From: CBS%UK.AC.EARN-RELAY::EARN.UTORONTO::LISTSERV 13-SEP-1989 12:16:39.60 To: ARCHIVE CC: Subj: File: "BIOGRAFY 17" being sent to you Via: UK.AC.EARN-RELAY; Wed, 13 Sep 89 12:16 BST Received: from UKACRL by UK.AC.RL.IB (Mailer X1.25) with BSMTP id 3079; Wed, 13 Sep 89 12:15:27 BS Received: from vm.utcs.utoronto.ca by UKACRL.BITNET (Mailer X1.25) with BSMTP id 5520; Wed, 13 Sep 89 12:15:25 B Received: by UTORONTO (Mailer R2.03A) id 5099; Wed, 13 Sep 89 07:01:17 EDT Date: Wed, 13 Sep 89 07:01:15 EDT From: Revised List Processor (1.6a) Subject: File: "BIOGRAFY 17" being sent to you To: ARCHIVE@UK.AC.OXFORD.VAX ========================================================================= Date: 26 January 1989 From: Willard McCarty Subject: 16th supplement to the biographies Autobiographies of Humanists Sixteenth Supplement Following are 23 additional entries to the collection of autobiographical statements by members of the Humanist discussion group. Humanists on IBM VM/CMS systems will want a copy of Jim Coombs' exec for searching and retrieving biographical entries. It is kept on Humanist's file-server; for more information, see the Guide to Humanist. Further additions, corrections, and updates are welcome. Willard McCarty Centre for Computing in the Humanities, Univ. of Toronto mccarty@utorepas 26 January 1989 ================================================================= *Aristar, Anthony Manuel Rodrigues Address: Human Interface Laboratory, Natural Language Project, MCC, Austin, TX 78759. Telephone 512 338 3443 I'm an Australian citizen who's lived in America since 1978. I did my BA (Hons) at the University of Melbourne, specializing in Middle Eastern Studies, Arabic and Linguistics. I came to this country in order to study at the University of Chicago, where I did an AM in Comparative Semitics. My PhD, from the University of Texas at Austin, is in linguistics, the major focus of my work being in typology and language change. In my last year as a student I was offered a job in computational linguistics, a field which has successfully kept me in America since 1984. Most of my research has been focussed on Arabic---I've written a pretty complete morphological analyzer for the language---and on the definition of computational formalisms which are capable of capturing cross-linguistic generalizations in syntax. At the moment I'm interested in theories of morphology in general, and in computational models of language change, though somehow I always find myself being dragged back into work on the more ancient Afroasiatic languages, in part because cultural contrasts fascinate me, in part because I'm intrigued by the problems dead languages present. On occasion I've idly speculated about the computational approaches to the problems of undeciphered ancient languages---Linear A always comes to mind---but none of this musing has resulted in anything more concrete than a tipsy after- dinner conversation. ================================================================= *Birnbaum, David Jonathan [Internet] [UUCP] [Bitnet] Fellow, Russian Research Center, Harvard University; 11 Adams Terrace, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA; 617-492-8511 Ph.D. in Slavic linguistics (Harvard). Slavic philologist specializing in the study of medieval Slavic texts and in Slavic accentology. Current major projects are a critical edition and English translation of the Life of Stefan Lazarevic (Serbian despot, d. 1427) and accentual dictionaries of medieval Slavic manuscripts. Additional research interests include Slavic and general linguistics, both diachronic and synchronic, specializing in phonology and morphology. Computational interests include the use of computers in the study of orthographically complex manuscripts (on which see the Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Symbolic and Logical Computing, Madison, SD, 1988), Cyrillic character sets (information interchange standards, font design), multilingual word processing and typesetting, foreign language Optical Character Recognition, and SNOBOL. Member of the Advisory Board of the Humanities Computing Yearbook sharing responsibility for Slavic languages. ================================================================= *Dupuy, Luc Chercheur, Centre d'Analyse de Textes par Ordinateur, Universite du Quebec a Montreal, C.P. 8888, Succ. "A", Montreal H3C 3P8; (514) 678-0628 (514) 282-8256 At the present time, I am employed by the Centre d'Ato in Montreal. My principal interest are in relating discourse analysis and computational techniques. Anything that will be concerned with Artificial Intelligence in a sociological perspective (expert systems just to mention this one) will get my attention. I have been associated with this type of research at the centre d'ato for 3 years, and hopefully will continue to do so for the next 5 or 10 years. I have a preference for "logic" as far as it is concerned with the natural aspect of cognition (read sociological cognition). Quite obviously, I am a French "native" and I intend to remain this way... but I appreciate chatting about things so there is room for much curiosity. Among other things I have a preference for hands on experience of computers; and programming activities also get a fair deal of my attention (mostly Lisp, C and Pascal). So I guess there is plenty to talk about. Last but not least, I am a Ph D candidate in the sociology department of the Universite du Quebec a Montreal; thesis domain : analyse du discours journalistique et question nationale. Key Words : artificial intelligence, C, Pascal, Lisp, epistemology sociology, social theory, critical theory, expert systems, computers, sociology of knowledge, philosophy of knowledge, ideology, social psychology of communication Salutations amicales, Luc Dupuy ================================================================= *Geary, Patrick J. Professor of History, University of Florida, 4131 Turlington Hall, Gainesville, Florida 32611, USA (904) 378-9267 Research: medieval continental history, especially social and cultural. Archival work concentrates on France, Austria, Germany, and Italy. Previous publications include: Furta Sacra: Thefts of Relics in the Central Middle Ages (1978); Aristocracy in Provence: The Rhone Basin at the Dawn of the Carolingian Era (1985); Before France and Germany: The Creation and Transformation of the Merovingian World (1988). Currently I am writing a book on memory and oblivion in the eleventh century in which I examine the implicit and explicit means by which the past was used, transmitted and transformed between 950 and 1050. Special areas of research involving computer work: statistical analysis of naming patterns in Europe ca. 800-1100; structure of Carolingian manors based on network analysis. ================================================================= *Gilbert, John K. (Jody) e-mail address userid=dog1 At present, spring 89, I am a graduate student in English at Simon Fraser University. My present work involves investigating hardware and software to assist in teaching and researching English. At the '88 MLA conference in New Orleans, Professor Paul Delany and I presented a paper and a demo of a piece of Hypercard software which we created around Fielding's *Joseph Andrews*. I believe that developing communications and information handling technology will not only increase the efficiency but also, and perhaps more importantly, the pleasure and sense of community of our shcolarly endeavours. So I continue on an X-year mission to seek out new hardware / English scholars have gone before. ================================================================= *Glazer, Mark Associate Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, Pan American University, Edinburg, Texas 78539 (512) 381-3551 I am an anthropologist specializing in folklore studies with special emphasis on legends and archival data bases. The Rio Grande Folklore Archive, where I do my work, has thousands of folklore items on line. This includes folk beliefs, folk medicine, recipes, proverbs and a certain number of folk tales. All items include contextual information. This information is stored on a Bernouli Box attached to a Zenith computer. We are currently using Nutshell which has served us well with its full indexing capacity. We are about to start experimenting with AskSam and Nutshell Plus. As to my background, I am a Northwestern University Ph.D. in Anthropology, a Professor of Anthropology, and the Head of the Rio Grande Folklore Archive at Pan American University. I must also confess to being the Associate Dean of our College of Arts and Sciences. ================================================================= *Hobohm, Hans-Christoph Institute for applied social research, Greinstr. 2, University of Cologne, D-5000 Cologne 41, West Germany. Phone: 49 221 470 4406 (a.m.), 49 221 31 94 28 (p.m.) My principal subjects of interest are Romance Litterature, historical data- base managment systems like kleio (CLIO) and applications of computers in library work. I am about to finish my PhD on censorship of novels in the early French enlightenment and I am earning my life by teaching computer to litterature students as well as to future librarians for I am running the library of a sociological institute. ================================================================= *Holmes, Steven H Research Assistant, Department of Computing, Plymouth Polytechnic, PLYMOUTH PL4 8AA UK I am currently employed as a Research Assistant at Plymouth, where I am conducting investigations into issues of user- understanding, user-attitudes, user-preconceptions and issues of usability in a general sense with respect to systems which may be regarded as in some way intelligent; for example, expert systems, knowledge-based advisors and intelligent decision- support environments --- situations in which users are more likely to feel threatened than is the case with traditional data- processing systems. At the present time, I am working with social workers on the implementation of a decision-support system which offers advice on how to deal with cases of child abuse. In 1986, I graduated from Plymouth Polytechnic with a BSc(Hons) in Computing and Informatics -- I am currently working towards a PhD in the area I have described above. My research interests may be broadly summarised as: artificial intelligence, cognitive psychology, the psychology of computer usage, intelligent systems, and human-computer interaction. I am a member of AISB (the Society for the study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour) and HICOM (the electronic working environment and conferencing system for Human- Computer Interaction). ================================================================= *Hoyt, Giles R. Associate Professor and Chair, Dept. of German, Indiana University- Indianapolis, 425 Agnes St., Indianapolis IN 46202. Phone: 317-274-2330. My major field of research is early modern German literature, particularly narrative literature. I also do work in ethnic studies as related to Germans in North America. In that field of study I have concentrated on the Germans of the Midwestern United States. My interest in computing as applied to humanistic research dates back to late 1982 when I purchased an Osborne CP/M machine. I became active in user groups and was named coordinator for the Indiana University Faculty Computer Literacy Program in the School of Liberal Arts on my campus. I am very interested in the use of text based data bases, electronic manipulation and study of texts, telecommunications, and to a limited extent CAI. Currently I have been using WordPerfect, AskSam, and WordCruncher to set up bibliographies, prepare course materials, handle university bureaucracy, edit texts, and research texts. I am very interested in the possibility of an on-line refereed journal in my field and have done some research on that topic. ================================================================= *Humanists at Brown University At Brown University HUMANIST is posted on BRUNO (BRown University News Online). BRUNO is a conferencing system system based on GRAND, a distributed database system developed at IBM. It is used to make electronic lists and digests available to the university community and to support special interest conferences. Bruno is the principle means of electronic conferencing at Brown and is accessible to the Brown University community without charge on Brown's VM system (brownvm.brown.edu). All of the HUMANIST logs are also available and may be accessed with the BRUNO text retrieval and browsing tools. There are many avid HUMANIST readers/contributors at Brown, as scanning the HUMANIST logs for strings like Coombs, Mylonas, DeRose, Renear, Seid, Brennan, Landow, &c. reveals. Brown is also home to the Brown Computing in the Humanities User's Group (CHUG), the Institute for Research in Information and Scholarship (IRIS), and the Pre-Victorian Women Writer's Project (WOMWRITE@brownvm.brown.edu), as well as other humanities computing projects. Most HUMANIST readers at Brown will not show up on the LISTSERV subscription list at UTORONTO. And although they are encouraged to submit their biographies to McCarty it is likely that many will not get around to it. Consequently anyone who would like a mailing list of computing humanists at Brown should request the CHUG mailing list from Allen Renear (ALLEN@brownvm.brown.edu). Before BRUNO went into production HUMANIST mailings and logs were maintained online for Brown by Tim Seid of the Religious Studies Department. ================================================================= *Kirsner, Robert S. Associate Professor of Dutch and Afrikaans, Department of Germanic Languages, 302 Royce Hall - UCLA Los Angeles, CA 90024- 153 USA; Office (213) 825-3955 Home (213) 390-5367 I am a linguist with an interest in the semantics of grammatical systems, the use of discourse data in grammatical analysis, in objective (i.e. quantitative and experimental) methods in linguistics, and in pragmatics. I have concerned myself with the semantics and pragmatics of modal auxiliaries, the so-called "passive" in Dutch, its tense system, adverbial pronouns, the so- called "indirect object", the semantics of demonstratives, and discourse particles. Though I have worked primarily on Dutch, I have also authored or co-authored papers on English and Swahili. Theoretically, I have recently become intrigued with Cognitive Grammar and the possible areas of agreement between it and more Saussurean approaches. For me the most crucial question in linguistics is: What does a meaning look like? Though I am a linguist, my teaching at UCLA deals with all aspects of the languages I am responsible for within the UCLA Department of Germanic Languages, including the literatures written in Dutch and Afrikaans. These literatures are VERY rich and, as my colleagues and students have discovered, well worth studying. In addition to topics of linguistic interest, I am interested in Computer Assisted Language Instruction. In my function as Departmental Representative to the Humanities Computing Committee, I would welcome descriptions of software, etc. which we could possibly use in our language programs. ================================================================= *Lacey, Douglas de Literary & Linguistic Computing Centre, Sidgwik Avenue, Cambridge. Tel: 0223-335019 (LLCC); 0223-276474 (home, with ansafone). After teaching in several theological colleges, I am now involved in various part-time consultancy jobs, in the hope this will also provide time for writing and research. I run a small company which acts as European agency for the Ibycus SC (sorry about the advert!) and am involved in consultancy work for the LLCC; and also for the Divinity Faculty here in the University, co- ordinating a project to index all Jewish inscriptions of the Graeco-Roman period (and hopefully to provide a corpus). I am an Affiliated Lecturer in the Divinity Faculty and keep my hand in with various lecture courses. My major research interests are: Exploring the ways in which new religious beliefs emerge, with particular reference to the development of christology in the early church; Semantics and computer studies of lingusitic phenomena, with particular reference to koine Greek; Desk-top publication of obscure and/or difficult fonts. ================================================================= *Langston, Peter Scot M.T.S., Bellcore MRE 2D-396, (201) 829-4332, 445 South St., Morristown, NJ 07960-1910 I have been involved with technology and the arts, jointly and separately since 1964 when I first discovered computers. Since that time, I've been involved in a number of seemingly unrelated projects. I wrote the software for the first (and probably the last) time- shared analog computer at Reed College in Portland, OR; I taught computer science, song-writing, and audio recording at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, WA; I supported myself playing original music ("New Music" & Rock'n'Roll in Portland, Bluegrass in Olympia, New York, & Portland, modern acoustic music in Olympia and Boston); I wrote scientific analysis & graphics programs for the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge, MA; I wrote financial database/analysis programs; I developed an office automation system for a large Wall Street law firm; I headed a group that designed high-tech computer games at Lucasfilm Ltd.; and now I'm working at Bell Communications Research on algorithmic music composition, among other things. I've had pieces in computer graphics shows, been interviewed by Scientific American, miscellaneous radio & TV stations, the Wall Street Journal, and Business Week, given concerts of electronic music, played in an experimental ensemble with scores that looked like Klee sketches and a stage band with no scores at all, consulted as an electronics designer, repaired stringed instruments, and written a program that was the world's champion GO playing program for two years. Oh yes, I have a degree in Chemistry, (a subject about which I remember almost nothing, but that was 20 years ago). My principal interest is in using technology in the arts and my crusade is to do so without destroying the attractiveness of the result. ================================================================= *Malling, Glenn A. Computer Systems Specialist, Computing and Network Services, Skytop Office Building, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York 13244; (315) 443-4111 My request for subscription to HUMANIST is an attempt to combat the growing isolation of the computer specialist (me) from the cares and concerns of the people for whom we run these machines. One way I have of doing this is to sit on the sidelines of discussion groups such as HUMANIST and eavesdrop. ================================================================= *Mandell, Dan Senior Academic Specialist, Saint Mary's College, Computing Center, Notre Dame, In 46556; (219) 284 4610 PhD. in Philosophy (1979). Since 1984 I have worked with the Academic Computer Users at Saint Mary's College, from my staff position as Academic Specialist. At present we are focusing on the Humanities Faculty, and the importance of developing a Strategic Plan for information access and management on our small liberal arts campus. ================================================================= *Perry, David Editor, University of North Carolina Press, Box 2288, Chapel Hill, NC 27515 (919) 966-3561 I am an acquiring editor for the University of North Carolina Press, specializing in works in folklore, American studies, American history (particularly southern history), and Latin American studies. As a member and former chair of the Computer Committee of the American Association of University Presses, I have a special interest in the use of microcomputers for the preparation of scholarly manuscripts, computer-aided book production, alternatives to traditional book publication, and computer applications in the humanities in general. ================================================================= *Rae, Simon Liaison Officer - Schools of Modern Studies & Education. Trent Polytechnic, Nottingham Computing Services, Burton Street, NOTTINGHAM, England. NG1 4BU phone: (0602) 418248. Recently appointed as Liaison Officer to 2 schools in the Polytechnic. Expected to provide backup service for existing computer work and to encourage/initiate more use of computers in the degree/research work of the schools. Exciting prospect! Modern Studies encompasses Literature & Language, History, Geography and Creative Arts. Braver individuals in all these areas are at the stage of beginning to use computing techniques to assist their work: Wordprocessing, Databases, Spreadsheets. They are not (yet) constrained by WHAT YOU SHOULD DO WITH COMPUTERS - they don't really know enough yet so they keep asking 'simple' questions which have a habit of extending the use of soft/hardware into new areas. My background includes study as a Fine Art student, degree in all sorts (Maths, Statistics, Technology and Art History), work in theatre, wife who works in theatre and arts administration and 14 years of offering advice/help/assistance to users of academic computers. I get the impression that you in the states are further ahead of us in the use of computers in the humanities and the arts. Hopefully regular mailings of the HUMANIST will help! ================================================================= *Sveinbjornsson, Jon Professor, Faculty of Theology, Director, Institute of Theology, University of Iceland, Sudurgata, 101 Reykjavik, Iceland. Telephones: 0354-1-694345 and 0354-1-33493 (home). I have been professor of New Testament Studies (Luke, John, Romans, New Testament Theology) from 1974. Earlier I was assistant professor in Ancient Greek language and literature in the Faculty of Theology and the Faculty of Art and New Testament translator for the Icelandic Bible Society. My main areas of research are: Methods of ancient rhetoric to influence the reader as a basis for modern reading of ancient texts. Semantic analysis of New Testament texts for preparation of a machine readable dictionary/concordance based on semantic domains (in collaboration with colleges from the Department of Linguistics. Translation Theory (I have been engaged in the translation and revision of the Icelandic New Testament 1981). I am interesed in engaging students in applying computers to Bible texts: text retrieval - HyperCard - etc. I am a member of a Macintosh-users group called BOREAL. We are a discussion group for computing humanities and applying computers to scholarship in the humanities. At present we are especially concentrating on ancient texts (Greek, Latin, Hebrew, Sanskrit, Old-Norse, Old- English). All the members are teachers and researchers at the University of Iceland, both in the Faculty of Theology and the Faculty of Art. ================================================================= *Taylor, Richard C. <6297TAYL@MUCSD> Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI 53233 U.S.A. I was born in Lockport, N.Y. in 1950 and educated in Catholic schools through high school. After spending a year at Syracuse University, I completed my undergraduate education at the State University of New York at Buffalo receiving a B.A. (with honors) in Philosophy in 1972. There I enrolled in several courses taught by the late Prof. George Hourani, an expert in ancient philosophy and medieval Islamic thought as well as ethics. As a result of association with Prof. Hourani, I undertook graduate studies at the University of Toronto in Medieval Studies and Philosophy. I received an M.A. in Medieval Studies in 1974 and a Ph.D. in Medieval Studies and Philosophy in 1982. In 1982 I joined the Philosophy Department at Marquette University in Milwaukee where I have taught undergraduate and graduate courses in ancient and medieval philosophy was well as in other areas. In 1986 I was named chair of the Editorial Board of the Marquette University Press series, Mediaeval Philosophical Texts in Translation. My studies in Toronto concentrated on ancient and medieval Christian and Islamic philosophy and the requisite language work. My doctoral dissertation, directed by M.E. Marmura of Middle East and Islamic Studies, was an edition with English translation and study of an Arabic text, KALAM FI MAHD AL-KHAIR ("Discourse on the Pure Good") which I edited from manuscripts examined during a research trip to Holland, Turkey and Egypt in 1979-80. This Arabic work, based in large part on a work by the Greek Neoplatonist Proclus, appeared in Arabic in the 9th century C.E. and was translated into Latin in the late 12th century under the name, LIBER DE CAUSIS. In the Latin West, it was for some time thought to be a work by Aristotle and enjoyed enormous popularity, something reflected by the fact that there are nearly 250 extant Latin manuscripts of it and the many commentaries on it by Thomas Aquinas, Albertus Magnus, Siger of Barbant, Giles of Rome, Roger Bacon and others. My publications have for the most part dealt with this text and its importance and influence in Medieval Islam and Christianity. In addition to my work on the Arabic text of this treatise, I have also done some work toward the preparation of a critical edition of the Latin version. I have published articles in MEDIAEVAL STUDIES, BULLETIN DE PHILOSOPHIE MEDIEVALE, MANUSCRIPTA, MELANGES DE L'INSTITUT DOMINICAIN D'ETUDES ORIENTALES and in two collections of essays. I have also been co- editor of two collections of essays, THE LIFE OF RELIGION and MORAL PHILOSOPHY: CONTEMPORARY MORAL PHILOSOPHY AND THE HISTORY OF MORAL THOUGHT (forthcoming). Recently I completed a translation into English of the COMMENTARY ON THE LIBER DE CAUSIS by Thomas Aquinas, done in collaboration with Rev. C. Hess, O.P., and Rev. V. Guagliardo, O.P., of the Dominican School at Berkeley. This is to be published by Catholic University Press. Currently I am working on an English translation with notes and introduction of the GREAT COMMENTARY ON THE DE ANIMA OF ARISTOTLE by Averroes (Ibn Rushd). This work, originally composed in Arabic, is extant in full only in a Medieval Latin translation which was widely read by philosophical thinkers from the 13th century well into the time of the Renaissance. This translation is being funded substantially by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and will be published by Yale University Press. My interest in joining the network lies with my desire to be able to explore further computer use for text edition, bibliographical research and organization, and general study of philosophy and the history of philosophy, particularly Medieval Islamic and Christian thought. I would also like to contact humanists for discussion of programs and utilities valuable to academics generally. ================================================================= *Tomlinson, David Otis Professor of English, English Department, U. S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland 21402-5044 (301)267-3425 (301)267-3274 (secretary's office); Home: 418 Kensington Road Baltimore, Maryland 21229-2401 Rheumatic fever disabled me for nearly a year when I was six. It forced me to take up sedentary occupations early. I began reading voraciously then and began the study of music. The reading did not take much talent; the music did. Although I had little talent, I enjoyed the musical study though my joy in it these days comes primarily from listening. In college, I could not decide which of the humanities would be my major and consequently shifted between philosophy, English and history, finally settling on philosophy. A Rockefeller Brothers fellowship in religion led me to three years of study in that field before returning to graduate school in English and philosophy. Hired by the U. S. Naval Academy to teach English in 1970, I have happily remained there since. The school does not offer a full range of humanities courses, so those of us (there are near 40 at the moment) in English must furnish not only a look at literature but an understanding of cultural forces as well to students in a technical environment. For two terms (four years), I served as chair of our English Department. I collect books and have also headed the Baltimore Bibliophiles as well as the Maryland Association of Departments of English and, presently, the Mid-Atlantic College English Association. I work at a school which for many years considered typewriters too expensive an item to purchase for its teachers, but in recent years it has furnished us with wonderful computers which make those typewriters look like dime store toys. I glory in this new technology, believing that it will work to allow people to communicate better and therefore to be more humane. The belief has led me to work on the board of the COMPUTER-AIDED COMPOSITION JOURNAL, to work on an instructional development project reviewing software for use in English at the Naval Academy and to serve on Academy committees choosing hardware and software for our students. ================================================================= *Woodill, Gary Faculty Member, School of Early Childhood Education, Ryerson Polytechnical Institute, 350 Victoria Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5B 2K3. (416) 979-5306 I have worked as a school teacher, guidance counsellor, psychometrist, college teacher and university teacher over the past 18 years - one of those people who has never left school. My personal and professional interests are rather diverse - personal: sailing, travelling (a fondness for trains), drawing, chocolate truffles, the Midi of France, the Yugosalvian coast, etc..... professional: computers and young children, computers and disabled persons, the history and sociology of disability, the psychology of humour concerning disability (send cartoons and jokes to the above address), art and photography which depicts disabled people. My interest in disability started while working in a school for children with cerebral palsy in the province of Newfoundland in 1973 and has been a thread throughout my work ever since. Last year my wife (who is a sociologist at York University) and I spend a sabbatical year France where I did extensive networking and library work on the history of disabilities and special education. One outcome of the year was a seminar in Paris on "Infirmites, histoires et societes" where a group decided to form an international association for the study of the history of disabilities. The first general assembly of the association will be held in Feb. 1989 in Paris. One of my goals is to have the association set up computer links among its members. A Canadian group is being set up, and we are looking for organizers in other countries. If any of the HUMANIST group share my particular passions, I would certainly welcome messages over this network. ================================================================= *Whyte, Stephen Ray 303 Cramer UMC, Columbia, MO. 65201(314) 884-0404 OR 620 Ballman St. Louis, MO. 63135(314) 522-8525 I didn't know that there was such a thing as professional humanism, so I have nothing to say about my activities in that field. I have a b.s. in psychology and am presently completing a M.A. in philosophy. Of the different schools of psychology, I have always believed that the attitude of the humanistic psychologists was the healthiest, although I am not altogether averse to utilizing the methods of the behaviorists and the insights of the freudians and gestaltists. Other than marx, pragmatism, existentialism, and a section in an introductory philosophy text about humanism as a world-view, I have not studied much humanistic philosophy. I used to subscribe to a humanist magazine called "free inquiry" (sorry, I can't underline with this terminal), but I found it overly emotional in tone and no longer subscribe. Now, I buy "humanist" magazine whenever I get the chance. I prefer it to "free inquiry", but of course I can't agree with everything. Finally, I do like the humanities. Besides philosophy, I have enjoyed literature, music and drama. I apologize for writing such a collage as this. It seems that each sentence should be its own paragraph. ================================================================= *Zubrow, Ezra B.W. Professor of Anthropology, Department of Anthropology, State University of New York at Buffalo, 350 Millard Fillmore East, Buffalo, New York, U.S.A. 14261; 716-636-2369 (office), 716-636- 2414 (secretary), 716-636-2511 (laboratory) I am an Anthropologist whose primary interests are archaeology. My field work has been in various time periods and areas. They include first millenial Southwestern and Northeastern U.S., neolithic Arctic Norway, pre-Toltec Mexico, classic India, as well as paleolithic Israel. Substantively, I am interested in prehistoric demography, geographic information systems and archaeometry. Educated at Harvard and Arizona, I taught at Stanford prior to Buffalo and have had visiting fellowships and scholarships to Cambridge University. I am presently the director of the Northeastern Archaeological Laboratory, the Anthropological Geographic Information System Laboratory, and co-director of the Archaeometry Research Group. I am a member of the National Center for Geographic Information Analysis and various international commissions. Finally, I have written and edited books on prehistoric carrying capacity, anthropological demography, new world archaeology, and other topics. Avocations include playing the cello, squash, travel, and driving, racing and rallying motorcycles. *****END*****