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Beyond Zero and One (Andrew Smart)
The singularity as existential risk
The last few years have produced an increasing amount of popular discourse about the singularity, which describes events in technological development that would lead to human-level machine intelligence, and would lead to computers achieving superintelligence. Following this…
Computational Humanities: Workshop At The 10th International Conference On Computational Science
Computational humanities
Computational Humanities is a new, largely unexplored, field which is situated at the interface between the humanities and the (exact) sciences, in particular information science. The humanities differ from the sciences in their concern with expressions of the human mind, such…
Eugene Garfield - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
Eugene garfield and the beginning of the impact factor
Following ideas inspired by Vannevar Bush's famous 1945 article "As We May Think", Garfield undertook the development of a comprehensive citation index showing the propagation of scientific thinking; he started the Institute for Scientific Information in 1955. The creation of…
Exploring The Significance Of Digital Humanities For Philosophy | Digital Scholarship In The Humanities
Three possible reasons why DH hasn't thrived in philosophy yet
I think three more interesting possible explanations are that (1) philosophers are more methodologically skeptical than other humanities, (2) philosophers have long integrated computational methods in their work and so don’t need a revolution, and (3) the practice of philosophy…
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The humanities
As the National Endowment for the Humanities puts it: “According to the 1965 National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act, ‘The term “humanities” includes, but is not limited to, the study of the following: language, both modern and classical; linguistics; literature…
Human, All Too Human: A Book For Free Spirits
each individual decides and determines alone, and never comes out of his own personality
Now, the great majority of mankind endure life without any great protest, and believe, to this extent, in the value of existence, but that is because each individual decides and determines alone, and never comes out of his own personality like these exceptions: everything…
Introducing Artificial Intelligence (Henry Brighton and Howard Selina)
AI and the Lamarckian evolution of our species
By engineering our own offspring, many have proposed that Artificial Intelligence can lead to the Lamarckian evolution of our species. In contrast to Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection, Lamarck proposed that evolution allows characteristics acquired over our…
Life, The Multiverse And Everything: An Introduction To The Ideas Of Humberto Maturana Interpreting Maturana
What makes us human is languaging
What makes us human is languaging. "Humanity arises in the social dynamics in which languaging takes place". This is difficult to prove but Maturana cites examples of feral children brought up by wolves so that what we find are wolves with the genetics of Homo Sapiens. They…
Neoliberal Tools (and Archives): A Political History Of Digital Humanities - Los Angeles Review Of Books
Dh is about the promotion of project-based learning and lab-based research over reading and writing
What Digital Humanities is not about, despite its explicit claims, is the use of digital or quantitative methodologies to answer research questions in the humanities. It is, instead, about the promotion of project-based learning and lab-based research over reading and writing…
Shared Horizons: Data, Biomedicine, And The Digital Humanities
Hybrid fields
the focus for this symposium will be to bring together the digital humanities and the bioinformatics communities --both hybrid fields whose members seek to apply computationally-based research methods to address questions within their larger disciplines (humanities and…
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (Stephen R. Covey)
Self-awareness is uniquely human
Think about the mood you are now in. Can you identify it? What are you feeling? How would you describe your present mental state? Now think for a minute about how your mind is working. Is it quick and alert? Do you sense that you are torn between doing this mental exercise and…
We can write new programs for ourselves
because of our unique human endowments, we can write new programs for ourselves totally apart from our instincts and training. This is why an animal’s capacity is relatively limited and man’s is unlimited. But if we live like animals, out of our own instincts and conditioning…
Addison among the tombs
Consider the words of Joseph Addison: When I look upon the tombs of the great, every emotion of envy dies in me; when I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tombstone, my heart melts with compassion…
The Book Of Dead Philosophers (critchley, Simon)
Husserl: the philosopher as civil servant of humanity
In 1935 and 1936, as the lights were going out all over Europe, the elderly Husserl travelled to Vienna and Prague to give the lectures that were developed into his final, unfinished book, The Crisis of the European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology. For Husserl…
The Limits Of The Digital Humanities, By Adam Kirsch | New Republic
the question of what the digital humanities is has yet to be given a satisfactory answer
Despite all this enthusiasm, the question of what the digital humanities is has yet to be given a satisfactory answer. Indeed, no one asks it more often than the digital humanists themselves. The recent proliferation of books on the subject—from sourcebooks and anthologies to…
Coding - is it really necessary as a humanistic skill?
Underlying these administrative problems is a more basic question about the nature of humanistic work. A humanities culture that prizes thinking and writing will tend to look down on making and building as banausic—the kind of labor that can be outsourced to non-specialists…
The false analogy between the humanities and the sciences: humanistic thinking is creative and it doesn't proceed by experiments
If computers cannot think better than human beings, digital humanists are left with the argument that at least they can think faster—the John Henry argument. In the essay “Developing Things: Notes toward an Epistemology of Building in the Humanities,” Ramsay and Geoffrey…
Digital humanities as university administration
But it would be unfair to generalize from the obviously anti-humanistic manifestations of digital humanities to the entirety of the field itself, for the simple reason that the field has no common essence: it is not a species but at best a genus, comprising a wide range of…
A minimalist and a maximalist understanding of the digital humanities
Within this range of approaches, we can distinguish a minimalist and a maximalist understanding of digital humanities. On the one hand, it can be simply the application of computer technology to traditional scholarly functions, such as the editing of texts. An exemplary project…
This is not Luddism?
The best thing that the humanities could do at this moment, then, is not to embrace the momentum of the digital, the tech tsunami, but to resist it and to critique it. This is not Luddism
The Postmodern Condition: A Report On Knowledge
Databases are tomorrow's encyclopaedia
Databases are tomorrow’s encyclopaedia. They exceed the capacities of any user. They represent “nature” for the postmodern humanity.
Understanding Digital Humanities (david M. Berry)
From humanities computing to digital humanities
The digital humanities themselves have had a rather interesting history. Originally called ‘computing in the humanities’, or ‘humanities computing’, in the early days they were often seen as a technical support to the work of the ‘real’ humanities scholars, who would drive the…
A more inclusive view of dh
Rather than being drawn into what may appear as partisan in-fighting, I posit the digital humanities as a diverse field of practices associated with computational techniques and reaching beyond print in its modes of enquiry, research, publication, and dissemination. In this…
Quantitative vs qualitative approaches in dh
This volume provides pathways of thought for refracting our study of the humanities through a new prism of digital media and technology, while simultaneously helping us to explore the intrinsic and inevitable connection between technology and humanity. The March 2010 conference…
Dh sites need a strong computational infrastructure
A decade later, the term is morphing again as some scholars advocate a turn from a primary focus on text encoding, analysis, and searching to multimedia practices that explore the fusion of text-based humanities with film, sound, animation, graphics, and other multimodal…
Quantitative vs qualitative approach in dh
To return to our opening hypothesis then, the essays in this collection raise the question of what the digital humanities actually is. We begin to see the emergence of a division between digital humanities as a set of qualitative tools or methods, and the digital humanities as…
Themes in dh: scale, critical/productive theory, collaboration, databases, multimodal scholarship, code, and future trajectories
The digital humanities have been around at least since the 1940s,1 but it was not until the Internet and World Wide Web that they came into their own as emerging fields with their own degree programs, research centres, scholarly journals, and books, and a growing body of expert…
Manovich’s cultural analytics concept
Manovich’s paper, Cultural Analytics: Annual Report 2010, provides an update on his ongoing project of using visualisation techniques (computationally based) to explore cultural data – giving the examples of over a million manga pages, and every Time magazine cover since issue…
The humanities require new, appropriate, and digitally focused methods
The sceptic who states that data mining and pattern recognition in works of literature debases close reading ignores the prevalent mood of human action in a time of computational ubiquity – close reading has a role in the humanities, but it will not deal with the sprawl of…
Willard Mccarty Homepage
Digital humanities and the reflection on computing
Computing in the humanities is nowadays usually known as the "digital humanities", which seems to be a collective term for the various disciplinary practices in the humanities that computing informs and from which it learns. Apart from but symbiotic with the digital humanities…