Re: [gutvol-d] Early ebook history info wanted
When I was teaching at Georgia Tech from 1965 to 1968, Professor William Mullen in the English department there was transferring the Episcopal psalter to IBM cards, using ALGOL. Bill inspired me to take an introductory course in that computer language so that I could initiate a similar project, but I went no further with it. I don't know what become of his work, but he had accumulated many boxes of cards, with one line to every card. Dick Adicks A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.--Margaret Mead . . . if vicious people are united and form a power, honest people must do the same. --Leo Tolstoy
In Pisa, there is an institute of computational linguistics, http://www.ilc.cnr.it/ who originated from a research group of the national univerity computing center in 1967. I think that there has been work even earlier, probably 1965, and I remember that they began with the input of Dante's Commedia and the creation of concordances. I can retrieve more accurate informations if needed. Carlo Traverso
On Wed, 11 Jan 2006, Carlo Traverso wrote:
In Pisa, there is an institute of computational linguistics, http://www.ilc.cnr.it/ who originated from a research group of the national univerity computing center in 1967.
I think that there has been work even earlier, probably 1965, and I remember that they began with the input of Dante's Commedia and the creation of concordances. I can retrieve more accurate informations if needed.
Our first Webmaster, Pietro di Miceli, is Italian, living in Rome, and I think he heard of this but that it was so walled off from any public consumption that no one he knew could get to it, so it pretty much remained in the area of rumor. Michael
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