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Honorary members
Father Busa
Founder of Literary and Linguistic Computing
Roberto Busa was born in Vicenza on November 28th 1913. He was the second of the five children of Carlo, an officer of FF. SS. [the Italian National Railways], and Silvia Prior. He attended primary school in Bolzano and grammar school first in Verona, at the Institute "Scipione Maffei", and then in Belluno, at the Institute "Tiziano Vecellio". From 1928, in the Episcopal Seminary of Belluno, he attended high school and took the first two-year course of Theology with Albino Luciani, later elected Pope under the name Giovanni Paolo I. On September 11th 1933 he joined the "Compagnia di Gesü", where he got a diploma in Philosophy in 1937 and one in Theology in 1941 and where he was ordained priest on May 30th 1940. From 1940 till 1943 he was an auxiliary army chaplain in the National Army and later in the partisan forces. In 1946 he graduated in Philosophy at the Papal Gregorian University of Rome with a degree thesis entitled "The Thomistical Terminology of Interiority", which was published in 1949. He was full professor of Ontology, Theodicy and Scientific Methodology and, for some years, a librarian in the Faculty of Philosophy "Aloisianum" of Gallarate. In 1946 he planned the Index Thomisticus. In 1949 he started some experiments in linguistic automation at the New York and Milan head offices of IBM, where he was assured of the assistance of Mr Paul Tasman from New York. The "Centro Automazione Analisi Linguistica" (CAAL), the "Comitato Promotore" and the "Collegio d'Iniziativa" were founded in order to administer the information which came out of this. The operations were carried out in Gallarate and in Milan until 1967, in Pisa till 1969, in Boulder (Colorado) till 1971 and, for the next nine years, in Venice, where, from 1974 till 1980, the photocomposition of the 70,000 pages forming the 56 encyclopaedic volumes of the Index Thomisticus was accomplished using IBM computers. The stages of the international promotion of the methods followed are marked by the 110 conferences which Father Busa took part in actively in a period of forty years in three continents. In 1983 the new "Associazione per la Computerizzazione delle Analisi Ermeneutiche e Lessicologiche" (CAEL), which has its seat inside the Faculty of Philosophy "Aloisianum" of Gallarate, succeeded the CAAL. At the University of the Sacred Heart of Milan Father Busa founded the "Gruppo Interdisciplinare per le Ricerche della Computerizzazione dei Segni dell'Espressione" (GIRCSE), taught seminars on Thomistical Lexicography and Lexicology and currently teaches Linguistic Information Science. He also teaches Computer Analysis of Texts and Thomistical Hermeneutics at the Papal Gregorian University of Rome. Tom Corns
Secretary
Thomas N. Corns was educated at Brasenose and University Colleges, Oxford, and the Maximilianeum Foundation, Munich. His doctoral work was a computer-aided study of Milton's prose style. Principal publications include The Development of Milton's Prose Style (1982), Milton's Language (1990), Uncloistered Virtue: English Political Literature, 1640-1660 (1992), Regaining Paradise Lost (1994), Milton: The Prose Works (1998). He is currently lead researcher on a major AHRB-funded project to examine aspects of De Doctrina Christiana, attributed to John Milton. He was for many years honorary secretary of the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing. He is professor of English and head of the School of Arts and Humanities at the University of Wales, Bangor. John Dawson
Secretary 1978-83 Editor of the ALLC Bulletin 1978
John Dawson was a founder member of the ALLC, a Committee member 1976-1978, and Secretary 1978-1983. He edited the ALLC Bulletin during 1978. He has run the Literary and Linguistic Computing Centre at Cambridge University since 1974, and is author of numerous articles on humanities computing subjects. He is co-editor of A Concordance to John Gower's 'Confessio Amantis'; Concordance des œuvres de François Rabelais; A Concordance to the Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot; Facsimile, Transcription, and Concordance of The Hague MS 128 E 2, with Finding Lists; Concordance to 'Erotokritos', with Finding Lists; and History of the Origin and Progress of the Company of Watermen and Lightermen of the River Thames, vol. IV. For more details, see his web page. Gordon Dixon
Editor, Literary and Linguistic Computing 1986-1997 Editor, ALLC Bulletin 1983-1986 Susan Hockey
Susan Hockey has been an active member of the ALLC since its foundation, as a Committee member, Editor of the ALLC Bulletin, and as Chair from 1984-97, when she oversaw the startup of Literary and Linguistic Computing with Oxford University Press. She is the author of Electronic Texts in the Humanities: Principles and Practice (Oxford University Press, 2000), SNOBOL Programming for the Humanities (Oxford University Press, 1996) and A Guide to Computer Applications in the Humanities (Duckworth, 1980) and as well as numerous articles on text analysis computing, encoding issues and digital libraries for the humanities. She is Emeritus Professor of Library and Information Studies (SLAIS) at University College London (UCL), having retired from the Directorship of SLAIS in summer 2004. Her research at UCL concentrated on the intersection of humanities computing and digital libraries and archives including LEADERS (Linking EAD to Electronically Retrievable Sources) for which she was Project Director. Prior to joining UCL in 2000, she was a Full Professor in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Alberta, and a co-investigator on the Orlando Project. From 1991-97 she was the first Director of the Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities at Rutgers and Princeton Universities, where together with Willard McCarty, she founded the CETH Summer Seminar on Methods and Tools for Electronic Texts in the Humanities. She spent 1975-1991 at Oxford University Computing Services where her responsibilities included teaching computing in the humanities, the development of the Oxford Concordance Program (OCP), and serving as Director of the Computers in Teaching Initiative for Textual Studies and the Office for Humanities Communication (OHC). She was one of the two ALLC Representatives on the Steering Committee of the Text Encoding Initiative, 1987-99. John Roper
Committee member 1986-1994 Treasurer 1988-1994 Honorary Membership ALLC 1995
ohn Roper has been associated with ALLC since the late 1970s. He was educated at the universities of Durham and Newcastle upon Tyne. After an introduction to such early computers as Edsac, Pegasus and Atlas in the early 1960s, his main professional interest was in the development of general computing services in a university environment and was, until his retirement, Director of the Computing Centre at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK. Despite a natural aversion to mathematical rigour within the humanist culture, he worked to demonstrate the possibilities of the rapidly developing computing techniques to an audience, which although initially sceptical later became enthusiastic. ALLC was the obvious vehicle for such work owing to its international membership. He was a committee member from 1986-1994 and Treasurer from 1988-1994. During that time he oversaw the takeover by the Oxford University Press of the day-to-day management of membership subscriptions at a time of appreciable increase in membership of ALLC. Joan Smith
Co-Founder of the ALLC Secretary 1973-78 Chair 1978-84 Editor of the ALLC Bulletin 1973-77 Roy Wisbey
Co-Founder of the ALLC Chair 1973-1978 Honorary Membership ALLC 1979 First President 1980-83
b. 13 June 1929. MA (Cantab.), Dr Phil. (Frankfurt am Main), Fellow of Downing College, Cambridge 1959-71, Fellow of King's College London (KCL) since 1985. Holder of the Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (Verdienstkreuz erster Klasse) 1987, and the Großes Ehrenzeichen für Verdienste um die Republik Österreich (1988). Lecturer in the universities of Durham (1956-58) and Cambridge (1958-71), then Professor and Head of the Department of German at King's College London (1971-1994). Dean of the Faculty of Arts, 1977-79, and again in 1980. At King's, his initiatives outside computing included: the establishment and continuation of the Medieval German Study Group (1972-1992), addressed over the years by most of the leading international scholars in the field; co-founder of the annual, national German Students' Drama Week (co-organizer from 1981-86; founder-chairman of the Organizing Committee, 1984-1991); co-founder, in 1987, of the Language and Communication Centre, KCL, after years of preparatory work as Chairman of the exploratory committee; founding director from 1989-94 of the interdisciplinary Centre for Late Antique and Medieval Studies. This organizes specialist lectures, research colloquia and international conferences, coupled with a publications series entitled King's College London Medieval Studies. From October 1985 to September 1989, he was Hon. Director of the Institute of Germanic Studies, University of London. His tenure began with a full-scale peer review (which led to UGC special-factor funding of the Institute) and ended with the 1989 Research Selectivity exercise and the founding of ULIAS (the University of London Institutes of Advanced Study). In addition to maintaining the Institute's traditional programme of lectures, colloquia and symposia, he inaugurated in 1987 a National Postgraduate Colloquium, which has since been a regular twice-yearly event (the 32nd colloquium was scheduled for November 2002). His principal field of research has been that of medieval German literature, beginning with a thesis on the legend of Alexander the Great in the Middle Ages (Frankfurt am Main, 1956), followed by articles and collective works, above all on Middle High German literature from 1170-1230: Gottfried von Straßburg, Tristan, Hartmann von Aue, Wolfram von Eschenbach Parzival, Walther von der Vogelweide. The compilation of twelfth-century word material led in 1960 to his initial work in humanities computing, following the example of Roberto Busa, and to attendance that autumn at the Tübingen colloquium on the mechanization of literary analysis and lexicography. The same year saw his proposals for the Literary and Linguistic Computing Centre (final name) at the University of Cambridge, inaugurated in 1964, and directed by him until 1971. The digital archive of medieval literary texts he established there provided fifteen of the twenty volumes of electronic texts published in 1990 by Manfred Thaller (Göttingen). Work on these texts had led from the sixties to numerous articles (the earliest 1962), as well as several concordance and index volumes, to the Wiener Genesis (1967) and other biblical epics, to the Vorau and Straßburg Alexander poems, and to the Rolandslied (1969). Some of these were published in the series COMPENDIA (Computer Generated Aids to Literary and Linguistic Research; 13 vols, 1968-1991) which he founded and edited. From the international symposium on 'The Computer in Literary and Linguistic Research' which he organized at the LLCC in March 1970 (published by C.U.P., 1971) there is a direct link to the present conference series of the ALLC/ACH and to the foundation of the ALLC in 1973. He was Visiting Professor in Computing Science at the University of Colorado, Boulder, in the summer of 1967. During his years at KCL, his advocacy and popularization of the new methods by courses, meetings and workshops contributed much to the climate in which humanities computing could become one of the main focuses of the KCL Computing Centre itself. He was co-founder and, until ca. 1988, co-organizer (with colleagues from Westfield) of the intercollegiate Seminar on Humanities Computing. He has given innumerable lectures on humanities computing, above all in this country, but also in Europe, the United States, and Southern Africa. In addition to the above, he served from 1963-2001 as Hon. Treasurer of the Modern Humanities Research Association (since 1997 a charitable company limited by guarantee), with financial responsibility for a growing number of periodicals and bibliographies (the Modern Language Review, the Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature, The Year's Work in Modern Language Studies, the Yearbook of English Studies, the Slavonic and East European Review, Portuguese Studies, and three book series (Publications of the MHRA, MHRA Texts and Dissertations, and MHRA Bibliographies). With his participation, the periodicals, and the Annual Bibliography, are now available online as well as in print. A number of the MHRA's annual Research Associateships, one of many initiatives made possible by strong financial reserves, have been awarded to projects involving humanities computing. Honorary Life Member MHRA 1984; President 2003. |
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