20.347 awards: 2007 SDH/SEMI; 2006 Lyman

               Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 20, No. 347.
       Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
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   [1] From: Geoffrey Rockwell <georock_at_mcmaster.ca> (68)
         Subject: 2007 SDH/SEMI Award

   [2] From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk> (51)
         Subject: 2006 Lyman Award lecture

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         Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 07:15:25 +0000
         From: Geoffrey Rockwell <georock_at_mcmaster.ca>
         Subject: 2007 SDH/SEMI Award

Dear Humanists,

The Society for Digital Humanities / Société pour l'étude des médias
interactifs are pleased to announce the 2007 Award for Outstanding
Achievement for Computing in the Arts and Humanities has been a
awarded to Jean-guy Meunier.

Yours,

Geoffrey Rockwell

(English to follow)

SEMI/SDH Prix 2007

Société pour l'étude des médias interactifs / Society for Digital
Humanities

10 décembre 2006

La SEMI/SDH, principale association canadienne de chercheurs dans le
domaine des arts et des lettres en mode numérique, vient de rendre
public le récipiendaire de son prix pour réalisations exceptionnelles
dans ce domaine. Le prix 2007 est attribué à Jean-Guy Meunier,
professeur au Département de philosophie à l’Université du Québec à
Montréal. Cette distinction est accordée annuellement depuis 2003.
Les récipiendaires antérieurs sont Willard McCarty, Jean-Claude
Guédon, Ian Lancashire, Paul Fortier, Elaine Nardocchio et,
dernièrement, Susan Brown, Patricia Clements, et Isobel Grundy du
Projet Orlando. Le prix honore ceux et celles qui ont fait une
contribution significative en matière d’informatique appliquée aux
arts et lettres, ou dans la mise en place de réseaux. Jean-Guy
Meunier a été retenu à l’unanimité pour son exceptionnelle
contribution au domaine.

Au cours d’une carrière remarquable, Meunier a travaillé avec succès
sur les aspects contextuels de la lecture et de l’analyse de texte
assistée par ordinateur (CARAT), en contribuant à en faire un domaine
de recherche en soi. L’approche de Meunier se distingue notamment par
le fait qu’elle prend en compte et intègre, non seulement les
dimensions techniques essentielles d’un domaine en évolution rapide,
ainsi que les aspects théoriques et méthodologiques qui évoluent tout
aussi rapidement, mais aussi le contexte plus général fourni par une
longue tradition de réflexion philosophique sur notre compréhension
des rapports entre le langage et la pensée.

Geoffrey Rockwell (président), Ray Siemens, et Christian Vandendorpe
du Comité du prix de la SDH/SEMI.

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SDH/SEMI Award 2007

Society for Digital Humanities / Société pour l'étude des médias
interactifs

December 10th, 2006

SDH/SEMI, the leading academic society in Canada in the field of
digital humanities, has awarded its 2007 Award for Outstanding
Achievement for Computing in the Arts and Humanities to Jean-Guy
Meunier of the Département de philosophie at Université du Québec à
Montréal. This award has been presented annually since 2003.
Previous recipients include Willard McCarty, Jean-Claude Guédon, Ian
Lancashire, Paul Fortier, Elaine Nardocchio and, most recently Susan
Brown, Patricia Clements, and Isobel Grundy of the Orlando Project.
The award acknowledges those who have made a significant contribution
to computing in the arts and humanities whether theoretical, applied,
or in the area of community building. Meunier was selected
unanimously for his exceptional contributions to the field.

Over a notable career, Meunier has worked with significant success on
the contexts and pragmatics relating to determining what underlies
the computer-assisted reading and analysis of text (CARAT), playing
an integral part himself in establishing CARAT as an area of inquiry
unto itself. Most notable and highly commendable in Meunier's
approach is that it is so widely informed -- not only by essential
and quickly-evolving computational matters, as well as the
immediately-associated and equally evolving theory and methodology,
but, also, by the long tradition of philosophical thought associated
with our understanding of language and mind.

Geoffrey Rockwell (chair), Ray Siemens, and Christian Vandendorpe of
the Award Committee of SDH/SEMI

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         Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 07:27:05 +0000
         From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk>
         Subject: 2006 Lyman Award lecture

[sent on behalf of Phillip Barron, pbarron_at_nhc.rtp.nc.us]

Dear fellow Humanists,

As most of you are well aware, Willard McCarty
was the recipient of the 2006 Richard W. Lyman
award, which recognizes scholars who have
advanced scholarship of both the humanities and
technology. In November of this year, Willard
flew out to the National Humanities Center to
deliver the Lyman Award lecture. You can view the
lecture at the National Humanities Center's website.

http://www.nhc.rtp.nc.us/newsrel2006/prmccartywebcast.htm

More about the Lyman Award:

The Richard W. Lyman Award recognizes scholars
who have advanced humanistic scholarship and
teaching through the innovative use of
information technology. The award may recognize
work that creates new knowledge in some domain of
the humanities; that embodies technological
innovation that has broad application in
scholarship and teaching; that addresses social,
cultural, and/or economic issues in the creation
and dissemination of scholarly work in the
contemporary world; and/or work that uses
technology in new ways to bring the results of
humanistic scholarship to student and public
audiences. In recent years, scholars in the
classics, English and American literature,
history, and other humanistic disciplines have
increasingly used information technology to make
available facsimiles of rare manuscripts; to
archive, index, and annotate literary, artistic,
and scholarly materials; to link text, visual
images, and sound in new ways; and to create new
social arrangements that will bring scholars and
students together to blur the boundaries between
learning, teaching, and research. The National
Humanities Center presents the Lyman Award to
individuals and teams who break new ground by
exploiting information technology toward these ends.

The award honors Richard W. Lyman, who was
president of Stanford University from 1970­80 and
of the Rockefeller Foundation from 1980­ 88, and
is made possible through the generosity of the
Rockefeller Foundation. Each recipient receives a prize of $25,000.

--
Phillip Barron
Digital Media Producer
pbarron_at_nhc.rtp.nc.us
National Humanities Center
7 Alexander Drive
Research Triangle Park, NC 27709
http://www.nhc.rtp.nc.us