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Emeritus Professor John
Burrows of the Centre for Literary
and Linguistic Computing at The University of Newcastle, NSW has
been awarded the Roberto Busa Award for 2001.
The award is made every three years to honour
outstanding achievement in the application of information technology
to humanistic research. It is made jointly by the US and UK peak
professional organisations for humanities computing, the Association
for Computing in the Humanities and the Association for Literary
and Linguistic Computing.
The award is named for Roberto Busa, SJ, regarded
by many as the founder of the field of humanities computing. The
first award was given to Father Busa in 1998; Professor Burrows
receives the second.
The call for nominations asked those working
in humanities computing to define the field by identifying "who
stands at the center of it . . . whose work serves as the model
we name, when people ask what we hope to accomplish by the use
of computers in the humanities."
Professor Burrows is to travel to New York in
June to receive the award and to deliver a plenary lecture to
the annual conference of the two associations.
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