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This site provides resources for an informal course at Harvard University introducing programming in the programming language Python for an audience of techno-savvy humanities scholars who are primarily interested in the use of computers for performing simple analyses of text. Originally prepared for an audience of historians and philologists of premodern Europe, the materials should be appropriate for scholars from other disciplines as well.
About the author
Stuart Shieber is James O. Welch, Jr. and Virginia B. Welch Professor of Computer Science in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University. His primary research field is computational linguistics, the study of human languages from the perspective of computer science. His research contributions have extended beyond that field as well, to theoretical linguistics, natural-language processing, computer-human interaction, automated graphic design, the philosophy of artificial intelligence, computer privacy and security, and computational biology. He is the founding director of the Center for Research on Computation and Society and a faculty co-director of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society.
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Photo “Manuscript” by sxc.hu user Mateusz Stachowski.