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Allen Renear is Director of Brown University's Scholarly Technology Group. He received an AB from Bowdoin College and an MA and PhD from Brown, all in philosophy. He has worked as a philosophy teacher, user services specialist, and technology planner, and served as Co-Director of the Brown Women Writers Project. Renear's current research interests are in theoretical problems in text encoding and philosophical and methodological issues in the use of information technology in the humanities.

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Renear, A. Understanding (hyper) media: Required readings. Comput Hum 29, 389–407 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02279529

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