<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">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="webkit-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 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></body></html>