Can we build it? Professor Willard McCarty King’s College London staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/ An...

Can we build it?

Professor Willard McCartyKing’s College Londonstaff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/

An Foras Feasa,

Maynooth, 8/4/08

Lessons & speculations

on literary computing

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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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6Toronto 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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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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