One Origin of Digital Humanities: Fr Roberto Busa in His Own Words

List of Figures

List of Tables

Foreword

Preface and Acknowledgements

About the editors

Chapter 1 Introduction, or Why Busa Still Matters. Marco Passarotti and Julianne Nyhan

Chapter 2 A First Example of Word Index Automatically Compiled and Printed by IBM Punched Card Machines. Roberto Busa S.J.

Chapter 3 The Use of Punched Cards in Linguistic Analysis. RobertoBusa S.J.

Chapter 4 The Main Problems of the Automation of Written Language. Roberto Busa S.J.

Chapter 5 The Work of the "Centro per l'Automazione dell'Analisi Letteraria" in Gallarate, Italy. Roberto Busa S.J.

Chapter 6 Linguistic Analysis in the Global Evolution of Information. Roberto Busa S.J.

Chapter 7 Latin as a Suitable Computer Language for Science. Roberto Busa S.J.

Chapter 8 Cybernetics and the Possibilities of a New Human Being. Roberto Busa S.J.

Chapter 9 Experienced-Based Results with Preparations for the Use of Automatic Calculation in Biology. Roberto Busa S.J.

Chapter 10 The Function and Use of an Electronic Computer. Roberto Busa S.J.

Chapter 11 Human Errors in the Preparation of Input for Computers. Roberto Busa S.J.

Chapter 12 Models of Knowing and Speaking. Roberto Busa S.J.

Chapter 13 Thirty Years of Informatics on Texts: at What Point are We? What Opportunities for Research? Roberto Busa S.J.

Chapter 14 The Complete Works of St Thomas Aquinas on CD-ROM with Hypertexts. Roberto Busa S.J.

Chapter 15 To Do and to Cause to Do: Man and Machine. Roberto Busa S.J.

Chapter 16 Interior Algorithms of Understanding by Reading. Roberto Busa S.J.

Chapter 17 Considering Myself as if I were a Computer. Roberto Busa S.J.

Chapter 18 Doing Philosophy on the Computer and Doing Philosophy with the Computer. Roberto Busa S.J.

Chapter 19 Roberto Busa S.J. Bibliography: 1949-2009

Chapter 20 "A Tall, Stooping Figure in Black Crossing the Courtyard": Philip Barras' Recollections of Roberto Busa S.J. Philip Barras and Julianne Nyhan

Index