<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div><span>Hi Paul,</span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>The .pdf link in your email appears to be broken? :-(</span></div><div> </div><div>Lee Courtney<br>Menlo Park, California<br>+1-650-704-3934<br></div> <div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "> <div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; "> <font size="2" face="Arial"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Paul McJones <paul@mcjones.org><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Ronald Mak <ron.mak@sjsu.edu>; "Robert Garner (@us.ibm.com)" <robgarn@us.ibm.com>; scc_active@computerhistory.org; 1401_all@computerhistory.org; Jim McClure <mcclure@computerhistory.org>; Jon Pearce <jon.pearce@sjsu.edu>; franklin.stan@gmail.com;
Ted Kahn <ted@designworlds.com> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Tuesday, January 10, 2012 3:50 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [SPG_Active_Members] First computer literacy class?<br> </font> <br><div id="yiv164240141"><div>On Jan 10, 2012, at 3:32 PM, Dave Redell wrote:<br><br><blockquote type="cite">In 1971, Laura Gould at UC Berkeley won the University's Distinguished Teaching Award for teaching a course in the new Computer Science Department entitled Computers in the Humanities. The basic approach was for humanities students to learn about non-numeric applications of computers by writing small programs in Snobol. Some of their course work was done on teletypes connected to UCB's experimental Cal-TSS timesharing system.<br></blockquote><br>Laura and her colleague Robert Gaskins wrote a text for the course:<br><br><blockquote
class="yiv164240141webkit-indent-blockquote" style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px;"><div>Robert Gaskins and Laura L. Gould.</div><div><i>Snobol4: A Computer Programming Language for the Humanities</i>.</div><div>University of California, Berkeley, 1972 (188 pages). </div><div><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.robertgaskins.com/files/gaskins-gould-cal-snobol4-1972-IMAGE.pdf">http://www.robertgaskins.com/files/gaskins-gould-cal-snobol4-1972-IMAGE.pdf</a></div><div><br></div></blockquote><div>As an interesting sidelight, Gaskins went on to design PowerPoint.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Paul</div></div></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>SCC_active mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:SCC_active@computerhistory.org" href="mailto:SCC_active@computerhistory.org">SCC_active@computerhistory.org</a><br><a href="http://mail.computerhistory.org/mailman/listinfo/scc_active"
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