RMS is looking for people knowledgeable about free software to attend this event at Harvard on Thursday and talk to the people in the field about making their software free. If you can do this, please let us know at [EMAIL PROTECTED] It would be a big help. Thanks!
====================================================================== Digital Humanities: "Humanities Computing: Theoretical Challenges" Dr. Malcolm Hyman, research scientist at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, will give present. All faculty, graduate students, librarians, and technologists interested in humanist research endeavors which involve any level or aspect of computing will find this an interesting and topical presentation, as Harvard grapples with how best to support this emerging field. (Abstract for this talk appears after asterisks at the bottom of this email.) Thursday April 17th at 2:00 p.m., Room 133, Barker Center. ABSTRACT for Digital Humanities Talk, Thursday April 17, 2:00 PM This talk will focus on emerging issues in humanities computing and the technical and theoretical challenges they raise. Early work in computing primarily addressed problems in engineering, the natural sciences, economy, political administration, and business management. Applications involving human language and textual data followed at first only slowly, but led eventually to significant developments in document processing, speech recognition and synthesis, and electronic communication. Recent innovations in computing have been spurred primarily by the needs of the natural sciences: notably, the demands of communication in high-energy and particle physics led to the creation of the World Wide Web; the challenges of genomics drove fundamental research in high performance computing and pattern recognition; and biomedicine has prompted substantial work on text mining. These developments were possible because of close cooperation between computer scientists and researchers in the various scientific domains. So far, however, such cooperative endeavors have largely been lacking in the humanities. Yet humanistic research poses many challenges that may well contribute to the next wave of innovations in computing. The aim of this presentation is to formulate some of these challenges and to provide key points that can be used in initiating a fruitful dialog between humanists and computer scientists. -- John Sullivan Manager of Operations GPG Key: AE8600B6 _______________________________________________ Info-member mailing list <[email protected]> http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-member
