Curriculum Vitae:

PETER ALEXANDER BATKE

OFFICE ADDRESS: HOME ADDRESS:

Computing and Information Technology 108 Rosedale Rd.
100 jones Hall Princeton, NJ 08542
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ 08544 Mailbox:
(609) 258-2985 66 Witherspoon St. #262
batke@pucc.princeton.edu Princeton, NJ 08542
http://www.princeton.edu/~batke

BIOGRAPHICAL DATA: Born: February 10, 1947; citizenship: Austrian; immigration status:
permanent resident; marital status: single.

RESEARCH INTEREST: Modern Austrian novel, (Broch, Musil, Doderer)
theory of the novel, methodology in literary studies,
literary research with computers,
using computer indexing to study texts, (Shakespeare, American
literature, British modernists, British empirisist philosophy
Hegel) computer aided instruction, non-roman
characters on computers, New Media,
computer applications in the humanities,
the WEB.

EDUCATION:

1979 Ph.D. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Germanic Languages.
Dissertation: Autobiographical Elements in Heimito von Doderer's Die D„monen.
Minor concentration: Computer Science.
1972 M.A. UNC-CH, Germanic Languages, Thesis: Satire in the Parodies of Johann Nestroy.
1968 B.A. UNC-CH, German.
1964 H.S. Needham Broughton H.S., Raleigh, NC.

FOREIGN LANGUAGES: German, French.

COMPUTER LANGUAGES: Fortran, PL/1, BASIC, C, Prolog, Perl.

ATHLETICS: Captain, UNC Fencing Team, 1968; NCAA Nationals, saber, 1968;
Assistant Fencing Coach, UNC, 1968 to 1975; ACC Official, saber and epee,
1968 to 1977.

PROFESSIONAL WORK EXPERIENCE:

1994 to present Humanities Consultant, Computer and Information Technology,
Princeton University. Proactive consulting with humanities faculty
on a variety of NewMedia computing resources including, hardware,
software and network deployment. Many Web projects, work-shops,
Toolbook Authoring. East-Asian and Non-Roman computing.

1988 to 1994 Humanities Specialist, Homewood Academic Computing, The Johns Hopkins
University. Support humanities faculty and students in use of mainframe computing (VM-CMS,
VMS and UNIX) and personal computing. Update and revise computer center documentation.
Contribute regularly to the computer center publication on topics such as: configuring computer
systems, non-roman characters in word processing, spreadsheet grading and PC-mainframe data
transfer, text-retrieval, scanning, e-mail, internet tools. Consult with faculty on hardware and
software purchases and on design and implementation of computer research techniques.

1983 to 1988 Senior Research Associate, Humanities Computing Facility, Duke University. Managed
computing facility dedicated to computer literacy for humanities departments; supported micro
computer users in humanities departments, clerical and research; managed a team of
programmers and linguists involved in contract work to IBM and government language
programs; tested software developed at the facility; oversaw production of lesson material in
several languages; gave workshops and lectures on computers and education.

1980 to 1982 Assistant to the Executive Secretary, University Centers, NY, NY. Copy editor for
Measure; office manager; installation of word processing and data base functions; fund raising.

1979 to 1980 Post-doctoral research at the Nationalbibliothek, Vienna, Austria. Collaboration with members
of the Austrian Academy of Science on media research.

1978 to 1979 Research Assistant, UNC Computer Center, Chapel Hill, NC. Prepared
dissertation manuscript with Waterloo Script.
1973 to 1977 Supervisor, Wilson Library, UNC-CH.
1969 to 1973 Teaching Assistant, German, UNC-CH.
1968 to 1969 Stack Supervisor, Wilson Library, UNC-CH.

MINOR PUBLICATIONS

"New Era of Computer Literacy for Librarians" VAR/ARLIS Winter 1993-4.

"Toolbook, Windows and Hypermedia," IAT briefings 1:1 (Winter 1991) pp. 8-10.

"Text Specific Workstations: A Software Problem," Academic Computing 4:1 (September 1989) pp. 32-
35 and 70-73.

"Comment," Perspectives 6:2 (October 1987) p. 43 (respondent to: R. Weissman)

"The Duke/IBM Environment for Full-Text Research," 1985 University Study Conference Proceedings
(Paper given at the Annual Meeting of IBM Academic Information Systems University Studies
Conference, November 1985, San Jose, CA.)

LECTURES, WORKSHOPS AND DEMONSTRATIONS:

"Assistant in Hypercard Track, CETH Summer Seminar in Humanities Computing,"
two-week seminar. Hypercard and Web authoring, Summer 1995, Web authoring
and Perl programming, Summer 1996

"New Tools for Teaching and Research," one-week work-shop for Princeton
graduate students sponsored by CETH and CIT. Planning content, preconference
work-shop, productivity tools. June 1996

"Library Information Fair," Firestone Library, Princeton University.
Personal Homepages (1994), Humanistic Content on the Web (1995)

"Computer Literacy for Librarians," VRA/ARLISS meeting, JHU, July 23, 1993.

"Putting Lord Jim into Lotus 123," Colloquium on Electronic Text Research, Institue for Academic
Technology, University of North Carolina, April 2, 1990.

"Computers and Language Instruction," Workshop for Language Faculty, November 1989, Gettysburg
College, Gettysburg, PA.

"Text Indexing and the Analysis of Literary Texts," Workshop for Literary Scholars, November 1989,
Gettysburg College.

"Authoring Courseware for Language Instruction," Workshop for Language Faculty, April 1989,
Georgetown University, Washington, DC.

"UNIX and the Humanities," AT&T UNIX Users Group (U3G), March 1989, New Orleans, LA.

"Humanities Special Interest Group", SIG Chair-person, Annual Meeting of EDUCOM, November 1988,
Washington, DC.

"The Johns Hopkins University UNIX Toolchest," Demonstration for AT&T at the Annual Meeting of
EDUCOM, November 1988, Washington, DC.

"Computing with Non-roman Character Sets," Annual Meeting of IBM Advanced Education Projects,
IBM\ACIS (Academic Information Systems), June 1988, Dallas, TX.

"Workshop: CAI for Language Teachers," John Bland College, May 1988, Petersburg, VA.

"Intelligent Optical Character Recognition in an Academic Setting," Annual Meeting of ASCENT, April
1988, Albany, NY.

"Computer Aided Instruction," Regional IBM/ACIS meeting, Princeton University, April 1988,
Princeton, NJ.

"The Influence of the Microcomputer on Teaching and Research in the Humanities," Regional
IBM/ACIS meeting, Princeton University, April 1988, Princeton, NJ.

"Probl‚mes Practiques en Intelligence Artificielle" and "Analyse du Texte par Ordinateur," Lectures
delivered at Cadi Ayyad University, March 1988, Marrakech, Morocco.

"Computer Assisted Instruct on and Literary Research on Microcomputers: Overview of Humanities
Applications," Enhancing Higher Education Through Microcomputers, Georgetown University and IBM,
November 1987, Washington, DC.

"Computers and Language Instruction," Annual Meeting of the Foreign Language Association of North
Carolina, October 1987, Charlotte, NC.

"Workshop: CALIS - Computers and Language Instruction for Adults," Teaching Foreign Languages
to Adult Professionals, ACTFL, July 1987, Baltimore, MD.

"Text Research on Microcomputers," Annual Meeting of IBM Advanced Education Projects,
IBM/ACIS, June 1987, Boston, MA.

"From Drill and Practice to Contextual Input in Computer Assisted Language Instruction," Lifelong
Computing, NECC (National Educational Computing Conference), June 1987, Philadelphia, PA.

"Workshop: CALIS - Computer Assisted Language Instruction System," U.S. Naval Academy, May
1987, Annapolis, MD.

"The Federal Convention of 1787 Project: A Prototype for Humanities Computing," Eighth International
Conference on Computers and the Humanities, April 1987, Columbia, SC.

"Literary Analysis for the 90's: Advanced Workstations and Computerized Text Research," Eighth
International Conference on Computers and the Humanities, April 1987, Columbia, SC.

"From Drill and Practice to Artificial Intelligence: Answer Analysis in Computer Aided Instruction,"
Annual CALICO Meeting, April 1987, Monterey, CA.

"Workshop: Authoring Scripts for Computer Assisted Language Instruction," Annual CALICO Meeting,
April 1987, Monterey, CA.

"Introduction to Computer Assisted Language Instruction," Emerging Technology and Language
Instruction, March 1987, Duke University.

"Workshop: CALIS - Computer Assisted Language Instruction System," U.S. Military Academy,
February 1987, West Point, NY.

"The Theme of the Border in Hermann Broch's Death of Vergil," Annual Meeting of the South Atlantic
Modern Language Association (SAMLA), November 1986, Atlanta, GA.

"Full Text Research at Duke University," Annual Meeting of IBM Academic Information Systems
University Study Conference, November 1986, Ft. Lauderdale, FL.

"Amharic CAI, Contextual Authoring, and Interactive Video," National Cryptographic School, August
1986, Baltimore, MD.

"PC-Communications and Networking," Duke/CALICO Summer Institute, Summer School class,
EDU220C, Duke, July 21-25,1986.

"CALIS Authoring," Duke/CALICO Summer Institute, Summer School class, EDU220B, Duke, July
14-18, 1986.

"Introduction to Computers and Instructional Design," Duke/CALICO Summer Institute, Summer School
class, EDU220A, Duke, July 7-11, 1986.

"First Annual Performance Report," NSA/Duke Cooperative Agreement, Swahili Calis and Amharic
Calis, electronic and hard-copy exercises presented to the National Cryptographic School, June 1986,
Baltimore, MD.

"Humanities Applications for Microcomputers," Regional meeting of EDUCOM, April 1986,Duke.

"Demonstration of Text Research and Computer Aided Instruction at Duke University," Canadian
Conference on Computers and the Humanities, April 1986, Toronto.

"Literary Text Research and the Microcomputer," The First North Carolina Assessment of Educational
Computing Conference, February 1986, Methodist College, Fayetteville, NC.

"Demonstration of Contextual Authoring in ESL, Amharic and Swahili," National Cryptographic School,
February 1986, Baltimore, MD.

"Interactive Concordance on a Microcomputer," INTERFACE 1985, September 1985, Southern Institute
of Technology, Atlanta, GA.

"Strategies in Administering a Humanities Computer Project," Annual CALICO Conference,February
1985, Baltimore, MD.

"Interactive Concordance on a Mainframe at TUCC," Demonstration of ARRAS for IBM at the Annual
Meeting of the Modern Language Association (MLA), December 1984, Washington, DC.

"Scientific Wordprocessing," Demonstration of SCIENTEX for IBM at the Annual Meeting of
EDUCOM, November 1984, Cambridge, MA.

"The Five Steps from Print to Electronic Concordance," Meeting of the Triangle Humanities Computing
Forum, National Humanities Center, April 1984.

"The Principle and the Practice of Optical Scanning," Meeting of the Triangle Humanities Computing
Forum, Duke University, February 1984.