Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 18:32:58 -0400 From: John Unsworth Subject: Busa Award Very little has happened in the past year with the Busa Award, and this is a matter of some concern. Lisa Lena Opas is chairing this committee, and the other members are Willard McCarty, Espen Ore, John Dawson, and me. The request for nominations is included below, as posted to Humanist and published in LLC and CHUM, and I believe Harold Short also included it in a letter to all ALLC members. Lisa Lena talked about putting a copy of the call in the conference packet for this year, but I don't know whether that has happened. The response to the call for nominations has been near total silence: we have had two "nominations"--I use scare-quotes because the person who made these two nominations just sent names, and sent none of the required supporting documentation. In fact, then, we really have no nominations in hand, or at least, none that meet our requirements. If the members of the ACH-EC itself could be persuaded to put in some nominations that *do* meet the requirements, that would be a start, and if members of the EC would circulate the text of the call, below, on other email lists and to individuals, with encouragement to respond, that would also help. NOTE THE DEADLINE FOR NOMINATIONS: SEPTEMBER 1, 2002 John Unsworth =============================================================== The Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing (ALLC) and the Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) The Roberto Busa Award FIRST CALL FOR NOMINATIONS FOR THE 2004 AWARD The Roberto Busa Award is a joint award of the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing (ALLC) and the Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH). It is given every three years to honour outstanding scholarly achievement in humanities computing. The Award is named after Roberto Busa, SJ, who is regarded by many as the founder of the field of humanities computing. The first award was given to Father Busa himself in 1998 and recipient of the second award in 2001 was Emeritus Professor John Burrows, who has helped to shape the application of statistical methods to the analysis of textual style and has bridged the gap between traditional literary criticism and computer-aided stylistics. The next Busa Award will be given at the ALLC/ACH conference in 2004. The Award Committee (names listed below) invites nominations for this award. Nominations may be made by anyone with an interest in humanities computing and neither nominee nor nominator need be a member of ALLC or ACH. Nominatorit is felt to be an outstanding contribution to the field. A list of bibliographic referencewelcome to resubmit updated versions of unsuccessful nominations submitted in previous years. Nominations should be sent to the Chair of the Award Committee, Lisa Lena Opas-Hdnninen, at the address lisa.lena.opas@joensuu.fi or Department of Foreign Languages, University of Joensuu, PO Box 111, 80101 Joensuu, Finland, no later than September 1, 2002. 2004 Busa Award Committee: John Dawson Willard McCarty Lisa Lena Opas-Hdnninen Espen Ore John Unsworth