Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 14, No. 208.
Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
<http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/>
<http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/>
[1] From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi <tripathi@statistik.uni- (89)
dortmund.de>
Subject: "Prof. Janet Murray", "the Queen of Future Narratives
in Cyberspace" at ELO chat on September 9
[2] From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi <tripathi@statistik.uni- (64)
dortmund.de>
Subject: Talk on "Using Computers in Linguistics" on 9/11
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Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2000 09:42:21 +0100
From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi <tripathi@statistik.uni-dortmund.de>
Subject: "Prof. Janet Murray", "the Queen of Future Narratives in
Cyberspace" at ELO chat on September 9
Greetings scholars,
((Notes from Arun Tripathi==>
[An interesting venture to visit --please join the team of hypertext scholars
and digital storytellers --for an Electronic Literature Chat with "Janet
Murray", "the Queen of Future Narratives in Cyberspace" on Saturday, September
9. An invitation --to give a sense of feeling on the social tele-embodiment,
the future of narratives in cyberspace -digital storytelling, interactive
design. Janet Murray is a distinguished contributing interactive designer,
she is currently working on two *magnificent books*: "Principles of
Interactive Design" (a textbook, to be published my MIT Press) and "The
God in the Machine: Why We Need Computers to Become More Human".
Besides teaching "Information Design and Technology" and "Interactive Design"
at Georgia Tech. University, she is also working as a "Senior Research
Scientist" with "The Center for Educational Computing Initiative" at MIT
(http://www-ceci.mit.edu) --created in 1991 to advance the state-of-the-art
and state-of-the-practice use of computation and communication technologies
for learning and teaching --an important base. Janet Murray is also an
authority at PAINT: Program in Advanced Interactive Narrative Technology,
see at (http://www-ceci.mit.edu/projects/Eliza/>
Recently, she wrote a book "Hamlet on the Holodeck: The Future of Narrative
in Cyberspace" --the "Review" of her book, -exquisitely done by Prof. John
McLaughlin with hyperlinks to her works can be read at
(http://johnmclaughlin.hypermart.net/hamlet.htm) --Complete details about
her and her latest actvities in digital design can be read at
(http://web.mit.edu/jhmurray/www/HOH.html)
Her slide presentation on "The God in the Machine: Design Principles for
Digital Resources in the Humanities" can be
read at (http://web.mit.edu/jhmurray/www/futHum/sld001.htm)
Thank you, I will try my best to be there, and hope to c u there too!
Sincerely yours
Arun Tripathi]
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Date: Sat, 02 Sep 2000 22:03:31 -0600
From: Deena <textra@chisp.net>
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Please join us for an Electronic Literature Chat with Janet Murray on
Saturday, September 9
20:00 GMT
21:00 London
16:00 New York
13:00 Los Angeles
06.00 Sydney (Sun Aug 20)
at http://lingua.utdallas.edu:7000
How are stories growing and changing on the web? How are we interacting
with the narrative? How are televison, virtual reality, imagery and
storytelling converging?
Janet H. Murray, Professor and Director Laboratory for Advanced Computing
Initiatives School of Literature, Communication and Culture, teaches
information design in the Information Design and Technology Program in the
School of Literature, Communication and Culture.
Her main interest is interactive narrative, including digital television,
virtual reality, video games and hypertexts, which is found in her recent
book, "Hamlet on the Holodeck: The Future of Narrative in Cyberspace".
Other research interests include interactive design, educational
computing, Victorian studies and applications of advanced computing
environments. She began her career as a scholar of English narrative, and
has published several volumes detailing the lives of Victorian women. This
work grew out of her interest in what was left out of the great Victorian
novels -- what could not be said within the conventional narrative and
cultural structures of that time and place. She is drawn by the new
digital medium because -- like the book or the movie camera before it -- it
expands our ability to capture human experience and holds the promise of
expanding human understanding and human sympathies.
ABOUT THE ELO CHATS
These twice monthly chats provide an opportunity for creative writers and
readers to get together and discuss the exciting innovations and
possibilities in hypertext and other forms of electronic
literature. Each chat features a special guest from among the leading
lights on the electronic literature world. Chats are archived at
http://www.eliterature.org/com/chatarchives.shtml
INSTRUCTIONS ON JOINING THE CHATS:
To take part in the ELO chats, just go to the Lingua MOO and sign in as a
guest. If you'd like to learn more about MOOing, please e-mail Deena
Larsen at textra@chisp.net for a short tutorial. To
enter LinguaMOO, click onthe URL: http://lingua.utdallas.edu:7000
Your browser must be either Netscape Communicator version 4.08 or
newer, or Microsoft Internet Explorer version 4.0 or newer. Java,
Javascript, and Cookies must be enabled for the system to
work. Otherwise, please , telnet to lingua.utdallas.edu 8888
Once in LinguaMOO, type in @go eliterature to get to the electronic
literature chat room.
Once there, you can type a quotation mark " and your text to start talking.
You can also type @who to find out who else is there.
We hope you'll join us for this exciting chat.
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Electronic Literature Organization
http://www.eliterature.org
Come on over to explore the amazing possibilities
To subscribe, send a blank message to: eliterature-subscribe@eGroups.com
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Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2000 09:43:05 +0100
From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi <tripathi@statistik.uni-dortmund.de>
Subject: Talk on "Using Computers in Linguistics" on 9/11
Greetings humanists,
[Hi, an info on the interesting talk --is forwarded via
(townsend@ls.berkeley.edu) -an intern list of University
of California, Berkeley --thought might interest to humanists'
researchers. The Indo-European Language and Culture Working
Group is funded by the Townsend Center for the Humanities.
For further information, please contact IE Working Group
organizer: Deborah Anderson, at (dwanders@socrates.berkeley.edu)
Thanks to Prof. Deborah Anderson. Sincerely.-Arun Tripathi]
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Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2000 10:25:49 -0700 (PDT)
From: dwanders@socrates.Berkeley.EDU
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The Indo-European Language and Culture Working Group presents:
Carl-Martin Bunz, Institute of Comparative Indo-European Linguistics and
Indo-Iranian Studies, University of Saarland, Saarbruecken
"TITUS: A pioneering project using Computers in Historical and Comparative
Linguistics"
Monday, Sept. 11, 5 p.m.
Dwinelle 3401, UC Berkeley
ABSTRACT:
TITUS (Thesaurus Indogermanischer Text- und Sprachmaterialien /
Thesaurus of Indo-European Text and Language Materials:
<http://titus.uni-frankfurt.de> is a joint project initiated and organized
by the Institute of Comparative Linguistics of the Johann Wolfgang
Goethe-Universitt, Frankfurt am Main.
The idea of TITUS was born in 1987, when a small group of Indo-Europeanists
suggested to concentrate the effort of entering ancient IE texts relevant
for analysis and reconstruction, into electronic devices in order to
establish an electronic text database. Now, 13 years after, under the
leadership of Prof. Dr. Jost Gippert, TITUS still is a pioneering project
with regard to computer application in Comparative and Historical
Linguistics. The text database itself, covering IE as well as adjacent
languages (e.g. Caucasian), has meanwhile increased up to more than 2 GB,
but the project engages in far more challenging activities than the
storage of ASCII encoded texts.
TITUS has indexed the texts, up to now with the help of the WordCruncher
software, thus enabling very precise retrieval from the server.
Currently the project is building up a sophisticated retrieval system,
totally independent from special software, so that in future the text
database will have an SGML compliant internal structure, which can be
accessed and searched via HTML. It is quite natural that character
coding issues are an integral part of the project's daily work. In 1997,
TITUS launched a Unicode initiative (under the direction of Carl-Martin
Bunz and Jost Gippert) and keeps in touch with Unicode and ISO, aiming
at a coding of both transliteration and transcription symbols and
historic scripts which serves scientific text processing. Moreover, the
systematic digitization of manuscripts plays an eminent role: special
branches of TITUS like the Ogam Project and the Tocharica Project make
intensive use of the electronic imaging technology.
Besides, the TITUS Website offers an international information panel for
IE Linguistics, exhibiting programs of courses, conferences, job offers,
etc. The listing of current research projects (doctoral dissertations
etc.) is an important service, helping communication and avoiding
duplication of work.
My talk will expound the ideas and activities of the TITUS project to a
public which, I hope, will suggest improvements and enlargements and
will join the effort aiming at systematic application of computers in an
endangered academic discipline.
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The Indo-European Language and Culture Working Group is funded by the
Townsend Center for the Humanities.
For further information, please contact IE Working Group
organizer: Deborah Anderson, dwanders@socrates.berkeley.edu.
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