Author Archives: Tom Elliott

About Tom Elliott

Associate Director for Digital Programs and Senior Research Scholar, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University

Pleiades project seeks software applications analyst

Posted on 2006-02-01 by Tom Elliott

I am happy to announce that a 2-year Software Application Analyst position for the Pleiades project is now open for application. We will carefully evaluate all applications received (online, see below) by the deadline of 13 February 2006 with a … Continue reading →

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Gentium Unicode font featured on newsforge

Posted on 2006-02-01 by Tom Elliott

My post this morning to classics-l about Bruce Byfield’s newsforge article (Gentium: An award-winning font joins the free software world ) has sparked an interesting and informative discussion. Gist@newsforge: Gentium’s creator, Victor Gaultney, has re-released the useful and attractive font … Continue reading →

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BBC NEWS: Call for freely available science

Posted on 2004-07-20 by Tom Elliott

According to BBC: Call for freely available science, a Science and Technology Committee of the British House of Commons wants: publicly funded research to be made freely available online by means of archived digital information banks [and urges] the government … Continue reading →

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Open Publication on Silk Road Seattle?

Posted on 2004-07-14 by Tom Elliott

In a recent post to Sogdian-L, John Hill announced the on-line availability of the first draft of his annotated translation of the Weilue, a 3rd century CE Chinese text that, among other things, preserves unique information about maritime routes to … Continue reading →

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