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Dr. Kirk Lowery's academic career began in the late 1970s correcting hardcopy printout of a Syriac chrestomathy stored on punchcards. His graduate work at the University of California, Los Angeles (M.A., Ph.D.) included proofreading of the book of Judges for the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor) effort to create the electronic version of Biblia Hebraica Stuttargtensia under the direction of H. Van Parunak. His dissertation, Toward a Discourse Grammar of Biblical Hebrew, includes one of the first published algorithms for the determination of clause boundaries in Hebrew and raised the question of the adequacy of traditional Hebrew grammatical categories and notions in a computational world. It was also among the first to be printed at UCLA by a room-sized laser printer, using bitmaps of Hebrew characters created in consultation with the Department of Computer Science. In addition to his duties as Director, he is also Adjunct Professor of Old Testament at Westminster (Biblical Aramaic, Targums, Ugaritic, Textlinguistics of Biblical Hebrew), Chair of the Computer Assisted Research Group (CARG) of the Society of Biblical Literature, and is one of the moderators of the B-Hebrew Internet discussion forum.
