ABSTRACT
In 1965 The Use of Computers in Anthropology (Hymes 1965b) appeared, the proceedings of a workshop which included anthropologists, linguists and computer scientists. This book is still uncomfortably current, despite the apparent progress in computing over the thirty years since that meeting. The substantive applications discussed and illustrated, the concerns expressed and the hopes for the future reflect much of the current literature; textual content analysis, statistical processing, the creation of databases, modelling, simulation and predictions of data archives. What we can presently add to this are largely simple elaborations and improvements in accessibility.
