They took a chance: Susan Hockey and Julianne Nyhan · MeDoraH

Has Interviewer: Julianne Nyhan
Has Interviewee: Susan Hockey
Date: 2016
Location: Phone call recorded via pamela software for skype
Language: English
Part of Series: Computation and the Humanities interviews
fileFormat: mp3
Title: They took a chance: Susan Hockey and Julianne Nyhan
Interview Summary: This interview was carried out via skpye on 21 June 2013. Hockey was provided with the core questions in advance of the interview. Here she recalls how her interest in Humanities Computing was piqued by the articles that Andrew Q Morton published in the Observer in the 1960s about his work on the authorship of the Pauline Epistles. She went on to secure a position in the Atlas Computer Laboratory where she was an advisor on COCOA version 2 and wrote software for the electronic display of Arabic and other non-ASCII characters. The Atlas Computer Laboratory was funded by the Science Research Council and provided computing support for Universities and researchers across the UK. While there she also benefitted from access to the journal CHum and built connections with the emerging Humanities Computing community through events she attended starting with the 'Symposium on Uses of the Computer in Literary Research' organised by Roy Wisbey in Cambridge in 1970 (probably the earliest such meeting in the UK). Indeed, she emphasises the importance that such gatherings played in the formation of the discipline. As well as discussing her contribution to organisations like ALLC and TEI she recalls those who particularly influenced her such as, inter alia, Roberto Busa and Antonio Zampolli.
Subject: An oral history interview on the history of Digital Humanities for the Hidden Histories project
Processed Derivative Material: Full text in Chapter 6 of Computation and the Humanities
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Related Resource: Julianne Nyhan and Andrew Flinn 2016. Computation and the Humanities: towards an oral history of Digital Humanities. Springer.
Bibliographic Citation: Julianne Nyhan and respective interviewees, “They took a chance: Susan Hockey and Julianne Nyhan,”Hidden Histories: Digital Humanities 1949 - Present, accessed October 21, 2024, https://hiddenhistories.net/s/medorah/item/79.
Creator: Julianne Nyhan and respective interviewees
Type: Oral History interview

Item sets: Computation and the Humanities interviews

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