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

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

The Priest and the Punched Cards

by Steven E. Jones
Hardback
Publication Date: 19/04/2016

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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 the academic research agendas of humanities computing and, later, digital humanities.

ISBN:
9781138186774
9781138186774
Category:
Language: reference & general
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
19-04-2016
Language:
English
Publisher:
Taylor & Francis Group
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Dimensions (mm):
234x159x17mm
Weight:
0.41kg
Steven E. Jones

Steven E. Jones is DeBartolo Chair in Liberal Arts and Professor of English and Digital Humanities at the University of South Florida, USA. He is the author or editor of 11 books, including The Emergence of the Digital Humanities (2014).

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