Illinois Institute of Technology To Host Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science
Illinois Institute of Technology’s (IIT) College of Science and Letters (CSL) will host the fourth annual Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science (DHCS), November 14-16 at IIT’s Main Campus.
Each year, the Chicago DHCS Colloquium, sponsored by IIT, the University of Chicago, and Northwestern University, brings together researchers, scholars, and students in the humanities and computer science to advance the use of modern information technology in humanities scholarship, and identify and explore new directions and perspectives for future research.
This year’s theme is “Critical Computing,” exploring how to make research collaborations between computer scientists and humanities more effective, how computation can provide new critical tools for humanists, and how humanists can help computer scientists interpret their experimental results.
The general chair of the conference is Shlomo Argamon, associate professor of computer science at IIT. CSL Dean Russell Betts will give the welcome and introduction.
“We’re pleased to be able to host this important event,” said Betts. “As a college of science and letters in a major technical university, CSL has a particular interest in digital humanities. We have a blend of science and technology plus strong humanities, giving us many opportunities for collaboration and perhaps a unique perspective and role to play in this field.”
This year’s keynote speakers will be Stephen Wolfram, founder and chief executive officer of Wolfram Research, creator of Mathematica and Wolfram|Alpha, and author of A New Kind of Science; Vasant Honavar, director of the Center for Computational Intelligence, Learning, & Discovery at Iowa State University; and Roger Dannenberg, associate research professor of computer science and art at Carnegie Mellon University, and fellow of the Studio for Creative Inquiry.
Research papers will be presented in the areas of algorithmic tools for digital humanities, computational stylistics, text analytics, and data visualization. Presenters include scholars from academic institutions around the world.
IIT poster presenters will include Ophir Frieder, IITRI Chair of Computer Science and director of the Information Retrieval Laboratory, and Jason Soo, master’s student in computer science and a researcher in the Information Retrieval Lab, who will present a poster titled “On Foreign Name Search.” Also presenting is Eben English, Digital Services Librarian, Paul V. Galvin Library, who will discuss “Bringing It All Together: Integrating Text, Audio, Metadata, GIS, and Scholarly Criticism in a Holocaust Oral History Archive.”
The event will welcome attendees from Stanford, MIT, Rutgers, University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign, Northwestern, and other U.S. universities, as well as several European and Canadian institutions.
Registration and more information is available at http://dhcs.iit.edu/
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