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Thought some here might be interested in this event.   // Joel

 

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 Speaker: Willard McCarty, King's College London

   Topic: "The Imagination of Computing"

   Event: Richard W. Lyman Award Winner Guest Lecture

    Date: Mon., November 6th — 5:00 PM

Location: National Humanities Center, Durham, NC

Willard McCarty is the 2006 recipient of the Richard W. Lyman Award, selected for his contributions to and leadership within the field of the digital humanities. Best known as a theoretician, McCarty is also steeped in the practical dimensions of the application of information technology to the problems of humanistic learning. In 1987 he founded Humanist, a digital medium designed to bring together scholars working on problems born of the intersection of computing and the humanities. Also since the late 1980's he has tested his approach to the digital humanities on Ovid's Metamorphoses, encoding the text and working with a series of research assistants to better understand what encoding might contribute to literary criticism and the humanities as a whole. The product of that project is a body of work known as The Analytical Onomasticon.

 

In his newest book, Humanities Computing, McCarty explains how and why humanities computing is in itself an intellectual humanistic field of inquiry. McCarty is Reader in Humanities Computing at the Centre for Computing in the Humanities at King's College London, where he has taught since 1996.

 

Source: http://www.nhc.rtp.nc.us/news/2006fallevents.htm#mccarty