<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div><br></div><div>I recently listened to a podcast on Pickering's human-intensive computing</div><div>for processing astronomical data. Here is a wiki page that contains an overview and</div><div>photograph from 1890:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_Computers">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_Computers</a></div><div><br></div><div>I am seeking diagrammatic workflow models of the types of computation that occurred</div><div>under Pickering's direction, but more generally, any articles or texts that contain such</div><div>diagrams for human computing. I am familiar with modern formalisms such as </div><div>BPMN: <a href="http://www.bpmn.org/">http://www.bpmn.org/</a> in which business workflows might be formalized. I also have </div><div>read Grier's excellent book:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.amazon.com/When-Computers-Human-David-Grier/dp/0691091579/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1429392009&sr=8-1&keywords=when+computers+were+human">http://www.amazon.com/When-Computers-Human-David-Grier/dp/0691091579/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1429392009&sr=8-1&keywords=when+computers+were+human</a></div><div><br></div><div>The history and cultural context is interesting to me, and most appropriate for engaging</div><div>readers, however, the main end-point in this story-telling process, for me, is for people to </div><div>appreciate the path toward the diagrammatic formalisms with their nodes, merges, branches, and</div><div>connections.</div><div><br></div><div>If I need to, I can embark on a path toward creating some models with the written historical </div><div>accounts as a guide, but I thought that checking here would be the best starting location in this </div><div>quest for diagrammatic evidence.</div><div><br></div><div>-paul</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><br><br><div apple-content-edited="true">
<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;">Paul Fishwick, PhD</div><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">Chair, ACM SIGSIM</div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">Distinguished University Chair of Arts & Technology </div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"> and Professor of Computer Science</div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">Director, Creative Automata Laboratory</div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">The University of Texas at Dallas</div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">Arts & Technology</div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">800 West Campbell Road, AT10</div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">Richardson, TX 75080-3021</div></div><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">Home: <a href="http://utdallas.edu/atec/fishwick">utdallas.edu/atec/fishwick</a></div><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">Lab Blog: <a href="http://creative-automata.com">creative-automata.com</a></div><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">SIGSIM Blog: <a href="http://modelingforeveryone.com">modelingforeveryone.com</a></div></div><div><br></div></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
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