Roberto Busa, S. J., and the Emergence of Humanities Computing: The Priest and the Punched Cards

by Steven E. Jones

Book Overview

It's the founding myth of humanities computing and digital humanities: In 1949, the Italian Jesuit scholar, Roberto Busa, S.J., persuaded IBM to offer technical and financial support for the mechanized creation of a massive lemmatized concordance to the works of St. Thomas Aquinas. Using Busa's own papers, recently accessioned in Milan, as well as IBM archives and other sources, Jones illuminates this DH origin story. He examines relationships...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138186775
• ISBN13: 9781138186774
• Release Date: April 2016
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 194 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.1"