Some Reflections on Studies in Humanities Computing

Computing, memory and writing: some reflections on an early experiment in digital literary studies

English. In this paper we present the first steps of a research that aims at investigating the possible relationship between the emergence of a discontinuity in the study of poetic influence and some early experiments of humanities computing. The background idea is that the evolution of computing in the 1960s and 1970s might have triggered a transformation of the notion of influence and that to...

Towards a Conceptual Framework for the Digital Humanities

For roughly a decade (1998-2007) I led new directions activities at the University of Southern California’s Information Sciences Institute across the domain of computing and its interactions with engineering, medicine, business, and the arts & sciences. Reflections on this extended multidisciplinary experience have led to the articulation of a new perspective on the nature and structure of comp...

Zarathrustrian Mind: Some Comparative Reflections on the Philosophy of Zarathrustra

This paper deals with an essential problem which the modern western thinker faced with and tried to find a solution for that in the benefit of modern humanity. This problem is human reason and his free mind. The author tries here to go back to Zarathrustrian concept of mind and bring forth some fresh reflections in a comparative way. This will let him to evaluate in the main the view that argue...

Teaching a Humanities Course: A Mathematician’s View

When asked by a number of my friends in academe about what I am doing these days, I tell them that I am now into my third academic career: first, a mathematician ; second, a computer scientist; and, third, a budding humanities instructor. During the fall of 1998 I had the opportunity to teach a first-semester section of a new two-semester Core sequence in the humanities which has become part of...

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