Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 15, No. 191.
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- (36)
dortmund.de>
Subject: Beyond Webcams
[2] From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi <tripathi@statistik.uni- (24)
dortmund.de>
Subject: The Return of the Real
[3] From: Frances Condron <frances.condron@computing- (43)
services.oxford.ac.uk>
Subject: new humanities computing publication
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Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 08:16:50 +0100
From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi <tripathi@statistik.uni-dortmund.de>
Subject: Beyond Webcams
Dear Dr. Willard McCarty,
Hi, after editing the *grand book*, 'The Robot in the Garden':
(Telerobotics and Telepistemology in the Age of the Internet) [The Robot
in the Garden initiates a critical theory of telerobotics and introduces
telepistemology, the study of knowledge acquired at a distance. Many of
our most influential technologies, the telescope, telephone, and
television, were developed to provide knowledge at a distance. Telerobots,
remotely controlled robots, facilitate action at a distance. Specialists
use telerobots to explore actively environments such as Mars, the Titanic,
and Chernobyl. Military personnel increasingly employ reconnaissance
drones and telerobotic missiles. At home, we have remote controls for the
garage door, car alarm, and television (the latter a remote for the
remote)] ----Professor Ken Goldberg with his close associate Professor
Roland Siegwart has written a technical book on the Online Robots, which
would be coming in October 2001.
Beyond Webcams: An Introduction to Online Robots, Edited by Ken Goldberg
and Roland Siegwart (MIT, October 2001, ISBN 0-262-07225-4 )
Short description about the forthcoming book:
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Remote-controlled robots were first developed in the 1940s to handle
radioactive materials. Trained experts now use them to explore deep in sea
and space, to defuse bombs, and to clean up hazardous spills. Today robots
can be controlled by anyone on the Internet. Such robots include cameras
that not only allow us to look, but also go beyond Webcams: they enable us
to control the telerobots movements and actions.
This book summarizes the state of the art in Internet telerobots. It
includes robots that navigate undersea, drive on Mars, visit museums,
float in blimps, handle protein crystals, paint pictures, and hold human
hands. The book describes eighteen systems, showing how they were
designed, how they function online, and the engineering challenges they
meet
More details, please see at
<http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?sid=A7DA77B6-36FA-4873-8FA5-B35FE10D0F32&ttype=2&tid=8577>
Thank you..
With best regards
Arun Kumar Tripathi
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Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 08:17:27 +0100
From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi <tripathi@statistik.uni-dortmund.de>
Subject: The Return of the Real
Dear Dr. Willard McCarty,
The Return of the Real: Art and Theory at the End of the Century by Hal
Foster (MIT, October 1996, ISBN 0-262-56107-7)
"The Return of the Real is one of the most cogent and theoretically
self-aware readings of contemprary art I have seen." --Howard Singerman,
Department of Art History, University of Virginia--
In The Return of the Real Hal Foster discusses the development of art and
theory since 1960, and reorders the relation between prewar and postwar
avant-gardes. Opposed to the assumption that contemporary art is somehow
belated, he argues that the avant-garde returns to us from the future,
repositioned by innovative practice in the present. And he poses this
retroactive model of art and theory against the reactionary undoing of
progressive culture that is pervasive today.
After the models of art-as-text in the 1970s and art-as-simulacrum in the
1980s; Foster suggests that we are now witness to a return to the real --
to art and theory grounded in the materiality of actual bodies and social
sites: If The Return of the Real begins with a new narrative of the
historical avant-garde; it concludes with an original reading of this
contemporary situation -- and what it portends for future practices of art
and theory, culture and politics.
For more details, see at:
<http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?sid=AB987D13-61AC-4A12-88C1-6502FF0323EC&ttype=2&tid=7585>
Thank you..
Sincerely
Arun Tripathi
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Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 09:24:42 +0100
From: Frances Condron
<frances.condron@computing-services.oxford.ac.uk>
Subject: new humanities computing publication
NEW MEDIA AND THE HUMANITIES: RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS
Edited by Domenico Fiormonte and Jonathan Usher.
2001, Humanities Computing Unit, University of Oxford.
Further info: http://www.hcu.ox.ac.uk/publications/clip.html
This is the latest publication from the Humanities Computing Unit. It is a
collection of essays exploring the relationship between literary research
and new technology. The essays are drawn from the first Computers,
Literature and Philology seminar, held in Edinburgh on the 7th - 9th
September 1998. Copies can be purchased for 18.99 from the Humanities
Computing Unit (http://www.hcu.ox.ac.uk/). This book is only available in
print.
CONTENTS:
Jonathan Usher, Domenico Fiormonte 'Introduction: Where Lachmann and Von
Neumann meet'
Willard L. McCarty 'Poem and algorithm: humanities computing in the life
and place of the mind'
Francisco A. Marcos Marn 'Where is electronic philology going? The
present and future of a discipline'
Allen Renear 'Literal transcription - can the text ontologist help?'
Lou Burnard 'On the hermeneutic implications of text encoding'
Fabio Ciotti 'Text encoding as a theoretical language for text analysis'
Claire Warwick ''Reports of my death have been greatly
exaggerated': scholarly editing in the digital age'
Federico Pellizzi 'Hypertext as a critical discourse: from representation
to pragmeme'
Antonio Zampolli 'Language resources: the current situation and
opportunities for co-operation between computational linguistics and
humanities computing'
Elisabeth Burr 'Romance linguistics and corpora of French, Italian and
Spanish newspaper language'
Giuseppe Gigliozzi 'Researching and teaching literature in the digital
era: the CRILet project'
David Robey 'Sounds and their structure in Italian narrative poetry'
Massimo Guerrieri 'Per una edizione informatica dei Mottetti di Eugenio
Montale: varianti e analisi statistica'
Staffan Bjrk, Lars Erik Holmquist 'Exploring the literary Web: the
digital variants browser'
Licia Calvi 'The postmodern Web: an experimental setting'
AVAILABLE:
From the Humanities Computing Unit for 18.99 plus postage and
packing. Find out more, and print out an order form at
http://www.hcu.ox.ac.uk/publications/clip.html
Frances Condron, Publications Officer, Humanities Computing Unit,
University of Oxford.
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