From: CBS%UK.AC.EARN-RELAY::EARN.UTORONTO::LISTSERV 13-SEP-1989 12:13:38.07 To: ARCHIVE CC: Subj: File: "BIOGRAFY 14" being sent to you Via: UK.AC.EARN-RELAY; Wed, 13 Sep 89 12:13 BST Received: from UKACRL by UK.AC.RL.IB (Mailer X1.25) with BSMTP id 3012; Wed, 13 Sep 89 12:12:32 BS Received: from vm.utcs.utoronto.ca by UKACRL.BITNET (Mailer X1.25) with BSMTP id 5480; Wed, 13 Sep 89 12:12:30 B Received: by UTORONTO (Mailer R2.03A) id 5080; Wed, 13 Sep 89 07:00:49 EDT Date: Wed, 13 Sep 89 07:00:46 EDT From: Revised List Processor (1.6a) Subject: File: "BIOGRAFY 14" being sent to you To: ARCHIVE@UK.AC.OXFORD.VAX * * File "BIOGRAFY 14" contains records larger than 80 characters. * It is consequently being sent to you in "Listserv-Punch" format. * * You can get information about that format by sending the following command * to LISTSERV@UTORONTO.BITNET: "Info LPunch" * ID/BIOGRAFY 14 V 00111 73/1/========================================================================= 24/1/Date: 11 October 1988 54/1/From: Willard McCarty 32/1/Subject: Biographical supplement 1/1/ 47/1/ Autobiographies of HUMANISTs 43/1/ Thirteenth Supplement 1/1/ 56/1/Following are 23 additional entries to the collection of 65/1/autobiographical statements by members of the HUMANIST discussion 6/1/group. 1/1/ 63/1/HUMANISTs on IBM VM/CMS systems will want a copy of Jim Coombs' 61/1/exec for searching and retrieving biographical entries. It is 61/1/kept on HUMANIST's file-server; for more information, see the 18/1/Guide to HUMANIST. 1/1/ 56/1/Further additions, corrections, and updates are welcome. 1/1/ 15/1/Willard McCarty 56/1/Centre for Computing in the Humanities, Univ. of Toronto 30/1/mccarty@vm.epas.utoronto.ca OR 16/1/mccarty@utorepas 15/1/11 October 1988 65/1/================================================================= 33/1/*Ahrens, John 1/1/ 60/1/Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of 62/1/Hartford, West Hartford, CT 06117; (H) 203-247-9560 (O) 203- 8/1/243-4745 1/1/ 61/1/I have just returned to teaching after spending the past four 60/1/years as the Assistant Director of the Social Philosophy and 61/1/Policy Center at Bowling Green State University. During this 60/1/time I was the Managing Editor of the Center's publications, 60/1/including a journal entitled Social Philosophy & Policy. My 60/1/stint as an editor instilled in me a fervent loathing of bad 60/1/writing and a desire to eradicate it wherever it may be. My 59/1/research interests are primarily in the areas of ethics and 65/1/political philosophy. I have a special interest in environmental 64/1/issues and in the foundations of classical liberalism. When the 64/1/attraction of traditional philosophical issues pales but I still 64/1/have the desire to work, I turn my attention to popular culture, 64/1/especially the literature and films of science fiction. I teach 63/1/classes in these areas (including even science fiction), and in 62/1/elementary logic. Beyond such academic pursuits, I am an avid 111/2/student of computers and of the martial arts. =============================== 69/1/===================================================================== 33/1/*Brink, Daniel T. 1/1/ 65/1/Assoc. Prof., English, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287- 20/1/0302 (602) 965-6795. 1/1/ 64/1/My academic training was in Germanic philology, with an emphasis 61/1/on the West Germanic tongues, Old English, Old Saxon, and the 65/1/like. I minored in linguistics, and wrote a generative phonology 46/1/of Dutch for my dissertation (U of Wisconsin). 1/1/ 65/1/My computer interests awoke with the advent of the microcomputer, 65/1/largely as a result--probably common to many humanities computing 65/1/types--of my frustration in the the early eighties with trying to 65/1/get foreign characters into WordStar. I finally succeeded, but a 58/1/sabbatical was lost in the process and my interests took a 24/1/decidedly new direction. 1/1/ 59/1/I am now Manager of a new facility on my campus, Technology 64/1/Assessment and Development, which has the charter of identifying 62/1/and evaluating new products which have the potential impacting 47/1/the university in major way. Talk about fun... 1/1/ 58/1/I can still recite the entire corpus of Old Low Franconian 63/1/literature by heart, however, so I haven't gone completely bad: 1/1/ 55/1/ Hebban olla vogala nestas bigunnan hinasi thu 38/1/ ende ik. Wat onbidan we nu? 65/1/================================================================= 26/1/*Hanly, Ken 1/1/ 47/1/Brandon University, Brandon Mb. Canada, R7A 6A9 1/1/ 64/1/I am an associate professor of philosophy at Brandon University. 64/1/I have been involved for some time in socialist politics as well 62/1/as community involvement, e.g. was president of a co-operative 59/1/housing project, of a direct charge buyer's co-op etc. I am 58/1/interested in humanist religion -was a member of the local 60/1/unitarian fellowship for some time- as well as discussion of 59/1/contemporary social issues. I am also interested in Marxist 63/1/analyses of social problems. As a hobby I read and write poetry 63/1/and have served as editorof a poetry magazine and have edited a 20/1/series of chapbooks. 65/1/================================================================= 35/1/*Horton, Thomas B. 1/1/ 65/1/Dept. of Computer Science, Florida Atlantic Univ., Boca Raton, FL 21/1/33431; (407) 393-2674 1/1/ 64/1/I completed my PhD in Computer Science at the Univ. of Edinburgh 62/1/(Scotland) in June 1987, and started as an assistant professor 33/1/here at FAU the following autumn. 1/1/ 59/1/My PhD research examined statistical authorship studies and 64/1/focused on the question of collaboration between Shakespeare and 62/1/Fletcher in "Henry VIII" and "The Two Noble Kinsmen." In this 63/1/study I used distribution-free discriminant analysis techniques 57/1/to analyze the rate of occurrence of function words, with 59/1/successful results: 94.8% of 459 scenes of known authorship 60/1/(containing at least 500 words) were assigned to the correct 64/1/author. The procedure indicates that the two disputed plays are 64/1/collaboration and generally supports the usual division (but not 8/1/always). 1/1/ 64/1/Current research interests include the analysis of function word 58/1/rates and characterization in the plays of Shakespeare and 62/1/Fletcher. I am also very interested in computer processing of 64/1/old-spelling texts, especially Jacobean drama and Middle English 63/1/manuscripts. Here at FAU I teach core Computer Science courses 64/1/such as Data Structures and Analysis of Algorithms. I generally 65/1/program in Pascal and C on UNIX systems and am busy converting my 49/1/colleagues to the TeX document processing system. 1/1/ 54/1/At Edinburgh I helped set up a local "Computers in the 63/1/Humanities" special interest group. FAU does not have a strong 57/1/community of computer users in the humanities, but I have 61/1/recently made contact with the College of Humanities, who are 62/1/interested in joint supervision of graduate students, seminars 44/1/and possibly a course in literary computing. 1/1/ 65/1/I'd be very interested hearing from anyone interested in research 60/1/in authorship studies, literary statistics, characterization 32/1/studies or Middle English texts. 65/1/================================================================= 36/1/*Janus, Louis E. 1/1/ 61/1/Norwegian Department, St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN 55057; 45/1/(507) 663-3486 (work); (612) 822-1015 (home). 1/1/ 61/1/I teach Norwegian and Linguistics at St. Olaf College. In the 59/1/past, I taught a beginning level course in computer use for 64/1/Humanists (an interim which focused on several UNIX tools). Now 61/1/I am involved in several Mac projects, most specifically with 65/1/sound digitizing in foreign language instruction. I have a number 64/1/of Old Norse sagas in machine readable format, which I soon will 61/1/be announcing to the general public. I was at the meeting in 63/1/Columbia, SC where we discussed establishing the HUMANIST, but 42/1/somehow did not end up on the e-mail list. 65/1/================================================================= 32/1/*Keith, Philip M. 1/1/ 61/1/English Department, St. Cloud State University, St. Cloud, MN 19/1/56301; 612-255-3189 1/1/ 63/1/I have been working on and off with computers in literature and 64/1/the teaching of writing for the better part of a decade. I have 62/1/been working with word-processing and interactive programs for 65/1/teaching and improving writing. I have also been working at some 54/1/text-analyzer projects on metrics and prose structure. 65/1/================================================================= 34/1/*Lipson, Elizabeth 1/1/ 56/1/Academic Computing Publications Editor, Emory University 57/1/Computing Center, Uppergate House, Atlanta, Georgia 30322 12/1/404/727-7651 1/1/ 60/1/I write computing publications and a newsletter for our user 64/1/community at Emory. My past activities have been in the area of 57/1/computer training-- instructor led, classroom/individual, 64/1/computer-based training, self-paced materials. I have worked in 57/1/computing for about five years. Before that, I worked in 65/1/research/writing in the field of historic preservation. I have a 46/1/B.A. in history from Georgia State University. 65/1/================================================================= 43/1/*MacWhinney, Brian 1/1/ 59/1/Professor of Psychology, Department of Psychology, Carnegie 52/1/Mellon University, Pittsburgh PA 15213; 412 268-3793 1/1/ 61/1/I am a psychologist and not a bona fide humanist. Much of my 63/1/work is clearly psychological in nature. This is the work I do 63/1/in simulating the acquisition of language with computers and in 61/1/conducting experiments to provide data for these simulations. 65/1/However, a second line of my research comes closer to touching on 61/1/issues in the Humanities. This is my work as director of the 65/1/Child Language Data Exchange System. With the support of various 58/1/public and private national foundations, Catherine Snow of 65/1/Harvard University and I have worked with many researchers in the 62/1/field of child language acquisition to establish a large (over 65/1/100 megabytes) database of adult-child conversational interaction 58/1/data. Most of the these data are from English. However, a 61/1/growing proportion of the database is from other languages as 65/1/well. The CHILDES system has not only developed a large database 58/1/but has also specified a standard transcription system for 65/1/conversational analysis. In addition, we have developed a set of 58/1/C programs for the analysis of conversational data. These 63/1/programs are unlike concordance programs in many ways and focus 64/1/on Boolean searches, cross-tier searches, and numerical outputs. 59/1/Membership in the CHILDES system and access to the data and 43/1/programs is open to the research community. 65/1/================================================================= 41/1/*Makivirta, Joni Mikael 1/1/ 51/1/Minna Canthin katu 22 A 5, 40100 Jyvaskyla, Finland 1/1/ 10/1/1. Studies 1/1/ 63/1/I am a student of history. During this year I should graduate. 63/1/My main subject is general history. I have also studied history 65/1/of Finland, Economic history, Social sciences (=mostly politics), 60/1/and Educational sciences. I probably will still study Speech 62/1/communication as an extra subject. This year I should do my 64/1/pro gradu -work. I will most probably do study on T.H.Green - an 65/1/english politician during 19th centory (=Victorianic time). Green 60/1/was interesting man because he respected Christian values in 59/1/life. He thought that liberalism should lead also qualitial 60/1/improvement in human beeing. A improvement meant that people 64/1/lerned to act and work moralisticly - in Christian sense of the 63/1/word. By learning these values people could learn to think also 61/1/common good - not only themselves. This kind of thinking gave 58/1/some ideas also to socialistic thinkers. Although they, of 59/1/course, left out the word Christian. Was Mr. Green a true 63/1/Christian, I do not know. But at least he sympathised Christian 7/1/values. 1/1/ 7/1/2. Life 1/1/ 65/1/Well that about my studies. Now. My story: I have lived all of my 59/1/life in Finland. (is in Europe, Scandinavia and beside the 56/1/USSR.) And I am still living in my home city: Jyvaskyla. 64/1/Jyvaskyla is in central Finland. Here is lot of lakes, woods ... 59/1/and nature is very colse. There are some 70 000 citizens in 60/1/Jyvaskyla. I graduated from High School 1986. After that I 63/1/decided to study history in local University. So here I am. I 65/1/am Christian, but I can sympathise with many kind of a people and 63/1/understand many kind of a thoughts - although I would not apply 64/1/them in my own life. Maybe this is the reason for my interest to 10/1/T.H.Green? 1/1/ 15/1/3. Expectations 1/1/ 64/1/I hope I could find, via this list, someone who is interested in 55/1/Victorianic time. I also hope I could learn to use some 63/1/databases, and tell about them in the Departement of History. I 57/1/have founded the list HISTORY at FINHUTC, so if anyone is 59/1/interested in that. You are welcome to join in. I wonder if 48/1/HUMANIST and HISTORY could do some co-operation? 65/1/================================================================= 32/1/*McDaid, John G. 1/1/ 64/1/Computer Coordinator, NYU Expository Writing Program, 269 Mercer 45/1/St. Rm. 219 New York, NY 10003 (212) 998-8862 1/1/ 65/1/For the last five years, I've been teaching expository writing at 54/1/NYU while working on my doctorate in media ecology. My 61/1/dissertation is on the process of hypermedia composition, and 55/1/I've been working at integrating hypertext (StorySpace, 65/1/HyperCard) into our freshman comp sequence. We have two dedicated 62/1/classrooms with Macintoshes running 16 sections each semester. 1/1/ 64/1/I see computers from a McLuhanist perspective, and as a tool for 57/1/decentering authority in the classroom. I'm interested in 57/1/networks, computer conferencing, collaborative work-group 20/1/support, and Xanadu. 65/1/================================================================= 39/1/*Meadows, Dennis Lynn 1/1/ 59/1/Director, Institute for Policy and Social Science Research; 59/1/Professor of Business Systems and Policy, University of New 62/1/Hampshire, Durham, NH 03824, USA; 603/862-2186 Telex: 493-0372 6/1/RPC UI 1/1/ 64/1/I have been on the faculties of MIT and Dartmouth; I just joined 58/1/the UNH faculty this fall to define, create, and run a new 64/1/institute that will support research interests of faculty across 56/1/the campus. My research interests lie in the creation of 63/1/sophisticated simulation models and educational games that show 62/1/the interaction of psychological, economic, social, political, 63/1/and technical factors. My games and books on this subject have 39/1/been translated into over 30 languages. 1/1/ 62/1/I also have an extremely strong and active interest in Eastern 61/1/Europe. I have lived in Budapest and visited the USSR over 45 63/1/times. I will take a Fulbright in Moscow next spring. I serve 62/1/as US Director of the Soviet- American Environmental Education 8/1/Project. 65/1/================================================================= 45/1/*Meath, Terrence W. 1/1/ 61/1/User Services Specialist, Health Sciences Computing Services, 64/1/University of Minnesota, BOX 720 UMHC, 5-235 Malcom Moos Tower, 60/1/515 Delaware St. S.E., Minneapolis, MN 55455; (612) 625-7175 1/1/ 58/1/In requesting to join your list, I am representing several 65/1/hundred faculty, staff and students in the Health Sciences at the 26/1/UofM, and not just myself. 1/1/ 63/1/We have taken a different approach to network based information 62/1/sharing. Rather than require each of our users to subscribe to 59/1/the lists that they think might be useful to them (and then 59/1/unsubscribe if necessary), we have created a small group of 63/1/public mailboxes (mailboxes on our system that all of our users 65/1/can access), which we subscribe to the various list servers. Our 60/1/public mailboxes are organized around general topics such as 64/1/statistics, computing, health, etc. and each contain the traffic 63/1/of a dozen or so lists. The mailboxes have the ability to show 56/1/all of the traffic together, or to sort on any one list. 1/1/ 60/1/The biggest advantage is that we involve many more people in 60/1/network communications than would be the case if they had to 65/1/learn about, evaluate and manage the subscriptions by themselves. 60/1/Further, this type of involvement eliminates a great deal of 26/1/redundant network traffic. 1/1/ 65/1/Our users are still free to subscribe to a list on their own, but 60/1/our public mailbox technique has worked out so well that few 30/1/people have chosen to do that. 65/1/================================================================= 36/1/*Moulthrop, Stuart 1/1/ 63/1/Assistant Professor of English; P.O. Box 7355 Yale Station, New 29/1/Haven, CT 06520; 203-436-3023 1/1/ 58/1/My primary interest is in theory and history of narrative, 56/1/especially late-modern and "postmodern" developments. My 61/1/dissertation (Yale, 1986) was an investigation of problematic 63/1/closure in Sterne, Dickens, and Charlotte Bronte. I'm currently 64/1/working on a book concerning the status of fictional language in 62/1/recent American fiction (Thomas Pynchon, Toni Morrison, Maxine 63/1/Hong Kingston). Parallel (somewhat) to all of that, I also take 58/1/an active interest in hypertext, particularly its literary 63/1/applications. I've written a hypertextual treatment of Borges's 65/1/"Garden of Forking Paths" in Storyspace and am presently involved 63/1/in a couple of other hypertext projects, including speculations 36/1/about an electronic literary review. 65/1/================================================================= 55/1/*Muller, R. Andrew 1/1/ 54/1/Associate Professor, Department of Economics, McMaster 51/1/University, Hamilton, Ontario; (416) 525-9140 x3831 1/1/ 64/1/I am an academic economist with professional interests in public 63/1/policy, especially environmental policy, housing and industrial 62/1/organization. I have published econometric studies of the pulp 63/1/and paper industry's adjustment to pollution control and energy 62/1/price changes, analyses of the Toronto housing market and rent 59/1/control, and analyses of Canadian water export policy (with 62/1/particular reference to the Grand Canal Scheme to export water 60/1/from James Bay to the United States). I have also worked on 59/1/simulating the effects of the proposed Canada-US free trade 10/1/agreement. 1/1/ 57/1/I have a long standing interest in politics and political 65/1/philosophy. I have often been disturbed by the extent to which my 64/1/discipline, Economics, tends to coarsen the public sensibilities 22/1/of those who study it. 1/1/ 63/1/I have presently (Fall, 1988) a specific interest in the nature 57/1/of liberal education in to-day's universities. I chair a 62/1/committee in the Faculty of Social Sciences has been struck to 56/1/investigate possible changes in our undergraduate degree 60/1/programme. Discussion has focussed on the nature of liberal 62/1/education in the 1990s. I am trying to reconcile two views on 61/1/this - an "applied social science " view which would "fix-up" 65/1/current degree programs by adding courses in computer techniques, 61/1/report writing, etc. and a more traditional liberal education 62/1/view which would impose distributional requirements and create 64/1/special courses to ensure all students received some exposure to 60/1/science, literature, philosophy, and the history of thought. 65/1/================================================================= 23/1/*Neu, Joyce 1/1/ 65/1/Dept. of Speech Communication, 207 Sparks, Penn State University, 41/1/University Park, PA 16802, (814) 865-7365 1/1/ 65/1/I am an Assistant Professor of Speech Communication at Penn State 58/1/University with a degree in Linguistics. I have used micro 62/1/computers in teaching writing to both natives and non- natives 65/1/since 1983 and have been instrumental in developing computer labs 63/1/at Santa Monica College and at the U. of California, Irvine for 39/1/use by humanities faculty and students. 65/1/================================================================= 51/1/*Oleske, William F. 1/1/ 65/1/Technical Assistant, Central Language Laboratory, The University, 64/1/Leeds LS2 9JT, West Yorkshire, England, U.K.; Tel:Leeds (0532)- 6/1/332647 1/1/ 63/1/I am charged with the introduction, maintenance and development 63/1/of technical support for language acquisition, foreign language 61/1/text process and support in the audio-, video-, and satellite 24/1/broadcast reception area 1/1/ 63/1/I am also concerned with the development of the use of Computer 58/1/Assi anguage Learning software and with non-Roman alphabet 52/1/wordprocessing as a communication and teaching tool. 1/1/ 55/1/In my post, I am the technical support for the numerous 59/1/autonomous foreign language teaching departments within the 11/1/University. 1/1/ 65/1/I also maintain contacts with my equivalent colleagues throughout 18/1/the U.K. and Eire. 65/1/================================================================= 34/1/*Owen, David W. D. 47/1/ 1/1/ 59/1/Dept of Philosophy, 213 Social Sciences Bldg, University of 25/1/Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85718 1/1/ 59/1/Main computing interests: display and printing of alternate 61/1/character sets, especially on laser printers; text searching; 22/1/computer conferencing, 65/1/================================================================= 45/1/*Rhine, Michael L. 43/1/ 1/1/ 64/1/Computer Operations Supervisor, Georgia Tech Research Institute, 30/1/(404) 421-7694; (404) 894-7171 1/1/ 65/1/Background in music and performing arts (22 yrs exp) in r+r, r+b, 60/1/classical and jazz (classic guitar/recorder in chamber music 61/1/ensembles, bebop and standards, etc...). Avid reader: ecletic 64/1/interests. 4.5 years USMC, 3rdBAT 5thMAR, 1st MARDIV as enlisted 21/1/and officer (0301/2). 1/1/ 64/1/Currently working in the computer field. No previous background. 57/1/All learning OJT. Studying Mathematics w/concentration in 8/1/CompSci. 65/1/================================================================= 32/1/*Richman, David 1/1/ 46/1/Theater and Dance, University of New Hampshire 1/1/ 60/1/I am Assistant Professor of Theater at the University of New 62/1/Hampshire. My principal interest is in theatrical production. 63/1/For eleven years I was Director of Theater at the University of 62/1/Rochester and Artistic Director of the University of Rochester 56/1/Summer Theater. I have directed twenty-two productions, 60/1/including "King Lear," "A Midsummer Night's Dream," and "The 63/1/Misanthrope." I have published several articles on connections 49/1/between theatrical practice and critical inquiry. 1/1/ 60/1/Though I do not use computers in my work, I am serious about 65/1/the computer as a tool and a source of information. Being blind, 60/1/I find that the computer has become one of my most important 62/1/sources of information, and moreover a vital connection to the 65/1/academic community. Arguably, the coming into being of computers 62/1/with speech is the greatest single advance for the blind since 25/1/the invention of Braille. 65/1/================================================================= 38/1/*Rutherford, John RUTHERFORD@CTSTATEU 1/1/ 61/1/Academic Computing Services Coordinator / Central Conn. State 62/1/University Elihu Burritt Library / New Britain, CT 06050 / 203 8/1/827-7800 1/1/ 60/1/I am a librarian by profession and have become interested in 52/1/academic computing subjects through work with online 56/1/bibliographic services. Prior to my position at Central 65/1/Connecticut I was an assistant manager of information services at 64/1/the University of Petroleum & minerals in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, 57/1/and was involved in the implementation of the DOBIS/LIBIS 37/1/automated library information system. 1/1/ 65/1/I am interested in text recognition systems and have been a third 63/1/party follower of several HUMANIST discussions in this area and 63/1/look forward to becoming more involved in HUMANIST discussions. 65/1/================================================================= 32/1/*Schriner, Ken 1/1/ 57/1/Research Assistant, System Analyst, Arkansas Research and 59/1/Training Center in Vocational Rehabilatation, University of 64/1/Arkansas, 346 N. West Ave., Fayetteville, AR 72701; (501) 575- 4/1/3656 1/1/ 63/1/I am currently employed as a computer jock by ARTCVR in support 60/1/of faculty research. This recent development ended a 5 year 60/1/stint with the Computing Services department at this campus. 61/1/While there, some of my support of faculty was in the area of 59/1/humanities. Including several statistical studies of slave 57/1/holdings in the state prior to the Civil War. I find the 55/1/application of computers to fields like humanties quite 64/1/interesting, since it is usely so different from the application 59/1/in fields like engineering. I have also worked 2 years for 64/1/Exxon. My role was computer support of engineers. We did large 62/1/amounts of oil reservoir simulation computing. Computers used 63/1/for simulation are another area of interest. I was bit by that 60/1/bug during my three years of employment by the US Geological 65/1/Survey as a Hydrologist. Simulation there consisted of stochastic 57/1/simulation of rainfall, runoff, and sunspots. Also, some 64/1/simulation of water reservoir operating schedules was performed. 65/1/My goals are to obtain a wide range experience of the world, much 56/1/as Thomas Jefferson did. To that end, I also brew beer. 65/1/================================================================= 42/1/*Stuart, Christopher 1/1/ 58/1/Technical Consultant, 220 CCC, Academic Computing, Cornell 31/1/University 14850 (607) 255-8304 1/1/ 58/1/I work closely with the college of liberal arts at Cornell 65/1/University and am most involved with the application of computing 65/1/to course design and research. I have a B.A. in Medieval History 57/1/from the University of the South (Sewanee, TN) and became 62/1/interested in computing while working in the field of historic 63/1/preservation in St. Augustine, Florida. My tastes, as probably 64/1/is the case with most people in this group, are varied, though I 57/1/would be hard pressed to decide between giving up my P.G. 64/1/Wodehouse books or my bluegrass record collection. My duties as 61/1/technical consultant at Cornell include managing the software 59/1/lending library, consulting projects in the humanities, and 36/1/teaching microcomputer applications. 65/1/================================================================= 48/1/*Spaeth, Donald 1/1/ 65/1/Arts Computing Development Officer, Computing Service, University 46/1/of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT UK; Tel. 0532 333573 1/1/ 59/1/I am an historian by training, specialising in early modern 64/1/British history. My research is on popular religion in 17th and 61/1/18th century England. I became involved in computing while a 65/1/high school student at the University of Illinois, where I took a 62/1/Latin course and subsequently became a programmer on the PLATO 62/1/C.A.I. computer. While at college and graduate school, I used 54/1/computers for word-processing, statistics, and dataset 56/1/management, and served for a year as a Computer Proctor, 65/1/assisting students and faculty in their computing. I finished at 58/1/Brown University in 1985 and then worked for two years for 65/1/Project Pallas at the University of Exeter, England. Pallas is a 56/1/project funded by the U.K. Computer Board to teach basic 58/1/computing skills to students in the Faculty of Arts (i.e., 64/1/Humanities). In 1987 I moved to the University of Leeds, where I 61/1/am Arts Computing Development Officer, working jointly in the 61/1/Computing Service and the Faculty of Arts. My job is to be a 63/1/computer expert for humanities lecturers, to serve as a contact 64/1/point between the Computing Service and the Faculty of Arts, and 61/1/to encourage the use of computers in research and teaching by 26/1/giving courses and advice. 1/1/ 13/1/*****END***** END/