From: CBS%UK.AC.RUTHERFORD.MAIL::CA.UTORONTO.UTCS.VM::POSTMSTR 14-JAN-1989 09:31:11.58 To: archive CC: Subj: Via: UK.AC.RUTHERFORD.MAIL; Sat, 14 Jan 89 9:29 GMT Received: from UKACRL by UK.AC.RL.IB (Mailer X1.25) with BSMTP id 9283; Sat, 14 Jan 89 09:29:09 GM Received: from vm.utcs.utoronto.ca by UKACRL.BITNET (Mailer X1.25) with BSMTP id 1878; Sat, 14 Jan 89 09:29:04 G Received: by UTORONTO (Mailer X1.25) id 0404; Fri, 13 Jan 89 14:45:55 EST Date: Fri, 13 Jan 89 14:45:45 EST From: "Steve Younker (Postmaster)" To: archive@UK.AC.OXFORD.VAX ========================================================================= Date: 2 November 1987, 08:42:49 EST Reply-To: MCCARTY@UTOREPAS Sender: HUMANIST Discussion From: MCCARTY@UTOREPAS Subject: ALLC -- ICCH Conference (ca. 114 lines) CALL FOR PAPERS Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing Association for Computers and the Humanities 16th International ALLC Conference -- 9th ICCH Conference June 6-10, 1989 University of Toronto, Toronto Ontario, Canada The 16th International ALLC Conference and 9th International Conference on Computing and the Humanities will be held conjointly at the University of Toronto from June 6th to 10th, 1989. Papers on all aspects of computing in linguistics, ancient and modern languages and literatures, history, philosophy, art, archaeology and music are invited for presentation at the conference. Topics include, but are not limited to, the following: authorship studies bibliography computer-aided instruction computer-assisted language learning computerized dictionaries concordances content analysis database grammar development systems historical simulation humanities computing centres lexicography lexicology literary statistics machine translation prosodic studies quantitative linguistics natural language processing scholarly publishing speech analysis stylistics teaching humanities computing textbase text enrichment text generation writing instruction The organizers are particularly interested in papers presenting the results of computer-aided work in the humanities. A 4-day software fair will be part of the conference and will include demonstrations using micro-computers or network connections back to mainframes. A published Software Fair Guide will be given to all registrants. Anyone wishing to present a paper or participate in the Software Fair should send three copies of an abstract of the paper or of a description of the software (approximately 1,000 words in either case) to Professor Ian Lancashire. This abstract should be received by October 15, 1988. The joint ALLC/ACH programme committee will then choose suitable submissions. Speakers or demonstrators of software will be informed by February 1, 1989, of the acceptance of their submissions. Final texts of papers and descriptions of software for the Software Fair Guide will be due in Toronto by May 1, 1989. Selected papers presented at the conference will be published the ALLC Conference Series. During the conference, time will be set aside for attendees to organize poster sessions, panel discussions and parallel groups. Anyone wishing to propose a meeting on a particular theme is requested to contact Professor Ian Lancashire. Working languages for the conference will be English and French. ACCOMMODATION The conference will be held on the downtown campus of the University of Toronto, which is in the centre of the city and within easy walking distance of many hotels, restaurants and shops. Accommodation will be reserved at a nearby international hotel and in inexpensive student residences at Victoria College, about five minutes walk from the conference site. The city of Toronto is served by a large number of domestic and international airlines. DEADLINES October 15, 1988 Proposals for papers, panel discussions, and software demonstrations (1,000 words). February 1, 1989 Acceptance of proposals. April 1, 1989 Early bird registration; final texts due for Software Fair Guide. May 1, 1989 Deadline for submission of papers for published proceedings. June 6, 1989 Start of ALLC-ICCH Conference. June 10, 1989 Acceptance of papers for the published proceedings. For information, registration and submissions, contact Professor Ian Lancashire ALLC-ICCH Conference Centre for Computing in the Humanities University of Toronto Toronto, Ontario CANADA M5S 1A5 (416) 978-4238 E-mail address: IAN @ UTOREPAS.BITNET ========================================================================= Date: 2 November 1987, 09:06:04 EST Reply-To: MCCARTY@UTOREPAS Sender: HUMANIST Discussion From: MCCARTY@UTOREPAS Subject: An editorial letter on reminders and improvements (ca. 30 lines) Dear Colleagues: Those of you who occasionally use HUMANIST to make calls for papers, as Ian Lancashire just did for the 1989 ALLC/ICCH conference, might consider issuing periodic reminders. The conversational rhythm of an electronic discussion group tends not to favour long-term memory, and new members may miss these important announcements, which are wisely made well in advance of their events. I'll leave it to the organizer to decide what is a judicious reminder and what a bothersome bit of pestering. You may be interested to know that HUMANIST now has close to 140 members in 10 countries. So far I have noted only 3 or 4 dropouts. Pressure of time does not allow me to do a great deal of work with HUMANIST (the possibility of making periodic summaries, for example, daily recedes further into the realm of unfulfilled desire), but I would very much like to hear your suggestions about how HUMANIST could be improved. It has far outrun its editor's original ambitions and so become a much more useful and significant thing. Let's have the user-driven improvements continue. We are constrained by the combined limits of manpower and software, so some suggestions may be impractical or just impossible to realize, but your making them will show us what to aim for. Thank you all for your continuing participation. Yours, W.M. _________________________________________________________________________ Dr. Willard McCarty / Centre for Computing in the Humanities University of Toronto / 14th floor, Robarts Library / 130 St. George St. Toronto, Canada M5S 1A5 / (416) 978-4238 / mccarty@utorepas.bitnet ========================================================================= Date: 7 Nov 87 02:02 PST Reply-To: Rao.pa@Xerox.COM Sender: HUMANIST Discussion From: Ramana Subject: Has our local redistribution list been put on? Can you check to make sure that XeroxHumanists~.x has been put on your distribution list. I haven't seen any traffic on this list, but so reference to it in another DL so believe that somehow we got dropped or never added. -- Ramana ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 8 Nov 87 17:02-0800 Reply-To: Undetermined origin c/o Postmaster Sender: HUMANIST Discussion Comments: W: Invalid RFC822 field -- "AUTO-FORWARDED". Rest of header flushed. Comments: E: "From:"/"Sender:" field is missing. From: Undetermined origin c/o Postmaster ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 8 Nov 87 17:49-0800 Reply-To: Undetermined origin c/o Postmaster Sender: HUMANIST Discussion Comments: W: Invalid RFC822 field -- "AUTO-FORWARDED". Rest of header flushed. Comments: E: "From:"/"Sender:" field is missing. From: Undetermined origin c/o Postmaster ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 8 Nov 87 18:54-0800 Reply-To: Undetermined origin c/o Postmaster Sender: HUMANIST Discussion Comments: W: Invalid RFC822 field -- "AUTO-FORWARDED". Rest of header flushed. Comments: E: "From:"/"Sender:" field is missing. From: Undetermined origin c/o Postmaster ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 8 Nov 87 22:07:47 EST Reply-To: "R.J. Shroyer" <42152_443@uwovax.UWO.CDN> Sender: HUMANIST Discussion From: "R.J. Shroyer" <42152_443@uwovax.UWO.CDN> Subject: connections Willard: I wonder if I've been cut off again. I haven't heard from Humanist for 2-3 weeks and have had no reply to one or two small inquiries and messages to you and Ian. I seem to exchange e-notes with lidio without much trouble. Would you be kind enough to send a reply just to test my address. Dick R.J. Shroyer: Department of English, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada N6A 3K7. Bus:(519)-679-2111, ext. 5839 or 5834 Res:(519)-673-1433 Shroyer@uwovax.uwo.cdn 42152_443@uwovax.uwo.cdn ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 9 Nov 87 08:35-0800 Reply-To: Undetermined origin c/o Postmaster Sender: HUMANIST Discussion Comments: W: Invalid RFC822 field -- "AUTO-FORWARDED". Rest of header flushed. Comments: E: "From:"/"Sender:" field is missing. From: Undetermined origin c/o Postmaster ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 9 Nov 87 08:35-0800 Reply-To: Undetermined origin c/o Postmaster Sender: HUMANIST Discussion Comments: W: Invalid RFC822 field -- "AUTO-FORWARDED". Rest of header flushed. Comments: E: "From:"/"Sender:" field is missing. From: Undetermined origin c/o Postmaster ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 9 Nov 87 13:00-0800 Reply-To: Undetermined origin c/o Postmaster Sender: HUMANIST Discussion Comments: W: Invalid RFC822 field -- "AUTO-FORWARDED". Rest of header flushed. Comments: E: "From:"/"Sender:" field is missing. From: Undetermined origin c/o Postmaster ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 9 Nov 87 13:00-0800 Reply-To: Undetermined origin c/o Postmaster Sender: HUMANIST Discussion Comments: W: Invalid RFC822 field -- "AUTO-FORWARDED". Rest of header flushed. Comments: E: "From:"/"Sender:" field is missing. From: Undetermined origin c/o Postmaster ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 9 Nov 87 14:40-0800 Reply-To: Undetermined origin c/o Postmaster Sender: HUMANIST Discussion Comments: W: Invalid RFC822 field -- "AUTO-FORWARDED". Rest of header flushed. Comments: E: "From:"/"Sender:" field is missing. From: Undetermined origin c/o Postmaster ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 9 Nov 87 15:01-0800 Reply-To: Undetermined origin c/o Postmaster Sender: HUMANIST Discussion Comments: W: Invalid RFC822 field -- "AUTO-FORWARDED". Rest of header flushed. Comments: E: "From:"/"Sender:" field is missing. From: Undetermined origin c/o Postmaster ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 9 Nov 87 17:54-0800 Reply-To: Undetermined origin c/o Postmaster Sender: HUMANIST Discussion Comments: W: Invalid RFC822 field -- "AUTO-FORWARDED". Rest of header flushed. Comments: E: "From:"/"Sender:" field is missing. From: Undetermined origin c/o Postmaster ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 9 Nov 87 17:54-0800 Reply-To: Undetermined origin c/o Postmaster Sender: HUMANIST Discussion Comments: W: Invalid RFC822 field -- "AUTO-FORWARDED". Rest of header flushed. Comments: E: "From:"/"Sender:" field is missing. From: Undetermined origin c/o Postmaster ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 9 Nov 87 19:00-0800 Reply-To: Undetermined origin c/o Postmaster Sender: HUMANIST Discussion Comments: W: Invalid RFC822 field -- "AUTO-FORWARDED". Rest of header flushed. Comments: E: "From:"/"Sender:" field is missing. From: Undetermined origin c/o Postmaster ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 9 Nov 87 19:00-0800 Reply-To: Undetermined origin c/o Postmaster Sender: HUMANIST Discussion Comments: W: Invalid RFC822 field -- "AUTO-FORWARDED". Rest of header flushed. Comments: E: "From:"/"Sender:" field is missing. From: Undetermined origin c/o Postmaster ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 9 Nov 87 19:53-0800 Reply-To: Undetermined origin c/o Postmaster Sender: HUMANIST Discussion Comments: W: Invalid RFC822 field -- "AUTO-FORWARDED". Rest of header flushed. Comments: E: "From:"/"Sender:" field is missing. From: Undetermined origin c/o Postmaster ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 9 Nov 87 19:53-0800 Reply-To: Undetermined origin c/o Postmaster Sender: HUMANIST Discussion Comments: W: Invalid RFC822 field -- "AUTO-FORWARDED". Rest of header flushed. Comments: E: "From:"/"Sender:" field is missing. From: Undetermined origin c/o Postmaster ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 9 Nov 87 21:30-0800 Reply-To: Undetermined origin c/o Postmaster Sender: HUMANIST Discussion Comments: W: Invalid RFC822 field -- "AUTO-FORWARDED". Rest of header flushed. Comments: E: "From:"/"Sender:" field is missing. From: Undetermined origin c/o Postmaster ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 9 Nov 87 21:30-0800 Reply-To: Undetermined origin c/o Postmaster Sender: HUMANIST Discussion Comments: W: Invalid RFC822 field -- "AUTO-FORWARDED". Rest of header flushed. Comments: E: "From:"/"Sender:" field is missing. From: Undetermined origin c/o Postmaster ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 9 Nov 87 22:29-0800 Reply-To: Undetermined origin c/o Postmaster Sender: HUMANIST Discussion Comments: W: Invalid RFC822 field -- "AUTO-FORWARDED". Rest of header flushed. Comments: E: "From:"/"Sender:" field is missing. From: Undetermined origin c/o Postmaster ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 9 Nov 87 22:30-0800 Reply-To: Undetermined origin c/o Postmaster Sender: HUMANIST Discussion Comments: W: Invalid RFC822 field -- "AUTO-FORWARDED". Rest of header flushed. Comments: E: "From:"/"Sender:" field is missing. From: Undetermined origin c/o Postmaster ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 10 Nov 87 00:36-0800 Reply-To: Undetermined origin c/o Postmaster Sender: HUMANIST Discussion Comments: W: Invalid RFC822 field -- "AUTO-FORWARDED". Rest of header flushed. Comments: E: "From:"/"Sender:" field is missing. From: Undetermined origin c/o Postmaster ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 10 Nov 87 00:36-0800 Reply-To: Undetermined origin c/o Postmaster Sender: HUMANIST Discussion Comments: W: Invalid RFC822 field -- "AUTO-FORWARDED". Rest of header flushed. Comments: E: "From:"/"Sender:" field is missing. From: Undetermined origin c/o Postmaster ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 10 Nov 87 11:55:41 GMT Reply-To: CMI011@IBM.SOUTHAMPTON.AC.UK Sender: HUMANIST Discussion From: CMI011@IBM.SOUTHAMPTON.AC.UK Most HUMANISTs in the UK will know about the 'Computers in Teaching Initiative' and I expect those over the water have come across references to it. Both groups would probably be interested in the final report on one of the first CTI projects, Project Pallas at Exeter, which aimed to bring computing to the whole Faculty of Arts in Exeter by provision of facilities in the building, staff, help with regular courses, and specific computing courses. The summary of three years work or more on Pallas makes an interesting read for anyone involved in a similar exercise (I should admit a certain bias as I used to work for Pallas). The report isn't exactly published, but I am sure Exeter will send copies to those who are interested. Try mailing BUCKETT@EK.AC.EXETER (Dr John Buckett, the project co-ordinator) and ask him how to get a copy. Maybe he could send a machine-readable version to Toronto for redistribution. I do point out that I mention this as a 'review' not an advert - dont ask me for a copy! Under the same CTI umbrella, my own institution, with York University, has just started a project to do with excavation simulation in archaeology. We are aiming to set up systems to help train students in the strategy and management decisions involved in running an archaeological 'intervention'. As an off-shoot of this, an ex-Southampton student (Susanna Hawkins) wrote an MSc report at the LSE on the background to the CTI and the place of CAL in archaeology with reference to the aims of SYASS (our scheme). If any HUMANISTs would like to receive copies of this, and other documents relating to SYASS, they should contact me, with a note of what sort of documents they can use (the choice is LaTeX, troff/nroff 'mm' or formatted ASCII). The Hawkins report is about 30 pages formatted. In general, archaeological HUMANISTs are invited to send me their mail addresses so I can pass on any material that passes through my hands; this latter appeal is on behalf of the yearly "Computer Applications in Archaeology" conference, whose mailing list (paper and electronic) I am setting up and maintaining. If you are already on the paper list but have an e-mail, please send it to me. sebastian rahtz. computer science, southampton, uk ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 10 Nov 87 11:40:01 EST Reply-To: Steve Younker Sender: HUMANIST Discussion From: Steve Younker Subject: More Junk Mail By now, most of you are probably aware of a flood of junk mail coming from HUMANIST. I believe I have stopped it for now. The cause is still under investigation. Since Willard has been out of town, I was not aware that all HUMANIST subscribers were receiving the junk files that I was getting. Only when a couple of you brought it to my attention this morning did I realize that there was a larger problem. My thanks to those of you who sent me the information. When I have an explanation for what has happened, either Willard or I will try to inform you of the cause of this inundation of mail. Please just delete the offending mail and carry on. Well, back to the salt mine! :-) Steve ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 10 Nov 87 10:11-0800 Reply-To: Undetermined origin c/o Postmaster Sender: HUMANIST Discussion Comments: W: Invalid RFC822 field -- "AUTO-FORWARDED". Rest of header flushed. Comments: E: "From:"/"Sender:" field is missing. From: Undetermined origin c/o Postmaster ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 10 Nov 87 10:11-0800 Reply-To: Undetermined origin c/o Postmaster Sender: HUMANIST Discussion Comments: W: Invalid RFC822 field -- "AUTO-FORWARDED". Rest of header flushed. Comments: E: "From:"/"Sender:" field is missing. From: Undetermined origin c/o Postmaster ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 10 Nov 87 10:12-0800 Reply-To: Undetermined origin c/o Postmaster Sender: HUMANIST Discussion Comments: W: Invalid RFC822 field -- "AUTO-FORWARDED". Rest of header flushed. Comments: E: "From:"/"Sender:" field is missing. From: Undetermined origin c/o Postmaster ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 10 Nov 87 12:15-0800 Reply-To: Undetermined origin c/o Postmaster Sender: HUMANIST Discussion Comments: W: Invalid RFC822 field -- "AUTO-FORWARDED". Rest of header flushed. Comments: E: "From:"/"Sender:" field is missing. From: Undetermined origin c/o Postmaster ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 10 Nov 87 12:15-0800 Reply-To: Undetermined origin c/o Postmaster Sender: HUMANIST Discussion Comments: W: Invalid RFC822 field -- "AUTO-FORWARDED". Rest of header flushed. Comments: E: "From:"/"Sender:" field is missing. From: Undetermined origin c/o Postmaster ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 10 Nov 87 12:16-0800 Reply-To: Undetermined origin c/o Postmaster Sender: HUMANIST Discussion Comments: W: Invalid RFC822 field -- "AUTO-FORWARDED". Rest of header flushed. Comments: E: "From:"/"Sender:" field is missing. From: Undetermined origin c/o Postmaster ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 10 Nov 87 12:28-0800 Reply-To: Undetermined origin c/o Postmaster Sender: HUMANIST Discussion Comments: W: Invalid RFC822 field -- "AUTO-FORWARDED". Rest of header flushed. Comments: E: "From:"/"Sender:" field is missing. From: Undetermined origin c/o Postmaster ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 10 Nov 87 16:54:13 EST Reply-To: Steve Younker Sender: HUMANIST Discussion From: Steve Younker Subject: Strange Mail I'm terribly sorry to do this to you, but this junk mail problem is more complicated than I thought. The purpose of this file is to create some MORE junk mail. I'm collaborating with our systems people in tracking down the source of the problem. So, please keep deleting the junk and sending in your normal submissions. I know the junk mail is annoying, but you should see it from this end! Thanks for your patience. Steve ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 10 Nov 87 14:59-0800 Reply-To: Undetermined origin c/o Postmaster Sender: HUMANIST Discussion Comments: W: Invalid RFC822 field -- "AUTO-FORWARDED". Rest of header flushed. Comments: E: "From:"/"Sender:" field is missing. From: Undetermined origin c/o Postmaster ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 10 Nov 87 14:59-0800 Reply-To: Undetermined origin c/o Postmaster Sender: HUMANIST Discussion Comments: W: Invalid RFC822 field -- "AUTO-FORWARDED". Rest of header flushed. Comments: E: "From:"/"Sender:" field is missing. From: Undetermined origin c/o Postmaster ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 10 Nov 87 14:59-0800 Reply-To: Undetermined origin c/o Postmaster Sender: HUMANIST Discussion Comments: W: Invalid RFC822 field -- "AUTO-FORWARDED". Rest of header flushed. Comments: E: "From:"/"Sender:" field is missing. From: Undetermined origin c/o Postmaster ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 10 Nov 87 15:00-0800 Reply-To: Undetermined origin c/o Postmaster Sender: HUMANIST Discussion Comments: W: Invalid RFC822 field -- "AUTO-FORWARDED". Rest of header flushed. Comments: E: "From:"/"Sender:" field is missing. From: Undetermined origin c/o Postmaster ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 10 Nov 87 16:53-0800 Reply-To: Undetermined origin c/o Postmaster Sender: HUMANIST Discussion Comments: W: Invalid RFC822 field -- "AUTO-FORWARDED". Rest of header flushed. Comments: E: "From:"/"Sender:" field is missing. From: Undetermined origin c/o Postmaster ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 10 Nov 87 16:53-0800 Reply-To: Undetermined origin c/o Postmaster Sender: HUMANIST Discussion Comments: W: Invalid RFC822 field -- "AUTO-FORWARDED". Rest of header flushed. Comments: E: "From:"/"Sender:" field is missing. From: Undetermined origin c/o Postmaster ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 10 Nov 87 16:53-0800 Reply-To: Undetermined origin c/o Postmaster Sender: HUMANIST Discussion Comments: W: Invalid RFC822 field -- "AUTO-FORWARDED". Rest of header flushed. Comments: E: "From:"/"Sender:" field is missing. From: Undetermined origin c/o Postmaster ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 10 Nov 87 17:21-0800 Reply-To: Undetermined origin c/o Postmaster Sender: HUMANIST Discussion Comments: W: Invalid RFC822 field -- "AUTO-FORWARDED". Rest of header flushed. Comments: E: "From:"/"Sender:" field is missing. From: Undetermined origin c/o Postmaster ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 10 Nov 87 17:21-0800 Reply-To: Undetermined origin c/o Postmaster Sender: HUMANIST Discussion Comments: W: Invalid RFC822 field -- "AUTO-FORWARDED". Rest of header flushed. Comments: E: "From:"/"Sender:" field is missing. From: Undetermined origin c/o Postmaster ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 10 Nov 87 17:52-0800 Reply-To: Undetermined origin c/o Postmaster Sender: HUMANIST Discussion Comments: W: Invalid RFC822 field -- "AUTO-FORWARDED". Rest of header flushed. Comments: E: "From:"/"Sender:" field is missing. From: Undetermined origin c/o Postmaster ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 10 Nov 87 17:52-0800 Reply-To: Undetermined origin c/o Postmaster Sender: HUMANIST Discussion Comments: W: Invalid RFC822 field -- "AUTO-FORWARDED". Rest of header flushed. Comments: E: "From:"/"Sender:" field is missing. From: Undetermined origin c/o Postmaster ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 10 Nov 87 17:52-0800 Reply-To: Undetermined origin c/o Postmaster Sender: HUMANIST Discussion Comments: W: Invalid RFC822 field -- "AUTO-FORWARDED". Rest of header flushed. Comments: E: "From:"/"Sender:" field is missing. From: Undetermined origin c/o Postmaster ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 10 Nov 87 17:53-0800 Reply-To: Undetermined origin c/o Postmaster Sender: HUMANIST Discussion Comments: W: Invalid RFC822 field -- "AUTO-FORWARDED". Rest of header flushed. Comments: E: "From:"/"Sender:" field is missing. From: Undetermined origin c/o Postmaster ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 10 Nov 87 17:53-0800 Reply-To: Undetermined origin c/o Postmaster Sender: HUMANIST Discussion Comments: W: Invalid RFC822 field -- "AUTO-FORWARDED". Rest of header flushed. Comments: E: "From:"/"Sender:" field is missing. From: Undetermined origin c/o Postmaster ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 10 Nov 87 19:40-0800 Reply-To: Undetermined origin c/o Postmaster Sender: HUMANIST Discussion Comments: W: Invalid RFC822 field -- "AUTO-FORWARDED". Rest of header flushed. Comments: E: "From:"/"Sender:" field is missing. From: Undetermined origin c/o Postmaster ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 10 Nov 87 19:40-0800 Reply-To: Undetermined origin c/o Postmaster Sender: HUMANIST Discussion Comments: W: Invalid RFC822 field -- "AUTO-FORWARDED". Rest of header flushed. Comments: E: "From:"/"Sender:" field is missing. From: Undetermined origin c/o Postmaster ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 10 Nov 87 19:40-0800 Reply-To: Undetermined origin c/o Postmaster Sender: HUMANIST Discussion Comments: W: Invalid RFC822 field -- "AUTO-FORWARDED". Rest of header flushed. Comments: E: "From:"/"Sender:" field is missing. From: Undetermined origin c/o Postmaster ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 10 Nov 87 19:40-0800 Reply-To: Undetermined origin c/o Postmaster Sender: HUMANIST Discussion Comments: W: Invalid RFC822 field -- "AUTO-FORWARDED". Rest of header flushed. Comments: E: "From:"/"Sender:" field is missing. From: Undetermined origin c/o Postmaster ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 10 Nov 87 19:40-0800 Reply-To: Undetermined origin c/o Postmaster Sender: HUMANIST Discussion Comments: W: Invalid RFC822 field -- "AUTO-FORWARDED". Rest of header flushed. Comments: E: "From:"/"Sender:" field is missing. From: Undetermined origin c/o Postmaster ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 10 Nov 87 22:22-0800 Reply-To: Undetermined origin c/o Postmaster Sender: HUMANIST Discussion Comments: W: Invalid RFC822 field -- "AUTO-FORWARDED". Rest of header flushed. Comments: E: "From:"/"Sender:" field is missing. From: Undetermined origin c/o Postmaster ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 10 Nov 87 22:22-0800 Reply-To: Undetermined origin c/o Postmaster Sender: HUMANIST Discussion Comments: W: Invalid RFC822 field -- "AUTO-FORWARDED". Rest of header flushed. Comments: E: "From:"/"Sender:" field is missing. From: Undetermined origin c/o Postmaster ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 10 Nov 87 22:22-0800 Reply-To: Undetermined origin c/o Postmaster Sender: HUMANIST Discussion Comments: W: Invalid RFC822 field -- "AUTO-FORWARDED". Rest of header flushed. Comments: E: "From:"/"Sender:" field is missing. From: Undetermined origin c/o Postmaster ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 10 Nov 87 22:23-0800 Reply-To: Undetermined origin c/o Postmaster Sender: HUMANIST Discussion Comments: W: Invalid RFC822 field -- "AUTO-FORWARDED". Rest of header flushed. Comments: E: "From:"/"Sender:" field is missing. From: Undetermined origin c/o Postmaster ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 10 Nov 87 22:23-0800 Reply-To: Undetermined origin c/o Postmaster Sender: HUMANIST Discussion Comments: W: Invalid RFC822 field -- "AUTO-FORWARDED". Rest of header flushed. Comments: E: "From:"/"Sender:" field is missing. From: Undetermined origin c/o Postmaster ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 10 Nov 87 23:27-0800 Reply-To: Undetermined origin c/o Postmaster Sender: HUMANIST Discussion Comments: W: Invalid RFC822 field -- "AUTO-FORWARDED". Rest of header flushed. Comments: E: "From:"/"Sender:" field is missing. From: Undetermined origin c/o Postmaster ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 10 Nov 87 23:27-0800 Reply-To: Undetermined origin c/o Postmaster Sender: HUMANIST Discussion Comments: W: Invalid RFC822 field -- "AUTO-FORWARDED". Rest of header flushed. Comments: E: "From:"/"Sender:" field is missing. From: Undetermined origin c/o Postmaster ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 10 Nov 87 23:27-0800 Reply-To: Undetermined origin c/o Postmaster Sender: HUMANIST Discussion Comments: W: Invalid RFC822 field -- "AUTO-FORWARDED". Rest of header flushed. Comments: E: "From:"/"Sender:" field is missing. From: Undetermined origin c/o Postmaster ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 10 Nov 87 23:27-0800 Reply-To: Undetermined origin c/o Postmaster Sender: HUMANIST Discussion Comments: W: Invalid RFC822 field -- "AUTO-FORWARDED". Rest of header flushed. Comments: E: "From:"/"Sender:" field is missing. From: Undetermined origin c/o Postmaster ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 10 Nov 87 23:28-0800 Reply-To: Undetermined origin c/o Postmaster Sender: HUMANIST Discussion Comments: W: Invalid RFC822 field -- "AUTO-FORWARDED". Rest of header flushed. Comments: E: "From:"/"Sender:" field is missing. From: Undetermined origin c/o Postmaster ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 11 Nov 87 00:25-0800 Reply-To: Undetermined origin c/o Postmaster Sender: HUMANIST Discussion Comments: W: Invalid RFC822 field -- "AUTO-FORWARDED". Rest of header flushed. Comments: E: "From:"/"Sender:" field is missing. From: Undetermined origin c/o Postmaster ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 11 Nov 87 00:26-0800 Reply-To: Undetermined origin c/o Postmaster Sender: HUMANIST Discussion Comments: W: Invalid RFC822 field -- "AUTO-FORWARDED". Rest of header flushed. Comments: E: "From:"/"Sender:" field is missing. From: Undetermined origin c/o Postmaster ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 11 Nov 87 00:26-0800 Reply-To: Undetermined origin c/o Postmaster Sender: HUMANIST Discussion Comments: W: Invalid RFC822 field -- "AUTO-FORWARDED". Rest of header flushed. Comments: E: "From:"/"Sender:" field is missing. From: Undetermined origin c/o Postmaster ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 11 Nov 87 00:26-0800 Reply-To: Undetermined origin c/o Postmaster Sender: HUMANIST Discussion Comments: W: Invalid RFC822 field -- "AUTO-FORWARDED". Rest of header flushed. Comments: E: "From:"/"Sender:" field is missing. From: Undetermined origin c/o Postmaster ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 11 Nov 87 00:27-0800 Reply-To: Undetermined origin c/o Postmaster Sender: HUMANIST Discussion Comments: W: Invalid RFC822 field -- "AUTO-FORWARDED". Rest of header flushed. Comments: E: "From:"/"Sender:" field is missing. From: Undetermined origin c/o Postmaster ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 11 Nov 87 01:21-0800 Reply-To: Undetermined origin c/o Postmaster Sender: HUMANIST Discussion Comments: W: Invalid RFC822 field -- "AUTO-FORWARDED". Rest of header flushed. Comments: E: "From:"/"Sender:" field is missing. From: Undetermined origin c/o Postmaster ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 11 Nov 87 01:21-0800 Reply-To: Undetermined origin c/o Postmaster Sender: HUMANIST Discussion Comments: W: Invalid RFC822 field -- "AUTO-FORWARDED". Rest of header flushed. Comments: E: "From:"/"Sender:" field is missing. From: Undetermined origin c/o Postmaster ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 11 Nov 87 01:21-0800 Reply-To: Undetermined origin c/o Postmaster Sender: HUMANIST Discussion Comments: W: Invalid RFC822 field -- "AUTO-FORWARDED". Rest of header flushed. Comments: E: "From:"/"Sender:" field is missing. From: Undetermined origin c/o Postmaster ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 11 Nov 87 01:22-0800 Reply-To: Undetermined origin c/o Postmaster Sender: HUMANIST Discussion Comments: W: Invalid RFC822 field -- "AUTO-FORWARDED". Rest of header flushed. Comments: E: "From:"/"Sender:" field is missing. From: Undetermined origin c/o Postmaster ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 11 Nov 87 01:22-0800 Reply-To: Undetermined origin c/o Postmaster Sender: HUMANIST Discussion Comments: W: Invalid RFC822 field -- "AUTO-FORWARDED". Rest of header flushed. Comments: E: "From:"/"Sender:" field is missing. From: Undetermined origin c/o Postmaster ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 11 Nov 87 02:25-0800 Reply-To: Undetermined origin c/o Postmaster Sender: HUMANIST Discussion Comments: W: Invalid RFC822 field -- "AUTO-FORWARDED". Rest of header flushed. Comments: E: "From:"/"Sender:" field is missing. From: Undetermined origin c/o Postmaster ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 11 Nov 87 02:25-0800 Reply-To: Undetermined origin c/o Postmaster Sender: HUMANIST Discussion Comments: W: Invalid RFC822 field -- "AUTO-FORWARDED". Rest of header flushed. Comments: E: "From:"/"Sender:" field is missing. From: Undetermined origin c/o Postmaster ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 11 Nov 87 02:25-0800 Reply-To: Undetermined origin c/o Postmaster Sender: HUMANIST Discussion Comments: W: Invalid RFC822 field -- "AUTO-FORWARDED". Rest of header flushed. Comments: E: "From:"/"Sender:" field is missing. From: Undetermined origin c/o Postmaster ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 11 Nov 87 02:25-0800 Reply-To: Undetermined origin c/o Postmaster Sender: HUMANIST Discussion Comments: W: Invalid RFC822 field -- "AUTO-FORWARDED". Rest of header flushed. Comments: E: "From:"/"Sender:" field is missing. From: Undetermined origin c/o Postmaster ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 11 Nov 87 02:25-0800 Reply-To: Undetermined origin c/o Postmaster Sender: HUMANIST Discussion Comments: W: Invalid RFC822 field -- "AUTO-FORWARDED". Rest of header flushed. Comments: E: "From:"/"Sender:" field is missing. From: Undetermined origin c/o Postmaster ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 11 Nov 87 03:27-0800 Reply-To: Undetermined origin c/o Postmaster Sender: HUMANIST Discussion Comments: W: Invalid RFC822 field -- "AUTO-FORWARDED". Rest of header flushed. Comments: E: "From:"/"Sender:" field is missing. From: Undetermined origin c/o Postmaster ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 11 Nov 87 03:27-0800 Reply-To: Undetermined origin c/o Postmaster Sender: HUMANIST Discussion Comments: W: Invalid RFC822 field -- "AUTO-FORWARDED". Rest of header flushed. Comments: E: "From:"/"Sender:" field is missing. From: Undetermined origin c/o Postmaster ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 11 Nov 87 03:28-0800 Reply-To: Undetermined origin c/o Postmaster Sender: HUMANIST Discussion Comments: W: Invalid RFC822 field -- "AUTO-FORWARDED". Rest of header flushed. Comments: E: "From:"/"Sender:" field is missing. From: Undetermined origin c/o Postmaster ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 11 Nov 87 03:28-0800 Reply-To: Undetermined origin c/o Postmaster Sender: HUMANIST Discussion Comments: W: Invalid RFC822 field -- "AUTO-FORWARDED". Rest of header flushed. Comments: E: "From:"/"Sender:" field is missing. From: Undetermined origin c/o Postmaster ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 11 Nov 87 03:28-0800 Reply-To: Undetermined origin c/o Postmaster Sender: HUMANIST Discussion Comments: W: Invalid RFC822 field -- "AUTO-FORWARDED". Rest of header flushed. Comments: E: "From:"/"Sender:" field is missing. From: Undetermined origin c/o Postmaster ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 11 Nov 87 10:04:38 EST Reply-To: Steve Younker Sender: HUMANIST Discussion From: Steve Younker Subject: LISTSERV going bananas I got in this morning and to my dismay I find that HUMANISTS have once again been buried under a wave of bad headers. At this point to save you all from the frustration of further nonsense, I am suspending HUMANIST for probably the next 24 hours. If I can solve the problem before then, so much the better. You will receive another note from me telling you when it is once more safe to venture forward with HUMANIST. Hope to talk to you all soon. Steve ========================================================================= Date: 11 Nov 87 09:25:24 gmt Reply-To: R.J.HARE@EDINBURGH.AC.UK Sender: HUMANIST Discussion From: R.J.HARE@EDINBURGH.AC.UK Subject: TECH88 (about 40 lines) TECH88 A Project on TECHNOLOGY, COMMUNICATION AND THE HUMANITIES April to September 1988 An enquiry into the complex interplay between technology, communication and the humanities, bringing together representatives from higher education, the arts, commerce and industry. Public Lectures ------ -------- Five public lectures will be held during July and August 1988 under the following general headings: 15 July Technology, Finance and Economics 22 July Technology and transport 29 July Technology, the Media and the Humanities 5 August Management, Education and Anti-Technology 12 August Free Enquiry in a Competitive Market: The Implications of Data banks and targeted Advertising. Conference on Technology, Communication and the Humanities ---------- -- ---------- ------------- --- --- ---------- A Major inter-disciplinary conference to be held at the University of Edinburgh from 18 to 21 August 1988, mounted in association with the TeCH 88 Project, and organised by the Institute. The main themes are: - Technology and decision making - Technology and the dissemination of information - Technology and the acquisition of knowledge - Technology and creative design - Technology and daily life Participants who wish to deliver a paper (in English) should contact the Director of the Institute for further particulars, indicating their proposed topic by 1 March 1988. Fellowships ----------- Further information is available from the Director of the Institute. Address for further information: ------- --- ------- ----------- Institue for Advanced Studies in the Humanities University of Edinburgh Hope Park Square Edinburgh EH8 9NW Scotland ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 12 Nov 87 16:56:10 EST Reply-To: Steve Younker Sender: HUMANIST Discussion From: Steve Younker Subject: Welcome Back Hello folks, Well, after a pretty intensive search of various logs, we feel that we have found the perpetrator of the junk mail. As far as we can tell, this person probably does not know he was causing the problem. He has been temporarily removed from the list. We will try an alternate method for his inclusion. What we don't know at this time is the EXACT reason for the problem. This is the subject of further research for a group of us at the UofT. I am bringing HUMANIST up this afternoon and I'm going to let it run overnight. If all goes well, it will remain up for the weekend. There is a slight possibility of further rejection notices being transmitted to all of you. However, I believe this possibility is very slight. I hope I don't have to eat my words. :-) I am going to be out of town for the weekend, so I won't be here to strangle HUMANIST if it runs riot once again. There will be another person who has the ability to stem the tide if this becomes necessary. Of course, on a weekend the trick is to notice a problem in the first place. So, please continue to show patience if the dam breaks once again. When I have a proper explanation for this problem, I will pass it on to you. Meanwhile, please carry on with your discussions. Thanks once again, Steve ========================================================================= Date: 12 November 1987, 21:07:55 EST Reply-To: MCCARTY@UTOREPAS Sender: HUMANIST Discussion From: MCCARTY@UTOREPAS Subject: Post mortem, in 56 lines Dear Colleagues: In view of the recent disaster on HUMANIST, which filled up readers around the world, I have added a new section to the electronic guidebook sent to all new members. This section is reproduced below. I would very much appreciate your comments, sent directly to me. I hope that you've recovered. You will appreciate my dismay when returning from a stimulating and enjoyable conference in Waterloo, Ontario (on the use of large textual databases) I was confronted with 247 messages in my reader! You see, for every bad message you get, I get at least two. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E. Junk Mail and other Network Problems --------------------------------------------------------------------- It is important to realize that HUMANIST is a highly complex web of individuals using a wide variety of computing systems linked together by several different electronic networks. Few of the many parts that comprise HUMANIST were designed to work together. Because HUMANIST's software, ListServ, is rarely able to distinguish between an original message from a member and an error message from a member's system or from some intervening node, it is highly susceptible to both human and mechanical mistakes. Others have commented that we have done well with human errors. Experience has shown, however, that under the present order of things serious floods of meaningless junk mail are exceedingly difficult to prevent. These floods, some say, are simply the price of belonging to the group. A flood of junk mail can be a serious matter to some. A member's reader can fill up quickly, causing much inconvenience and, perhaps, loss of meaningful e-mail. The editor and postmaster of HUMANIST do what they can to intervene once a flood has started, but even they must sleep, whereas our sometimes disobedient electronic servants do not. Individual members can help prevent a few such problems. One way is to be careful to specify reliable addresses. In some cases the advice of local experts may help. Any member who changes his or her userid or nodename should first give ample warning to the editor and should verify the new address. Accounts should not be left unwatched and unused. If you are planning to be away for more than a few days, make certain that your account can cope with a significant number of messages, or ask the editor to delete you temporarily from the list. (You will need to send him a subsequent request to be restored to the list when you return.) If you know your system is going to be turned off or otherwise adjusted in a major way, find out when it will be out of service and inform the editor. All the precautions in the world will not prevent some floods of junk mail, however. Ultimately a more perfect network depends on our appreciative insistence that the effort be spent in improving it. Meanwhile patience is required. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Yours, W.M. _________________________________________________________________________ Dr. Willard McCarty / Centre for Computing in the Humanities University of Toronto / 14th floor, Robarts Library / 130 St. George St. Toronto, Canada M5S 1A5 / (416) 978-4238 / mccarty@utorepas.bitnet ========================================================================= Date: 15 November 1987, 11:14:00 EST Reply-To: MCCARTY@UTOREPAS Sender: HUMANIST Discussion From: MCCARTY@UTOREPAS Subject: Optical scanners (39 lines) The following is from Dan Church -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Here is a summary of the responses I received in answer to my question about hard- and software for scanning text in foreign languages. Many thanks to all who replied. The new Kurzweil "desktop" scanner and the Palantir both use "smart" software to figure out problematic characters in a logical fashion (for English). This procedure makes these machines read faster and more accurately, but it also makes it impossible for them to handle foreign languages, especially those with accented letters or non-Roman alphabets. Kurzweil has promised new software in the near future that will enable the desktop scanner to handle French. Other foreign languages are down the road a bit, but this solution is not ideal because it means switching software each time one switches languages and will not accommodate mixtures of languages. The old Kurzweil scanners (e.g., Model 3) and the relatively new Model 4000 do not use the same type of software for recognition; instead they use a "training mode" that allows the user to tell the machine what the problematic characters are. It does that by scanning some text and then prompting the operator to enter characters (or combinations of up to three characters) for the unrecognized ones. While that approach may make the processing somewhat slower, it does allow for "training" the machine to recognize accented and even non-Roman characters. ========================================================================= Date: 15 November 1987, 11:40:49 EST Reply-To: MCCARTY@UTOREPAS Sender: HUMANIST Discussion From: MCCARTY@UTOREPAS Subject: Biographical supplement (38.5K) Autobiographies of HUMANISTs Fourth Supplement Following are 26 additional entries to the collection of autobiographies by members of the HUMANIST discussion group. Additions, corrections, and updates are welcome, to mccarty@utorepas.bitnet. W.M. 15 November 1987 ========================================================================= *Amsler, Robert Bell Communications Research, Morristown, N.J. Despite the fact that I feel I have almost exclusively a background in the sciences, I find that I am continually working with people from the humanities and have been doing so for the last 12 or so years. I graduated from college with a B.S. in math and went on to graduate school at NYU's Courant Inst. of Math. Sciences in Greenwich Village. There I changed from a mathematician to a computer scientist--and even more significantly, to a computational linguist. I just decided one day that it was a lot more fun to see computers printing words than numbers. From NYU I went to the University of Texas at Austin (UT), where I worked with Robert F. Simmons for a number of years. Texas became home for 10 years and I eventually worked on a variety of humanities computing projects there as the programming manager of the linguistics research center in the HRC (which many of us preferred to think of as the Humanities Research Center even after the University changed the name to the Harry Ransom Center). At UT I worked on machine-readable dictionaries and eventually did a dissertation entitled ``The Structure of the Merriam-Webster Pocket Dictionary'' in which I proved you can construct taxonomies out of definitions. I also worked on a few other interesting humanities computing projects including providing the programming support (sorting, typesetting and syntax-checking) for Fran Karttunen's Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl, building a concordance for Sanskrit texts, working on pattern recognition for Incunabula, data organization for a bibliography of literature of the 18th (or was it the 17th, sigh) century, Mayan calendar generation, and in general helping to spearhead an effort in the late 1970s to get the computing center to recognize text as a legitimate use of computing resources on campus. I have an interdisciplinary Ph.D. from UT in Computer Sciences (Computational Linguistics/Artificial Intelligence), Information Science, and Anthropological Linguistics (Ethnosemantics). After school, I went to SRI International in Menlo Park, CA and worked in the AI Center and the Advanced Computer Systems Dept. there for 3 years on a variety of projects and grants involving text, information science, and AI. From SRI I came to my present job at Bell Communications Research in Morristown, NJ in the Artificial Intelligence and Information Science Research Group, where I continue to specialize in working on machine-readable dictionary research (computational lexicology) and in general on finding alternate uses for machine-readable text. I'm a member of AAAI, ACL, AAAS, ACM, DSNA, and IEEE. My long-term interest is in trying to understand what it will mean to us in the future to have all the world's text information accessible to computers, and what the computers will be able to figure out from that information. Most recently, my attention has turned to the need to create some standards for the encoding of machine-readable dictionaries and to data entry of the Century Dictionary. ========================================================================= *Benson, Jim English Department, Glendon College, York University, Toronto I use the CLOC package developed at the University of Birmingham for research purposes, which include statistical interpretations of collocational output for natural language texts. CLOC also produces concordances, indexes, etc. similar to the OCP. At York, CLOC is also currently being used to produce an old spelling concordance of Shakespeare. ========================================================================= *Bevan, Edis 014 Gardiner Building, Open University, Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA, Great Britain. (The Open University is the biggest University in Britain in terms of student numbers. Instruction is at a distance by means of broadcast materials, written texts and some local tuition. The University has on its undergraduate programme more students with disabilities than all the other higher education institutions in Britain combined.) I intend to set up a discussion group which I hope will be as international as HUMANIST. This will probably be called ABLENET, and I am discussing with Andy Boddington how we could operate as a kind of pseudo-LISTSERVE. Participating in HUMANIST would give me some insights into how such a system could operate effectively. I believe good information exchange is as much a matter of developing communicative competence amongst the users as it is in manipulating the technologies. I am told that HUMANIST is an example of good practice in this matter. I also believe that HUMANIST debates could be most relevant to my general research into information and empowerment. It is not just a matter of applying modern technology to the specific needs of individual disabled people, great through the benefits of this can be. The information technology revolution is creating a whole new world, and it is largely being created for able bodied living with some afterthoughts for possible benefits for people with disabilities. Also there is no reason why disabled people of high academic capability should not be interested in the humanities and in computing in the Humanities. I intend to prepare a directory of resources for disabled people who want to initiate or carry through research projects for themselves. If they become interested in the humanities then HUMANIST could be a relevant resource for them. Furthermore, since I want to make this a truly international resource I need to look at the problems of information exchange in languages other that English. This may be relevant to your concerns with linguistic computing. ========================================================================= *Butler, Terry I am active in supporting humanities computing at the University of Alberta. I am in the University Computing Systems department. We have the OCP program on our mainframe, TextPack (from Germany) recently installed, and a number of other utilites and program being used by scholars. We have considerable experience in publishing and data base publishing (I am in the Information Systems unit). I have a masters degree in English Literature from this university. ========================================================================= *Cerny, Jim University Computing, University of New Hampshire Kingsbury Hall, Durham, NH 03824. (603)-862-3058 I am the site INFOREP for BITNET purposes and part of the academic support staff in the computer center. We have only been part of BITNET since mid-April-87, so I am working hard to find out what is "out there" and to let our user community know about it. I am especially working hard to show these possibilities to faculty from non-traditional computing backgrounds, such as in the humanities. I am publisher of our campus computer newsletter, ON-LINE, which we produce with Macintosh desktop publishing tools. We are always interested in exchanging newsletter subscriptions with other newsletter publishers/editors. As for myself, I am a wayward geographer, Ph.D. from Clark Univ., cartography as a specialization, and I teach one credit course (adjunct) per year. ========================================================================= *Chapelle, Carol 203 Ross Hall, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011. (515) 294-7274 I am an assistant professor of ESL/Applied Linguistics at Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa. I am interested in the application of computers for teaching English and research on second language acquisition. My papers on these topics have appeared in TESOL Quarterly, Language Learning, CALICO, and SYSTEM. My current work includes writing courseware for ESL instruction and research, and developing a "computers in linguistics/humanities" course for graduate students at ISU. ========================================================================= *Cooper, John I am working on a UK government sponsored project under the Computer Teaching Initiative umbrella. The project is headed by Susan Hockey, and the third member is Jo Freedman. We are developing ways in which texts in several languages and scripts can be accessed by university members (undergraduates initially, but we hope that graduates and researchers will be able to make use of the facilities) directly onto micro screens connected up with the university mainframe computers. They will be able to see their texts in the original scripts, and then be able to use concordance programs such as OCP and other text-oriented software to performs searches, etc., of their material. At present we are working with Middle English, Italian, Latin, Greek, and Arabic, but we are interested in incorporating any scripts and languages for which there is a demand in the university. Jo Freedman is languages for which there is a demand in the university. I am working partcularly on the textual side of the project, and we are using texts from the Oxford Text Archive to begin with. My particular interest is in Arabic and other languages written in the Arabic script, and I am at present working on a thesis in the field of Islamic jurisprudence. ========================================================================= *Feld, Michael I currently teach Philosophy at University College, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB R3T 2M8 (204) 474-9136. My use of computers is a newborn thing: primarily, as yet, to access data-bases, and to communicate with other scholars in my field via e-mail. My research interests center on moral epistemology and applied ethics. ========================================================================= *Friedman, Edward A. Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, New Jersey 07030 USA. 201-420-5188 I am currently a Professor of Management at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, NJ 07030, USA. Previously, as Dean of the College I had administrative responsibility for the development of the computer-intensive environment at Stevens. Every student had to purchase a computer ( beginning in 1983 ). The first computer was a DEC Professional 350 and now it is an AT&T 6310. A great deal of curriculum development has taken place at Stevens around this program. We are currently engaged in a massive networking effort which will place more than 2,000 computers on a 10Megabit/sec Ethernet with interprocess communications functionality. My interest is in uses of information technology in society and in the impact of information technology on liberal arts students. I recently had a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to complete a text of information technology for liberal arts students that will be published by MIT Press. I currently have a grant from the Department of Higher Education of the State of New Jersey to implement an undergraduate course using full text search techniques. We are placing approximately ten volumes related to Galileo into machine-readable form. They include writings of Galileo, biographical material and commentaries. This data base will be used with Micro-ARRAS software in a history of science course on Galileo. I am working with Professor James E. McClellan of the Stevens Humanities Department and with Professor Arthur Shapiro of the Stevens Manangement Department on this project. I would be interested in hearing from individuals who have suggestions for experiments or observations that we might consider in this pilot project when it is implemented in the Spring Semester ( Feb - May 1988 ). I am also a founder and Co-Editor of a journal entitled, Machine-Mediated Learning, that is published by Taylor & Francis of London. The Journal is interested in in-depth articles that would be helpful to a wide audience of scholars and decision makers. Anyone wishing to see a sample copy should contact me. ======================================================================== *Gauthier, Robert Sciences du langage, UNIVERSITE TOULOUSE-LE MIRAIL (61 81 35 49), France I am at present head of the "Sciences du Langage" Department at the "Universite Toulouse le-Mirail". I spent twenty years out of France mainly in Africa where I taught linguistics and semiotics. I started as a phonetician with a these de 3eme Cycle on teaching intonation to students learning French (FLE equivalent to TEFL). I worked for various international organisations (UNESCO, USAID, AUPELF) and the French Cooperation. I was then mainly interested in Audio-visual methods of teaching sundry subjects. I got involved in research on local folktales and wrote a few articles on the subject. I have been using computers for 10 years as a means of research, filing, word-processing, and intellectual enjoyment. I learnt and used a few languages (Fortran, Basic, Logo, Prolog...) and worked on different computers. After a These d'etat on the didactical use of pictures in growing up Africa, I came home to the Linguistics department of Toulouse university. I teach Computers or Semiotics at "Maitrise" level and I have a "Seminaire de DEA" on Communication and computed meaning (an unsatisfactory translation of the ambiguous french expression : Calcul du sens). The whole university shows a keen interest in computers and we have to fill in lots of forms to give shape to projects which aim to develop the teaching and use of computers in the Humanities. Unfortunately local problems prevent the university from having an efficient program to give students some kind of competence in dealing with Computers. In fact nobody seems aware of the specific problem posed by our literary students and their confrontation with courses given by specialists. As for what should be taught and how, this is either taboo or an irrelevant impropriety. In July 87 at the Colloque d'Albi, I presented a paper, which tried to promote a way to teach Basic to students with a literary background and I will try to perfect the method this year with the students attending my course on Basic and the Computer. I have just completed a stand alone application that helps make, merge, sort and edit bibliographies. It works on Macintosh and can be ported on IBM PC ( It was compiled with ZBasic). I am interested in hearing from persons using Expercommon Lisp on Macintosh for an exchange of views. ========================================================================= *Graham, David Department of French and Spanish, Memorial University of Newfoundland St. John's, NF CANADA A1B 3X9 (709) 737-7636 I was trained in 17th century French literature but have in the last few years become more interested in the history of emblematics in France. To this end, I am now investigating the feasibility of a com- puterized visual database of French emblems, and am currently exploring the use of Hypercard on a Macintosh Plus to work on this. In addition, for the last few months I have been attempting to encourage the formation of a distribution list for French language and literature specialists in Canada along the lines of ENGLISH@CANADA01 (though I understand it has not been a complete success...). Consequently, I am very interested in the use of e-mail by scholars and teachers in the hu- manities generally. We are at present looking into the use of computers for teaching FSL here at Memorial and so I would be interested in exchanges of views and material on that subject as well. I am not however personally interested in parsers etc though I have colleagues here who are. ========================================================================= *Hawthorne, Doug Director, Project Eli, Yale Computer Center, 175 Whitney Ave. New Haven, CT 06520, (203) 432-6680 My office is responsible in broad terms for providing the resources to support instructional computing at Yale. In addition to managing the public clusters of microcomputers available to students, I and my staff assist faculty who are searching for software to use for instruction or who are actively developing such software. In order to fulfill this role we attempt to stay abreast of recent developments and to funnel appropriate information to interested faculty at Yale. While not focussed exclusively on the humanities, we do give considerable attention to the humanists because they do not seem to be as "connected" to matters concerning computing as the scientists. But one example, I have been the principal organizer of a one day conference titled "Beyond Word Processing: A Symposium on the Use of Computers in the Humanities" which will be held tomorrow (Nov. 7). I look forward to participating in the network. ======================================================================== *Hofland, Knut The Norwegian Computing Centre for the Humanities P.O. Box 53, University N-5027 Bergen Norway Tel: +47 5 212954/5/6 I am a senior consultant at the Norwegian Computing Centre for the Humanities in Bergen (financed by the Norwegian Research Council for Science and Arts), where I have been working since 1975. The Centre is located at the University of Bergen. I have worked with concordancing, lemmatizing and tagging of million words text like the Brown Corpus, LOB Corpus, Ibsens poems and plays. I have also worked with publication of material via microfiche, typesetters and laserwriters. We are a clearing house for ICAME (International Computer Archive of Modern English), a collection of different text corpora, and have recently set up a file server on Bitnet for distribution of information and programs. (FAFSRV at NOBERGEN, can take orders via msgs or mail). At the moment we are investigating the use of CD-ROM and WORM disks for distribution of material. We have worked for several years with computer applications in Museums, printed catalogues and data bases both on mainframes and PCs. ======================================================================== *Hogenraad, Robert Faculte de Psychologie et des Sciences de l'Education, Universite Catholique de Louvain 20, Voie du Roman Pays B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium) For some time, I have been active here in the field of computer-assisted content analysis (limited to mainframe computers, alas, for financial reasons). For example, we recently issued a User's Manual --in French--for our recent PROTAN system (PROTAN for PROTocol ANalyzer). We intend some more work on our system in two directions, i.e., developing a sequential/narrative approach to content analysis, and developing new dictionaries, in French, in addition to the ones we already work with. ========================================================================= *Hughes, John J. Also: DIALMAIL <11597> MCI Mail <226-1461> CompuServe <71056,1715> The Source DELPHI Bits & Bytes Computer Resources, 623 Iowa Ave., Whitefish, MT 59937; telephones: (406) 862-7280; (406) 862-3927. Editor/Publisher of the "Bits & Bytes Review." After attending Vanderbilt University (1965-1969, philosophy), Westminster Theological Seminary (1970-1973, philosophical theology), and Cambridge University (1973-1977, biblical studies), I taught in the Religious Studies Department at Westmont College in Santa Barbara, California (1977-1982). During 1980-1981, while teaching third-semester Greek at Westmont College, I attempted to use Westmont's Prime 1 to run GRAMCORD, a program that concords grammatical constructions in a morphologically and syntactically tagged version of the Greek New Testament. I had no idea how to use the Prime 1, and no one at the college had ever used GRAMCORD. Several frustrating visits to the computer lab neither quenched my desire to use the program nor dispelled my elitist belief that if students (some of whom, after reading their term papers, I deemed barely literate) could use the Prime 1 productively, then so could I. (The students, of course, immediately saw that I was as illiterate a would-be computer user as ever fumbled at a keyboard or read incomprehendingly through jargon-filled manuals.) My unspoken snobbery was not soon rewarded. After several spectacular and dismal failures (including catching a high-speed line-printer in an endless loop), I welcomed--indeed, solicited--the assistance of one and all, "literate" or not. After a good deal of help, my class and I were able to use GRAMCORD. Because of the system software or the way the program was installed or both, however, users had to wait 24 hours before the results of GRAMCORD operations were available. That delay did little to encourage regular use of the program, though it did illustrate the difference between batch and interactive processing. More recently, after three and a half years of research and writing, I have just completed "Bits, Bytes, and Biblical Studies: A Resource Guide for the Use of Computers in Biblical and Classical Studies" (700+ pages), which will be available from Zondervan Publishing House in November 1987 ($29.95). The chapter titles are (1) The Pulse of the Machine, (2) Word Processing and Related Programs, (3) Bible Concordance Programs, (4) Computer-Assisted Language Learning, (5) Communicating and On-Line Services, (6) Archaeological Programs, and (7) Machine-Readable Ancient Texts and Text Archives. In October 1986, while researching and writing "Bits, Bytes, and Biblical Studies," I started the "Bits & Bytes Review," a review-oriented newsletter for academic and humanistic computing. This publication reviews microcomputer products in considerable detail, from the perspective of humanists, and in terms of how the products can enhance research and increase productivity. The newsletter appears nine times a year and is available to members of the Association for Computing in the Humanities at reduced rates. (Free sample copies are available from the publisher.) I am a member of the Association for Computing in the Humanities and a contributing editor to "The Electronic Scholar's Resource Guide" (Edited by Joseph Raben, Oryx Press, forthcoming). During the summer of 1988, I will teach an introductory-level course on academic word processing, desktop publishing, and text-retrieval programs at the University of Leuven through the Penn-Leuven Summer Institute. I am interested in using available electronic resources and tools to study the Hebrew Scriptures, the Septuagint, and the Greek New Testament. ========================================================================= *Julien, Jacques I am assistant-professor at the Department of French & Spanish at the University of Saskatchewan, in Saskatoon. I am teaching language classes and French-Canadian literature and civilization. My field of research is French-Canadian popular song. I will have my Ph.D. thesis published in Montreal in next November. My subject was the popular singer: Robert Charlebois, and I have received my degree from the University of Sherbrooke, in 1983. I am working on a IBM/PC/XT compatable that can access the mainframe (VMS) through Kermit. Nota Bene is the wordprocessor I use more often. I am planning to use AskSam, by Seaside Software, a Text Base Management System, and SATO, from UQAM. I may say that my reasearch is based on computer assistance, as is my instruction. For example, I am very much interested at the software Greg Lessard is working on for interactive writing in French. Keywords that can define my work and my interests would be: French-Canadian literature and civilization, semiotics, sociology, CAI of French, stylistic analysis and Text Base Management. ========================================================================= *Kenner, Hugh I am Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities (English) at Johns Hopkins. I co-authored the "Travesty" program in the November '86 BYTE. With my students, I do word-analysis of Joyce's Ulysses, using copies of the master tapes for the Gabler edition. ============================================================================== *Lancashire, Ian Centre for Computing in the Humanities, Robarts Library, 14th Floor, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A5; (416) 978-8656. I am a Professor of English who became interested in applying database and text-editing programs to bibliographical indexes for pre-1642 British records of drama and minstrelsy. Somewhat earlier I had done concording for an edition of two early Tudor plays. These in turn led me in 1983 to offer a graduate course introducing doctoral students in English to research computing; and to help, my department offered to publish a textbook summarizing documentation and collecting scattered information. With the support of like-minded colleagues, especially John Hurd and Russ Wooldridge, I urged the university to set up a natural-language-processing facility. The Vice-President of Research obliged by doing so and giving us a full-time programmer at Computing Services. I worked with him on a collection of text utilities called MTAS, which we developed on an IBM PC-AT given by IBM Canada Ltd. Then we organized a conference on humanities computing at Toronto in April 1986, and a month later IBM Canada and the university signed a joint partnership to set up a Centre for Computing in the Humanities here. Four laboratories and a staff of five later, I am still a director who enjoys every hour of the extraordinary experience of leading people where they want to go, one of whom, the creator of HUMANIST, is a gentleman scholar who has worked with me from the mid-seventies and whose talents are fully revealed in the Toronto centre. My own research? I co-edit The Humanities Computing Yearbook, am interested in distributional statistical analysis of text (content analysis with pictures), and am working with Alistair Fox and Greg Waite of the University of Otago (New Zealand) and George Rigg of Medieval Studies at Toronto on an English Renaissance textbase, with emphasis on the dictionaries published at that time. I have given a fair number of well-meaning talks about the importance of humanities computing, a few of which have been published. I am optimistic that eventually some serious scholarship will come of all this chatter. My wife is a professor of English too, and we have three children, one cat, and five microcomputers between us. ========================================================================= *Martindale, Colin Dept. of Psychology, Univ. of Maine, Orono, ME 04469 I guess that the main way that I support computing in the humanities is by doing it. I have been working in the area of computerized content analysis for about 20 years. I have constructed several programs and dictionaries that I have used mainly to test my theory of literary evolution originally described in my book, Romantic Progression (1975). More recent publications are in CHum (1984) and Poetics (1978, 1986). I have tried to convince--with some success--colleagues in the humanities to use quantitative techniques and computers. With more success, I have interested grad students in psychology to use computerized content analysis to study literature and music . ========================================================================= *Miller, Stephen External Adviser, Computing in the Arts, Oxford University Computing Service, 13, Banbury Road, Oxford. OX2 6NN. 0865-273266 I would like to join HUMANIST - my role in the computing service here is to handle enquiries about computer applications in the humanities from users outside of Oxford in the main but also to provide an internal service if I can be of assistance ========================================================================= *Nash, David MIT Center for Cognitive Science, 20B-225 MIT, Cambridge MA 02139 tel. (617)253-7355 (until Jan. 1988) I am involved in two projects which link computers, linguists, and word lists (and also text archives), namely the Warlpiri Dictionary Project (at the Center for Cognitive Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Warlpiri schools in central Australia), and the National Lexicography Project at AIAS (Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies). The latter is a clearinghouse for Australian language dictionaries and word lists on computer media, recently begun, and funded until March 1989. Contact AIAS, GPO Box 553, Canberra ACT 2601, Australia; or the address below until next January. At the Center for Cognitive Science we use a DEC microVax, and Gnu Emacs and (La)TeX. We also use CP/M machines, and a Macintosh SE at AIAS, and have access to larger machines such as a Vax for data transfer. My training and interests are in linguistics and Australian languages. ========================================================================= *O'Cathasaigh, Sean French Department, The University, Southampton SO9 5NH England I work in the French Department at Southampton, where I use microcomputers for teaching grammar and the mainframe for generating concordances of French classical texts. I'd be very interested in hearing from anyone who has used Deredec or its associated packages. I've thought of buying them for my Department, but have found it very difficult to get information from the authors. So a user report would be very welcome. Please contact: ========================================================================= *O'Flaherty, Brendan My interest in humanities computing is primarily in the archaeolaogical field. I did my undergraduate and postgraduate degrees at University College, Cork and am currently Research Fellow in the Department of Archaeology in Southampton (address: The University, Souhampton SO9 5NH). My interest in computing include Computer-aided learning, typesetting and databases. ======================================================================== *Paff, Toby C.I.T., 87 Prospect St., Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544 609-452-6068 I support, along with Rich Giordano, almost every aspect of computing in the humanities, where humanities includes the broadest number of fields possible. This means in particular, text processing, database work as it relates to humanities, text analysis, and linguistic analysis. I work a good deal with Hebrew and Arabic fonts, and with faculty and students who work in that area. Occasional work crops up in Chinese, but that comes and goes in waves. I am a SPIRES programmer and support things like the university serials list. My background is, in fact, in library work, though I support almost nothing bibliographical at this point. Given the generally cooperative atmosphere at Princeton, I work with micros, minis and mainframes... CMS and UNIX both. ========================================================================= *Ruus, Lane Head, UBC Data Library, Data Library, University of British Columbia 6356 Agricultural Road, Vancouver, B.C. V6T 1W5 (604) 228-5587 Academic background: anthropology, librarianship What I do: see the following. UBC DATA LIBRARY AS A TEXT ARCHIVE The UBC Data Library is jointly operated by the UBC Computing Centre and Library. Its basic functions are to acquire and maintain computer-readable non-bibliographic files, in all necessary disciplines, to support the research and teaching activities of the University, to provide the necessary user services, and to act as an archive for original research data that may be used for secondary analysis by others. The Data Library is committed to three basic principles: (a) expensive data files should not be duplicated among a variety of departments on campus, but should be acquired centrally and made available to all, (b) original data resulting from research, that might be subject to secondary analysis in the future, should be preserved for posterity, as are publications in other physical media. They should therefore be deposited in data archives, with the professional expertise to preserve this fragile medium for future analysis, and (c) one of the basic tenets of academic research is the citation of all sources used, so as to facilitate the peer review process. Data files should therefore be cited, in publications, as are as a matter of course all other media of publication. Through such acknowledgement, creators of data will be encouraged to make their data available for secondary analysis. The Data Library's collection contains over 4600 files. Because of the size of the collection, all data are stored on magnetic tapes. Files vary in size from ten card images to a hundred million bytes or more. Subject matter varies from the Old Testament in Hebrew, to images from the polar-orbiting NOAA satellites. Data files are ordered from other data archives/libraries, on request (and as our budget allows), or are deposited by individual researchers. At present, the Data Library has textual data files in the following broad subject areas: American fiction, American poetry, Anglo-Saxon poetry, Bible (New Testament, Old Testament), Canadian poetry, English drama, English fiction, English poetry, French diaries, French language (word frequency, literature, poetry), German poetry, Greek (drama, language, literature, poetry), Hebrew literature, Indians of North America - British Columbia - legends, Irish fiction (English), Latin literature. All files are accessible at all times that the UBC G-system mainframe is operating in attended mode. Text files are generally maintained in the format in which they are received from the distributor. Generally this allows the researcher maximum flexibility to choose his/her favourite analysis package (e.g. OCP), download to a microcomputer, etc. Occasionally, the Data Library will compile an index to the contents of a large, complex file, or otherwise compile a computer-readable codebook. The Data Library maintains a catalogue of its collection under the SPIRES database management system, on the UBC G- system mainframe. Each record in the database contains information as to the substantive content, size, format, and availability of data files. It also includes information as to where documentation describing the files is to be found (whether on-line disc files or printed), and the information needed to mount the tape containing the file. The Data Library also maintains, on the G-system, an interactive documentation system. The system includes documents introducing the Data Library, how to mount Data Library owned tapes, as well as documents describing how to compile a bibliographic citation for a data file, how to deposit data files in the Data Library, etc. ========================================================================== *Tompkins, Kenneth ARHU, Stockton State College, Pomona, NJ 08240 (609) 652-4497 (work) or (609) 646-5452 (home) Fundamentally, I support computing in the Humanities by witnessing. In 1981, I set up the college Microlab so that (1) there would be a place for the whole college to learn about micros and what can be done with them; and (2) so that non-information science students could have a place to work. Since then, I have held yearly faculty workshops, set up over 200 computers across the campus, designed an Electronic Publishing track in the Literature Program (English Dept.), set up a college BBS, and done anything I could to make sure my colleagues have a chance to use computers in their teaching and research. I did teach a course called Computers and the Humanities which was not an unqualified success. Oh yes, I built my first micro in 1975. My role, then, is to witness, persuade, pound on tables, cajole, and to make myself heard by busy, somewhat uncaring administrators and by overworked and fearful colleagues. I am a Medievalist and I have been teaching at undergraduate colleges since 1965. I came to Stockton as one of a five person team to start the college; after 15 months of work designing the curriculum and hiring 55 faculty, the college opened in 1971. I was Dean of General Studies until 1973 when I returned to full time teaching. Since 1978 I have been spending my summers at Wharram Percy in the Yorkshire Wolds. Wharram Percy is a Deserted Medieval Village archeaological dig. I am now the Chief Guide; last summer I led tours for over 1100 visitors. I have co-authored a small booklet on Deserted Villages. I am very interested in how computers can be applied to archeaology. My other projects involve graphic input to computers. At present, I have built digitizing boards and hope to begin digitizing Celtic art so that these complex pictures can be broken into constituent parts. I am also interested in graphic reconstruction of medieval buildings. ========================================================================= ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 15 Nov 87 18:35:12 MST Reply-To: Mark Olsen Sender: HUMANIST Discussion From: Mark Olsen Subject: Electronic Text I have one suggestion for the ACH electronic text guidelines. You might want to include codes to represent the edition, volumes and page numbers of the texts in question. I gave a paper recently and used, without thinking really, program generated references to texts that I had collected and from the Constitution Papers published by the Electronic Text Corporation. The commentator suggested that I refer to hard copies of the texts. No problem for material I had assembled, tho' it was a pain in the ~&(*%. But I do not have an indication from ETC as to the edition, publishers or page numbers of the texts in that collection. The moral of this story? Include numbered page breaks and edition information in electronic text, or you will join me in the exceedingly frustrating task of hunting down hard copy references to text you have on-line. Mark ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 16 Nov 87 10:49:34 EST Reply-To: Steve Younker Sender: HUMANIST Discussion From: Steve Younker Subject: We can all relax now (until next time) Good Morning, As promised, I now include an explanation for the flood of junk mail we all received last week. The fault had two parts. The HUMANIST distribution list had a complex but valid address for certain subscribers. (A shorter one could have been used and will now be used for sure!) This was the seed of disaster in the complex world of electronic mail and was therefore the first part of the problem. The second part of the problem was a bug in some mail-handling software at a node between the UofT and the particular subscriber in question. My opposite number at that node found the bug when I sent him a sample of the output with which you all became so familiar last week. :-) The fix is also a two part affair: my colleague fixes his bug, and we use the shorter address. The shorter address also has the fortunate characteristic of bypassing my colleague's node. So, even if my friend doesn't fix his software, won't be flooded with bits and bytes, at least until some new quirk arises. The subscriber who (unknowingly) started this whole affair can now be re-instated, and HUMANIST is off and running once again. As an aside, I'd like to mention that Wisconsin, a major gateway to ARPAnet will become extinct sometime in December. One or more replacements are in the works at this time. Since all of these new sites have the potential to use different software packages, I would not be surprised at another network burp occurring after the change-over. Whether or not this hypothetical burp hits HUMANIST remains to be seen. But, I feel a warning may be in order this time. So, if you've been holding back submissions to the list, hold back no longer. It is now safe to step forward into the fray. Murphy's Law says that I will eat these words. :-) Thanks again for your patience. Steve ========================================================================= Date: 16 November 1987, 12:35:13 EST Reply-To: CSHUNTER@UOGUELPH Sender: HUMANIST Discussion From: CSHUNTER@UOGUELPH The following may be of interest to members of HUMANIST: 1987 RESEARCH CHALLENGES IN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY VISUAL DATA REPRESENTATIONS: COPING WITH OVERLOAD AND IMPROVING OUR INSIGHT sponsored by University of Toronto/University of Waterloo Cooperative on Information Technology Friday, November 27, 1987 @ Siegfried Hall, St. Jerome's College, U of W Schedule of Activities 9:30 - 10:10 Registration and Refreshments 10:10 - 10:20 Welcome, Overview and Opening Remarks 10:20 - 11:00 Opening Presentation * Robert Lillestrand, V-P Government Systems Technology Center Control Data Corporation, Bloomington, Minnesota ``Rediscovering America using Computer Graphics: The Columbus Research Tool'' 11:00 - 13:00 Visual Data Representations I Chairman - Kelly Booth, UW Computer Graphics Lab * Paul Eagles, UW Recreation ``Graphical Representation of Breeding Bird Data: The Bird Atlas'' * Colin Ware, UNB Computer Science ``Colour Sequences for Univariate Maps'' * Howard Armitage and Efrim Boritz, UW School of Accounting ``Teaching Visual Representations to Undergraduates'' * Bruno Forte, UW Applied Mathematics ``Thresholding Grey-Level Histograms by Minimum Information Loss'' * John Moore, UW Management Sciences ``Instruction for Team Sports: The Electronic Playbook'' *Phillipe Martin, UT Experimental Phonetics Laboratory ``Intonation Display for Research and Teaching'' 13:00 - 14:00 Lunch 14:00 - 15:20 Visual Data Representations II Chairman - Ron Baecker, UT Computer Science *Gordon Andrews and Peter Myshok, UW Mechanical Engineering ``Visual Data Representations in Engineering Design'' * Peter Wood, UT Computer Systems Research Institute ``Asking Questions About Graphs: A Visual Query Language'' *David H. Farrar and John J. Irwin, UT Chemistry ``Visual Representations for Understanding Chemical Models'' * Philip Robertson, UT Computer Science ``Colour Surface Representation of Images'' 15:20 - 15:40 Break 15:40 - 17:00 Visual Data Representations II (continued) * Martin Lamb and David Smith, UT Faculty of Library & Information Sciences ``Visual Representation of a Chemical Database for Teaching Purposes'' * Alan Mitchell, Information Services, City of Toronto ``Improving City Planning and Development Using Computing Graphics: The City of Toronto's Challenge'' * John Danahy, UT Landscape Architecture ``Computer Displays in Architecture'' * Ron Baecker, UT Computer Science ``Visual Representations of Computer Programs'' 17:00 - 17:15 Closing Remarks FEES (Lunch included): Members of the Cooperative on Information Technology Affiliates and Subscribers $45.00 Non-Members $75.00 Students $15.00 If you will require transportation to and from Waterloo -- Bus fare $15.00 Cheques should be made payable to either the University of Toronto, c/o Judy Borodin, 140 St. George Street, Room 622, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A1 or cheques made payable to the University of Waterloo, c/o Bonnie J. Kent, Sociology Dept., PAS 2061, Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3G1 NOTE: for further information, please contact either Judy or Bonnie at the addresses listed above or via phone at Judy Borodin (416) 978-5460 Bonnie J. Kent (519) 885-1211, ext. 3467 or 6215 or e-mail@ bjkent@watdcsu. ========================================================================= Date: Monday, 16 November 1987 1244-EST Reply-To: JACKA@PENNDRLS Sender: HUMANIST Discussion From: JACKA@PENNDRLS The Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KUL) and the University of Pennsylvania are pleased to announce a Summer Institute on Computer Applications in the Humanities. The Institute will be from 18 July 1988 to 26 August at the University of Leuven in Belgium. The following courses will be taught both for undergraduate and graduate credit. A PRACTICAL INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTING IN THE HUMANITIES (John Hughes) COMPUTER APPLICATIONS IN THE HUMANITIES (John R. Abercrombie) TEXTUAL ANALYSIS (John Fought) INTRODUCTION TO THE OXFORD CONCORDANCE PROGRAM FOR RESEARCH (Susan Hockey) STYLISTIC ANALYSIS (Nicole Delbecque) COMPUTERS AND TRANSLATION (Frank Van Enyde) In addition to the full-time faculty, guest speaker from other European and American institutions will give special presentations. For general information on the Institute and/or an application, write to: Peter Steiner, Chairman Comparative Literature Department 420 Williams Hall University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305 USA Electronic Address : Steiner @ PENNDRLN John R. Abercrombie, Assistant Dean for Computing (Humanities) University of Pennsylvania ========================================================================= Date: 17 November 1987, 00:22:54 EST Reply-To: MCCARTY@UTOREPAS Sender: HUMANIST Discussion From: MCCARTY@UTOREPAS Please excuse this brief test. ========================================================================= Date: 17 November 1987, 00:26:52 EST Reply-To: MCCARTY@UTOREPAS Sender: HUMANIST Discussion From: MCCARTY@UTOREPAS Subject: No more junk mail -- unless you object (35 lines) Dear Colleagues: A few of you have kindly written to me, telling me not to worry so much about the occasional floods of junk mail, that the value of HUMANIST offsets these accidents. I very much appreciate such support for HUMANIST, but I am not persuaded that the obnoxious floods do not upset many. So, I have finally decided to take on the job of filtering out the junk by having ListServ send me all messages intended for HUMANIST. I will then pass on the ones of human origin to ListServ for distribution to all of you. This is not much work, but it has the disadvantage of making the contributions slightly less immediate. From now on, when you send a message to HUMANIST you will receive a note from ListServ telling you that your message has been submitted to me. I'll pass it on within the day. I promise not to censor any human contribution, only the non-human obscenities. If anyone has any comments about the change of procedure, I'd be happy to receive them directly. If you want the old ways back, please say so. Yours, W.M. _________________________________________________________________________ Dr. Willard McCarty / Centre for Computing in the Humanities University of Toronto / 14th floor, Robarts Library / 130 St. George St. Toronto, Canada M5S 1A5 / (416) 978-4238 / mccarty@utorepas.bitnet ========================================================================= Date: 17 November 1987, 15:23:52 EST Reply-To: MCCARTY@UTOREPAS Sender: HUMANIST Discussion From: MCCARTY@UTOREPAS Subject: Forwarded from the Editor Date: 17 November 1987, 12:31:18 EST From: Dr Abigail Ann Young 1-416-585-4504 YOUNG at UTOREPAS To: HUMANIST at UTORONTO [this message is roughly 35 ll, exclusive of the header lines] I append the following paragraph from the latest issue of The EDAM Newsletter (10.1, Fall 1987), p 7 Data Bank at Rutgers University A Medieval and Early Modern Data Bank at Rutgers University will provide access to numeric data, including currency, price, and wage information, from the Middle Ages and Renaissance. The Data Bank was established in 1982 by Professors Rudolph Bell and Martha Howell of the History Department at Rutgers in conjunction with Peter Spufford of Queen's [sic] College Cambridge. Dr Spufford's contribution of 20,000 entries, originally on index cards, has been described as the "cornerstone of the Data Bank," but much additional information is being entered into the computer as work progresses on indexing data derived from continental European archives in order to produce a major resource for scholars. The goal is to have the Data Bank functioning within two years. This is fascinating!! But it tells me almost none of the things I want to know. Are there any HUMANISTs who've heard about this before & who have more detailed information? I assume the original 20K of index cards was from British archives. Is all the data from previously unpublished archival sources? Are prices for the same commodities reported at each period for each region? How will it be accessed? Will it (I hope) be on-line? If there is anyone out there with more information or titles of descriptive articles, etc, please let me know, and I'll post a summary to HUMANIST as appropriate. Thank you. Abigail Young young@UTOREPAS ========================================================================= Date: 17 November 1987, 15:45:04 EST Reply-To: MCCARTY@UTOREPAS Sender: HUMANIST Discussion From: MCCARTY@UTOREPAS From: Prof. Choueka Yaacov Date: Tue, 17 Nov 87 17:01:37 +0200 Subject: List of Institutes in CHUM I am trying to compile a list of all Centers/Institutes/Groups, etc., that are involved with Computing in the Humanities, natural language processing, computational linguistics or information retrieval, and are associated with universities or research institutions in general. The list is intended mainly for contact and mailing purposes; it will be made available to anyone who requests it once it'll have reasonable coverage. If you are in charge of such an institution, or just work there or even just happen to know about it, please send the pertinent information in the following format: Name of Institution Full Address Tel Person in Charge Title Tel E-mail address. Thanks for your help! Yaacov Choueka, Institute for Information Retrieval and Computational Linguistics, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel; choueka@bimacs ========================================================================= Date: 17 November 1987, 20:14:15 EST Reply-To: MCCARTY@UTOREPAS Sender: HUMANIST Discussion From: MCCARTY@UTOREPAS Subject: HUMANIST's logs Through an oversight HUMANIST's logbooks have until now not been accessible to members of the group. That fault has been corrected. You may recall that ListServ keeps monthly logbooks on the UTORONTO machine of all messages sent out by HUMANIST. These logbooks are named HUMANIST LOGyymm, where yy = the year and mm = the month. Thus the logbook for October is HUMANIST LOG8710. See your copy of the guidebook to HUMANIST for instructions on how to fetch the logs. Yours, W.M. ========================================================================= Date: 20 November 1987, 14:48:21 EST Reply-To: MCCARTY@UTOREPAS Sender: HUMANIST Discussion From: MCCARTY@UTOREPAS Date: 20 November 1987, 11:15:22 EST From: Dr Abigail Ann Young 1-416-585-4504 YOUNG at UTOREPAS To: HUMANIST at UTORONTO [message approx. 56 lines long w/o headings & counting this line] Having recently returned from this year's conference at the Waterloo (Ont) Centre for the New OED (topic: large text data-bases), I've been mulling over various details, theories, arguments, etc, which came up in the two days of the conference. One thing which was of great interest was the tentativeness which seemed to me to be apparent about the use of CD-ROM for distributing and using large text-bases. Publishers seemed a) reluctant to enter the marketplace with reference material on CD-ROM, because they felt (based on market research) that there was not a large enough demand (except perhaps among institutional users, such as gov't departments or university libraries); b) curious about what effect the new IBM WORM drive would have; c) worried about the need to provide new software and new formats for data to make it really useable in electronic form (that is, publishers seem very aware that electronically publishing a book is not so simple as to write the text on a CD-ROM and sell it -- that seems to have been one idea which emerged strongly from both the publishers' and the users' point of view during work on the New OED). And the users' community (or at least that part of it represented in Waterloo) seemed to be a bit ambivalent: they wanted CD-ROMs because they could be used on micro's rather than mainframes, and because they offered security and permanence which mag tape doesn't have. But they wanted the textbases on those CD-ROMs to be structured differently from the text in the published reference works, and they wanted software based on the new structuring to be provided for information retrieval, etc, and they expected the CD-ROMs to be cheap: they didn't seem to want to hear from the publishers that that latter goal was disconsonant with the first two, unless there was a huge demand for the finished product. One former publisher summed it up rather well by saying that what the industry (publishing) was waiting for was an electronic best-seller, something with a broad enough appeal to individual users to cause them to go out and buy CD-ROM readers and whose particular usefulness and accessibility was enhanced by the electronic medium in a way that no conventional medium could approach. I was very interested by all this, and I think I've summarized fairly the kinds of attitudes being expressed. Many people, while not doubting the value of CD-ROM for long term data storage, doubted its value for day-to-day use, and everyone seemed to be waiting with great interest to see what would happen with MicroSoft's CD-ROM of Webster's, Roget, and three other standard reference works. I'm curious to know what other people think about all this. Are there HUMANISTs out there waiting with baited breath for the publication of the OED on CD-ROM? Do people want and need textbases on CD-ROM rather than mag tapes? What do you think? Abigail Young Research Assistant, REED YOUNG at UTOREPAS ========================================================================= Date: 20 November 1987, 19:01:51 EST Reply-To: MCCARTY@UTOREPAS Sender: HUMANIST Discussion From: MCCARTY@UTOREPAS From: John Bradley Subject: Sanskrit Word Processor needed I'd appreciate a little information: I've been talking to someone here at U of T who wishes to produce a document with Western European language text mixed with Sanskrit (written with the Davanagari script). I believe they want Telugu and Tamil as well. They will be using an IBM PC. Does anyone out there have a happy experience with any software and hardware for an IBM PC that will support this? We haven't been able to lay our hands on a definitive list of languages and character sets that Nota Bene will be supporting. What other choices are there? I'd appreciate a reply directed to me, but will summarize for HUMANIST, if there is general interest. Thanks. ... John Bradley (U of Toronto Computing Service Netnorth/Bitnet: BRADLEY at UTORONTO. ========================================================================= Date: 20 November 1987, 19:03:16 EST Reply-To: MCCARTY@UTOREPAS Sender: HUMANIST Discussion From: MCCARTY@UTOREPAS From: ARCHIVE@VAX.OXFORD.AC.UK Subject: query on political manifestos Does anyone have machinereadable versions of any of the political manifestos produced by major British political parties since 1964? If so, please get in touch with ARCHIVE @ UK.AC.OXFORD.VAX Lou Burnard -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Editor's note: for those of you on Bitnet/NetNorth/EARN (and perhaps others) that e-mail address should read ARCHIVE@VAX.OXFORD.AC.UK -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ========================================================================= Date: 20 November 1987, 21:23:16 EST Reply-To: MCCARTY@UTOREPAS Sender: HUMANIST Discussion From: MCCARTY@UTOREPAS From: "John J Hughes" Subject: Bits, Bytes, & Biblical Studies (24 lines) I received a call from Zondervan Publishing House yesterday, informing me that my book BITS, BYTES, & BIBLICAL STUDIES: A REESOURCE GUIDE FOR THE USE OF COMPUTERS IN BIBLICAL AND CLASSICAL STUDIES is now available, though I have not yet received a copy. HUMANISTS may be interested to learn that it is (finally!) available. The book may be ordered from me c/o Bits & Bytes Computer Resources, 623 Iowa Ave., Whitefish, MT 59937 for $29.95 + $2.50 shipping and handling or from the publisher. Review copies may be ordered from the publisher. Contact Ed van der Maas, Zondervan Publishing House, 1415 Lake Dr. SE, Grand Rapids, MI 49506; (800) 233-3480 or (616) 698-6900, (616) 698-3461. The book is 650 pages, including glossary and indices. ========================================================================= Date: 21 November 1987, 16:12:07 EST Reply-To: MCCARTY@UTOREPAS Sender: HUMANIST Discussion From: MCCARTY@UTOREPAS From: CAMERON@EXETER.AC.UK Subject: From Valois to Bourbon UNIVERSITY OF EXETER FROM VALOIS TO BOURBON December 14-16 1988. First Announcement To coincide with the quatercentenary of the Blois assassination of the Duke and Cardinal de Guise, which in turn prompted the assassination of Henri de Valois, a residential Conference/Colloquium has been arranged for December 1988 at the University of Exeter. Discussions on a wide variety of topics dealing with the closing months of Henri's reign will be stimulated by papers from Joseph Bergin (Manchester), Richard Bonney (Leicester), Denis Crouzet (Paris), Mark Greengrass (Sheffield) and Robert Knecht (Birmingham). It is estimated that the cost for full board, from 6.00p.m. on Wednesday 14 December to 4.00 p.m. on Friday December 16 will be 60 pounds and the Conference Fee 15 pounds. Pro-rata rates are available on request. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, WRITE TO : Sarah Moore, Dept of French and Italian, Queen's Building, The University, EXETER, EX4 4QH, (UK). Or CAMERON@UK.AC.EXETER ========================================================================= Date: 22 November 1987, 20:02:28 EST Reply-To: MCCARTY@UTOREPAS Sender: HUMANIST Discussion From: MCCARTY@UTOREPAS From: Stephen R. Reimer (403) 432-4635 SREIMER at UALTAVM ============================================================================= Four humanities departments at the Univ. of Alberta, Canada (English, Philosophy, Classics, and Religious Studies) have established a committee to investigate the possibility of a joint computer lab for faculty and graduate student research use. The five person committee has a small budget and one year to ascertain the needs and desires of those persons for whom the lab is intended, to view established labs at certain other institutions, and to draft a formal proposal for funding under a provincial government special initiatives program. If the proposal is approved by the cabinet of the Alberta government, the committee's budget will be renewed for a further twelve months during which time the proposal would be implemented and the lab established. The committee would welcome any suggestions or news of particular successes and difficulties which others may have encountered while setting up similar facilities. Comments or queries may be sent to the committee through SREIMER@UALTAVM.BITNET. Stephen R. Reimer Department of English, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 2E5 ========================================================================= Date: 23 November 1987, 12:19:34 EST Reply-To: MCCARTY@UTOREPAS Sender: HUMANIST Discussion From: MCCARTY@UTOREPAS From: KRAFT@PENNDRLN Subject: CD-ROM, WORM, etc. Abagail Young's instructive report on the Waterloo discussions, and her inquiry about our attitudes, provide a good opportunity to update HUMANISTs about the activities of the Center for Computer Analysis of Texts (CCAT), in cooperation with the Packard Humanities Institute (PHI) and the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (TLG), as well as others, on such matters. Some TLG ancient Greek materials have been available on CD-ROM for two years, in two different forms, and have now been supplemented and updated in a new release. Persons with access to the IBYCUS Scholarly Computer (SC) system, which is set up to read CD-ROMs in the TLG format, will know how valuable this type of material is with the right hardware and software. The earlier TLG CD-ROM materials also appeared in an indexed version for accessing through programs developed at Brown (Paul Kahn) and Harvard (Gregory Crane), with impressive results, although I do not have any first hand experience with this approach. The most recent TLG CD-ROM (version "C") is set up in the provisional "High Sierra" format released last year, and it is the intention of TLG-PHI-CCAT to be "High Sierra" compatible in future releases with the hope that standard CD-ROM software can be used to access these texts from a variety of machines. CCAT is also developing software for the IBM-type machines to work with the TLG CD-ROM and the forthcoming CCAT-PHI CD-ROM. Thus far, CCAT has tried to obtain software from other sources that would work on the new TLG CD-ROM on the IBMs, but has not found such (it is still early). Meanwhile, CCAT and PHI are producing a CD-ROM of biblical and Latin materials, plus a wide sampling of other material from various sources, to encourage researchers to test this medium of data circulation. This CD-ROM should be available at very modest cost by the end of next month (December). This disk will be compatible with the new TLG disk, and thus will run immediately on the IBYCUS SC (with updated software). As CCAT and other developers produce software, these disks will be accessible on other hardware as well. CCAT will also put some of the texts on WORM disks to test that approach. Further details will be forthcoming, probably in December. Bob Kraft ========================================================================= Date: 23 November 1987, 14:17:46 EST Reply-To: MCCARTY@UTOREPAS Sender: HUMANIST Discussion From: MCCARTY@UTOREPAS From: John Bradley Subject: Followup on Sanskrit WP I have already received several responses to my question about a word processor for Sanskrit (Devanagari). Thanks very much to all! Two correspondent suggested the Graphics Toolbox developed at Penn by Jack Abercrombie. However, one of the two warned that when he had looked at it it used only a "lowest- common-denominator" CGA display so the quality of the display was not as good as he'd like, with a rather basic editor. The same correspondent discussed some work that had been done at Wisconsin: developing printer drivers to print in Devanagari, Telugu, Arabic, etc from ASCII files (files created in transliteration), but printed in the correct character set on a 24 pin Toshiba or standard 8 pin dot matrix printer. Another correspondent pointed out that Multilingual Scribe offered Devanagari (but not Tamil). Two other people suggested two pieces of software: one by a firm called LEABUS Ltd (114 Brandon St. London SE17 1AL tel: 01-708-2756), and the other by Gamma Productions Ltd, 609-710 Wilshire Blvd, Santa Monica, CA 90401 USA (213)394-8622. Another individual pointed me at James Nye's article entitled "Indic Fonts for Computer Printers" (in South Asian Library Notes and Queries 18 (Sprint 1985)). Several people remarked that the Macintosh was a more natural machine for this type of work. I agree -- but our client here already has an IBM PC and wishes to use it for this work. Of the people who have responded, none seemed to have used the software they were describing -- they were (kindly) passing on what they had heard. Other people gave me a couple of other interesting leads. After I have investigated them further, I'll post another note. Thanks again to all who replied. .... John Bradley (bitnet: BRADLEY@UTORONTO) ========================================================================= Date: 23 November 1987, 15:00:07 EST Reply-To: MCCARTY@UTOREPAS Sender: HUMANIST Discussion From: MCCARTY@UTOREPAS From: CMI011@IBM.SOUTHAMPTON.AC.UK Subject: Browsing programs A quick note to thank people who sent me material about browsing programs; I will try and write a summary for HUMANIST, but this is just a 'rain check' until I sort out my mail backlog (not to mention a test of my new mailing program..) sebastian rahtz. computer science, southampton, uk ========================================================================= Date: 24 November 1987, 20:37:09 EST Reply-To: MCCARTY@UTOREPAS Sender: HUMANIST Discussion From: MCCARTY@UTOREPAS From: Chuck Bush Subject: A software review (131 lines) Sonar, A Text Retrieval System for the Macintosh We Macintosh users rarely envy our PC colleagues (and even more rarely admit it). There is only one PC program that makes me step out of my comfortable Macintosh mouse-fur slippers onto the cold tile floor of the PC world: WordCruncher (a.k.a. BYU Concordance). There is nothing comparable for the Macintosh. No one had even attempted to write a text retrieval program for the Macintosh until a program called Sonar appeared earlier this year. At first glance, Sonar appears to be a suitable Macintosh substitute for WordCruncher. Sonar can locate the occurrences of a particular word in a very large body of text so quickly as to be instantaneous. As with WordCruncher, the time expenditure is in setting up the texts -- preprocessing the data to set up a Sonar "directory". This presumes a static text; if the text is changed, it must be re-indexed for Sonar to work correctly. At least Sonar does not go about this blindly, it checks the modification date on the files and only re-indexes those that have been modified since the last indexing. Sonar goes one up on WordCruncher in that in addition to standard ASCII text files, it will index files created by any of the popular Macintosh word processing programs: MacWrite, Microsoft Word (both versions), WriteNow, MORE and Trapeze with an expressed intention to support other word processors that come out. It indexes by page and paragraph number, using the pagination of the original word processor. Texts do not need special pagination codes or any other special preparation for Sonar. This convenience comes at the expense of flexibility--other reference notations such as chapter and verse, act and scene, and even page and line number are not available. The basic lookup capabilities are there in Sonar: You can look up an individual word. You can look up collocations of two or more words in a paragraph within a user-definable number of words. You can use a wild card character at the end of a word to find all words beginning with a certain string. However there are no other options. You cannot specify collocations within a sentence or within a certain number of characters, only within n words. You cannot restrict the order of collocations to b