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Faculty Manhattans & Martinis

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Part of the goal of the Digital and Computational Knowledge Initiative is to get faculty to enrich their knowledge of techniques and concepts so we can then share it with a wider audience. Over the last couple of years, we have been keen to push network analysis to the forefront. This fall a group of … Read more

Allen Carroll: “Story Maps: Geo-Enabled Storytelling in the Digital Age”

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Talk: Monday, November 17th at 3pm GIS, remote sensing, GPS, and the Internet have transformed maps from static documents into dynamic windows on a rapidly changing world. Combining maps with multimedia content and user experiences comprises a powerful new storytelling medium. Allen Carroll, former chief cartographer at National Geographic and current program manager of storytelling … Read more

Lev Manovich: How to see 300 million images? Exploring large cultural data to unlearn what we know

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Lev Manovich is the author of Software Takes Command (Bloomsbury Academic, 2013), Soft Cinema: Navigating the Database (The MIT Press, 2005), and The Language of New Media (The MIT Press, 2001) which was described as “the most suggestive and broad ranging media history since Marshall McLuhan.” Manovich is a Professor at The Graduate Center, CUNY, … Read more

Christopher Weaver: The Informed Entrepreneur: Applying Lessons of Experience and Science to Improve Startup Success

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Biography: Chris Weaver teaches in Materials Science and Engineering and Comparative Media Studies/Writing. He received his S.M. from MIT and was the initial Daltry scholar at Wesleyan University, where he earned dual master’s degrees in Japanese and Computer Science and a CAS Doctoral Degree in Japanese Ethnomusicology and Physics. The former Director of Technology Forecasting for … Read more

Stephen Berry, Digital Humanities

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Stephen Berry is Gregory Professor of the Civil War Era in the Department of History at the University of Georgia and the author or editor of four books on America in the mid-19th century, including House of Abraham: Lincoln and the Todds, A Family Divided by War. Berry is co-director, with Claudio Saunt, of both … Read more

Gary King: Reverse Engineering Chinese Censorship

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King is one of the most innovative and influential social science methodologists, much of his work probing the challenges and building solutions for both quantitative and qualitative analysis. He has pioneered research using automated textual analysis, health care evaluation, voting behaviours, international conflict, and the study of human mortality, to name just some fields in … Read more

April Glaser: NSA Spying, Digital Privacy, and Your Rights Online

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The U.S. government, with assistance from major telecommunications carriers, has engaged in a massive illegal dragnet surveillance of domestic communications and communications records of millions of ordinary Americans and people all over the world. Since this was first reported by the press and discovered by the public in late 2005, EFF has been at the … Read more

Ryan Cordell: Viral Textuality: Uncovering Reprinting Networks In 19th Century Newspapers

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Ryan Cordell, Assistant Professor of English, at Northeastern University has routinely contributed to thinking on digital matters in research and in the undergraduate curriculum as you can see from his writing for the Chronicle of Higher Education among other venues. The title of his talk is “Viral Textuality: Uncovering Reprinting Networks in Nineteenth-Century Newspapers.” The … Read more

Kim Diver and Phil Stern: Geospatial Data Visualization and Analysis using GPS

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Digital and Computational Knowledge Initiative – Philip Stern Workshop. The focus will be on how tools like GIS (Geographic Information Systems) among others can help us to analyze and visualize complex data, whether derived from texts or physical spaces. Presenters: Phil Stern (Assistant Professor of History at Duke University, and a graduate of the Wesleyan class of 1997) and Kim Diver (Visiting Assistant Professor of Earth & Environmental Sciences at Wesleyan University).