Can we
build it?
Lessons &
speculations
on
literary
computing
Professor Willard McCarty
King’s College London
staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/
An Foras
Feasa,
Maynooth,
8/4/08
1. Lessons of history, 1957-1989
2. The matchmaker’s tasks
3. What the tools say
4. Turning to confront the context
5. Bridging discourse
6. An improvisational companion
to criticism?
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Herbert Simon, untitled lecture notes, Operations Research
Society of America meeting, 14 November 1957
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Times Literary Supplement, 27 April 1962
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Toronto Globe and Mail, 16 November 1965
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www.rand.org/pubs/papers/P3244/
www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=9547
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Computers and the Humanities 11 (1978): 211-15
1. Lessons of history, 1962-1989
2. The matchmaker’s tasks
3. What the tools say
4. Turning to confront the context
5. Bridging discourse
6. An improvisational companion
to criticism?
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Computers and the Humanities 11 (1978): 211-15
In Companion to Digital Humanities, ed.
Schreibman, Siemens and Unsworth
(Blackwell’s, 2004)
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1. Lessons of history, 1962-1989
2. The matchmaker’s tasks
3. What the tools say
4. Turning to confront the context
5. Bridging discourse
6. An improvisational companion
to criticism?
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1. Lessons of history, 1962-1989
2. The matchmaker’s tasks
3. What the tools say
4. Turning to confront the context
5. Bridging discourse
6. An improvisational companion
to criticism?
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1. Lessons of history, 1962-1989
2. The matchmaker’s tasks
3. What the tools say
4. Turning to confront the context
5. Bridging discourse
6. An improvisational companion
to criticism?
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1. Lessons of history, 1962-1989
2. The matchmaker’s tasks
3. What the tools say
4. Turning to confront the context
5. Bridging discourse
6. An improvisational companion
to criticism?
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