Job Announcements, News

Job: Library Applications Development Manager at University of Massachusetts Boston Libraries

The Library Applications Development Manager is responsible for working with the Dean of University Libraries and other campus leadership to identify, discover, develop, and define new library-specific technology-related projects, applications, and making recommendations regarding the priorities of these projects. View job ad here. 

Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: Warping the City – Joyce in a Mudbox

This academic year (2013-14), I am the lead researcher for the Maker Lab’s “Z-Axis” project, which—in collaboration with the Modernist Versions Project (MVP)—is exploring forms of visualization that express subjective encounters with literary data through 3D modeling and prototyping. Stephen Ross (director of the MVP) describes this research as a combination of “literary analysis and […]

Editors' Choice

Editor’s Choice: Is Angry Birds the Gateway to Gamification in the Classroom?

Many would argue that there is a clear distinction between videogames and the art of gamification since the latter specifically applies game mechanics to non-game contexts. However, with a generation brought up on videogames and the need to engage these children in the classroom, the lines are becoming ever more blurred. Traditionally, one may think […]

News, Resources

Resource: How the Text-Alignment Method Works

As explained by Chris Forstall in his earlier post, we are currently experimenting with a new cross-language detection feature over on the Tesserae Development server. We are using two different approaches, and the IBM Model 2 alignment approach bears a little explanation. The purpose of this post is to provide a simple introduction to the theory […]