From: CBS%UK.AC.EARN-RELAY::EARN.UTORONTO::HUMANIST 27-JUN-1989 20:13:59.99 To: archive CC: Subj: 3.172 biographical supplement 19 (772) Via: UK.AC.EARN-RELAY; Tue, 27 Jun 89 20:13 BST Received: from UKACRL by UK.AC.RL.IB (Mailer X1.25) with BSMTP id 0016; Tue, 27 Jun 89 20:05:53 BS Received: by UKACRL (Mailer X1.25) id 3937; Tue, 27 Jun 89 20:05:33 BST Date: Sun, 25 Jun 89 20:00:45 EDT Reply-To: Willard McCarty Sender: HUMANIST Discussion From: Willard McCarty Subject: 3.172 biographical supplement 19 (772) Comments: To: Humanist Discussion Group To: Oxford Text Archive Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 3, No. 172. Sunday, 25 Jun 1989. Date: 23 June 1989 From: Willard McCarty Subject: biographical supplement 19 Autobiographies of Humanists Nineteenth Supplement Following are 37 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 23 June 1989 ================================================================= *Algazi, Gadi Researcher, Max Planck Institut fuer Geschichte, Hermann Foege Weg 11, Goettingen, D-3400, German Federal Republic, (551) 49560 I am an Israely historian, currently working on a dissertation in medieval history. I was born in Israel, 1961, studied European history, Arabic studies, and literature at the University of Tel Aviv, Israel. Since 1986 I have been working on my doctoral dissertation at the Max Planck Institut fuer Geschichte, Goettingen, and in October 1989 I am about to begin to work here as a research fellow. I am equally interested in history, sociology, anthropology and cultural studies. My current research project addresses a series of questions related to the growing use of written documents in Germany in the late Middle Ages and the early modern period. Examining the codification of peasant oral normative traditions, I try to trace the changing configurations of orality and writing in late medieval society in the context of peasant-lords relations, state formation and the development of learned law. I am interested in medieval culture, classical arabic history, art history, cognitive anthropology, the sociology of communication, cultural studies, oral tradition, popular culture, marxism, peasant studies, sociology of the intellectuals, Jewish history, the sociology and anthropology of israely society, the rituals of the academy, and, unavoidably, politics. I use NotaBene extensively, and employ its TextBase to keep track of all my notes, bibliographies, comments and drafts. I find it the best wordprocessor I have had. As a student I worked as a typesetter on a variety of front-end systems using CORA-V for Linotype systems. I then switched to the Macintosh world and worked for two years as a programmer for a small israely software house especialized in desktop publishing systems. I am especially interested in exchanging views with young people in the social/human/cultural sciences, not necessarily on computers and the like. From my experience with medievalists, few of them are likely to be subscribers of Humanist. But I`ll be happy to find out I`m wrong. English, French, German, Arabic, and of course, Hebrew, could be used. ================================================================= *Anderson, Clifford Wilfred or (to July 31,1989): Psychology Department, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester U.K. M20 9PL (after September 1,1989): Psychology Department, Brandon University, 270 18th Street, Brandon, Manitoba CANADA R7A 6A9; (204) 728-9303 I teach undergraduate psychology courses for which I am fitted by training in Industrial and Counselling Psychology and my research interests in the role of affect in human motivation and the objective measurement of the expression of emotion in poems, short stories, advertising copy, stories written for and by children, political speeches, and other narratives. The computer system I use for this, LOGOS, was developed in collaboration with Dr. George McMaster (Mathematics and Computer Science). This system depends upon universal qualities of English, so that it can be used across authors and materials, and, potentially, languages. ================================================================= *Aronson, Shlomo Professor, Poli. Sci. Dept., HBU, Mount-Scopus, Jerusalem 972-2- 8883278 Born Tel-Aviv 1936. Served in IDF 1954-6. Studied at HBU, U. of Munich, Germany, Free U. of Berlin History and Poli. sci. 1956- 1966 (Dr. Phil 1966). Since than at HBU - except for wars (1967, 1973, Lebanon) as War correspondent, and for a short period as Director of News and Current Affairs, Israel TV. Areas of research: the Holocaust, Arab-Israeli Conflict, Israeli Politics, Nuclear Proliferation in Mid-East. Also columnist and comentator on political affairs at various Israeli and foreign media.. Served as visiting Prof. at UCLA (holder of Holocaust Chair, and as visiting scholar at Brookings Institution, in Wash. D.C.) ================================================================= *Baier, Randal Emerson (Randy) As of June 12, 1989 my position will be Cataloger, Southeast Asian Materials, Olin Library, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. Current phone in Ann Arbor is 313-996-8570. I am an ethnomusicologist by training, specializing in the music of Southeast Asia, especially that of West Java in Indonesia. I am coordinator of Southeast Asian music reviews for the journal Asian Music, have published two articles on Sundanese (West Java) music, and have given several conference papers concerning various aspects of Sundanese music and culture. Interests include Popular music and culture ; History of travel and photography in Southeast Asia ; Agricultural ritual and music ; Voices of popular resistance within musical performance. I have just recently become a librarian/info specialist with a degree from the library school here at the University of Michigan. Currently I'm working as a reference librarian for Oakland Community College in Farmington Hills, Michigan. ================================================================= *Baima, John K. D024JKB@UTARLG Dept. of Foreign Languages and Linguistics, Summer Institute of Linguistics, Univ. of Texas, Arlington; 7246 Cloverglen Dr., Dallas, TX, 75249, USA; (o) (817) 273-3695 (h) (214) 709-8987 I am the author of Lbase a database program with works with grammatically tagged texts. I am currently continuing to develop Lbase and am working on another software project for linguists. ================================================================= *Berghof, Oliver G. University College, Oxford OX1 4BH England; messages left for me under GB/865/276602 will be handed on to me through the University College Lodge. Having read English and German Literature and Philosophy at Oxford and the University of Konstanz, West Germany, I shall embark on a Ph.D. at the University of California at Irvine from August onwards. My subject will be Comparative Literature but my interests stretch beyond what is usually understood to fall within its scope, including AI, aesthetics (computer graphics...), astronomy and windsurfing (the latter two being mainly connected through the tide ...). For purposes of computing I am at present stirred by the first notions of analysing texts beyond one - to - one pattern matching which cluster around words like 'hypertext' and 'concept encyclopedia. ================================================================= *Berland, Kevin H. Department of English, Penn State - Shenango, Sharon, PA 16146 USA. (PhD McMaster 1983: Indirect Ethical Discourse in the Novel: Fielding, Dialogue, and Dialectic). Teaching English at Penn State since 1982. Research interests: 18th-Century British Literature (Fielding, Henry Jones the Bricklayer, Frances Brooke, Johnson, Beckford, history of poetry); emblem studies; historiography; long-term project on the reputation of Socrates in English letters before 1800. Published essays on Bacon, Dryden, Johnson, Br ooke, Fielding, and Socrates & the New Science. Welcome references to Socrates and Xanthippe in writings before 1800. I mainly do wordprocessing, but I'm al so interested in database work for bibliographies (I've been working on a listing of William Beckford's library on Q&A). Also online ESTC searches. I do some composition instruction work, but that's my bread & butter & I do it well but do not love it & do not wish to boast of it in public. Other research interests: physiognomy, historiography of philosophy... ================================================================= *Borowiec, Edward J. Professor of English and Linguistics and Assistant Dept. Chair, Dept. of English, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA 90840 Tel - (213) 985-4223 or 985-4212 (985-4212) Professional interests: Applied linguistics, psychlinguistics, kinesics, semantics and semantic theory, rhetorical/discourse theory, the teaching of writing, computer composition, technology in the English classroom, baccalaureate level writing proficiency testing. I am currently involved in preparing materials (possibly in text form) geared to credentials candidates (prospective teachers of secondary language arts) who, under CA law, must be computer literate. What little time remains is given to research in semantics and pragmatics (my doctoral dissertation, U. So. Calif., 1971 was in semantic theory). ================================================================= *Boyarin Daniel Department of Talmud, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel 972- 2715612 (home) My current research interests are primarily in literary theory and the study of Talmud and midrash. I have just completed a book to be published at Indiana called Intertextuality and the Reading of Midrash and am currently working on a project on the Discourse of Sexuality in Talmudic Judaism. I have been very involved in the development of the Hebrew version of Nota-Bene and am interested in any font support in Semitic languages and Greek for dot matrix and laser printers. I am using a database system to prepare a critical edition of a midrash with not yet entirely satisfactory results and would like to confer with others using such systems and methods. ================================================================= *Braam, Hansje Dep. of Comparative Linguistics, Faculty of Humanities, State University at Leyden, P.O. BOX 9515, 2300 RA LEIDEN, Netherlands; 071-272628 I am working on theory, design and usage of databases giving special attention to applications in the field of (non-western) languages and cultures. I am developing a multifunctional database management system that can handle the problems that evolve here. Special interest: advanced programming languages and techniques, automatic morphology recognition, logic, semantics and philosophy of language, and last but not least history of philosophy. ================================================================= *Brians, Paul Professor of English, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164-5020 (509) 332-4645, (509) 335-5689 Macintosh user and teacher. Posters for classes, handouts, filing, page layout. Edit departmental and scholarly newsletters using PageMaker. Involved in project to create a World Civilizations survey course for all WSU freshmen. Author of NUCLEAR HOLOCAUSTS: ATOMICWAR IN FICTION 1895-1984 (Kent State University Press, 1987) and many articles on nuclear war in fiction. ================================================================= *Bridges, Karl Department of History, 309 Gregory Hall, University of Illinois, Champaign IL 62801217-333-1155 Ph.D student under Vernon Burton. Primary interest is slavery and southern family life before 1850. Secondary interests include 19th century Latin America and colonial United States. I am also interested in the use of computers for research and computer assisted instruction. M.A. from Miami of Ohio under Jack Temple Kirby. Thesis on slaveholding in southern Pittsylvania County, Virginia, 1850. ================================================================= *Bzdyl, Donald G. (BZDY609@CLEMSON.BITNET) Associate Professor of English, Department of English, Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29634 803-656-4031 After getting my Ph.D. in English from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana in 1977, I've been employed at Clemson where I teach a wide variety of courses (18 different ones over the years) ranging from graduate seminars in Chaucer and Old English to sophomore courses in British, American, and World Literature to remedial Freshman English. I have published on a variety of subjects in Old English, and this summer my translation of Layamon's Early Middle English _Brut_ will be published by Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies. My interest in computers dates from 1985 when I began putting my translation on Clemson's IBM mainframe using Waterloo Script. Currently I direct the Writing Lab and also serve on the College of Liberal Arts Computer Committee where we are wrestling with how best to utilize limited funds to enhance our computer facilities. ================================================================= *Carroll, Joseph F. Director, Academic Services Computer Center, Univ. of Puerto Rico, PO BOX 23352, Univ. Station, Rio Piedras PR 00931; (809)764-2258 By training I am an Experimental Psychologist. At the present time I am the Director of Academic Services in the computer center. I am involved in training students and faculty from different disciplines in the use of the computers. Major area of interest is in the application of technology for the disabled ================================================================= *Chesnutt, David R. David Chesnutt, editor of the Papers of Henry Laurens, has been actively involved in developing computer applications for scholarly editors since 1975. He has served as a consultant for a number of projects in the U. S. and Canada in all fields of the humanities. His current interests are in the adaptation of "desktop publishing" tools for scholarly publications and the development of standards for the interchange of humanities' texts. Fellow HUMANISTs may be interested to know that the mainframe computer-assited indexing program developed for the Laurens Papers (CINDEX) is now available from the Newberry Library at Chicago in a MS-DOS version which is infinitely easier to use. Data files for the micro version are completely compatible with the mainframe version. (It's much easier to do large cumulative indexes on the mainframe.) ================================================================= *Chou , Hung-Ming F4 No18 Ln261 Techang St. Taipei Taiwan ROC , (02)3071736 This is Atonis. Atonis is my English name, and it's also a Greek name. I am 24 years old now , and am a male. I graduated from Soochow University last year, and received a Bachelor degree in Computer Science Department. I am familiar with micro-computer ( pc/xt , pc/at ). Because I work for Computing Center in this school, there are many opportunities to learn about the IBM mainfraim. I heard this list-serve from mail via Bitnet. Because there is one report named 'Database advice' that attract my attention very much, I think it is better for me to join with you. I am going to America in August this year to continue my study career. So I have to learn a lot of informations and study many report as I can. It is appreciated that you could give me your fruitful experiences. ================================================================= *Cotton, Joseph Computer Analyst, 3710 Kingwood Sq. Baltimore MD 21215 USA (301) 358-6162 As a computer professional, I have used many of the popular computer systems and I am familiar with the business. As a Rabbi, with about eight years of rabbinic studies at Yeshivot in Israel, I still have an open mind and an interest in the Humanities. I am curious about this list and would like to contribute where I can. I belive the humanist outlook runs deep within Talmudic thinking, and would like to put this to the test. ================================================================= *Cziffra, Lisa . Data Librarian, Princeton University. CIT Research Services, Princeton University, 87 Prospect Ave., Room 310, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA; (609) 452-6249. ================================================================= *Damerau, Fred J.; , CSNET: Research Staff, IBM Corp., Thomas J. Watson Research Center, P.O. Box 218, Yorktown Heights, NY, 10598 (914-945-2214) Education: B.A. Cornell University, 1953, Mathematics; M.A. Yale University, 1957, Linguistics; Ph.D. Yale University, 1966, Lingusitics Employment: IBM Corporation, 1957 to present. Research into the application of linguistic theory to processing of natural language data, since 1968. The major application area for this work has been question answering systems for relational data bases. As a consequence, I have considerable experience in relational data base design, the SQL language, and IBM data base products. Previously worked on information retrieval systems. Other employment: Pace University, 1981 to present. Adjunct Lecturer in Computer Science Have taught undergraduate courses in Artificial Intelligence and Data Base Design and supervised independent study students. Professional activity: ACL Journal Co-editor, 1982; Computers and the Humanities, Editorial Board 1980-; Information Processing and Management, Editorial Board 1985- Memberships: Linguistic Society of America, Association for Computing Machinery, Association for Computational Linguistics, American Association for Artificial Intelligence. ================================================================= *Del Vecchio, Tommaso Assistant in Latin Language and Litterature, University of Bologna, Italy; Dipartimento di Filologia Classica e Medioevale, Via Zamboni 32-34, 40126 Bologna (Italy), Tel. (051) 258515/258506. Interests: Latin Metre, exspecially Plautine Metre. Classical Philology, automatic systems for manuscripts analysis. Automatic systems for classical text analysis. My interest is concerned with the utilisation of automatic systems for classical texts analysis on the one hand, and with the systems themselves on the other. I have in mind to make a critical survey on these systems, so I'm asking around to let me know who has got such an automatic system, whether this system is on sale, and at what price. My interest is naturally concerned with classical texts on tape too. Also in this case I would like to know whether these texts are on sale, and at what price. ================================================================= *Dickson, William R. 261 New Road, Box 729, Avon, CT 06001 -or- University of Hartford, 200 Bloomfield Ave. West Hartford, CT 06117 (203) 693- 1525 FAVORITE QUOTES: "I had no shoes, and I pitied myself. Then I met a man had no feet, so I took his shoes." -Dave Barry; "Gentlemen, you can't fight in here, this is a war room!" -The President in Dr. Strangelove; "I drank what?" -Socrates FAVORITE BOOKS: The Hitchhiker's Trilogy by Douglas Adams; The Pyrates by George MacDonald Fraser; The Star-Bearer trilogy by Patricia A. McKillip; Illuminatus! by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson; I Gotta Go by Ian Shoales. In addition, newspaper columns by Dave Barry. FAVORITE MUSIC: Talking Heads; dIRE sTRAITS; REM; Peter Gabriel; Kate Bush; Dead Can Dance; Sinead O'Connor; Scraping Foetus Off The Wheel. FAVORITE MOVIES: Casablanca; Brazil. ACTIVITIES: Whitewater canoeing (solo, in an open slalom boat); theatre; playing with my computer; roleplaying and semi- roleplaying games; models; flying kites; reading. LONG-TERM AMBITION: To get out of this country and make a living in a bookstore. SHORT-TERM AMBITION: To survive long enough to graduate. ================================================================= *Engel, David Senior Lecturer in Jewish History, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv Israel, (03) 545-9277; Meyerhoff Professor of Modern Jewish History, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, (215) 898-2184 (Visiting until July 1989) Specialist in modern Jewish history, especially in political history of Jews in Poland and Russia in 19th and 20th centuries and in history of Jews under Nazi occupation. Interested in general history of Central and Eastern Europe as well. Editor of Gal-Ed, a bilingual (Hebrew/English) scholarly annual devoted to the study of the history of the Jews of Poland. Have published extensively on Jewish question in Polish politics, especially during and immediately after World War II. ================================================================= *Farber, J. Joel (Note underline between "J" and "F".) Steinman Professor of Classics, Department of Classics, Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, PA 17604-3003; (717) 291-4128; FAX: (717) 291-4158 My research interests are now primarily in papyrology, specifically centering on Elephantine and Syene (Aswan). I have been working most with the Patermouthis archive, which stretches from the late fifth to the early seventh centuries, C.E ., but I have also got to deal with a few Hellenistic documents. Legal and social issues are my primary concern. I collaborate with Bezalel Porten of the Hebrew University (Bitnet address: HNUBP@HUJIVM1), an Aramaicist, who has published extensively on the Jewish documents from Elephantine. Our aim is to put together a picture of the social, legal, religious, and economic continuities of life in those twin communities (Elephantine/Seyene) over the span of 1200 years. Our latest publication: BASP 23.3-4 (1986) 81-98. Greek political theory has been--and continues to be--another interest. I wrote on the propaganda of Hellenistic kingship and its debt to Xenophon in AJP 100 (1979 ) 497-514. I teach Greek, emphasizing the epics and tragedies, so I keep current in those fields as well as I can. With regard to the epics, I am a unitarian, uninterested in orality, full of admiration for the work of Norman Austin, Daniel Levine, Seth Schein, James Redfield. In connection with the tragedies I like to study the films of Ingmar Bergman for thematic parallels. I teach my elementary courses from the JACT texts, with fair satisfaction. I am 56. My children and grandchildren live in Chapel Hill and Raleigh (North Carolina), where I frequently spend weekends. ================================================================= *Feddersen, Mark Senior Analyst, Library Automation project, Information Services, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405, (812)-866-2222. I am a computer systems analyst by profession, but with a great interest in events in the world of teaching and literature. I took a B.A. at University of California, Berkeley, in Humanities (under Alain Renoir). Since then, I have been a travelling musician, a house-builder and cabinet-maker. I am an avid reader of European and South-American modern fiction. Professionally, I am very inter- ested in projects involving "computing for the humanities." My work involves providing tools to scholars who need to gain access to the resources of major research libraries, commercial databases, and administrative/managerial information. ================================================================= *Fried, Morris L. Asst. Dean & Director, Off. of Public Service & Applied Research, Univ. of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269, Box U-13 Professional activities presently include directing & teaching in the University's Labor Education Center, as well as an Int'l. Institute of Public Service (for public adminstrators from developing nations), and three other institutes. Joint appointment in Sociology, in which I received my doctorate years ago from the New School for Social Research, where I was impressed by a philosophical/historical/qualititative approach to the social sciences, and which were reflected in both my MA thesis and dissertation, as well as other work done since. Present interests include a broad range of historical sociology, politics, and attempting to understand the social world. I 've learned that the owl of Minerva only takes wing at dusk. ================================================================= *Gerson, Lloyd P. OR Associate Professor, Dept. of Philosophy, U. of Toronto St. Michael's College, 81 St. Mary's St., Toronto, Ontario M5S 1J4 Canada; (416) 926-1300 Ex.3374 Member of Graduate School of U. of Toronto; Member of St. Michael's College. Main interests: Ancient Greek Philosophy; Metaphysics; Philosophical Theology; Epistemology. Main publications: Articles on Plato, Aristotle, Plotinus, and Augustine; Translations and Commentaries on Aristotle; Translations of Hellensitic Philosophy; a monograph "God and Greek Philosophy" forthcoming from Routledge. Current project: A monograph on Plotinus. ================================================================= *Gilmore, Matthew or Public Services and Manuscripts Librarian, Special Collections, 207 Gelman Library, 2130 H St., NW, The George Washington University, Washington, D.C. 20052; (202) 994-7549 (202) 994-7548 FAX I am an information scientist and a historian (MLS from UCLA). What I have looked at and continue to research is scholarly communication and research methods in history and how computer technology can (and cannot) be used. This includes interests in Human-Computer Interaction, user interfaces and graphics, and hypermedia. And subject analysis and category theory and database design. And necessitates belonging to: AHA, ALA, ASIS, ACM, OAH, etc. I worked with Dr. Donald Case at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at UCLA--who shares many of these same interests. The article which forms my starting point in this is due out in The Indexer presently. ================================================================= *Hakeem, Farrukh P.O. Box 2055, LIC, NY 11102; (718) 721 2572. I am a student in the Ph.D. program in Criminal Justice at John Jay College. I have just begun to explore this marvellous world of computers. I use it mostly for statistical programs: spss and sas.I would like to learn more. ================================================================= *Halporn, James W. Chairman, Department of Classical Studies, Professor of Classical Studies and Comparative Literature, 547 Ballantine Hall, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405 812-855-6651; 702 Ballantine Road, Bloomington, IN 47401; 812-332-6868 (I prefer receiving mail at home). Research interests: Latin palaeography and text-criticism; Greek and Latin metrics; Christian Latin (Patristics); Ancient Drama (Greek tragedy and Roman comedy); history of classical scholarship, especially nineteenth and twentieth century; women in classical studies (19th / 20th century); literary theory and criticism. Editor: Cassiodorus, De anima; Co-author, The Metres of Greek and Latin Poetry; Contributor, Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics (Greek/Latin metrics). Articles and papers on the subjects mentioned above. I have been involved in work with computers since the 1961 IBM conference on computers in the humanities. Currently the Department is in the process of developing, with University support, a program for the use of computers in classical studies. All members of the department are now supplied with PCs or the equivalent. The equipment is mainly DOS oriented, but there is a Macintosh SE and an IBYCUS computer (the latter with the relevant TLG and PHI CD-ROMs). We hope to be in contact with users of the UCLA Classicist's Workbench and of the Perseus Project. I would also be interested in hearing from classicists using NotaBene, WordPerfect, DukeFonts, MacLink, HP scanners, etc. about their experiences in handling multiple fonts for video and printer drivers. ================================================================= *Hart, Michael S. Systems Analyst, 405 W. Elm, Urbana, IL 61801 Current projects include putting the Great Books into machine readable form, plus an unabridged dictionary. Plans are to charge a truly minimal fee such as $1 for materials up to 150Kb, for larger files add $1 per 100Kb. Fifteen years have gone into this project, which I will view as personally completed when we have released 10,000 $1 volumes of the highest quality complete with indices, concordances, as well as introductions and commentaries. Hardware/ software development to assist in this project also consumes my professional interest and has led to speaking engagements on this and related topics. I am very interested in conversing with others who may be interested in this or similar projects for use on systems from micros to mainframes. ================================================================= *Hasbrouck, Mary Academic Computing Coordinator, Computing Center, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA 19081; (215) 328-8528 I have worked in the Swarthmore College Computing Center for the past 5 years, providing software support to students and faculty, writing documentation, testing new applications, supervising the student consulting staff, and doing some programming. This year I am the computing coordinator for the humanities. I have been offering workshops to get beginners started with computing (introductions to the Macintosh and the Vax, to our new campus network, to word processing applications, and to using electronic mail locally and over Bitnet), and looking for programs that would be useful for humanities professors here. ================================================================= *Haupt, Edward J Associate Professor of Psychology, Department of Psychology, Montclair State College, Upper Montclair NJ 07043 usa 20 yrs ago I finally finished a PhD in social psychology. Like my aero engineering degree from 10 years earlier, it's something I don't do. I have had an interest in linguistics, particularly semantics, so I am now interested in changes in terms from the Germans who started experimental and the Americans who continued it. To do this I do data bases, tree structures, etc. I would like to talk to anybody who is interested in terminology tree structures and nets and use of data bases for collecting such data. I guess this means I want to be part of Humanist. ================================================================= *Hawley, Michael Software engineer, NeXT, Inc; Doctoral candidate, MIT Media Lab My research interests are in multimedia information retrieval, though practical interests have more to do with textual data. I implemented many of the text-oriented applications introduced with the NeXT machine (e.g., Webster's Ninth, etc). ================================================================= *Jappy, Anthony G. Institution: Faculte' des Sciences humaines, Universite' de Perpignan, 36, Chemin de la passio vella, 66025 PERPIGNAN CEDEX, France. Telephone (+33 68 51 00 51) Research area: Linguistics (semiotics, computational ling.) Experience of computing in the Humanities: Since 1984, LISP (on the old Apple II), PROLOG (1985-88) Wordprocessing and databases (graffiti, proverbs etc) Since 1988, Micro-OCP, and now mainframe OCP for Degree-level text analysis. Present position: Matre de confrences (a sort of Senior Lecturer) in English linguistics at the University of Perpignan, with computing courses for EFL students at two levels: 1) DEUG (2 Year):word processing, use of databases, elementary text analysis; 2) Degree: Second level text analysis ================================================================= *Jensen, Richard 1109 Longwood, Bloomington IN 47401 U.S.A. (812) 334-2330 As a professor of history at the University of Illinois, Chicago, I specialize in American political and social history, and in quantitative methods. I have taught computers/statistics/quantitative research design to historians since 1968--at the undergraduate, graduate and postdoctoral levels. The Newberry Library summer institutes (1972-83) introduced hundreds of historians to computers. In 1986 I led a faculty workshop on micros at Moscow State University; this summer I will be giving a short course in micros at Scuola Superiore di Studi Storici, a new graduate school of history in San Marino (Italy). Originally my main interest was in statistics and mainframes. Since 1980 I have concentrated on micros. The statistical interest continues (e.g. patterns of unemployment in the 1930s, voting behavior in the 1890s), but now I use 1-2-3 more than SPSS. The new programs for word processing and text manipulation interest me. I am currently writing a review essay on Personal Information Managers (Agenda, AskSam, Ize, Gofer), asking how they can help scholars deal with notes, texts, bibliographies, abstracts and electronic mail. Publications include Historian's Guide to Statistics (textbook, 1971), "The Microcomputer Revolution for Historians" (general article, 1983), "The Hand Writing on the Screen" (article on word processing, 1987), and "Scrivere col Personal Computer" (the first Italian article on micros for humanists, 1988). ================================================================= *Kassis, Hanna Professor of Religious Studies (Islamic Studies), Department of Religious Studies, University of British Columbia Vancouver, Canada V6T 1W5; (604)-228-6523 I study and teach Islamic Studies with special emphasis on Muslim Spain and the encounter between Islam and Christianity in the Middle Ages. Within this scope, I have so far focussed my attention on the eleventh and twelfth centuries -- the period leading up to the First Crusade and immediately following it. My interests dwell on the process of image-making: what the Muslims thought and said about themselves and the Christians in Spain (and North Africa) during this period. The Arabic texts which I am currently working are being prepared in machine- readable form (Arabic text and English translation). Similarly, a text of the canon of the Arabic-speaking Spanish Christian Church (eleventh century) is similarly being edited in machine-readable form. I have also completed a Concordance of the Qur'an, in two versions: English (1983) and Spanish (with K.I. Kobbervig, 1987). As a result, the text of an English translation of the Qur'an is now available in machine-readable form (subject to copyright clarification). Finally, ancillary to my current research focus, I have done an extensive numismatic study of Muslim Spain and North Africa during the period extending from the middle of the eleventh to the middle of the twelfth centuries. This is partly published and the rest will appear within this or next year. ================================================================= *Lauzzana, Ray or Editor, FAST and the FINEART Forum, Professor of Computer Graphics, Univ. of Massachusetts. Prof. Lauzzana has been a consultant within the computer graphics industry for over 15 years, is the author of over 20 published articles on computer graphics. His clients have included Universal Studios, Technicolor, and American Zoetrope. He was part of the start-up teams for several computer graphics companies, including CALMA Corp., Image Graphix, and Network Research Corp. From 1979 to 1984, he was an editor for Computer Graphics World magazine. He also organized several significant exhibitions of computer graphics including, High Technology Art at the US Library of Congress. Examples of his art work are in several reknown museums including the Museum of Modern Art, New York. *****END*****