Announcements (199)
Willard McCarty (MCCARTY@VM.EPAS.UTORONTO.CA)
Tue, 24 Jan 89 19:14:53 EST
Humanist Mailing List, Vol. 2, No. 524. Tuesday, 24 Jan 1989.
(1) Date: Tue, 24 Jan 89 10:59:42 CST (20 lines)
From: C447847@UMCVMB (Stephen Whyte)
Subject: text for cognitive science
(2) Date: Tue, 24 Jan 89 09:56:21 PST (56 lines)
From: "CONNIE GOULD" <BL.CCG@RLG>
Subject: Medieval and Early Modern Data Bank
(3) Date: Tue, 24 Jan 89 13:30:44 GMT (32 lines)
From: DEL2@PHOENIX.CAMBRIDGE.AC.UK
Subject: Jewish Inscription Project
(4) Date: Tue, 24 Jan 89 14:47:27 EST (22 lines)
From: Stephen Clausing <SCLAUS@YALEVM>
Subject: language authoring system
(5) Date: Tue, 24 Jan 89 16:42:04 MST (39 lines)
From: Randall Jones <JONES@BYUADMIN>
Subject: ACH Sessions at the 1989 MLA Annual Meeting
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Date: Tue, 24 Jan 89 10:59:42 CST
From: C447847@UMCVMB (Stephen Whyte)
Subject: text for cognitive science
At least a couple of people (Boggess, Gene III GBoggess@MSSTATE and Koch,
Christian chk@oberlin.edu.csnet and some other address I forget) that they
would soon be teaching a course in cognitive science. I would like to take
this opportunity to recommend a text for their consideration and the
consideration of anyone else who might be interested: Haugeland, John
"Artificial Intelligence: The Very Idea" MIT Press, 1985. (Sorry, I don't
know how to underline.) I studied it in a philosophy of mind class and found
it a fascinating introduction to AI. It includes historical and philosophical
perspectives on the subject. Of course, like all texts, it has a bias which
may or may not be correct.
Virtually Yours,
Stephen Whyte
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Date: Tue, 24 Jan 89 09:56:21 PST
From: "CONNIE GOULD" <BL.CCG@RLG>
Subject: Medieval and Early Modern Data Bank
The Research Libraries Group (RLG) and Rutgers University are
pleased to announce that a prototype of the Medieval and Early
Modern Data Bank (MEMDB) is now available for purchase through the
MEMDB Editorial Office at Rutgers University.
MEMDB, a joint project of Rutgers University and RLG, aims to
provide scholars with a continually expanding reference library of
information concerning the medieval and early modern period, roughly
A.D.800-1800. The prototype runs on AT-class computers with ten
megabytes of available hard disk storage. It contains 13,254
medieval currency exchange quotations from Europe, Byzantium, the
Levant, and North Africa--the kernel of what will ultimately be a
greatly expanded database with information on wages, prices,
demography, property holding, and many other subjects. The expanded
data bank will be available on the Research Libraries Information
Network (RLIN) in 1990.
The MEMDB prototype is the first truly non-bibliographic database to
be developed by RLG. It is a very flexible reference tool, allowing
users to retrieve both the scholarly source and background text for
any item retrieved from the database. It also provides for
exporting of items to standard word processing, database, and
spreadsheet programs. Even in its prototype form, we believe that
MEMDB's unique features will make it a model for databases in the
humanities and social sciences.
Copies of the prototype cost $250.00, which covers the price of the
underlying software (Advanced Revelation), and diskettes, handling,
and mailing. It may be obtained on 5.25- or 3.5-inch diskettes.
The accompanying MEMDB Handbook will provide information on how to
use MEMDB. To place orders, or for further information, please
contact:
Dr. Martha Carlin
Executive Director
The Medieval and Early Modern Data Bank
Department of History, CN 5059
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
New Brunswick, NJ 08903
phone: 201/932-8316
electronic mail: BB.MXC@RLG.Bitnet
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Date: Tue, 24 Jan 89 13:30:44 GMT
From: DEL2@PHOENIX.CAMBRIDGE.AC.UK
Subject: Jewish Inscription Project
Dear Colleagues,
With a grant from the British Academy, the Faculty of Divinity
in the University of Cambridge is beginning a project to index
all inscriptions relating to Jews and Judaism in the Graeco-Roman
period. Our ideal is a corpus, both machine-readable and in hard
copy. The immediate goal is as comprehensive an Index as possible.
The grant is currently for one year only; we need some tangible
results if it is to continue.
The first step is to establish the current state of activity.
The more machine-readable texts we can locate the higher we can
set our sights. We are experimenting with automatic input of the
current Corpora, but are not sure whether our KDEM will cope
with the fonts, diagrams, and so on in which they abound.
We appeal therefore to anyone interested, to enable us to make
the project as adventurous and useful as possible. All suggestions,
information, potential sources of further funding, &c, will be most
gratefully received.
In particular, if you are interested and use a computer in your
own research, we would be grateful to have details. This will help
when we come to decide how to distribute the computerised format.
Gratefully,
Douglas de Lacey (DEL2@UK.AC.CAMBRIDGE.PHOENIX).
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Date: Tue, 24 Jan 89 14:47:27 EST
From: Stephen Clausing <SCLAUS@YALEVM>
Subject: language authoring system
I recently offered to make my Macintosh authoring system (Private Tutor) plus
Germam exercises available to members of HUMANIST for the cost of
distribution. Six of you took me up on this offer, which strikes me as a good
response. However,the original notice was directed to German on-line help and
some of you may not have read it. I am therefore repeating my offer to
distribute this at the cost of $10 U.S. ($12 U.S. for overseas) which pays for
the disks, printed documentation, and mailing. I might add that I am being
bought out by Kinko's which will charge $40 for a single-user licence and
$300 for a site license. I don't believe it would be fair to Kinko's or myself
to give the program away in the future so this is, as they say in advertising,
my final offer. Feel free to request a copy through my e-mail address:
SClaus@Yalevm, or call (203) 488-6527, or write: Stephen Clausing, 408 Thoreau
Rd., Branford, CT 06405. If you give me a university address I will send the
materials on credit. Incidentally, the German exercises won the 1988
NCRIPTAL/EDUCOM award for Distinguished Software in the category of languages.
At present, Private Tutor has been acquired by over 40 universities in 9
countries and has been used to create exercises in French, German, Chinese,
Italian, Russian, and Spanish.
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Date: Tue, 24 Jan 89 16:42:04 MST
From: Randall Jones <JONES@BYUADMIN>
Subject: ACH Sessions at the 1989 MLA Annual Meeting
The Association for Computers and the Humanities will once again
sponsor two sessions at the 1989 Modern Language Association
annual meeting (27-30 December, Washington, D.C.). Below are the
topics and a brief description of each session. Anyone interested
in participating in either session should send a brief abstract
to me by April 1st.
ACH Session #1
Topic: The Humanitst and the Electronic Text
Brief Description: The electronic computer has made it possible for
texts to be created, modified, analyzed and tramsmitted without ever
being written down. This session will treat topics such as electronic
mail, electronic publishing, computer processing of texts, etc.
ACH Session #2
Topic: The Representation of Literary Texts in Electronic Format
Brief Description: Limitations in the size and type of character sets
in most electronic computers make it necessary to devise special coding
mechanisms when converting literary texts to electronic format. This
session will address these issues and report on the progress made by the
Text Encoding Initiative which is co-sponsored by the Association for
Computers and the Humanities.
Randall L. Jones
Humanities Research Center
3060 JKHB
Brigham Young University
Provo, Utah 84604
JONES@BYUADMIN