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Language of Material:
English
Contributing Institution:
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Title: David Hays papers
Identifier/Call Number: M1209
Physical Description:
45 Linear Feet
36 cartons and 3 manuscript boxes; 6,000 computer files
Date (inclusive): 1952-1995
Language of Material: Materials are mostly in English,
with a small amount of materials in Russian.
The materials are open for research use. Audio-visual materials are not available in
original format, and must be reformatted to a digital use copy.
Purchased from Glen Horowitz Bookseller in 2001.
David Glenn Hays (November 17, 1928 - July 26, 1995) was born in Memphis, TN. He graduated
from Harvard College in 1951, and received his PhD in Sociology, also from Harvard, in 1954.
He was a fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford in
1954-1955, after which he worked for the RAND Corporation until 1968. He taught in
Linguistics, Computer Science, and Information and Library Science at SUNY Buffalo until
1980, after which he worked as an independent researcher and writer in New York City.
Hays is an early researcher and writer in the fields of computational linguistics, machine
translation (especially English-Russian translation) and various other topics combining
computer science, the humanities, and sociology.
His publications include his books
Introduction to Computational
Linguistics
,
Cognitive Structures,
The Evolution of Technology,
The
Measurement of Cultural Evolution in the Non-Literate World: Homage to Raoul
Naroll
, and many articles published in scholarly journals and through the RAND
Corporation.
[identification of item], David Hays Papers (M1209). Dept. of Special Collections and
University Archives, Stanford Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
This collection is unprocessed but is open for research. The collection has been rehoused
and surveyed to include minimal box-level description.
Contains research notes, correspondence, typescript drafts and articles by Hays and others.
Also contains over 6,000 computer files, as well as Hay's extensive collection of books,
periodicals and manuscripts created by leading figures in the field of computational
linguistics.
All requests to reproduce, publish, quote from, or otherwise use collection materials must
be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford
University Libraries, Stanford, California 94305-6064. Consent is given on behalf of Special
Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply
permission from the copyright owner. Such permission must be obtained from the copyright
owner, heir(s) or assigns. See:
http://library.stanford.edu/spc/using-collections/permission-publish.
Restrictions also apply to digital representations of the original materials. Use of
digital files is restricted to research and educational purposes.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Science -- History.
Computer science.
Computational linguistics -- Research.
Machine translation
Glenn Horowitz Bookseller (Firm)