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Steven E. Jones

Roberto Busa, S. J., and the Emergence of Humanities Computing

The Priest and the Punched Cards

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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 t… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-1-317-28653-0
  • EAN: 9781317286530
  • Produktnummer: 20179119
  • Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
  • Seitenangabe: 194 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 3'082 KB
  • Abbildungen: 11 schwarz-weiße Abbildungen

Über den Autor


Steven E. Jones is DeBartolo Chair of Liberal Arts and Professor of Digital Humanities at the University of South Florida. He was a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the CUNY Graduate Center Advanced Research Consortium in 2014-2015 and a recipient of the Keats-Shelley Association Distinguished Scholar award in 2013. His most recent book, The Emergence of the Digital Humanities, highlights his specialties in textual studies and digital humanities.

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