Malcolm B. Brown

Work History

Director of Academic Computing, Dartmouth College (1991-present) Reorganized the User Services division of Computing Services into academic computing and consulting groups under the general title of Academic Computing. Oversee an annual budget of $1.6 million, staff of 20 professionals, and numerous student assistants. Liaison with faculty and senior administration on academic computing issues and projects. Supervise help desk, general and specialized in-house consulting, user education, outreach programs, instructional centers, and public clusters. Coordinate curricular and research computing support for faculty, and administer the Computing Technology Venture Fund in support of curricular projects. In partnernship with the Library, provide content support for the campus information system. Chair of the Subcommittee on Classrooms with an annual capital budget of $125,000. Member of numerous committees for the new Berry Library extension, such as the Building Committee, User Services Working Group, and chair of the Classroom Committee. Manager for Humanities Computing Projects, Stanford University (1989-1991) Conceived and directed the Academic Text Service, including the development of the first network-based text analysis tool and an on-line, full-text library. Oversaw development of a retrieval system for a large collection of slide images. Worked with the Dean of Humanities & Sciences on project Pegasus, which equipped and supported humanists with Macintosh computers. Participated in projects with the Stanford University Library to make full-text and bibliographic information available on the university network. Participated in the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) to define standards for the encoding of digital texts. Initiated the digital Nietzsche project, which has been officially affiliated with the TEI. Specialist for Humanities Computing Projects, Stanford University (1987-1989) Initiated and supported computer-based research projects in humanities departments. Assisted and advised the Dean of Humanities & Sciences on computing projects. Managed an OCR service for humanities departments. Researched hypertext and text retrieval systems and provided liaison for Stanford for computing initiatives in the international scholarly community. Academic Computing Specialist, Stanford University (1985-1987) Provided pre-sales and troubleshooting consulting support for the principal microcomputer environments. Specialized in the areas of text processing, typesetting, and page description languages. Teaching Fellow, German Studies, Stanford University (1982-1984) Taught first- and second-year languages courses, and served as teaching assistant and discussion leader for the department's intellectual history cycle.

Education

Harvard Management Development Program, 1992. Ph.D., German Studies, Stanford University, 1979-1985. Fulbright scholarship, Albert-Ludwigs Universität, Freiburg im Breisgau, Federal Republic of Germany, 1976-1977; second Fulbright grant, 1977-1978. B.A., Philosophy, B.A., German Literature, University of California Santa Cruz, 1971-1975.

Special Project Activity

CAUSE/CNI Library/IT Working Together workshop leader, 1997-1999 Co-leader, EDUCAUSE Library/IT Constituent group, 1997-1999 Program Committee, 1998 CAUSE conference Program Committee, Educational Media 1996 Conference. Science Teaching Institute retreat, Dartmouth College, 1995. CNI Focus Group, "Assessing the True Costs of Networked Information," July 1995. Electronic Nietzsche corpus, 1988-present. Officially affiliated with the international Text Encoding Initiative. Electronic Schopenhauer corpus, 1990-present. TEI "Metaworkshop," University of Illinois at Chicago, December 1994. Review panel, Reference and Bibliographic Materials, National Endowment for the Humanities, January 1993. Executive Council, Association for Computing in the Humanities, 1988-1993. Peer review, Personal Computing Branch, National Institutes of Health, April 1992.

Publications, Articles, Papers

Nietzsche Chronicle, WWW Exhibit (http://www.dartmouth.edu/~fnchron). Nietzsche, Kritische Gesamtausgabe Werke, (Nietzsche's core works) on CD-ROM, published by Intelex Corporation. Presentation: "The Future of the Macintosh Operating System," 1999 Seminars on Academic Computing. Presentation: "Of Computarians and Librarians," 1998 NERCOMP conference Presentation: "Dartmouth's Approach to Electronic Classrooms," 1997 NERCOMP conference Paper: "The Key Is Navigation," concluding IMHE seminar, Paris, April 1995. Papers: "Navigating the Waters: Building an Academic Information System"; Panels: "Text Analysis Software: The Next Step," "Humanities Computing Facilities," 1993 International Joint Conference of the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing (ALLC) and the Association for Computing and the Humanities (ACH). Georgetown University. "Nietzsche On-line: Report and Future Directions," American Philosophical Association conference, December 1992. "Electronic Texts: Quality, Acceptability, and Control," 1992 ACH/ALLC Conference, Oxford University, England. "Thus coded Zarathustra," Modern Language Association conference, 1991. "Keyboarding vs. Optical Character Recognition," 1989 International Joint Conference of the ALLC and the ACH, University of Toronto, Canada. Book: Friedrich Nietzsche und Ernst Schmeitzner: eine Dartstellung ihrer Beziehung, Buchhändler-Vereinigung GmbH, Frankfurt am Main, 1987. "About Type Encoding Programs," Desktop Publishing Bible, The Waite Group, San Francisco, 1987, pp. 320-339. "The NeXT workstation: Unix for the scholar?," Newsletter for the Association for Computers and the Humanities, Vol. 11 (Spring 1989), No. 1, pp. 1-3. "Macintosh and DOS implementations of TeX," The Scientist, Vol. 2, no. 1, (11 January 1988), pp. 18-21.

Computing Skills

Programming experience with Pascal, Icon, Snobol, PostScript. Extensive experience with Unix scripting and text manipulation tools (e.g., awk, sed, perl). Experience with microcomputers, Unix workstations, and mainframes, including IBM, Macintosh, DEC, HP, NeXT, and Sun. Specialized interests in text retrieval and analysis, text encoding, hypertext, optical character recognition systems, document preparation and typesetting, and page description languages.

Memberships and Activities

Editor, Nietzsche discussion list (Nietzsch-L); Mathematics Across the Curriculum discussion list (MATHC). North American Nietzsche Society Association for Computing in the Humanities (ACH); ACH Executive Committee 1988-1992. Modern Language Association. 4th dan, Aikido.

URLs

Dartmouth: http://www.dartmouth.edu/ Academic Computing: http://www.dartmouth.edu/~ac/ Computing at Dartmouth: http://www.dartmouth.edu/comp/ Nietzsche Chronicle: http://www.dartmouth.edu/~fnchron/

Portraiture

Last but not least, a portrait of the me, as seen by my nine year old daughter....

Advice to speakers and authors

In promulgating esoteric cogitations, and articulating superficial sentimentalities and philosophical or psychological observations, beware of platitudinous ponderosity. Let your statements and dissertations possess a clarified, lucid, conciseness, a compacted comprehensibleness, a coalescent consistency and a concentrated cogency. Let your extemporaneous descartings and unpremeditated expatiations have veracious veracity, without rodomontade or thrasonical bombast. Sedulously avoid all polysylabic profundity, psettatious vacuity, ventriloquial verbosity and vandiloquent vapidity. Eschew all flatulent garrulity, jejune babblement and idiotic affections. Shun prurient jocosity, pernicious, pestiferous profanity, contumacious eccentricity, innocuous ambiguities and preposterous apothetic imbecility.