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Join XD@GW for tea!
Please join XD@GW for a faculty tea & discussion of collaboration in the digital age on 9/21, Wednesday in Gelman Library 702. No RSVP required.
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Co-Director Receives Two Awards
GW Digital Humanities Institute founding co-director Alexa Alice Joubin received the Trachtenberg award for research as well as a Writing in the Discipline teaching award in 2022.
Eileen Joy (punctum books): Freedom, Responsibility, E-Publishing, and Building New Cultural-Intellectual Publics
Are you interested in the Digital Humanities (DH) and the future of publishing, especially electronic and open access publishing? Please note this event!On Thursday, November 14, Eileen Joy (director of punctum books and co-founder of the BABEL Working Group) will present a talk entitled “Freedom, Responsibility, E-Publishing, and Building New Cultural-Intellectual Publics.” This visit is co-sponsored…
I Am not a Robot: The Entangled Futures of A.I. and the Humanities
Generative Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) tools have the potential to alter profoundly the ways we work, create, think, and behave. They raise such questions as: What makes humans distinctive? Can machines have consciousness? What is intelligence? Are the methods used to create A.I. tools ethical? In this symposium, we hope to open a discussion on the philosophical, ethical, political, and cultural, challenges that A.I. poses for our society.
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GW Libraries receives major grant to aggregate tweets
Great news! GW Libraries has just received a grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) to use a social feed manager to aggregate and analyze Twitter data. An application developed by Daniel Chudnov, Director of Scholarly Technology at Gelman Library, will aid GW librarians and researchers to collect and store millions of tweets per day. Read…
AI and Religion
There are cases of AI monks and priests. Though religious institutions have not always behaved ethically in the past, they have centuries of experience parsing moral conundrums through the lens of their own belief systems. Prof. Irene Oh from the GW Department of Religion will lead a discussion of the many ways that artificial intelligence is changing the meaning and practice of religion.
