Sense of the Seminar

Bethany Nowviskie (bpn2f@unix.mail.virginia.edu)
Wed, 15 Dec 1999 09:27:30 -0500 (EST)

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Thanks to all of you who participated in the HC Seminar this semester.
I've attached some notes from our last meeting of 10 December for your
review. These notes are also available from our web site at
http://www.iath.virginia.edu/hcs/minutes.html. John and I invite
additions, corrections, and further comments, all of which will be taken
into account in the drafting of a "sense of the seminar" document in the
next few weeks. We hope this document will help the committee when it
meets after the winter holiday.

I'd like to remind you that we're planning panel discussions on teaching,
research, and employment in Humanities Computing for the spring. I'll
be back in touch soon with more information about those events.

Again, thank you all for making the seminar a success.

Bethany Nowviskie

Bethany Paige Nowviskie
University of Virginia Department of English
Design Editor/Senior Research Assistant, Rossetti Archive
Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities

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