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July 2013
Professor Willard McCarty is to receive the Roberto Busa Prize at the Digital Humanities 2013 Conference in Lincoln, Nebraska.
The Busa Prize is named in honor of Father Roberto Busa SJ and is the highest international award in the field of Digital Humanities. It is given 'to recognise outstanding lifetime achievement in the application of information technology to humanistic research'. Father Busa, who died last year, was the first pioneer in this field, starting in the late 1940s to use computational methods in his analysis of the writings of Thomas Aquinas.
Prof McCarty will receive his award, and will give the associated Busa Lecture, at the Digital Humanities 2013 Conference, which is to take place at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln 16-19 July 2013. The award was announced at the Digital Humanities 2012 conference at the University of Hamburg. The announcement, from the Chair of the Busa Award Committee, Matthew Jockers of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, is as follows:
"The winner of the 2013 Busa Award is a man of legendary kindness and generosity. His contributions to the growth and prominence of Digital Humanities will be familiar to us all. He is a gentleman, a scholar, a philosopher, and a long time fighter for the cause. He is, by one colleague’s accounting, the “Obi-Wan Kenobi” of Digital Humanities. And I must concur that “the force” is strong with this one. Please join me in congratulating Willard McCarty on his selection for the 2013 Busa Award."
Prof McCarty has held a fractional appointment at the University of Western Sydney since 2010. He is also Professor of Humanities Computing at King's College London, where following retirement in 2010 he retains a part-time appointment. He has published widely on developments in the digital humanities, including 'Humanities Computing', London: Palgrave, 2005. Since 1987 he has edited the online seminar Humanist. Prof McCarty is Editor of 'Interdisciplinary Science Reviews' and a Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Society.
May 2013
The Research Group in Digital Humanities was invited to participate in a 24-hour global symposium on Technology and Culture, organised by the Kule Institute for Advanced Studies at the University of Alberta, Canada. For details, see Events.
April 2013
Australia's first Professor of Digital Humanities has been appointed to lead the newly established Research Group in Digital Humanities. He is Dr Paul Arthur, previously Deputy Director of the National Centre of Biography at Australian National University. He will take up his UWS position in late June 2013.
