Roberto Busa, S. J., and the Emergence of Humanities Computing: The Priest and the Punched Cards

by Steven E. Jones

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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...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:1138186775

ISBN13:9781138186774

Release Date:April 2016

Publisher:Routledge

Length:194 Pages

Weight:0.84 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 6.0" x 9.1"

Related Subjects

Computers Computers & Technology Language Arts Social Science Social Sciences

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