Post Position » Friday’s the Deadline: Special Issue on Computational Narrative and Games As mentioned here before, Ian Horswill, Michael Young and I are editing a special issue of IEEE Transactions on Computational Intelligence and AI in Games (T-CIAIG), and your submissions are invited. Specifically: The T-CIAIG Special Issue on Computational Narrative and Games solicits […]
How Can A Digital Humanist Get Tenure? | HASTAC. What counts for tenure for those in the digital humanities? This is a persistent question in any new field (not that digital humanities is “new” at this point but its methods are not the “scholarly monograph published by a university press” widely recognized by colleagues in […]
It is a great honour to be asked to inaugurate this first Digital Humanities Congress at the University of Sheffield. My connections with digital humanities at Sheffield go back to 1995 when the remarkable portfolio of projects in the Humanities Research Institute at Sheffield caught the attention of the British Library, and I was asked […]
Over the last few months a team of librarians, archivists, curators, engineers and other technologists in the NDSA have been working to draft a simple chart to help prioritize digital preservation work. After iteratively developing this document and workshopping it at Digital Preservation 2012 we are excited to publicly share it for comment.
Over the Course of the 2012/13 academic year this AHRC-funded programme is offering postgraduate research students postdoctoral researchers a unique opportunity to develop skills in reinterpreting archival material (Image, Object, Performance and Theatre, Corpora and Film) in the context of digitisation and widening access to such material through strategies of public engagement. Participants will gain […]
The University of Houston is offering a two-year postdoctoral fellowship in Digital Humanities, beginning this January. Please see the details here.
Helping the World to Teach | Research Blog. In July, Research at Google ran a large open online course, Power Searching with Google, taught by search expert, Dan Russell. The course was successful, with 155,000 registered students. Through this experiment, we learned that Google technologies can help bring education to a global audience. So we packaged up the technology […]
New York Archives Week 2012 Symposium: Archives & Activism Co-sponsored by the Archivists Round Table of Metropolitan New York, Inc. and the New School Libraries and Archives Friday, October 12, 2012 Theresa Lang Community and Student Center Arnhold Hall, The New School 55 West 13th Street, New York, NY 10011 8:30am to 6:00pm
The ATS position falls within the rising tide of hybrid alternative academic (#alt-ac) careers. The ATS will have an office within the History department in order to assure proximity and availability to faculty, but will report to a manager in the Academic Technology Specialist Program (ATSP) a unit of Stanford University Libraries. The ATS will […]
Texas Institute for Literary and Textual Studies 2011 “The Digital and the Human(ities)” The keynote lecture by Alan Liu (University of California at Santa Barbara) started the second symposium of the institute. The lecture was transmitted from New Jersey via Skype. Introduction: Sam Baker TILTS 2011 directors: Matt Cohen & Lars Hinrichs
