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As a follow up to Mechelle's post about the Education Program at SC08, here is another event within the larger SC08 agenda. SC08 is the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis. See their website at http://sc08.supercomputing.org/
On Tuesday, November 18, NEH Chairman Bruce Cole will give a talk entitled "Humanities Scholarship in the Petabyte Age" at the Supercomputing 2008 Conference in Austin, Texas. He also plans to announce the grantees from the recent NEH/DOE Humanities High Performance Computing program, and will hold a meet-and-greet event following the talk. So if you are in the Austin area, please do stop by.
SC Conference - Activity Details
Humanities Scholarship in the Petabyte Age
Presenter: Bruce Cole (National Endowment for the Humanities)
Masterworks Session
HPC in the Humanities and Arts
10:30AM - 11:15AM
Room 18A/18B/18C/18D
Abstract:
The "core dataset" for humanities scholars consists of objects like books, documents, journals, paintings, newspapers, film and audio recordings, sculpture - these are the things humanists study. In the past, these objects were read and searched on a very small scale; no one scholar could read more than a small subset of the works in his field. But in the "Petabyte Age," the scale of available materials has exploded. In just the past few years, massive amounts of cultural heritage materials have been digitized, and scholars now have access to millions of digitized books, journals, recordings, etc. In the sciences, the data-driven approach to knowledge afforded by supercomputing has made possible incredible breakthroughs. Now humanities scholars are exploring how this approach can benefit their disciplines. What new knowledge might humanities scholars acquire? What new questions might all this data compel them to ask? Can supercomputers allow humanists to mine these "mountains of digital data" in ways that advance their understanding and scholarship?
For the full SC08 conference schedule and to register, visit their website.