Alliance of Digital Humanities Organisations: Roberto Busa Prize 2013
The University of Nebraska and the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations are pleased to announce this year's Busa Award recipient Willard McCarty. McCarty will deliver this year's Busa Award lecture in Kimball Auditorium on the UNL Campus July 18 at 3:30pm, as a keynote address of the Digital Humanities 2013 Conference. A reception with music from the Darryl White Group will follow.
McCarty's lecture, "Getting there from here: Remembering the future of digital humanities," will centre on memory: personal, as demanded by an occasion celebrating a life of learning, and professional, to draw from the early history of digital humanities a trajectory into the future.
Willard McCarty is Professor of Humanities Computing and Director of the Doctoral Programme in the Department of Digital Humanities at King’s College London; Professor in the Digital Humanities Research Group, University of Western Sydney and Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute (London). He is Editor of the British journal, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (2008-) and founding Editor of the online seminar Humanist (1987-). He is recipient of the Canadian Award for Outstanding Achievement, Computing in the Arts and Humanities (2005), and the Richard W. Lyman Award, National Humanities Center (2006). He is currently at work on Machines of Demanding Grace, a book concerned with the interrelation of the humanities and computing. He lectures occasionally in Europe, North America, and Australia.
The Roberto Busa Prize is an award of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organisations (ADHO). It is named in honour of Father Roberta Busa (1913-2011), the first pioneer of humanities computing, who in 1949 began experiments in linguistic automation, with the support of the IBM offices in New York and Milan, as part of his analytical research on the writings of Thomas Aquinas. The award, given triennially, recognizes outstanding lifetime achievements in the application of information and communications technologies to humanities research.
More information about the Busa Award and past recipients.