The Initiative in Innovative Computing at Harvard and The Humanities Center at Harvard present a Special Symposium Innovative Computing for the Humanities Wednesday, October 17, 4-6pm Thompson Room, Barker Center 12 Quincy St. Imaging and Scanning, from 2D to 3D * Texts: Encoding, Mining, Analyzing * Multiverses and Virtual Worlds * Google, Libraries, and Research Information in the Humanities * Geospatial Visualization * Digital Audio Join us for an introduction to the Digital Humanities -- the first in a series of talks and workshops addressing new opportunities for research computing in the arts, humanities, and non-quantitative social sciences. Symposium featuring: Homi Bhabha, Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of the Humanities; Director of the Humanities Center; Senior Advisor for the Humanities at the Radcliffe Institute Peter Bol, Charles H. Carswell Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations Virginia Danielson, Richard F. French Librarian of the Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library; Curator of the Archive of World Music in the Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library of Harvard College Library Dale Flecker, Associate Director of the Harvard University Library for Planning and Systems Alyssa Goodman, Professor of Astronomy; Research Associate of the Smithsonian Institution; Director of the Initiative in Innovative Computing Wendy Guan, Director of GIS Research Services, Institute for Quantitative Social Science Michael Hemment, Research Librarian and Head of Scholarly Research Initiatives, Widener Library Michael McCormick, Francis Goelet Professor of Medieval History Rebecca Nesson, Research Assistant in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences; Continuing Education/Special Programs Instructor Mark Schiefsky, Professor of the Classics Diana Sorensen, Dean for the Arts and Humanities in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences; James F. Rothenberg Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and of Comparative Literature Alexandre Tokovinine, Graduate Student, Archaeology Liza Vick, Music Reference and Research Librarian, Loeb Music Library For more information: http://isites.harvard.edu/k15573 _______________________________________________ iic-seminars mailing list iic-seminars(a)calists.harvard.edu http://calists.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/iic-seminars