July 19, 2002
A Book and CD-ROM Offer Tips for Humanities and Social-Science Professors
When Orville Vernon Burton and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign decided to commemorate their 1993 conference on computing in the humanities and social sciences, they had no idea the project would take nearly a decade to complete.
"We were just going to edit a book with papers from the conference," says Mr. Burton, a professor of history and sociology at the university.
"But you couldn't really explain the excitement of the innovations that were occurring in the
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