian Literature, Art, and Thought 64/1/*(1980), *Approaches to Victorian Autobiography* (1979), *Images 59/1/of Crisis: Literary Iconology, 1750 to the Present* (1982), 61/1/*Ruskin* (1985), *Elegant Jeremiahs: The Sage from Carlyle to 15/1/Mailer* (1986). 1/1/ 60/1/Landow's projects in humanities computing began with several 65/1/involving graduate students in English literature and art history 62/1/which employed advanced mainfra me word processing, electronic 64/1/conferencing, and typesetting on the Brown mainv frame to create 62/1/group projects resulting in published books. One result was *A 60/1/Pre-Raphaelite Friendship* (1985), an edition of 19c-century 65/1/unpublished letter s with full scholarly apparatus produced by J. 65/1/H. Combs and others. Another was *Ladies of Shalott: A Victorian 59/1/Masterpiece and Its Contexts* (1984), a heavily illustrated 60/1/exhibition catalogue fully designed online using IBM Script, 63/1/customized macros, and typesetting and page formatting programs 49/1/developed at Brown by Allan H. Renear and others. 1/1/ 56/1/Since 1984, he has worked as a member of the team at the 63/1/Institute for Research in Information and Scholarship (IRIS) at 65/1/Brown that developed Intermedia, a full hypermedia system. Landow 61/1/supervised, edited, and partially wrote *CONTEXT32* a body of 60/1/several thousand hypermedia documents on this system used to 60/1/support English courses ranging from introductory surveys to 18/1/graduate seminars. 1/1/ 57/1/He is corrently editor of THE CONTINENTS OF KNOWLEDGE, an 64/1/expansion of the Brown hypermedia materials by contributors from 56/1/several dozen institutions to include materials from all 63/1/disciplines. His most recent publications include essays on the 65/1/rhetoric of hypertext, the use of hypertext in education, and its 64/1/effects on collaborative work, conceptions of the literary work, 62/1/and literary criticism. He is currently editing a gathering of 52/1/essays on hypertext and literature with Paul Delany. 65/1/================================================================= 42/1/*Masterson, Karie 1/1/ 64/1/UCLA Humanities Computing Facility, 405 Hilgard Ave., 248 Kinsey 26/1/Hall, Los Angeles CA 90024 1/1/ 63/1/I am a programmer/analyst for the Humanities Computing Facility 63/1/at UCLA. I am also a phd. student of Near Eastern Languages and 63/1/Cultures at UCLA. I plan on completing the requirements for the 53/1/candidate in philosophy degree this fall quarter. My 36/1/specialization is semitic languages. 65/1/================================================================= 47/1/*Matsuba, Stephen Naoyuki 1/1/ 61/1/Research Associate, Centre for Textual Studies, Department of 62/1/English, University of British Columbia, #397-1873, East Mall, 29/1/Vancouver, BC CANADA V6T 1W5 1/1/ 59/1/My interests are bibliographical studies, computer-assisted 62/1/research in the humanities, late-nineteenth-century drama, and 61/1/early-twentieth-century drama. My special interests in these 63/1/areas are Shaw, Shakespearian production and scholarship during 59/1/this period, textual editing and stemmatics, and artificial 13/1/intelligence. 1/1/ 60/1/At present, my research focusses on computer-applications in 63/1/humanities research and teaching. I am completing an article on 57/1/the editing of Shaw's Man of Destiny, using the mainframe 65/1/computer. My present research, with Professor Ira B. Nadel, is a 58/1/study of Shakespeare's sonnets using DISCAN, a content and 64/1/discourse analysis program developed by Professor Pierre Maranda 63/1/at Laval University. The purpose of this project is to explore 59/1/and evaluate the program's potential as a research tool for 18/1/literary research. 1/1/ 60/1/I am also involved with the design and implementation of the 62/1/English 100 Database for the Centre of Textual Studies at UBC. 60/1/It is a new way of administering the English 100 course, the 62/1/largest first-year English course of its kind in North America 59/1/with an enrollment of over 3500 students and a staff of 108 59/1/instructors. The Database allows the instructors to access 62/1/information from any computer terminal on campus as well as to 60/1/express problems, offer suggestions, and keep informed about 64/1/resources available. The Centre is developing the Database as a 64/1/teaching tool for multi-sectionned university courses regardless 17/1/of the discipline 1/1/ 62/1/I have acted as the Assistant Editor for The Newsletter of the 64/1/Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada, and am teaching 63/1/at UBC as a Sessional Lecturer in the Department of English. I 65/1/am in the process of applying for admission into a Ph.D programme 31/1/for the 1989-90 Winter Session. 65/1/================================================================= 40/1/*Ooi, Vincent Beng Yeow 1/1/ 60/1/Senior Tutor, Department of English Language and Literature, 65/1/National University of Singapore, Kent Ridge, SINGAPORE 0511; 02- 7/1/7726032 1/1/ 52/1/Research interests/areas: Computational linguistics; 63/1/Computational lexicography/lexicology; Artificial Intelligence; 4/1/CALL 1/1/ 59/1/My MA dissertation is titled: "Computational Lexicography-- 63/1/Constructing a Lexical Database in PROLOG". I will, hopefully, 64/1/be going overseas in Autumn next year to do a PhD in some aspect 60/1/of Computational Linguistics. I'm also a member of the local 64/1/inter-tertiary CALL group which meets informally once a month to 35/1/discuss CALL problems and projects. 65/1/================================================================= 29/1/*Raben, Joseph 1/1/ 51/1/Professor Emeritus of English, Queens College/CUNY. 1/1/ 62/1/Founded the journal Computers and the Humanities and edited it 59/1/for twenty years; founding president of the Association for 62/1/Computers and the Humanities. At present, adjunct professor at 5/1/CUNY. 65/1/================================================================= 55/1/*Roovers, Ton 1/1/ 59/1/Head of Computer Department, Faculty of Arts, University of 58/1/Groningen, Grote Rozenstraat 31, NL 9712 TG Groningen, The 29/1/Netherlands, tel. 3150636063. 1/1/ 63/1/While studying Dutch Linguistics in the seventies I learned how 64/1/to program in SNOBOL4 and SPITBOL. Since then I became a user of 61/1/many other languages and tools on all kinds of computers, but 41/1/still SNOBOL to me is *our own* language. 1/1/ 57/1/Since the beginning of the eighties I am in charge of the 62/1/computing facilities of the Faculty of Arts of our university, 60/1/and I have let and see them grow from a few terminals on the 57/1/university mainframe to a network with about 150 personal 61/1/computers, with file servers, UNIX hosts and workstations and 65/1/lots of printers of all kinds. SPITBOL plays a modest but growing 61/1/role next to Pascal, C, Lisp, Prolog and so on, plus packages 64/1/like SPSS, dBASE, OCP and last but not least: the UNIX tools. My 57/1/task as a manager of these facilities (with the help of 5 62/1/colleagues) is growing fast, but it will continue to be a very 61/1/challenging one, due to the fast development of the available 61/1/computer hardware and software. Furthermore there will be the 65/1/need to repeatedly explain to hardware and software vendors, that 64/1/our needs can not be compared to those of the other faculties in 38/1/our university, with a few exceptions. 1/1/ 61/1/And last but not least: our own university and faculty boards 58/1/must be convinced, that our faculty needs more than a good 28/1/library and some classrooms. 65/1/================================================================= 37/1/*Santiago, Delma (D_Santiago@UPRENET) 1/1/ 61/1/Teodoro Aguilar st. 789 Los Maestros, Rio Piedras, P.R. 00923 1/1/ 63/1/I am a history school teacher in Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico. I am 65/1/presently coursing my Master's Degree in History Education in the 64/1/University of Puerto Rico at the Rio Piedras Campus. My research 62/1/work is based on the use of the computer in the Social Studies 59/1/class. Prior to this investigation I was reading about the 44/1/influence of technology in family education. 1/1/ 63/1/This is my first contact with computers and I'm very interested 61/1/in obtaining all the advantages and knowledge that this group 16/1/will proportion. 65/1/================================================================= 63/1/*Smith, David To: 1/1/ 63/1/School of Sociology, Kwansei Gakuin University, Nishinomiya 662 53/1/Japan. (0798) 53-6111 x 5390; Fax: (0798) 51-0955. 49/1/(Nishinomiya is half-way between Kobe and Osaka.) 1/1/ 63/1/I am spending the year in Japan at Kwansei Gakuin University as 64/1/the Visiting Professor of Canadian Studies. I am teaching Gender 65/1/Relations and am trying to set up a dialogue between Japanese and 63/1/Canadian (and US) students on BITNET. The conversation is to be 58/1/part of an experiment in teaching as well as other things. 1/1/ 57/1/Additional interests include a strong orientation towards 64/1/bioethical issues (I consulted with the Law Reform Commission of 56/1/Canada for 2 years on matters concerning abortion, fetal 63/1/experimentatin, genetic engineerin frozen embryoes and so on. I 65/1/am also starting collaboration with the Japanese scholars who are 63/1/most interested in this area (very limited interest in Japan at 54/1/the moment). My formal training is in sociology and my 58/1/"specialty" areas include quantitative methods and medical 64/1/sociology. I have a very keen interest in matters concerning the 65/1/philosophy of science (particularly social science) and try (with 61/1/considerable ineptitude) to read Plato in the original Greek. 63/1/Because of my previous dealings with both the medical and legal 60/1/professions I am also interested in concepts of evidence and 6/1/proof. 65/1/================================================================= 36/1/*Stuart, Thomas W 1/1/ 57/1/School of Information & Library Studies, SUNY at Buffalo, 11/1/Buffalo, NY 1/1/ 65/1/I am currently an MLS graduate student and computer lab assistant 63/1/here at SILS, SUNY at Buffalo. Earlier education background in 65/1/social sciences, English, and regional planning. Work experience 61/1/in environmental health, behavioral health (mental health and 65/1/crisis services), and human services (youth services, information 45/1/and referral, and criminal justice planning). 1/1/ 63/1/Now, a career change (not necessarily a change in interests) to 59/1/library and information services. Why? Reasons range from 60/1/liking how books feel and smell, through enjoyment of what I 64/1/discover when browsing, to combined attraction to and misgivings 60/1/about what new technologies promise/portend for mindfulness, 34/1/creativity, sense and sensibility. 1/1/ 61/1/Current research and inquiry interests also range widely, but 61/1/include: 1. e-mail and networking as media for dialogue among 64/1/thoughtful people; 2. computer use for fast transfer of critical 62/1/and urgently needed info to health and human service providers 63/1/and community groups; 3. organizing, tracking, and locating all 57/1/the stuff now being generated and published in electronic 62/1/journals, conferences, and lists such as Humanist; 4. feminist 65/1/critiques of research and knowledge handling, and feminist models 65/1/to produce or recognize, work with, and share data, knowledge and 61/1/understanding; 5. all the dilemmas which arise when trying to 59/1/seriously clarify relationships among erotica, pornography, 62/1/intellectual freedom, and violence against women; 6. curiosity 65/1/about whether folks in humanities disciplines may be more able to 62/1/creatively and responsibly employ tools like e-mail and Bitnet 59/1/without becoming unwittingly or uncritically dependent upon 5/1/them. 65/1/================================================================= 30/1/*Tomlinson, Tom <19910TOM@MSU> 1/1/ 65/1/Assistant Coordinator, Medical Humanities Program, Michigan State 49/1/University, East Lansing, MI 48824; 517-355-7550. 1/1/ 64/1/I teach and speak on issues in health care ethics to medical and 65/1/nursing students, as well as practicing physicians and nurses. My 63/1/interests in computers and medical ethics have taken two forms. 60/1/One is a computer bulletin board on the IBM mainframe at MSU 60/1/which is the heart of the Medical Ethics Resource Network of 61/1/Michigan. This bulletin board features postings of meetings, 57/1/recent article abstracts, and summaries of court cases in 65/1/Michigan and elsewhere; and a discussion forum which provides for 61/1/commentaries and exchanges on difficult cases, draft hospital 62/1/policies, and the like. The other is the development of CAI in 15/1/medical ethics. 1/1/ 55/1/I have written a pilot program on the ethics of medical 64/1/confidentiality using an authoring language developed by a group 61/1/of programmers at MSU. I would be willing to share this pilot 64/1/with anyone interested, and would like to hear of other teaching 54/1/uses of computers in medical ethics or the humanities. 65/1/================================================================= 36/1/*Tweyman, Stanley 1/1/ 59/1/Director of Graduate Programme in Philosophy, Department of 61/1/Philosophy, York University, North York, Ontario, Canada, M3J 19/1/1L1; (416) 736-5113 1/1/ 65/1/Interests: Hume, Descartes, Computer-aided analysis of text (c.v. 24/1/available upon request). 65/1/================================================================= 27/1/*Wang, Jude 1/1/ 63/1/Manager, Humanities Computing Facility, c/o English Department, 62/1/Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287-0302; (602) 965-2679 1/1/ 64/1/I'm trained as a linguist but working as a computer person. As a 64/1/linguist I've been working in historical-comparative Micronesian 59/1/linguistics -- no, not at Arizona, but at the University of 57/1/Hawaii. It won't be easy to continue this work -- or any 65/1/linguistic research -- at ASU. At UH my computer work was mostly 62/1/in lexicography, using Bob Hsu's LEXWARE programs. At ASU I'm 63/1/mostly just babysitting a bunch of PCs and PC users who haven't 62/1/learned how to read the WordPerfect manual. I was told that I 64/1/would be working with scholars doing research in the humanities. 64/1/I haven't seen much of that here. I'd like to know what's going 25/1/on at other institutions. 65/1/================================================================= 47/1/*Waters, Stacy <93651@UWAVM.ACS.WASHINGTON.EDU> 48/1/ 1/1/ 58/1/Humanities and Arts Computing Center, DW-10, University of 46/1/Washington, Seattle, WA 98195; (206) 543-5370 1/1/ 62/1/I currently use computers in conjunction with a Middle English 63/1/problem of my own. In addition, I advise and assist members of 59/1/the local community on a wide range of textual matters from 42/1/computer assisted analysis to typesetting. 65/1/================================================================= 31/1/*Werner, Stefan 1/1/ 62/1/Department of General Linguistics, University of Joensuu, P.O. 59/1/Box 111 SF-80101, Joensuu Finland; +358/73/151-4334 (work), 20/1/+358/73/27094 (home) 1/1/ 64/1/After university studies in West Germany where I gained my first 62/1/experiences in computing in the humanities (text analysis with 64/1/programs like COCOA and TEXTPACK) and in general (programming in 58/1/Fortran and Lisp) I took up work as a linguistics lecturer 62/1/concentrating on - essentially introductory - computer courses 63/1/for language and literature students (use of OCP, WordCruncher, 63/1/BETA etc.). I also work as an adviser and occasional programmer 59/1/for the staff of the language departments. My main research 63/1/interests are in literary computing, semiotics and the study of 11/1/mass media. 65/1/================================================================= 36/1/*Willett, Perry 1/1/ 62/1/Reference Librarian Bartle Library SUNY-Binghamton Binghamton, 41/1/Ny.Y. 13901; (607)777 777-4386, 777-2345 1/1/ 61/1/I am currently a librarian . I have undergraduate degrees in 63/1/German and English from Washington U. in in (St. Louis), and an 60/1/M.A. in Comparative Libterature and an M.L.S . from Rutgers. 64/1/Besides a general interest in the humanities, I am interested in 61/1/the use and development of microcomputer appilications in the 48/1/study and teaching of languages and literatures. 65/1/================================================================= 29/1/*Wyman, John C. 51/1/ Internet: 1/1/ 60/1/Sr. Systems Analyst, Syracuse University, Academic Computing 60/1/Services, Research Computing Department, Syracuse, NY 13244; 19/1/(315) 443-1145/2143 1/1/ 60/1/My interests in HUMANIST revolve around humanist uses of the 63/1/computer of all types and subjects. Also since I am in a "hard 65/1/core" area of computing on campus, I value exposure to ideas from 65/1/areas outside of computing center circles. Ideas such as: human 61/1/interface to computers, human language processing, system and 61/1/computer language design (from a user viewpoint), training of 45/1/people using the computer as as vehicle, etc. 1/1/ 62/1/Specific computer interests are: data base design, system and 65/1/program design (from a productivity viewpoint), user interface to 63/1/computing systems, text processing, non-numerical computations, 64/1/library automation, and microcomputers. Specific computer system 62/1/and language interests are: On CMS: CMS, REXX, SPIRES, and 61/1/PL/I On UNIX: C and Unix itself On PC's: C, RBASE, DOS, 49/1/Extended Batch Language, and share-ware programs. 13/1/*****END***** END/