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

Fri Mar 27 03:56:06 PDT 2020

+1!!

On Fri, Mar 27, 2020 at 3:27 AM Barbara B Walker <bbwalker at unr.edu> wrote:

> I just want to say how much I am enjoying this fascinating thread!
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> And that I hope everyone is safe and comfortable in these difficult days.
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> Barbara
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> *From: *Members <members-bounces at lists.sigcis.org> on behalf of Evan
> Hepler-Smith <evan.heplersmith at gmail.com>
> *Reply-To: *"evan.heplersmith at gmail.com" <evan.heplersmith at gmail.com>
> *Date: *Thursday, March 26, 2020 at 2:44 PM
> *To: *BRIAN JUSTIE <b1 at ucla.edu>
> *Cc: *Sigcis <members at sigcis.org>
> *Subject: *Re: [SIGCIS-Members] Tree diagrams in computer science and
> other fields (i.e. genealogy)
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> Hi Bernard,
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> I second Matthew's reference to Manuel Lima, *The Book of Trees
> <https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.papress.com%2Fhtml%2Fproduct.details.dna%3Fisbn%3D9781616892180&data=01%7C01%7Cbbwalker%40unr.edu%7C4f213bc663ab4ea2bcee08d7d1cee137%7C523b4bfc0ebd4c03b2b96f6a17fd31d8%7C1&sdata=ZaS4hAEL5Mmrnfq3%2FQbw5DG2%2BxhJhJO2ksgHlzaKxh8%3D&reserved=0>*,
> an art-historical treatment of just this question, including a taxonomy of
> kinds of trees. And Theodora's reference to her own work!
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> I have an article discussing the development of trees and graphs as
> mathematical objects and calculation devices in comparison/connection with
> the graphical practices of organic chemists circa the late 19th century and
> 1960s:
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>    - Evan Hepler-Smith, “Paper Chemistry: François Dagognet and the
>    Chemical Graph,” * Ambix* 65, no. 1 (2018): 76–98,
>    https://doi.org/10.1080/00026980.2017.1418232
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> (Preprint linked on my website
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> I can send a PDF of the published version to anyone interested.)
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> Alexander et al., *A Pattern Language* also seems relevant to this
> question, though not specifically about trees. (Although Alexander's
> earlier essay "A City is Not a Tree" might be.)
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> Evan
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> On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 2:21 PM BRIAN JUSTIE <b1 at ucla.edu> wrote:
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> Bernard,
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> Johanna Drucker’s *Graphesis*
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>  has a brief section (pp. 95-105) on the history of tree diagrams in
> humanistic inquiry, which includes a handful of potentially useful
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> Hope this helps,
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> Brian
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> Brian Justie
> *b1 at ucla.edu <b1 at ucla.edu> *
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> PhD Student, Department of Information Studies
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> Researcher, UCLA Labor Center
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> On Mar 26, 2020, at 2:03 PM, Jeff Scott Nagy <jsnagy at stanford.edu> wrote:
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> Dear Bernie,
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Sincerely,
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> Jeff
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> *From:* Members <members-bounces at lists.sigcis.org> on behalf of Bernard
> Geoghegan <bernardgeoghegan2010 at u.northwestern.edu>
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> *Subject:* [SIGCIS-Members] Tree diagrams in computer science and other
> fields (i.e. genealogy)
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> Dear Colleagues,
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> 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?
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> Thanks for your thoughts,
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