17.729 dictionaries of computing in English

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       [1] From: George Whitesel <whitesel@jsucc.jsu.edu> (35)
             Subject: Re: 17.725 dictionary of computing in English?

       [2] From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk> (11)
             Subject: online English dictionaries of computing

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             Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 06:28:27 +0000
             From: George Whitesel <whitesel@jsucc.jsu.edu>
             Subject: Re: 17.725 dictionary of computing in English?

    Marianna:

    You will get better advice than mine, but here goes: try the major on-line
    English language catalogues, such as Library of Congress, Harvard, MIT
    etc.; search by key-word (computer and dictionary etc.); see what titles
    come up. Next go to the internet listings of these schools and search
    under the heading computer science. There are several "dictionaries" on
    line. You will probably prefer the top-of-the-line print dictionaries but
    the electronic ones may help. Special dictionaries of terms may be issued
    by companies to cover what they do in their work. See also publishers
    listings and Professors' course listings, especially required books . Best
    of luck.

    George
    whitesel@jsucc.jsu.edu

    "Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty )" wrote:

    > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 17, No. 725.
    > Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
    > www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/
    > www.princeton.edu/humanist/
    > Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu
    >
    > Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 08:21:40 +0000
    > From: "D'Alessio Marianna" <marianna-d@tiscali.it>
    > >
    > Dear list members,
    >
    > I am an italian student who is working at her thesis in Humanities
    Computing
    > at the University "La Sapienza", Rome.
    > I'm searching for a computing english dictionary (.txt).
    > Could You please help me?
    >
    > I look forward to hearing from you.
    > Yours faithfully,
    > Marianna D'Alessio
    >
    > E-Mail: marianna-d@tiscali.it

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             Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 06:28:59 +0000
             From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk>
             Subject: online English dictionaries of computing

    In answer to Marianna D'Alessio's question in Humanist 17.725, I'd suggest
    the Free Online Dictionary of Computing, FOLDOC, at
    http://wombat.doc.ic.ac.uk/foldoc/, run by Imperial College London; the
    Jargon File at http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/.

    Yours,
    WM

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