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

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 

Submitted by Ray Uzwyshyn on Jun 08, 2009, 10:02 AM
A remix of a digital video originally done for a HASTAC Forum (Humanities, Arts, Science and Technology Advanced Collaboratory) on digital scholarship. http://uwf.edu/ruzwyshyn/Raysvideos/digitalscholarship.html Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQS6jpMvcwI

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

Submitted by papertalker on Apr 14, 2009, 05:04 PM
I am posting this essay because, written a year or so after Columbine, it rings true now more than ever.

As violence erupts, kids are left to their own devices-- the ones with the guns and the pent-up anger lash out for ?attention? and ?take control? because they?ve been helpless victims of bullying or familial abuse. The other kids stand by like proverbial deer frozen in the headlights. Neither their peers nor adults at school can be trusted. The code of silence is not just for kids. It's school culture?s state of the art. Administrations come down hard with the lid when violence erupts, but there is no desire to dig for the root causes. Why? Because down deep they know that life at their school is a big part of the problem.

 

Submitted by jchall1960 on Mar 22, 2009, 04:54 PM
Creativity and Play Across the Disciplines. . . . Conference at the University of Alabama

Submitted by mindprints on Mar 19, 2009, 05:15 PM

Sometimes we are gifted with amazing technologies that can change our lives for the better. Sometimes these new technologies are so advanced and different to what we are accustomed to, we can not fully benefit from them. We try to use these new tools in the same way we used their predecessors. We cling to methods that are rooted in inferior, antiquated channels.

 

Here is a true story that illustrates this. Only the names have been changed to protect the innocent.

Submitted by mindprints on Mar 11, 2009, 09:09 AM
Big Ideas in little packages

Submitted by mindprints on Mar 09, 2009, 04:43 PM

Submitted by mindprints on Mar 06, 2009, 08:36 AM

There are definition problems when talking about the entities of ?Information Technology?: what should we call the main ingredients? Intuitively it would seem that there is a technological domain, consisting of machines and programs that work with something called inf