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Roberto Busa, S.J. and the emergence of humanities computing : the priest and the punched cards / Steven E. Jones

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publisher: New, York : Routledge, 2016Description: 186 p. : il. , byn ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9781138186774
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • P98.32.U6 J66 2016
Contents:
Introduction: Roberto Busa, S.J. and the emergence of humanities computing -- Priest Wlaks into the CEO's office: he meeting between Father Roberto Busa, S.J. and Thomas J. Watson, Sr. of IBM, November 1949 -- Oracle on 57th street: The IBM SSEC Large-scale Calculator, Representations of Computing, and the Roles of the Adjacent Possible, 1948-1952 -- The Mother of all humanities computing demos: The first public demo of Busa's and Tasman's punched-card method of "Litery Data Processing" June 27, 1952 -- Centers of activity: The founding of CAAL, the first literary data processing center in Gallarate, Italy, 1954-1956 -- Computing Philology: The Dead Sea Scrolls Project, "A Quality Leap and New Dimensions".
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Introduction: Roberto Busa, S.J. and the emergence of humanities computing -- Priest Wlaks into the CEO's office: he meeting between Father Roberto Busa, S.J. and Thomas J. Watson, Sr. of IBM, November 1949 -- Oracle on 57th street: The IBM SSEC Large-scale Calculator, Representations of Computing, and the Roles of the Adjacent Possible, 1948-1952 -- The Mother of all humanities computing demos: The first public demo of Busa's and Tasman's punched-card method of "Litery Data Processing" June 27, 1952 -- Centers of activity: The founding of CAAL, the first literary data processing center in Gallarate, Italy, 1954-1956 -- Computing Philology: The Dead Sea Scrolls Project, "A Quality Leap and New Dimensions".

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