Colloquium Details
Humanities Informatics: Supporting interdisciplinary synergistic research
| Author: | Richard Furuta Texas A&M University |
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| Date: | April 04, 2005 |
| Time: | 3:30 |
| Location: | 220 Deschutes |
| Hosts: | Art Farley Andrzej Proskurowski |
Abstract
Humanities Informatics, a synthesis of the liberal arts and the computer sciences, encompasses topics of broad intellectual and practical significance. The Humanities Informatics Initiative at Texas A&M University brings together faculty from computer science, liberal arts, and the campus libraries in an equal partnership devoted to developing innovative computing tools, digital collections, and hypertextual archives of broadly significant academic and educational value to the humanities. In the talk, I will briefly describe the Initiative and then will discuss some of our own work, in the area of literary studies, that demonstrates how, over time, projects can develop both in depth (e.g., collections built around an individual author) and in breadth (e.g., generalization of tools to work in a wider range of applications). In the context of our Humanities Informatics Initiative, the talk's goal is to demonstrate how both computer science and Liberal arts can benefit when humanities informatics research focuses on questions of value to both.
Biography:
Richard Furuta is a faculty member at Texas A&M University where he is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science, Director of the Center for the Study of Digital Libraries, and Director of the Hypermedia Research Laboratory. Dr. Furuta received the B.A. degree from Reed College in 1974, the M.S.degree in Computer Science from the University of Oregon in 1978, and the Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the University of Washington in 1986. Dr. Furuta's current areas of research include digital libraries, hypermedia systems and models, structured documents, and document engineering. He currently serves as an Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Digital Libraries, as chair of the steering committee for the ACM-IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, and as a member of a number of other editorial boards and conference program committees.