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CFP: "The Past's Digital Presence: Database, Archive, and Knowledge Work in the Humanities"

Submitted by pdp on Jul 06, 2009, 11:01 AM

Call For Papers

The Past?s Digital Presence: Database, Archive, and Knowledge Work in the Humanities

A Graduate Student Symposium at Yale University

New Arbitrage Opportunities for Image Search: Metaphors, Game Metadata, Common Sense

Submitted by Ray Uzwyshyn on Jun 16, 2009, 12:24 PM
A new opportunity for image search is presented by leveraging emergent image retrieval paradigms (Google Image Labeler) with New Interface Possiblities (Cool Iris) for the next stage of Image Search: http://www.asis.org/Bulletin/Jun-09/JunJul09_Uzwyshyn.pdf 

Multi-touch 360 Sphere for Art Installations- and Space Invaders!

Submitted by Lynn Marentette on May 24, 2009, 11:41 AM

 Thorsten Blum and Johann Korndoffer's Multi-touch 360 Sphere for Art Installations - and Space Invaders!

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I've been very busy finishing up work for the school year. I plan on posting more in the future.

Duke U Press Publishes Study by Obama's Mama

Submitted by Cathy Davidson on May 04, 2009, 02:03 PM
It hasn't been very often, if ever, in American history that the mother of the President of the United States was a scholar and an academic.  Congratulations to Duke University Press for publishing Against the Odds:  Village Industry in Indonesia, by the late S. Ann Dunham.  Duke U Press Editorial Director Ken Wissoker notes:  ?It is a great privilege for Duke University Press to be publishing this remarkable work by Ann Dunham.  Her global perspective and obvious respect for other people?s intelligence and self-direction is a model we all can learn from. Her children clearly have!?

What technology makes us forget about.

Submitted by AnanthTS on Apr 22, 2009, 02:22 AM

Hello Everyone!

I'm one of Prof. Cathy Davidson's students from the course she was teaching this past semester. I'm not quite sure how well this blog post will be received, but on a technological forum such this, I felt that the following was appropriate. I should start first by say

Mining the Military-Academic-Industrial Complex in a Poetic-Serious Fashion

Submitted by nknouf on Apr 20, 2009, 11:06 PM

Sadly I was not able to attend the HASTAC conference, but I wanted to post some information about a current project of mine...

As we now hear by some commentators that the "worst" of the so-called financial "crisis" "might" be over, we have to acknowledge the difficulty of squaring

The First Panel at HASTAC III: Innovations in Participatory Learning, Social Change, and Digital Democracy

Submitted by Jentery Sayers on Apr 20, 2009, 05:07 PM

Today's first session,  "Innovations in Participatory Learning, Social Change, and Digital Democracy," at HASTAC III started the conference (which, per Cathy Davidson's introduction to the session, is the biggest HASTAC conference yet) with some brief introductions of, and examples from, four 2008 Digital Media and Learning competition winners.  Here, I just want

Thoughts about technology, "everyware healthcare" & my dad. (Stories from the ICU, Songs from the LTACH)

Submitted by Lynn Marentette on Apr 06, 2009, 12:16 AM

My father had surgery over a month ago, spent about 3 weeks in the ICU, and now is living the life of luxury in a LTACH, stranded in a city where he does not live, hundreds of miles away from family and friends.   I've written a few blog posts related to health care, emergency health records,