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Humanist Mailing List, Vol. 2, No. 224. Tuesday, 11 Oct 1988.
Autobiographies of HUMANISTs
Thirteenth 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@vm.epas.utoronto.ca OR
mccarty@utorepas
11 October 1988
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*Ahrens, John <AHRENS @ HARTFORD>
Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of
Hartford, West Hartford, CT 06117; (H) 203-247-9560 (O) 203-
243-4745
I have just returned to teaching after spending the past four
years as the Assistant Director of the Social Philosophy and
Policy Center at Bowling Green State University. During this
time I was the Managing Editor of the Center's publications,
including a journal entitled Social Philosophy & Policy. My
stint as an editor instilled in me a fervent loathing of bad
writing and a desire to eradicate it wherever it may be. My
research interests are primarily in the areas of ethics and
political philosophy. I have a special interest in environmental
issues and in the foundations of classical liberalism. When the
attraction of traditional philosophical issues pales but I still
have the desire to work, I turn my attention to popular culture,
especially the literature and films of science fiction. I teach
classes in these areas (including even science fiction), and in
elementary logic. Beyond such academic pursuits, I am an avid
student of computers and of the martial arts.
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*Brink, Daniel T. <ATDXB@AUSACAD>
Assoc. Prof., English, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287-
0302 (602) 965-6795.
My academic training was in Germanic philology, with an emphasis
on the West Germanic tongues, Old English, Old Saxon, and the
like. I minored in linguistics, and wrote a generative phonology
of Dutch for my dissertation (U of Wisconsin).
My computer interests awoke with the advent of the microcomputer,
largely as a result--probably common to many humanities computing
types--of my frustration in the the early eighties with trying to
get foreign characters into WordStar. I finally succeeded, but a
sabbatical was lost in the process and my interests took a
decidedly new direction.
I am now Manager of a new facility on my campus, Technology
Assessment and Development, which has the charter of identifying
and evaluating new products which have the potential impacting
the university in major way. Talk about fun...
I can still recite the entire corpus of Old Low Franconian
literature by heart, however, so I haven't gone completely bad:
Hebban olla vogala nestas bigunnan hinasi thu
ende ik. Wat onbidan we nu?
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*Hanly, Ken <hanly@uofmcc>
Brandon University, Brandon Mb. Canada, R7A 6A9
I am an associate professor of philosophy at Brandon University.
I have been involved for some time in socialist politics as well
as community involvement, e.g. was president of a co-operative
housing project, of a direct charge buyer's co-op etc. I am
interested in humanist religion -was a member of the local
unitarian fellowship for some time- as well as discussion of
contemporary social issues. I am also interested in Marxist
analyses of social problems. As a hobby I read and write poetry
and have served as editorof a poetry magazine and have edited a
series of chapbooks.
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*Horton, Thomas B. <HortonT@servax>
Dept. of Computer Science, Florida Atlantic Univ., Boca Raton, FL
33431; (407) 393-2674
I completed my PhD in Computer Science at the Univ. of Edinburgh
(Scotland) in June 1987, and started as an assistant professor
here at FAU the following autumn.
My PhD research examined statistical authorship studies and
focused on the question of collaboration between Shakespeare and
Fletcher in "Henry VIII" and "The Two Noble Kinsmen." In this
study I used distribution-free discriminant analysis techniques
to analyze the rate of occurrence of function words, with
successful results: 94.8% of 459 scenes of known authorship
(containing at least 500 words) were assigned to the correct
author. The procedure indicates that the two disputed plays are
collaboration and generally supports the usual division (but not
always).
Current research interests include the analysis of function word
rates and characterization in the plays of Shakespeare and
Fletcher. I am also very interested in computer processing of
old-spelling texts, especially Jacobean drama and Middle English
manuscripts. Here at FAU I teach core Computer Science courses
such as Data Structures and Analysis of Algorithms. I generally
program in Pascal and C on UNIX systems and am busy converting my
colleagues to the TeX document processing system.
At Edinburgh I helped set up a local "Computers in the
Humanities" special interest group. FAU does not have a strong
community of computer users in the humanities, but I have
recently made contact with the College of Humanities, who are
interested in joint supervision of graduate students, seminars
and possibly a course in literary computing.
I'd be very interested hearing from anyone interested in research
in authorship studies, literary statistics, characterization
studies or Middle English texts.
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*Janus, Louis E. <janus@stolaf.uucp>
Norwegian Department, St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN 55057;
(507) 663-3486 (work); (612) 822-1015 (home).
I teach Norwegian and Linguistics at St. Olaf College. In the
past, I taught a beginning level course in computer use for
Humanists (an interim which focused on several UNIX tools). Now
I am involved in several Mac projects, most specifically with
sound digitizing in foreign language instruction. I have a number
of Old Norse sagas in machine readable format, which I soon will
be announcing to the general public. I was at the meeting in
Columbia, SC where we discussed establishing the HUMANIST, but
somehow did not end up on the e-mail list.
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*Keith, Philip M. <E00050@MSUS1>
English Department, St. Cloud State University, St. Cloud, MN
56301; 612-255-3189
I have been working on and off with computers in literature and
the teaching of writing for the better part of a decade. I have
been working with word-processing and interactive programs for
teaching and improving writing. I have also been working at some
text-analyzer projects on metrics and prose structure.
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*Lipson, Elizabeth <uspel@emuvm1>
Academic Computing Publications Editor, Emory University
Computing Center, Uppergate House, Atlanta, Georgia 30322
404/727-7651
I write computing publications and a newsletter for our user
community at Emory. My past activities have been in the area of
computer training-- instructor led, classroom/individual,
computer-based training, self-paced materials. I have worked in
computing for about five years. Before that, I worked in
research/writing in the field of historic preservation. I have a
B.A. in history from Georgia State University.
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*MacWhinney, Brian <brian+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Professor of Psychology, Department of Psychology, Carnegie
Mellon University, Pittsburgh PA 15213; 412 268-3793
I am a psychologist and not a bona fide humanist. Much of my
work is clearly psychological in nature. This is the work I do
in simulating the acquisition of language with computers and in
conducting experiments to provide data for these simulations.
However, a second line of my research comes closer to touching on
issues in the Humanities. This is my work as director of the
Child Language Data Exchange System. With the support of various
public and private national foundations, Catherine Snow of
Harvard University and I have worked with many researchers in the
field of child language acquisition to establish a large (over
100 megabytes) database of adult-child conversational interaction
data. Most of the these data are from English. However, a
growing proportion of the database is from other languages as
well. The CHILDES system has not only developed a large database
but has also specified a standard transcription system for
conversational analysis. In addition, we have developed a set of
C programs for the analysis of conversational data. These
programs are unlike concordance programs in many ways and focus
on Boolean searches, cross-tier searches, and numerical outputs.
Membership in the CHILDES system and access to the data and
programs is open to the research community.
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*Makivirta, Joni Mikael <Makivirt@finjyu>
Minna Canthin katu 22 A 5, 40100 Jyvaskyla, Finland
1. Studies
I am a student of history. During this year I should graduate.
My main subject is general history. I have also studied history
of Finland, Economic history, Social sciences (=mostly politics),
and Educational sciences. I probably will still study Speech
communication as an extra subject. This year I should do my
pro gradu -work. I will most probably do study on T.H.Green - an
english politician during 19th centory (=Victorianic time). Green
was interesting man because he respected Christian values in
life. He thought that liberalism should lead also qualitial
improvement in human beeing. A improvement meant that people
lerned to act and work moralisticly - in Christian sense of the
word. By learning these values people could learn to think also
common good - not only themselves. This kind of thinking gave
some ideas also to socialistic thinkers. Although they, of
course, left out the word Christian. Was Mr. Green a true
Christian, I do not know. But at least he sympathised Christian
values.
2. Life
Well that about my studies. Now. My story: I have lived all of my
life in Finland. (is in Europe, Scandinavia and beside the
USSR.) And I am still living in my home city: Jyvaskyla.
Jyvaskyla is in central Finland. Here is lot of lakes, woods ...
and nature is very colse. There are some 70 000 citizens in
Jyvaskyla. I graduated from High School 1986. After that I
decided to study history in local University. So here I am. I
am Christian, but I can sympathise with many kind of a people and
understand many kind of a thoughts - although I would not apply
them in my own life. Maybe this is the reason for my interest to
T.H.Green?
3. Expectations
I hope I could find, via this list, someone who is interested in
Victorianic time. I also hope I could learn to use some
databases, and tell about them in the Departement of History. I
have founded the list HISTORY at FINHUTC, so if anyone is
interested in that. You are welcome to join in. I wonder if
HUMANIST and HISTORY could do some co-operation?
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*McDaid, John G. <mcdaid@nyuacf>
Computer Coordinator, NYU Expository Writing Program, 269 Mercer
St. Rm. 219 New York, NY 10003 (212) 998-8862
For the last five years, I've been teaching expository writing at
NYU while working on my doctorate in media ecology. My
dissertation is on the process of hypermedia composition, and
I've been working at integrating hypertext (StorySpace,
HyperCard) into our freshman comp sequence. We have two dedicated
classrooms with Macintoshes running 16 sections each semester.
I see computers from a McLuhanist perspective, and as a tool for
decentering authority in the classroom. I'm interested in
networks, computer conferencing, collaborative work-group
support, and Xanadu.
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*Meadows, Dennis Lynn <D_MEADOWS@UNHH>
Director, Institute for Policy and Social Science Research;
Professor of Business Systems and Policy, University of New
Hampshire, Durham, NH 03824, USA; 603/862-2186 Telex: 493-0372
RPC UI
I have been on the faculties of MIT and Dartmouth; I just joined
the UNH faculty this fall to define, create, and run a new
institute that will support research interests of faculty across
the campus. My research interests lie in the creation of
sophisticated simulation models and educational games that show
the interaction of psychological, economic, social, political,
and technical factors. My games and books on this subject have
been translated into over 30 languages.
I also have an extremely strong and active interest in Eastern
Europe. I have lived in Budapest and visited the USSR over 45
times. I will take a Fulbright in Moscow next spring. I serve
as US Director of the Soviet- American Environmental Education
Project.
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*Meath, Terrence W. <HSCSTWM@UMNHSNVE.BITNET>
User Services Specialist, Health Sciences Computing Services,
University of Minnesota, BOX 720 UMHC, 5-235 Malcom Moos Tower,
515 Delaware St. S.E., Minneapolis, MN 55455; (612) 625-7175
In requesting to join your list, I am representing several
hundred faculty, staff and students in the Health Sciences at the
UofM, and not just myself.
We have taken a different approach to network based information
sharing. Rather than require each of our users to subscribe to
the lists that they think might be useful to them (and then
unsubscribe if necessary), we have created a small group of
public mailboxes (mailboxes on our system that all of our users
can access), which we subscribe to the various list servers. Our
public mailboxes are organized around general topics such as
statistics, computing, health, etc. and each contain the traffic
of a dozen or so lists. The mailboxes have the ability to show
all of the traffic together, or to sort on any one list.
The biggest advantage is that we involve many more people in
network communications than would be the case if they had to
learn about, evaluate and manage the subscriptions by themselves.
Further, this type of involvement eliminates a great deal of
redundant network traffic.
Our users are still free to subscribe to a list on their own, but
our public mailbox technique has worked out so well that few
people have chosen to do that.
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*Moulthrop, Stuart <SMOULTHR@YALEVM>
Assistant Professor of English; P.O. Box 7355 Yale Station, New
Haven, CT 06520; 203-436-3023
My primary interest is in theory and history of narrative,
especially late-modern and "postmodern" developments. My
dissertation (Yale, 1986) was an investigation of problematic
closure in Sterne, Dickens, and Charlotte Bronte. I'm currently
working on a book concerning the status of fictional language in
recent American fiction (Thomas Pynchon, Toni Morrison, Maxine
Hong Kingston). Parallel (somewhat) to all of that, I also take
an active interest in hypertext, particularly its literary
applications. I've written a hypertextual treatment of Borges's
"Garden of Forking Paths" in Storyspace and am presently involved
in a couple of other hypertext projects, including speculations
about an electronic literary review.
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*Muller, R. Andrew <Mullera@SSCvax.bitnet.McMaster.CA>
Associate Professor, Department of Economics, McMaster
University, Hamilton, Ontario; (416) 525-9140 x3831
I am an academic economist with professional interests in public
policy, especially environmental policy, housing and industrial
organization. I have published econometric studies of the pulp
and paper industry's adjustment to pollution control and energy
price changes, analyses of the Toronto housing market and rent
control, and analyses of Canadian water export policy (with
particular reference to the Grand Canal Scheme to export water
from James Bay to the United States). I have also worked on
simulating the effects of the proposed Canada-US free trade
agreement.
I have a long standing interest in politics and political
philosophy. I have often been disturbed by the extent to which my
discipline, Economics, tends to coarsen the public sensibilities
of those who study it.
I have presently (Fall, 1988) a specific interest in the nature
of liberal education in to-day's universities. I chair a
committee in the Faculty of Social Sciences has been struck to
investigate possible changes in our undergraduate degree
programme. Discussion has focussed on the nature of liberal
education in the 1990s. I am trying to reconcile two views on
this - an "applied social science " view which would "fix-up"
current degree programs by adding courses in computer techniques,
report writing, etc. and a more traditional liberal education
view which would impose distributional requirements and create
special courses to ensure all students received some exposure to
science, literature, philosophy, and the history of thought.
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*Neu, Joyce <JN0@PSUVM>
Dept. of Speech Communication, 207 Sparks, Penn State University,
University Park, PA 16802, (814) 865-7365
I am an Assistant Professor of Speech Communication at Penn State
University with a degree in Linguistics. I have used micro
computers in teaching writing to both natives and non- natives
since 1983 and have been instrumental in developing computer labs
at Santa Monica College and at the U. of California, Irvine for
use by humanities faculty and students.
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*Oleske, William F. <CLL6WFO@CMS1.UCS.LEEDS.AC.UK>
Technical Assistant, Central Language Laboratory, The University,
Leeds LS2 9JT, West Yorkshire, England, U.K.; Tel:Leeds (0532)-
332647
I am charged with the introduction, maintenance and development
of technical support for language acquisition, foreign language
text process and support in the audio-, video-, and satellite
broadcast reception area
I am also concerned with the development of the use of Computer
Assi anguage Learning software and with non-Roman alphabet
wordprocessing as a communication and teaching tool.
In my post, I am the technical support for the numerous
autonomous foreign language teaching departments within the
University.
I also maintain contacts with my equivalent colleagues throughout
the U.K. and Eire.
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*Owen, David W. D. <OWEN@ARIZRVAX>
<OWEN@RVAX.CCIT.ARIZONA.EDU>
Dept of Philosophy, 213 Social Sciences Bldg, University of
Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85718
Main computing interests: display and printing of alternate
character sets, especially on laser printers; text searching;
computer conferencing,
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*Rhine, Michael L. <mrhine@gtri01.gatech.edu>
<mrhine@gtri01.internet>
Computer Operations Supervisor, Georgia Tech Research Institute,
(404) 421-7694; (404) 894-7171
Background in music and performing arts (22 yrs exp) in r+r, r+b,
classical and jazz (classic guitar/recorder in chamber music
ensembles, bebop and standards, etc...). Avid reader: ecletic
interests. 4.5 years USMC, 3rdBAT 5thMAR, 1st MARDIV as enlisted
and officer (0301/2).
Currently working in the computer field. No previous background.
All learning OJT. Studying Mathematics w/concentration in
CompSci.
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*Richman, David <d_richman@unhh>
Theater and Dance, University of New Hampshire
I am Assistant Professor of Theater at the University of New
Hampshire. My principal interest is in theatrical production.
For eleven years I was Director of Theater at the University of
Rochester and Artistic Director of the University of Rochester
Summer Theater. I have directed twenty-two productions,
including "King Lear," "A Midsummer Night's Dream," and "The
Misanthrope." I have published several articles on connections
between theatrical practice and critical inquiry.
Though I do not use computers in my work, I am serious about
the computer as a tool and a source of information. Being blind,
I find that the computer has become one of my most important
sources of information, and moreover a vital connection to the
academic community. Arguably, the coming into being of computers
with speech is the greatest single advance for the blind since
the invention of Braille.
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*Rutherford, John RUTHERFORD@CTSTATEU
Academic Computing Services Coordinator / Central Conn. State
University Elihu Burritt Library / New Britain, CT 06050 / 203
827-7800
I am a librarian by profession and have become interested in
academic computing subjects through work with online
bibliographic services. Prior to my position at Central
Connecticut I was an assistant manager of information services at
the University of Petroleum & minerals in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia,
and was involved in the implementation of the DOBIS/LIBIS
automated library information system.
I am interested in text recognition systems and have been a third
party follower of several HUMANIST discussions in this area and
look forward to becoming more involved in HUMANIST discussions.
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*Schriner, Ken <KS06054@UAFSYSB>
Research Assistant, System Analyst, Arkansas Research and
Training Center in Vocational Rehabilatation, University of
Arkansas, 346 N. West Ave., Fayetteville, AR 72701; (501) 575-
3656
I am currently employed as a computer jock by ARTCVR in support
of faculty research. This recent development ended a 5 year
stint with the Computing Services department at this campus.
While there, some of my support of faculty was in the area of
humanities. Including several statistical studies of slave
holdings in the state prior to the Civil War. I find the
application of computers to fields like humanties quite
interesting, since it is usely so different from the application
in fields like engineering. I have also worked 2 years for
Exxon. My role was computer support of engineers. We did large
amounts of oil reservoir simulation computing. Computers used
for simulation are another area of interest. I was bit by that
bug during my three years of employment by the US Geological
Survey as a Hydrologist. Simulation there consisted of stochastic
simulation of rainfall, runoff, and sunspots. Also, some
simulation of water reservoir operating schedules was performed.
My goals are to obtain a wide range experience of the world, much
as Thomas Jefferson did. To that end, I also brew beer.
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*Stuart, Christopher <ST5@CORNELLA.BITNET>
Technical Consultant, 220 CCC, Academic Computing, Cornell
University 14850 (607) 255-8304
I work closely with the college of liberal arts at Cornell
University and am most involved with the application of computing
to course design and research. I have a B.A. in Medieval History
from the University of the South (Sewanee, TN) and became
interested in computing while working in the field of historic
preservation in St. Augustine, Florida. My tastes, as probably
is the case with most people in this group, are varied, though I
would be hard pressed to decide between giving up my P.G.
Wodehouse books or my bluegrass record collection. My duties as
technical consultant at Cornell include managing the software
lending library, consulting projects in the humanities, and
teaching microcomputer applications.
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*Spaeth, Donald <ECL6DAS@CMS1.UCS.LEEDS.AC.UK.>
Arts Computing Development Officer, Computing Service, University
of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT UK; Tel. 0532 333573
I am an historian by training, specialising in early modern
British history. My research is on popular religion in 17th and
18th century England. I became involved in computing while a
high school student at the University of Illinois, where I took a
Latin course and subsequently became a programmer on the PLATO
C.A.I. computer. While at college and graduate school, I used
computers for word-processing, statistics, and dataset
management, and served for a year as a Computer Proctor,
assisting students and faculty in their computing. I finished at
Brown University in 1985 and then worked for two years for
Project Pallas at the University of Exeter, England. Pallas is a
project funded by the U.K. Computer Board to teach basic
computing skills to students in the Faculty of Arts (i.e.,
Humanities). In 1987 I moved to the University of Leeds, where I
am Arts Computing Development Officer, working jointly in the
Computing Service and the Faculty of Arts. My job is to be a
computer expert for humanities lecturers, to serve as a contact
point between the Computing Service and the Faculty of Arts, and
to encourage the use of computers in research and teaching by
giving courses and advice.
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