Hinduism’s adherents, particularly in the United States, have displayed in recent years a marked tendency to turn towards various forms of digital media, and in particular the internet, to forge new forms of Hindu identity, furnish Hinduism with a purportedly more coherent and monotheistic form, engage in debates on American multiculturalism, and partake of the...
Alison Mudditt will talk about the barriers, sensitivities, and practical challenges surrounding open access monographs and about the ways in which UC Press is addressing them via its innovative Luminos program. Open access has enormous potential to increase the reach and impact of scholarship, but the growth of open access models is disrupting established norms...
Understanding short texts is crucial to many applications, but challenges abound. First, short texts do not always observe the syntax of a written language. As a result, traditional natural language processing methods cannot be easily applied. Second, short texts usually do not contain sufficient statistical signals to support many state-of-the-art approaches for text processing such...
Network data analysis is an important area in modern statistics. How to do community detection and parameter estimation in provably optimal ways are two key questions in analyzing network data. In this talk, I will present results for both problems. I will first discuss a real data example that motivates the setting of a degree...
Emily Drabinski , of LIU Brooklyn, will give a talk on “Infrastructures of Practice: Standards & Everyday Librarian Life”.
This talk examines the problem of iconic blues women who’ve been “lost” to history, Geeshie Wiley and Elvie Thomas, as well as the critics who’ve loved and chased after them. By placing the politics of queer archival studies and black performance theory in conversation with canonical blues historiographies, the talk will explore the aesthetics and...
Speaker: Kristina Lerman, Ph.D. Affiliation: University of Southern California Abstract: Individuals often estimate the opinions and behaviors of others from the local observations of their friends. Social networks, however, have counter-intuitive properties, which may significantly distort the observations people make of their friends. One of these properties is the “friendship paradox” that states that, on...
Pinar Yoldas is a cross-disciplinary artist/researcher who lives and works between Durham,NC and Berlin. Pinar’s research explores the collaborative potential between art and biological sciences at the age of the anthropocene. Her solo shows include AlterEvolution, Ekavart, Istanbul (2013) and An Ecosystem of Excess, Ernst Schering Project Space, Berlin (2014). Her group shows include ThingWorld,...
The Julfa Cemetery project will be the main subject of this session, but it will begin with an outline of its digital humanities context. One focus of the project is a virtual reconstruction of the now-destroyed cemetery, for which the research and development required is primarily technical. The main source materials for this reconstruction are...
Speaker: Fadel Adib Affiliation: Ph.D. Candidate - MIT Abstract: Wireless networks have been traditionally used for communications. However, wireless signals also have the potential to extend our senses, enabling us to see moving objects through walls and behind closed doors. Specifically, as these signals travel in the medium, they traverse occlusions and bounce off different...
