From: CBS%UK.AC.EARN-RELAY::EARN.UTORONTO::LISTSERV 28-MAR-1990 16:18:51.40 To: ARCHIVE CC: Subj: File: "BIOGRAFY 3" being sent to you Via: UK.AC.EARN-RELAY; Wed, 28 Mar 90 16:18 GMT Received: from UKACRL by UK.AC.RL.IB (Mailer X1.25) with BSMTP id 0549; Wed, 28 Mar 90 16:16:59 BS Received: from VM.UTCS.UTORONTO.CA by UKACRL.BITNET (Mailer X1.25) with BSMTP id 6621; Wed, 28 Mar 90 16:16:54 B Received: by UTORONTO (Mailer R2.05) id 6740; Wed, 28 Mar 90 09:33:43 EST Date: Wed, 28 Mar 90 09:07:31 EST From: Revised List Processor (1.6d) Subject: File: "BIOGRAFY 3" being sent to you To: Oxford Text Archive Autobiographies of HUMANISTs Second Supplement Following are 21 additional entries and updates to the collection of autobiographical statements by members of the HUMANIST discussion group. Further additions, corrections, and updates are welcome, to MCCARTY at UTOREPAS.BITNET. W.M. 28 August 1987 ============================================================================= *Barnard, David T. Head, Department of Computing and Information Science, Queen's University Kingston, Ontario, Canada K7L 3N6; 613-545-6056 My research interests are in communication systems, information systems, and literary applications. In the latter area, I collaborate with George Logan (English) and Bob Crawford (Computing Science). Our joint work has involved development of coding standards for documents being used in textual analysis, investigation of text structures for electronic books, and some preliminary work toward building an archive based on our encoding standard. I have just completed a five-year term as Director of Computing and Communications Services. ======================================================================== *Baumgarten, Joseph M. I teach Rabbinic Literature, Dead Sea Scrolls, and related subjects at the Baltimore Hebrew College, 5800 Park Heights Ave, Baltimore, Md. 21215. Aside from using a Compaq computer for word processing in English and Hebrew, I am especially interested in CD-ROM's for accessing biblical and rabbinic sources in the manner of TLG. I am awaiting the results of the CCAT program to enable access to CD ROMs with IBM type computers. ====================================================================== *Beckwith, Sterling 248 Winters College, York University, 4700 Keele St., North York, Ontario (416) 736-5142 or 5186. I teach Music and Humanities at York University, have instigated and taught the only Humanities course dealing with computers that is currently offered there, under the rubric of Technology, Culture and the Arts, and serve as coordinator of computer music and general nuisance on academic computing matters in both the Faculty of Arts and of Fine Arts at York. I was the first researcher in an Ontario university to work intensively on the design of educational microworlds (for exploring and creating musical structures) using the then-obscure and still-poorly-exploited computing language known as LOGO. This led to my present interest in discovering what today's AI languages and methods can offer as vehicles and stimulating playgrounds for music-making and other kinds of artistic and intellectual creation. ========================================================================= *Bing, George 154 Thalia St., Laguna Beach, CA 92651; Phone: (213) 820-9410 I am a student at UCLA, and I work for the Humanities Computing program here to support the computer needs of the Humanities departments. ======================================================================== *Brainerd, Barron Department of Mathematics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ont., Canada M5S 1A5 I am professor of mathematics and linguistics. My particular professional interests are in quantitative stylistics (using for the most part statistical methods) and early modern English. I have an Apple at home and an XT at the university and program naively in Basic and Snobol. I access SPSSX, which among other thing i use in my course 'Statistics for Linguists,' via CMS. ========================================================================= *Burnard, Lou [note change of address, effective from 24th August ] I work at Oxford University Computing Service, where I am responsible for the Text Archive and for database support and design. I have designed and even written many bits of text processingn software, notably OCP, FAMULUS and recently a general purpose text-searching interface to ICL's CAFS hardware search engine. But I don't think academics should write software at that level any more; just good interfaces to standard backages such as INGRES (or other SQL compatible dbms), BASIS... My main enthusiasm remains database design, which I see as an important and neglected area of humanities computing. ========================================================================= *Church, Dan M. Associate Professor of French, Vanderbilt University Box 72, Station B, Nashville, TN 37235, (615) 322-6904 (office), (615) 292-7916 (home) I have produced computer-assisted learning exercises for elementary French courses and a database containing information on all plays produced in state-subsidized decentralized theaters in France since World War II. And I have plans for many more projects using computers in the Humanities. ========================================================================= *Erdt, Terrence Graduate Dept. of Library Science, Villanova University, Villanova PA 19085, ph. (215) 645-4688. My interests, at this point in time, can be said to be optical character recognition, scholar's workstation, and the computer as medium from the perspective of the field of popular culture. ========================================================================= *Gold, Gerald L. Department of Anthropology, York University, North York, Ont. M3J1P3; (416) 225 8760 (home); (416) 736 5261 (office) I am a cultural anthropologist and a Metis (half-humanities/half-social SCIENCES. I HAVE DEVELOPED AN INTEREST IN THE RELATIONSHIP OF QUALITATIVE and quantitative data. More specifically, how can a computer assist with the storage and retrieval of field notes, archival materials, interviews, life histories and other textual materials. Of specific interest is the preservation of the intrinsic character of narrative while using the computer as an analytical tool that can assist in statistical overviews and tabulation. In this sense, I am thinking beyond 'content analysis' which limits the qualitative side of data recovery. Some of my solutions are relatively simple, but I would like to discuss them and get feedback from others. More important, I am open to the suggestions and proposals that may reach my terminal. ========================================================================= *Goldfield, Joel D. Assistant Professor of French, Plymouth State College, Plymouth, NH 03264 USA My exposure to computers began in Saturday morning courses offered to ambitious high school students. I took FORTRAN 4 and "Transistor Electronics" in the early 1970's. The FORTRAN 4 manual was poorly written and the language itself seemed almost totally worthless for my musical and communications-oriented interests, so I summarily forgot it and paid more attention to French, literature, science and math, all of which seemed more useful. Also, some of my home electronic projects worked, some not, just like computer programs, as I later discovered. Although I majored in Comp. Lit. (French, German, Music) in College, I took a few math courses and had to complete computer assignments in BASIC, invented by a couple of genial professors in the same department. The son of the major architect was to be one of my "students" that summer when I served as an undergraduate teaching assistant on a language study abroad program in Bourges, France. How I ever successfully completed those BASIC programs on figuring probabilities for coinciding birth dates, etc., I'll never know. Most of what I wrote was based on "Euclid's Advanced Theorum," as we called it on our high school math team: "trial and error." For my doctoral degree at Universit'e de Montpellier III, I found that I needed to catalogue, sort and evaluate the distribution of vocabulary in a particular work of fiction in order to better understand the author's strange symbolic system and diachronic mixing of associated terms. I also discovered a French frequency dictionary that would supply an apparently valid and reliable norm for external comparison with the work's internal norms. Although my return to the States made on-line querying impossible, I was able to obtain a printout of all words, since, happily, the work had been included in the frequency dictionary's compilation. I learned as much of "C" and "awk" (a "C" derivative under the UNIX system) as I needed to write programs to complement UNIX utilities. A colleague in Academic Computing graciously "tutored" me on many esoteric aspects of UNIX that were, and probably still are, obscure in its documentation. I worked on a methodology to organize my word, stylistic, and thematic data for computer-assisted research. Without this need and organizational "forthought" that also evolved as I learned more and more about the utilities and languages, all programming fireworks would have been useless sparkles. My major academic interests are computer-assisted literary research applied to literary criticism, computer-assisted language instruction/ interactive video, foreign language teaching methodologies and excellent foreign language/culture teaching. ========================================================================= *Hockey, Susan or: Susan%vax.oxford@cs.ucl.ac.uk (Arpa) Susan%oxford.vax@arpa.ucl-cs Susan@vax.oxford.ac.uk (Bitnet/EARN) Susan%oxford.vax@ac.uk Oxford University Computing Service, 13 Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 6NN England; telephone: +44 865 273226 After taking a degree in Oriental Studies (Egyptian with Akkadian) at Oxford University I started my career in computing in the humanities as a programmer/advisor at the Atlas Computer Laboratory which at that time was providing large scale computing facilities for British Universities. There in the early 1970's I wrote programs to generate non-standard characters on a graph-plotter and was involved with the development of version 2 of the COCOA concordance program. In 1975 I moved to Oxford and began to develop various services for computing in the humanities which are used by other universities, including Kurzweil optical scanning, typesetting with a Monotype Lasercomp and the Oxford Concordance Program (OCP). I am in charge of these facilities and also teach courses on literary and linguistic computing and on SNOBOL. My publications include two books, based on my courses, and articles on various aspects of humanities computing including concordance software, Kurzweil scanning, typesetting, past history and future developments. I am also series editor for an Oxford UNIVERSITY PRESS SERIES OF MONOGRAPHS, OXFORD STUDIES IN COMPUTING in the Humanities. I have lectured on various aspects of humanities computing in various corners of the globe, more recently on current issues and future developments for humanities computing, Micro-OCP and its uses and on computers in language and literature for a more general audience. I have been a Fellow of St Cross College, Oxford since 1979 and I now look after the computing interests in the college. My recent activities have been concerned with (1) Version 2 of the Oxford Concordance Program and Micro-OCP. (2) The Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing of which I am currently Chairman and am on the editorial committee of the ALLC's journal, Literary and Linguistic Computing. My next project will be concerned with the introduction of computers in undergraduate courses at Oxford. These courses consist almost entirely of the detailed study of set texts, and this project, which is funded under the UK government Computers and Teaching Initiative, will set up a University-wide system for analysis of these texts via IBM-PC workstations linked to a large VAX cluster at the central service. ========================================================================= *Hunter, C. Stuart: and to a related study of the impact of the translations of the Psalms on the development of the religious poetry of the renaissance in England. On the teaching side, I am actively involved not only in teaching basic courses in word processing and database applications in the Humanities but also in developing computer conferencing as a specific teaching tool. ========================================================================= *Koch, Christian < FKOCH%OCVAXA@CMCCVB > or < chk@oberlin.edu.csnet > Oberlin College, Computer Science Program, 223D King Building, Oberlin, OH 44074; Telephone: (216)775-8831 or (216)775-8380 I think it might be fair to say that I'm the token humanist on the computer science faculty here at Oberlin -- and I love the work. I come to computing from a long and eclectic background in the humanities. Am one of those people who always harbored the hope that a strong interdisciplinary background would ultimately serve a person in good stead. I think that now, working in the general area of cognitive science and computing, I'm probably as close to realizing that hope as I have ever been. My undergraduate work was in the Greek and Roman classics to which I added a masters degree in music history with pipe organ performance and another in broadcasting and film art. Ph.D. (1970) was essentially in literary criticism with psychoanalytic emphasis. Computing skills were picked up on the side during the 80's. Have also recently taken time out from the academic scene to work as a therapist with the Psychiatry Department of the Cleveland Clinic. Although I've been at Oberlin for some years, I joined the computer science faculty only in 1986 and am still sorting out directions and options. My computing interests are currently in the general area of natural language understanding, more specifically systems of knowledge representation and processing. As a kind of pet project I am working on developing an expert system for specialized psychiatric diagnoses. At the more practical level, in addition to teaching some traditional CS courses, I am charged with developing programming courses aimed at the student who wishes to combine computer programming skills with a major in a non- computer science area. In the immediate future is the offering of a course dealing with the computer analysis of literary texts. Am also introducing a more theoretical course in the general area of mind and machine (cognitive science overview). Would much appreciate hearing from persons who would like to share experiences or make suggestions in these areas as well as in areas where computing may be involved in the analysis of 'texts' in music (computer-assisted Heinrich Schencker?) and the other arts. All ideas having to do with interesting ways of combining computer programming and other traditionally non-quantitative areas of study would be most welcome. ========================================================================= *Kraft, Robert A. Professor of Religious Studies, University of Pennsylvania 215-898-5827 Coordinator of External Services for CCAT (Center for Computer Analysis of Texts), co-director of the CATSS project (Computer Assisted Tools for Septuagint Studies), director of the Computerized Coptic Bible project, chairman of the CARG (Computer Assisted Research Group) of the Society of Biblical Literature, editor of OFFLINE column in the RELIGIOUS STUDIES NEWS (dealing with computers and religious studies). BA and MA Wheaton (Illinois) College 1955 and 1957 (Biblical Lit.); PhD Harvard 1961 (Christian Origins). Assistant Lecturer in New Testament at University of Manchester (England) 1961-63; thereafter at University of Pennsylvania. Main interests are in ancient texts, especially Jewish and Christian, paleography, papyrology, codicology, and in the historical syntheses drawn from the study of such primary materials. The computer provides a fantastic shortcut to traditional types of research, and invites new kinds of investigation and presentation of the evidence. I am especially anxious to integrate graphic and textual aspects (e.g. in paleographical and manuscript studies), including scanning and hardcopy replication. ========================================================================= *Kruse, Susan I am a Computer Advisor within the Humanities Division of the Computing Centre at King's College London. Although many Universities in Britain increasingly have a person within the Computer Centre who deals with humanities' enquiries, King's College is unique in having a Humanities Division. There are eight of us within the division, some with specific areas of expertise (e.g. databases, declarative languages) and others (like myself) who deal with general issues. Some of us are from computer backgrounds; others, like myself, are from a humanities background (in my case archaeology). We cater to all users within the College, but specialise in providing a service for staff and students in the arts and humanities. This primarily involves advising, teaching, and writing documentation. ========================================================================= *Logan, Grace R. Arts Computing Office, PAS Building, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario. I received my B.A. at Pennsylvania State University in 1956 and my M.A. at the University of Pennsylvania in English in 1960. My training in computing has been largely an apprenticeship supplemented by courses at Waterloo in math and computing. I am now a consultant and programmer for the Arts Computing Office at the University of Waterloo where I have been since 1970. I have been associated with computing in the humanities since 1958 and I helped to organize the Arts Computing office at Waterloo in the early seventies. I was a member of the organizing committee for ICCH/3. I am active in the ACH and OCCH where I am serving on the executive committees. I have also been active in the MLA where I have served as the convenor of the computer section. I have developed program packages for use by Arts users and I have taught courses in computer literacy for the Arts Faculty at Waterloo. I regularly attend computing conferences where I have presented several papers. I have also been invited to give several seminars and workshops on computing in the Arts by various groups and organizations. ======================================================================== *Sinkewicz, Robert E. Senior Fellow, Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, member of the Centre for Computing in the Humanities at the University of Toronto. Principal Interests: the use of relational databases in humanities research, and the development of text databases in Byzantine religious literature. Major Research in Progress: The Greek Index Project, an information access system for all extant Greek manuscripts. By Sept. 1988 we propose to have online a relatively complete listing of all Greek manuscripts as well as manuscript listings for authors of the Late Byzantine Period. IBM SQL/DS is our principal software tool. ========================================================================= *Sitman, David Computation Centre, Tel Aviv University, Israel I teach courses in the use of computers in language study and I am an advisor on computer use in the humanities. ========================================================================= *Tompa, Frank Wm. Data Structuring Group, Department of Computer Science, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, N2L 3G1. (519)-888-4449 Also: Co-Director, UW Centre for the New OED, Waterloo. Interests: text-dominated database systems, grammar-defined databases, computational lexicology, machine-readable reference books, text representations, hypertext databases, user interfaces, data retrieval, office document systems. My formal education and overall interests are within traditional computer science, particularly in the areas of data structures, programming languages, and databases. After several years of research driven by interests in videotex (Telidon/Prestel/Bildschirmtext/etc.), I became heavily involved in the New OED project, and a founding co- director of the UW Centre for the New OED. As well as being interested in pure computer science and in supporting humanities research, I am interested in the teaching of computer science. ========================================================================= *Van Evra, James W. Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1 I am an interested outsider. My fields of research include the development of mathematical logic in the 19th century (which in a way made modern computation possible), and problems confronting cognitive science (i.e. questions concerning the limits of the applicability of our current conception of computation). On the applied side, the University of Waterloo has long been a leader in software development, and in the area of computer application. As a result, we have had ready access to powerful computing resources for many years. I, for instance, have been processing my words since the early '70s (when IBM's ATS was in vogue, and VDTs were a novelty). ======================================================================== *Winder, Bill [Accents are indicated as follows: \C = caret; \G = grave; \A = acute.] As a doctoral candidate at the University of Toronto's French Department, my computing activities are largely conditioned by my thesis topic: "Maupassant: predictability in narrative". The fundamental axis of this research concerns automatic abstracting: in precisely what way can automatic abstracting techniques be said to fail with literary texts? Maupassant's 310 short stories were chosen as the literary corpus primarily because the format of the genre is computationally manageable on a microcomputer, the plot and style of Maupassant's stories are straightforward, and the number of stories allows for statistically relevant comparisons between pieces. My research on abstracting should offer the basis for a coherent approach to critical model building, particularly with respect to the semantic value of predictability in text and in the critical model itself. This endeavour has led me to Deredec, (Turbo) Prolog, and, more recently, Mprolog. The use of the first of these is presented in CHum's issue on France, where J.-M. Marandin discusses "Segthem", a Deredec automatic abstracting procedure. My interest in Prolog, as an alternative to Deredec, developed out of studies in combinatory logic, natural deduction, and Peirce's existential graphs. In connection with my research in literary computing, I am a teaching assistant for the French Department's graduate computer applications course, and in that capacity have taught word processing and demonstrated packages such as Deredec, BYU concordance, TAT (my own French concordance package), COGS, and MTAS. This recent interest in computing (1985) grew out of seasoned interest in semiotics (1979). In France, I completed a Ma\Citrise de Lettres Modernes (1982) with the Groupe de S\Aemiotique in Perpignan, and a Diplome d'Etudes Approfondies (1984) with A. J. Greimas's Groupe de Recherche en S\Aemio- linguistique at l'Ecole des Hautes Etudes in Paris. I am presently a member of the Toronto Semiotic Circle, and served in June 1987 as secretary to the International Summer Institute for Semiotic and Structural Studies, site of a promising encounter between researchers in artificial intelligence, semiotics, and humanities computing. This encounter is in fact indicative of my overall ambition in computing, which is to assess the computational component of semiotic theories, particularly those of L. Hjelmslev and C. S. Peirce. =========================================================================