<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Bernard,<div class="">Johanna Drucker’s <a href="https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674724938" class=""><i class="">Graphesis</i></a><i class=""> </i>has a brief section (pp. 95-105) on the history of tree diagrams in humanistic inquiry, which includes a handful of potentially useful citations.</div><div class="">Hope this helps,</div><div class="">Brian</div><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""><div class="">
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<div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Mar 26, 2020, at 2:03 PM, Jeff Scott Nagy <<a href="mailto:jsnagy@stanford.edu" class="">jsnagy@stanford.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class="">Dear Bernie,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class="">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<span class=""> </span><i class="">The Art of Computer Programming</i>, the section beginning with "Trees have of course been in existence since the third day of creation..."<span class=""> </span><span style="margin: 0px;" class="">On p. 459, he gives a little more on the history of trees as CS data structures in particular. </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class=""><span style="margin: 0px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class="">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. </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class="">Sincerely,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class="">Jeff</div><br class=""></div><div id="appendonsend" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""></div><hr tabindex="-1" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; display: inline-block; width: 519.390625px;" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class=""></span><div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""><b class="">From:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Members <<a href="mailto:members-bounces@lists.sigcis.org" class="">members-bounces@lists.sigcis.org</a>> on behalf of Bernard Geoghegan <<a href="mailto:bernardgeoghegan2010@u.northwestern.edu" class="">bernardgeoghegan2010@u.northwestern.edu</a>><br class=""><b class="">Sent:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Thursday, March 26, 2020 4:05 PM<br class=""><b class="">To:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Sigcis <<a href="mailto:members@sigcis.org" class="">members@sigcis.org</a>><br class=""><b class="">Subject:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>[SIGCIS-Members] Tree diagrams in computer science and other fields (i.e. genealogy)</font><div class=""> </div></div><div lang="EN-GB" link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><div class="x_WordSection1"><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">Dear Colleagues,</span></div><p class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""> </span></p><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">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?</span></div><p class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""> </span></p><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">Thanks for your thoughts,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">b</span></div><p class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Helvetica;" class=""> </span></p><p class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; 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