Please join us next week at the Studio@Butler for an exciting event with Steve Jones on the birth of humanities computing! This event is free and open to all NYCDH’ers. If coming from outside Columbia, please RSVP to agil@columbia.edu.
Blurb:
It’s the canonical founding myth of humanities computing and the digital humanities: In November 1949, the Italian Jesuit scholar, Father Roberto Busa, came to IBM headquarters in New York to meet with the founder and head of the company, Thomas J. Watson, Sr., seeking support for his project to mechanize the building of a concordance to the collected works of St. Thomas Aquinas. With his book in progress, Steven Jones aims to complicate the myth with history. Drawing on Father Busa’s papers, recently accessioned in Milan, as well as IBM archives and other sources, his presentation will examine that 1949 meeting through a kind of exploded-view diagram, focusing on a few suspended details, in order to set the story in the context of the history of mid-century computing and to read it as a prehistory of the digital humanities.
Link:
https://studio.cul.columbia.edu/ai1ec_event/the-priest-and-the-punched-card-machines-father-roberto-busa-and-the-emergence-of-humanities-computing/?instance_id=
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