Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 14, No. 626.
Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
<http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/>
<http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/>
[1] From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi <tripathi@statistik.uni- (55)
dortmund.de>
Subject: David Stork on _The HAL 9000 Computer and the Vision
of 2001: A Space Odyssey, Mountain View, on 6th of
Feb. 2001
[2] From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi <tripathi@statistik.uni- (52)
dortmund.de>
Subject: Gregory Crane on _Deep Reading in a Digital Age_
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Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 07:59:01 +0000
From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi <tripathi@statistik.uni-dortmund.de>
Subject: David Stork on _The HAL 9000 Computer and the Vision
of 2001: A Space Odyssey, Mountain View, on 6th of Feb. 2001
dear humanist scholars,
((a great opportunity to enjoy the events presented by David
Stork-thought, might interest you-forwarded with courtesy to professor
Terry Winograd. arun))
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Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 14:00:59 -0800
From: Terry Winograd <winograd@CS.Stanford.EDU>
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The Computer Museum History Center is pleased to present:
David G. Stork
Chief Scientist
Ricoh Silicon Valley's California Research Center,
Consulting Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering
Stanford University
6:00 - 7:30 p.m.
Tuesday, February 6, 2001
Moffett Training and Conference Center (Building 3)
Moffett Federal Airfield
Mountain View, CA
7:30 - 8:30 p.m.
Reception to follow at the History Center's
Visible Storage Exhibit Area
(Bldg 126)
Moffett Federal Airfield
ABSTRACT OF TALK:
2001: A Space Odyssey, Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke's 1968 epic
film about space exploration and the evolution of intelligence, was the
most carefully researched and scientifically precise feature film ever
made. Now, in its namesake year, we can compare the film's computer science
"visions" with current technological fact -- in particular those related to
its central character, the HAL 9000 computer, which could speak, reason,
see, play chess, plan and express emotions.
In some domains reality has surpassed the vision in the film: computer
chess, computer hardware, and graphics. In numerous others, reality has
fallen far short: computer speech, language, vision, lip-reading, planning,
and common sense. The film missed some trends entirely: the film showed no
laptops or PDAs and HAL as large as a school bus but in reality computers
instead got small. As such, the film provides a remarkable perspective on
the sweep of developments in the modern era of computer technology.
This non-technical talk is profusely illustrated with clips from 2001 and
current research and sheds new light on key moments of the film. You will
never see the film the same way again.
BACKGROUND ON SPEAKER:
David G. Stork is Chief Scientist at Ricoh Silicon Valley's California
Research Center and Consulting Associate Professor of Electrical
Engineering at Stanford University. His most recent books include HAL's
Legacy: 2001's computer as dream and reality (MIT Press) and Pattern
Classification (2nd ed.) by R. O. Duda, P. E. Hart and D. G. Stork (Wiley).
He is the creator of "2001: HAL's Legacy," a forthcoming television
documentary for PBS television.
RSVP: By Friday, February 2, 2001.
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DIRECTIONS: http://mtcc.arc.nasa.gov/directions.html
EVENT URL: http://www.computerhistory.org/events/lectures/stork_02062001/
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Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 08:00:23 +0000
From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi <tripathi@statistik.uni-dortmund.de>
Subject: Gregory Crane on _Deep Reading in a Digital Age_
dear humanist members,
((hi, i thought, this might interest you.-arun))
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Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 13:04:25 -0800
From: Phil Agre <pagre@alpha.oac.ucla.edu>
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Please forward this announcement to anyone who might be interested.
The UCLA Information Studies Seminar presents
Gregory Crane
Tufts University
on
Deep Reading in a Digital Age
Web design handbooks assume that readers move rapidly from one page to
another. Usability studies likewise generally take as their model the
busy student or researcher who extracts the "message" from articles
and books as quickly as possible. Literary reading, however, is
very different. We teach our students to reread and to pose various
questions about the documents that we assign. Texts from the
traditional canon are presented to students as sources of ambiguity
and of interpretive play. Even in cultural studies we stress the
importance of historical context and emphasize the complexity of such
genres as advertisements or dime novels. This talk will consider ways
in which we can develop digital environments that encourage active
learning where readers are able to contextualize cultural artifacts in
new ways.
Gregory Crane has published on a wide range of ancient Greek authors.
His book "The Blinded Eye: Thucydides and the New Written Word"
appeared in 1996; "The Ancient Simplicity: Thucydides and the
Limits of Political Realism" was published in 1998. He is currently
conducting preliminary research for a planned book on Cicero. He
also has a long-standing interest in the relationship between the
humanities and rapidly developing digital technology. Since 1985 he
has been engaged in planning and development of the Perseus Project,
which he directs as the Editor-in-Chief. He is currently directing
a grant from the Digital Library Initiative to study general problems
of digital libraries in the humanities. He is particularly interested
in the extent to which broadcast media such as the World Wide Web
not only enhance the work of professional researchers and students in
formal degree programs but create new audiences outside academia for
cultural materials. His current research focuses on "computational
humanities" and how this new field can help to democratize information
without compromising intellectual rigor.
Thursday, March 1st, 3:00pm - 5:00pm
GSE&IS Building, Room 111
(just west of the Research Library)
Everyone is invited.
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