Can we build it

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Can we build it?
An Foras Feasa, Maynooth, 8/4/08
Lessons speculations on literary
computing

• Professor Willard McCarty
• Kings College London
• staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/wmccarty/

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• Lessons of history, 1957-1989
• The matchmakers tasks
• What the tools say
• Turning to confront the context
• Bridging discourse
• 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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(No Transcript)
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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_id9547
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Computers and the Humanities 11 (1978) 211-15
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• Lessons of history, 1962-1989
• The matchmakers tasks
• What the tools say
• Turning to confront the context
• Bridging discourse
• 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 (Blackwells,
2004)
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• Lessons of history, 1962-1989
• The matchmakers tasks
• What the tools say
• Turning to confront the context
• Bridging discourse
• An improvisational companion to criticism?

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• Lessons of history, 1962-1989
• The matchmakers tasks
• What the tools say
• Turning to confront the context
• Bridging discourse
• An improvisational companion to criticism?

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• Lessons of history, 1962-1989
• The matchmakers tasks
• What the tools say
• Turning to confront the context
• Bridging discourse
• An improvisational companion to criticism?

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• Lessons of history, 1962-1989
• The matchmakers tasks
• What the tools say
• Turning to confront the context
• Bridging discourse
• An improvisational companion to criticism?

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