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Robert Ziomkowski, Ph. D. , is a lecturer in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at Ithaca College. His research focuses on medieval Platonism and cosmology. His publications include a translation and study of a text by the eleventh-century thinker Manegold of Lautenbach, as well as a study guide for Western Civilization and articles in the New Dictionary of the History of Ideas and PLOS ONE ("Mathematical Philology”). He attended Fr. Reginald Foster's summer Latin course in 1994 while doing manuscript research in the Vatican Library, and his fascination with human languages has merged with an interest in computer languages (JavaScript, Python) for the creation of computerized Latin exercises. His other interests include animation and video editing; with his students at Ithaca College, he produced a short film in Latin on Homer's Odyssey entitled "Ulixes. ” In 2003 he curated an exhibition of Cornell University's medieval manuscripts and published an online version, "From Manuscript to Print: The Evolution of the Medieval Book” (http://rmc. library. cornell. edu/medievalbook/).