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Digital Humanities Initiative

The CUNY Digital Humanities Initiative (CUNY DHI), launched in Fall 2010, aims to build connections and community among those at CUNY who are applying digital technologies to scholarship and pedagogy in the humanities. All are welcome: faculty, students, and technologists, experienced practitioners and beginning DHers, enthusiasts and skeptics.

We meet regularly on- and offline to explore key topics in the Digital Humanities, and share our work, questions, and concerns. See our blog for more information on upcoming events (it’s also where we present our group’s work to a wider audience). Help edit the CUNY Digital Humanities Resource Guide, our first group project. And, of course, join the conversation on the Forum.

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James Gleick at NYU on Wednesday, Oct. 5

  • Posted by Matthew K. Gold (he/him) on October 2, 2011 at 11:02 am

    Hi All,

    Some of you may be interested in this event next week at NYU (http://nyu.libguides.com/content.php?pid=80629&sid=807835):

    “THE INFORMATION: A History, A Theory, A Flood”

    A talk and book signing by author James Gleick

    DATE: Wednesday, October 5, 2011
    TIME: 5:30-7:00PM
    LOCATION: Bobst Library, 3rd Floor, Fales Reading Room, 70 Washington Sq S, New York, NY

    James Gleick, author of the best sellers Chaos and Genius, will discuss his bestselling new book, The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood.

    From the invention of scripts and alphabets to the long-misunderstood talking drums of Africa, Gleick tells the story of information technologies that changed the very nature of human consciousness. His compelling characters include: Charles Babbage, the idiosyncratic inventor of the first great mechanical computer; Ada Byron, the brilliant and doomed daughter of the poet, who became the first true programmer; pivotal figures like Samuel Morse and Alan Turing; and Claude Shannon, the creator of information theory itself. And bringing us up to date in a time when we often feel we are drowning in a deluge of information, Gleick tells us how we got here and where we’re heading.

    The Information will be available for sale on site by the NYU Bookstore, and the author will be signing copies.

    **RSVP Required**
    Go here: http://tinyurl.com/GleickRSVP

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