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1 online resource (178 pages) |
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Priest walks into the C.E.O.'s office : November 1949, the meeting between Father Roberto Busa, S.J. and Thomas J. Watson, Sr. of IBM -- Oracle on 57th street : 1948-1952, the IBM SSEC large-scale calculator, representations of computing, and the role of the adjacent possible -- The mother of all humanities computing demos : June 27, 1952, the first public demo of Busa's and Tasman's punched-card method of "literary data processing" at IBM world headquarters, New York -- Centers of activity : 1954-1956, the founding of CAAL, the first literary data processing center, in Gallarate, Italy -- Computing philology : 1957-1959, the Dead Sea Scrolls: "a quality leap and new dimensions." |
| Summary |
It's the founding myth of humanities computing and digital humanities: In 1949, the Italian Jesuit scholar, Roberto Busa, S.J., persuaded IBM to offer technical and financial support for the mechanized creation of a massive lemmatized concordance to the works of St. Thomas Aquinas. Using Busa's own papers, recently accessioned in Milan, as well as IBM archives and other sources, Jones illuminates this DH origin story. He examines relationships between the layers of hardware, software, human agents, culture and history and answers the question of how specific technologies afford and even constrain cultural practices, including in this case the academic research agendas of humanities computing and, later, digital humanities |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Busa, Roberto
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Busa, Roberto fast |
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Busa, Roberto 1913-2011 gnd |
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Index Thomisticus. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2022041897
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Computational linguistics -- Research -- United States -- History -- 20th century
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Computational linguistics -- Research -- Italy -- History -- 20th century
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Humanities -- Research -- United States -- Data processing -- History -- 20th century
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Text processing (Computer science) -- History -- 20th century
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Library & Information Science -- General.
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Computational linguistics -- Research
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Humanities -- Research -- Data processing
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Text processing (Computer science)
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Computerunterstütztes Verfahren
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Digital Humanities
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Italy
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United States
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History
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781317286530 |
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1317286537 |
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9781315643618 |
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1315643618 |
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1138186783 |
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9781138186781 |
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