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ongoing) and Schreibman, Siemens, Unsworth, op.cit as excellent starting points for the
critical discourse of digital humanities for the last fifteen years.
xlvi Charles Babbage, Charles Babbage and his Calculating Engines, (NY: Dover, 1961)
xlvii Claude Shannon, “A Mathematical Theory of Communication,” (Bell Labs, 1947)
http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/ms/what/shannonday/paper.html
xlviii Alan Turing (1936), "On Computable Numbers, With an Application to the
Entscheidungsproblem", Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society, Series 2,
Volume 42 (1936). Eprint. Martin Davis, Universal Computer (W.W. Norton, 2000)
xlix John Comaromi, Dewey Decimal Classification: History and Current Status, (New
Delhi: Sterling, 1989). Wayne Weigand, The ‘‘Amherst Method’’: The Origins of the
Dewey Decimal Classification Scheme, Libraries & Culture, Vol. 33, No. 2, Spring 1998,
http://www.gslis.utexas.edu/~landc/fulltext/LandC_33_2_Wiegand.pdf Fritz Machlup,
Information: Interdisciplinary Messages (NY: Wiley and Sons, 1983)
l Warren Weaver and Claude Shannon, The Mathematical Theory of Communication,
(Urbana, Illinois: University of Illinois Press, 1949, republished in paperback 1963).
li Alan Liu, The laws of cool : knowledge work and the culture of information, (Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, 2004); Willard McCarty, Humanities Computing, (London:
Palgrave Macmillan, 2004); Lev Manovich, The Language of New Media, (Cambridge,
MA: MIT Press, 2001); Stephen Wilson, Information arts : intersections of art, science,
and technology, (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2002); William J. Mitchell, The reconfigured
eye: visual truth in the post-photographic era (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1994). This
initial list crosses disciplines. All are works that involve discussion of the dialogue of
formal reasoning and cultural issues in representation and knowledge.
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