Guide to the David Hays Papers M1209

Box-level survey

Department of Special Collections and University Archives

2023

Green Library

557 Escondido Mall

Stanford 94305-6064

specialcollections@stanford.edu

URL: http://library.stanford.edu/spc

Note

This is a box-level survey only. The collection is unprocessed or minimally processed.

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.

Access to Collection

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.

Acquisition Information

Purchased from Glen Horowitz Bookseller in 2001.

Biographical Note

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.

Preferred Citation

[identification of item], David Hays Papers (M1209). Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford Libraries, Stanford, Calif.

Processing Note

This collection is unprocessed but is open for research. The collection has been rehoused and surveyed to include minimal box-level description.

Scope and Contents

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.

Publication Rights

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)

Box-level survey

Scope and Contents

This survey is a general description of collection contents conducted during a collection move. The collection is unprocessed and reflects the order in which it was received, with no arrangement. The collection includes manuscripts and working papers by David Hays on computational linguistics and other technology-related topics, his correspondence, lab notebooks, teaching materials, and other professional papers. The collection also includes a reference library of technical reports and scientific papers by other authors.

carton 1

Charles Babbage Institute 2001-084 D. Hays Materials on Loan. Technical reports on data dictionaries, data processing reports, citation indexing, and machine translation. All stamped Paul Garvin 1970-1972

carton 2

Charles Babbage Institute 2001-084 D. Hays Materials on Loan. Technical reports on data, applied and computational linguistics, machine translation, databases, cognitive systems theory. 1959-1975

Box 3

Charles Babbage Institute 2001-084 D. Hays Materials on Loan. Technical reports on data, applied and computational linguistics, machine translation, databases, cognitive systems theory 1959-1975

carton 4

Technical reports and photocopied reports on applied and computational linguistics, "Linguistics in documentation" current abstracts, UCLA working papers in phonetics 1961-1975

carton 5

Technical reports and working papers, computers in education, information systems, computational linguistics and machine translation 1967-1972

carton 6

Technical reports and working papers, computers in education, information systems, computational linguistics and machine translation. 1959-1979

carton 7

Technical reports and working papers, computers in education, information systems, computational linguistics and machine translation 1957-1977

carton 8

Technical reports and working papers, computers in education, information systems, computational linguistics and machine translation. 1960-1978

carton 9

Technical reports and working papers, computers in education, information systems, computational linguistics and machine translation 1960s-1970s

carton 10

Technical reports and working papers, computers in education, information systems, computational linguistics and machine translation 1960s-1970s

carton 11

Technical reports and working papers, computers in education, information systems, computational linguistics and machine translation 1960s-1970s

Box 12

Papers, working papers, technical reports 1970s, 1998

carton 14

Technical reports and working papers, computers in education, information systems, computational linguistics and machine translation. 1960s-1970s

carton 15

Technical reports, working papers, books, proceedings 1960s-1980s

carton 16

Technical reports, working papers, books, proceedings undated

carton 17

Technical reports and scientific papers on natural language processing, computational linguistics, information retrieval 1960s-1970s

carton 18