Scholars of all stripes are turning their attention to mate- rials that represent enormous opportunities for the future of humanistic inquiry. The purpose of this book is to impart the concepts that underlie the mathematics they are likely to encounter and to unfold the notation in a way that removes that particular barrier completely. This book is a primer for developing the skills to enable humanist scholars to address complicated technical material with confidence.
Patrick Juola is Professor of Computer Science and Director of the Evaluating Variations in Language Laboratory at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, PA. He is an inter- nationally noted expert in text analysis, security, forensics, and stylometry. He has taught at the University of Colorado and Oxford University, and conducted research at Johns Hopkins University, Carnegie Mellon University, MIT, PGP Inc., and AT&T Bell Laboratories. He is the author of Principles of Computer Organization and Assembly Language (2007) and Authorship Attribution (2008).
Stephen Ramsay is Susan J. Rosowski Associate Professor of English at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. He is a specialist in digital humanities, theory of new media, and theater history. He is the author of Reading Machines: Toward an Algorithmic Criticism (2011).