To what ends [...] should our number be known, except [...] to be pressed into the fleet and the army, or transplanted like felons to the plantations abroad? And what purpose [...] to know where the kingdom is crowded, where it is thin, except we are to be driven from place to place as graziers do their cattle? William Thornton before the House of Commons, March 30, 1753

Some recent work

• From Paninian Sandhi to Finite State Calculus [in Proceedings of the First International Sanskrit Computational Linguistics Symposium, edd. G. Huet, A. Kulkarni, INRIA, Paris, Oct. 2007, pp. 13-21] (presentation slides; video stream)
• Toward an Epistemic Web [with Jürgen Renn; for Globalization of Knowledge and its Consequences (97th Dahlem Workshop)]
• Semantic Networks: A Tool for Investigating Conceptual Change and Knowledge Transfer in the History of Science [in preprint 320 of the Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte; published in Übersetzung und Transformation, edd. H. Böhme, C. Rapp, W. Rösler, 2007, pp. 355-367]
• Of Glyphs and Glottography [published in Language & Communication, 26.3/4 (2006), pp. 231-249] figures: 1 2 3
• Terms for 'Word' in Roman Grammar [published in Antike Fachtexte, ed. T. Fögen, 2005, pp. 155-170]
• Review of Rachel Barney, Names and Nature in Plato's Cratylus [published in BMCR 2003.03.35]
• Greek and Roman Grammarians on Motion Verbs and Place Adverbials [NAAHoLS, Atlanta, 4 January 2003 (DRAFT)]
• One-Word Solecisms and the Limits of Syntax [published in Syntax in Antiquity, Orbis Supplementa 23, edd. P. Swiggers and A. Wouters, 2003, pp. 179-92]
• Bad Grammar in Context [published in NECJ 29.2 (2002), pp. 94-101]

Software & technical work

• Extending the Unicode Standard to accomodate Vedic
• Sanskrit::Transliterate Perl module (now hosted at Brown)

La carte postale

• Berlin, Potsdamer Platz, gegen 1930. Postkarte von meiner Kollektion.
• Vereinigte Wiener Auto-rundfahrten, 1931. The man standing behind the driver is my great-grandfather.
• Ostseebad Niendorf, gegen 1930.
• Providence, Rhode Island, 1911. This card was sent to my great-grandmother. Postage was one cent.
• Appleton, Wisconsin; the lower dam, 1906. From the locus of my alma mater. Sent by Minnie Vanderlinden to Miss Georgiana Charbonneau of Hamilton, Rhode Island.

Photographs of motels in Michigan and New York State

Archimedes Project photos: Europe 2004

Links

• Arabic links
• The Multivalent Browser (Berkeley)
• TITUS Unicode database
• Ganz kurze Einführung in CVS
• Talmud and its Shape (CCAT)
• The Protégé Project (Stanford)
• XML Starlet
• Open Lexicon Interchange Format (OLIF)