[SIGCIS-Members] Tree diagrams in computer science and other fields (i.e. genealogy)

[dave walden]

Knuth vol. 4A is all about tree diagrams with bits of history here and 
there.  His Christmas lecture series videos also are a lot about trees.


On 3/26/2020 2:20 PM, BRIAN JUSTIE wrote:
> Bernard,
> Johanna Drucker’s /Graphesis/ 
> <https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674724938>//has a 
> brief section (pp. 95-105) on the history of tree diagrams in humanistic 
> inquiry, which includes a handful of potentially useful citations.
> Hope this helps,
> Brian
> 
> —
> Brian Justie
> /b1 at ucla.edu <mailto:b1 at ucla.edu> /
> 
>     PhD Student, Department of Information Studies
>     Researcher, UCLA Labor Center
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> 
> 
> 
>> On Mar 26, 2020, at 2:03 PM, Jeff Scott Nagy <jsnagy at stanford.edu 
>> <mailto:jsnagy at stanford.edu>> wrote:
>>
>> Dear Bernie,
>>
>> If by trees in CS you mean at least in part the abstract data type, 
>> Knuth gives a short history and bibliography on pp. 406-7 of the first 
>> volume of/The Art of Computer Programming/, the section beginning with 
>> "Trees have of course been in existence since the third day of 
>> creation..."On p. 459, he gives a little more on the history of trees 
>> as CS data structures in particular.
>>
>> Happy to send photos of these pages if they'd be of use! I think the 
>> files are too big to not get bounced by the list though.
>>
>> Sincerely,
>> Jeff
>>
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>> *Subject:*[SIGCIS-Members] Tree diagrams in computer science and other 
>> fields (i.e. genealogy)
>> Dear Colleagues,
>>
>> A little query sent across the lockdowns and quarantines: Can anyone 
>> recommend scholarship on the tree-style diagrams that circulate both 
>> in computer science and a wide range of other fields, for example, 
>> genealogy, kinship? Is there any good work on the history of these 
>> diagrams, their intersection, and what they might say about possible 
>> links in styles of reasoning across fields that might, otherwise, seem 
>> remote?
>>
>> Thanks for your thoughts,
>> b
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