Computer-Based Arabic Manuscript Management

1989 ◽  
Vol 16 ◽  
pp. 403-412
Author(s):  
C. C. Stewart ◽  
Kazumi Hatasa
Keyword(s):  
Computer Program ◽  
National Endowment ◽  
Data Sets ◽  
Comparable Data ◽  
University Of Illinois ◽  
Computer Based ◽  
Arabic And English ◽  
The University ◽  
Library Preservation ◽  
Academic Year

During the 1987/88 academic year an Arabic manuscript microfilm project at Boutilimit, Mauritania, under sponsorship of the National Endowment for the Humanities and the University of Illinois, completed the first phase of a library preservation program with the filming of some 25.5 lineal feet/8.1 lineal meters of Arabic manuscripts (or slightly over 100,000 folios of material) on eighty-five reels. This filmed collection is available to researchers at the University of Illinois Library Archives. In contrast with what, alas, is a norm in Arabic manuscript acquisition and cataloging, and thanks to a computer program developed for this project, within four months of the termination of the filming an interim 352-page bilingual finding aid was generated for the 937 records involved. Following corrections to that finding aid in the field and additions to the collection during the 1988/89 year, indices in Arabic and English will be generated from the program. The rapidity with which this collection has thus become accessible for researchers is fairly dramatic, and the program developed for the project may well point to ways in which other comparable data sets may be efficiently managed. This description will focus on the objectives of the finding aid, the technical outline of its development, the experience to date with its application, and possible future uses for the system.

scholarly journals The early technical development of the VLA

1991 ◽  
Vol 131 ◽  
pp. 160-164 ◽  
Author(s):  
George W. Swenson
Keyword(s):  
Radio Astronomy ◽  
Technical Development ◽  
Large Array ◽  
Astronomy Observatory ◽  
University Of Illinois ◽  
Very Large Array ◽  
Radio Astronomy Observatory ◽  
Leave Of Absence ◽  
The University ◽  
Academic Year

In the spring of 1964, having qualified for a sabbattical leave from the University of Illinois and having recently completed two years as Chairman of the Visiting Committee of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory, I inquired of the NRAO staff as to whether a desk and possibly some augmentation of my University half-salary might be available at Green Bank for the following academic year. Instead I was invited to join the staff as a fulltime employee and to take a coordinating role in the development of the “very large array” as Chairman of the Design Committee. The University granted me a year’s leave of absence which eventually stretched to four years.

Factors Affecting Computer-Mediated Instruction in Medical Education

1989 ◽  
Vol 28 (04) ◽  
pp. 215-222 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Levy
Keyword(s):  
Medical Education ◽  
Computer Technology ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
University Of Illinois ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Computer Mediated ◽  
Computer Based ◽  
Based Instruction ◽  
Major Factors ◽  
The University

Abstract:Although computer technology has progressed rapidly in the last decade, the use of computer mediated instruction as an adjunct to medical education has made only limited progress. This paper will attempt to analyze some of the major factors bearing on this limitation, will review those areas where computer based´instruction is potentially of greatest use, and will suggest means by which medical education can make greater use of the rapidly evolving information technologies. The Medical PLATO project at the University of Illinois will be used as an example to illustrate many of the points relating to the development of this field.

The Haroun Ould Sidia Collection of Arabic Manuscripts

1991 ◽  
Vol 18 ◽  
pp. 349-358 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. C. Stewart
Keyword(s):  
Second Phase ◽  
University Of Illinois ◽  
University Library ◽  
Computer Based ◽  
The University

In a previous number of this journal, a note on the development of a computer-based Arabic manuscript finding aid described its application to a manuscript microfilming project in Boutilimit, Mauritania. The filming of that collection was then (at the time the note was written in the spring of 1989) in its second phase, and the work was concluded in December of that year. Thanks to the technology developed for the finding aid to that collection, the catalog was completed six months later, and it is now possible to do database searches on that material (and soon on other collections now being entered in the same format). This note comes as a description of the Boutilimit collection, the film of which is now available to researchers at the University of Illinois Archives, in the University Library.

Computer-Based Recognition of Perceptual Patterns in Harmonic Dictation Exercises

1978 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 111-119 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fred T. Hofstetter
Keyword(s):  
Student Achievement ◽  
System Analysis ◽  
Student Response ◽  
Music Majors ◽  
Response Data ◽  
Computer Based ◽  
Highly Correlated ◽  
Chord Function ◽  
The University ◽  
Academic Year

During the 1975–1976 academic year, student response data was saved for a group of 17 freshman music majors as they worked through 15 units of harmonic dictation exercises delivered on the University of Delaware's GUIDO system. Analysis of the student data base led to the identification of seven confusion tendencies that affect the perception of harmonies: bass line confusions, confusions of inversion, confusions of chord function, confusions of chord quality, unperceived sevenths, unperceived roots, and favorite response confusions. The level of student achievement on individual harmonies was found to be highly correlated with the percentage of times these harmonies were asked in the curriculum.

On the use of informants in field-work

1965 ◽  
Vol 10 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 108-119 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenneth Hale
Keyword(s):  
Native Speakers ◽  
Field Work ◽  
Methods Course ◽  
Field Methods ◽  
University Of Illinois ◽  
The Past ◽  
The University ◽  
Academic Year

The point of this paper is an extremely simple and not at all a surprising one, one that is in no way new. It is essentially the following: the native speakers of any language know its structure and the linguist doing field work can make use of this knowledge in ways other than the obvious one of asking an informant to produce utterances, with little or no other direction. What I hope to do here is outline briefly a set of strategies or field-work techniques developed during the past two years in a field methods course at the University of Illinois. In particular, I will describe certain aspects of our research on Papago done in co-operation with Mr. Albert Alvarez, a Papago speaker, who served as assistant in the course during the academic year 1963-64.

Computers in Health Science Education: Communication and Management

1984 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 97-106
Author(s):  
Lisa P. Brenner ◽  
James Cowan
Keyword(s):  
Evaluation System ◽  
Intermediate Stage ◽  
Development Project ◽  
Health Science ◽  
University Of Illinois ◽  
Residency Programs ◽  
Health Science Education ◽  
Electronic Logbook ◽  
Computer Based ◽  
The University

An automated health science university is characterized through a description of a teaching physician's interaction with his networked microcomputer. Progress towards instructional automation is explored at Rush University and the University of Illinois with an emphasis on an electronic logbook and evaluation system for medical clerkship and residency programs. This joint development project is presented as an intermediate stage in automation. Its use is contrasted to traditional computer based education, and shown to fill pressing needs in medical education.

Five Decades of Research Experience in Speech Anatomy and Physiology

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (5) ◽  
pp. 4-12
Author(s):  
David P. Kuehn
Keyword(s):  
Ohio State University ◽  
State University ◽  
Research Experience ◽  
University Of Iowa ◽  
University Of Illinois ◽  
Anatomy And Physiology ◽  
The Ohio State University ◽  
Speech Science ◽  
The University ◽  
East Carolina University

This report highlights some of the major developments in the area of speech anatomy and physiology drawing from the author's own research experience during his years at the University of Iowa and the University of Illinois. He has benefited greatly from mentors including Professors James Curtis, Kenneth Moll, and Hughlett Morris at the University of Iowa and Professor Paul Lauterbur at the University of Illinois. Many colleagues have contributed to the author's work, especially Professors Jerald Moon at the University of Iowa, Bradley Sutton at the University of Illinois, Jamie Perry at East Carolina University, and Youkyung Bae at the Ohio State University. The strength of these researchers and their students bodes well for future advances in knowledge in this important area of speech science.

Teaching Computer Based Historical Data Analysis

1994 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 52-58 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles Anderson ◽  
Robert J. Morris
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Social History ◽  
Historical Data ◽  
Good Practice ◽  
Computer Assisted ◽  
Historical Data Analysis ◽  
University Of Edinburgh ◽  
Computer Based ◽  
The University

A case study ofa third year course in the Department of Economic and Social History in the University of Edinburgh isusedto considerandhighlightaspects of good practice in the teaching of computer-assisted historical data analysis.

University Geographies and Folk Music Landscapes

2016 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 92-116 ◽  
Author(s):  
David K. Blake
Keyword(s):  
Mass Culture ◽  
Folk Music ◽  
Traditional Music ◽  
Rural Landscape ◽  
Power Structures ◽  
Distant Object ◽  
University Of Illinois ◽  
Liberal Politics ◽  
Cultural Form ◽  
The University

By examining folk music activities connecting students and local musicians during the early 1960s at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, this article demonstrates how university geographies and musical landscapes influence musical activities in college towns. The geography of the University of Illinois, a rural Midwestern location with a mostly urban, middle-class student population, created an unusual combination of privileged students in a primarily working-class area. This combination of geography and landscape framed interactions between students and local musicians in Urbana-Champaign, stimulating and complicating the traversal of sociocultural differences through traditional music. Members of the University of Illinois Campus Folksong Club considered traditional music as a high cultural form distinct from mass-culture artists, aligning their interests with then-dominant scholarly approaches in folklore and film studies departments. Yet students also interrogated the impropriety of folksong presentation on campus, and community folksingers projected their own discomfort with students’ liberal politics. In hosting concerts by rural musicians such as Frank Proffitt and producing a record of local Urbana-Champaign folksingers called Green Fields of Illinois (1963), the folksong club attempted to suture these differences by highlighting the aesthetic, domestic, historical, and educational aspects of local folk music, while avoiding contemporary socioeconomic, commercial, and political concerns. This depoliticized conception of folk music bridged students and local folksingers, but also represented local music via a nineteenth-century rural landscape that converted contemporaneous lived practice into a temporally distant object of aesthetic study. Students’ study of folk music thus reinforced the power structures of university culture—but engaging local folksinging as an educational subject remained for them the most ethical solution for questioning, and potentially traversing, larger problems of inequality and difference.

The Early Years of the Jewish Presence at the University of Illinois

1992 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 215-245
Author(s):  
Winton U. Solberg
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
The United States ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Characteristic Form ◽  
University Of Illinois ◽  
American Higher Education ◽  
Jewish Students ◽  
The University ◽  
The Church

For over two centuries, the College was the characteristic form of higher education in the United States, and the College was closely allied to the church in a predominantly Protestant land. The university became the characteristic form of American higher education starting in the late nineteenth Century, and universities long continued to reflect the nation's Protestant culture. By about 1900, however, Catholics and Jews began to enter universities in increasing numbers. What was the experience of Jewish students in these institutions, and how did authorities respond to their appearance? These questions will be addressed in this article by focusing on the Jewish presence at the University of Illinois in the early twentieth Century. Religion, like a red thread, is interwoven throughout the entire fabric of this story.

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