6.0258 Qs: E-Texts & Addresses; Courses; S/W; Furn. (7/97)

Elaine Brennan & Allen Renear (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Wed, 30 Sep 1992 18:23:49 EDT

Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 6, No. 0258. Wednesday, 30 Sep 1992.


(1) Date: Wed, 23 Sep 1992 15:18:12 -0400 (11 lines)
From: kellys@code3.code3.com (Kelly Sorensen)
Subject: Hume e-texts

(2) Date: Thu, 24 Sep 92 08:06:20 EST (26 lines)
From: Harold Sjursen <HSJURSEN@POLYVM>
Subject: Engineering and Computer Ethics courses

(3) Date: Wed, 23 Sep 92 13:00:19 SET (8 lines)
From: Marco Simionato <SIMION@IVEUNCC>
Subject: PD phonetic fonts for Windows sought

(4) Date: 28 Sep 1992 16:42:07 -0700 (PDT) (14 lines)
From: Richard Bear <RBEAR@OREGON>
Subject: Medieval/Renaissance office furniture

(5) Date: 29 September 92, 10:36:22 SET (11 lines)
From: Marc Eisinger <EISINGER@FRIBM11>

(6) Date: Tue, 29 Sep 92 23:21:21 GMT (18 lines)
From: "C. David Frankel" <D7BAIAD@CFRVM>
Subject: Course equivalents

(7) Date: Wed, 30 Sep 92 08:25:06 EDT (9 lines)
From: Michel Pierssens <R36254@UQAM>
Subject: e-mail addresses

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Date: Wed, 23 Sep 1992 15:18:12 -0400
From: kellys@code3.code3.com (Kelly Sorensen)
Subject: Hume e-texts


Is Hume available on CD-ROM? In electronic format elsewhere?

Thank you.

Kelly D. Sorensen
kellys@code3.code3.com
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Date: Thu, 24 Sep 92 08:06:20 EST
From: Harold Sjursen <HSJURSEN@POLYVM>
Subject: Engineering and Computer Ethics courses

I would like to hear from anyone who has taught an engineering and/or
computer ethics course. I am leaving this category somewhat vague
because I am interested in the range of approaches that are being taken.

Any type of information is sought: course descriptions, reading lists,
anecdotes, personal research, etc.

Our Center is going to compile information on topics such as this and
eventually we will make it available to all who are interested.

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HAROLD SJURSEN
CENTER FOR PHILOSOPHY & TECHNOLOGY STUDIES
POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY, BROOKLYN

<HSJURSEN@VM.POLY.EDU> OR <HSJURSEN@POLYVM>





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Date: Wed, 23 Sep 92 13:00:19 SET
From: Marco Simionato <SIMION@IVEUNCC>
Subject: PD phonetic fonts for Windows sought

I know phonetic fonts are available from Linguist software and others,
but is there nothing on the PD for Windows?

Please reply directly, thanks.
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Date: 28 Sep 1992 16:42:07 -0700 (PDT)
From: Richard Bear <RBEAR@OREGON>
Subject: Medieval/Renaissance office furniture


I have read that monks who transcribed manuscript books were _scriptors_ and
the room in which one worked was a _scriptorium_. What were the writing desks
called? I have seen _scriptorum_ but I have also seen this used (perhaps in
error?) to refer to _scriptor_ in the plural. Scholars often worked at desks
similar to those used by the monks, and had "book wheels," of either a
horizontal or vertical design, which were priarily used, I've read, to check
on variants of passages in scriptures and classical authors. What, in late
Latin, were these book wheels called? The dictionaries to which I have access
are stonewalling me.
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Date: 29 September 92, 10:36:22 SET
From: Marc Eisinger +33 (1) 49 05 72 27 EISINGER at FRIBM11

Subject : NIH Libraries and INTERVIEWS

A friend of mine is looking for two softwares :
a so-called NIH libraries, running with C++
an other one called INTERVIEWS, kind of interface builder
Any hints ?
Thanks
Marc
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Date: Tue, 29 Sep 92 23:21:21 GMT
From: "C. David Frankel" <D7BAIAD@CFRVM>
Subject: Course equivalents


This is not, strictly speaking, either a humanities or computing question, but
perhaps people on this list know the answer anyway.

At what point, and for what reason, did American colleges adopt the 3 hour per
week class as a standard? What time/class structures prevail at colleges and
universities in other countries?

Thanks for your help.

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Date: Wed, 30 Sep 92 08:25:06 EDT
From: Michel Pierssens <R36254@UQAM>
Subject: e-mail addresses

Does any fellow Humanist know of e-mail contacts at universities in Sao
Paulo, Buenos-Aires or Montevideo? A research center on relationships
between literary culture and scientific culture is looking for correspondents
in those institutions. Please forward answers directly to:
piersens@ere.umontreal.ca