Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 17, No. 770.
Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
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Date: Tue, 06 Apr 2004 07:15:26 +0100
From: Peter Liddell <pgl@uvic.ca>
Subject: Canada Research Chair in Humanities Computing
The official announcement of UVic's Canada Research Chair in
Humanities Computing, Dr. Raymond Siemens has finally been made! Ray
will be a member of the Department of English starting July 1.
The press release reads as follows:
UVic's Canada Research Chair in Humanities Computing, Dr. Raymond
Siemens: Siemens is looking for new ways to adapt books, newspapers,
magazines and journal articles to the electronic medium.
"More than half of the people who live in developed countries get
information of this sort directly from the Internet," says Siemens.
"It took us over a thousand years to understand the medium of print;
today, we understand almost intuitively how to access, navigate, and
read print materials. But electronic text is only several decades
old, and the World Wide Web even younger. While it is true that, over
the past few decades, we have found good ways to create, access,
navigate, and read electronic textual materials, it is also true to
say that we do not yet fully understand the best ways that we might
treat these materials. It is early days, yet, for the electronic
text."
Siemens' work will help create new computing tools for
data-harvesting, textual content analysis, document encoding
application and conversion, and communication processes. As well as
his research, Siemens will teach a course on Shakespeare and a course
that traces the evolution of books from 2,000 years ago to the
present. Currently, he is a lecturer in the English department at
Malaspina University-College and a visiting senior research fellow at
the centre for computing in the humanities at King's College, London.
Siemens will arrive at UVic in July.
These UVic chairs are among 137 such positions at 38 universities
across Canada -representing an investment of $138.3 million-being
announced today. UVic now has 20 Canada Research Chairs.
"This investment builds additional research leadership in priority
areas at UVic and further enhances the university's position as a
major research centre in the province and the country," says UVic
Vice-President Research Dr. Martin Taylor.
"The work our chairholders are doing in universities throughout the
country plays a key role in making Canada a better place to live,"
says Minister of Industry Lucienne Robillard. "Congratulations to all
the new Canada Research Chairs."
And welcome Ray to the Faculty of Humanities at UVic!
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