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- And all things have become new . . .
- February 27, 2023 /Russell Hansen
The Humanities Learning Commons has recently been remodeled and redesigned from a set of carrels with desktop computers into a place where students may gather to study and collaborate in an open and relaxed environment. Patrons may take advantage of comfortable and flexible seating to create a study area, or …
- ChatGPT: Friend or Foe
- January 31, 2023 /Jeremy Browne
Introduction: OpenAI, ChatGPT, Their Impact on Industry OpenAI is a research and development company founded in 2015 with the goal of promoting and developing friendly AI in a way that benefits humanity as a whole. Co-founded by Elon Musk, Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, Ilya Sutskever, and Wojciech Zaremba, OpenAI started …
- Clojure Libraries in ODH
- November 28, 2022 /Tory Anderson
My work with The Office of Digital Humanities is as a senior web developer. My teams and I build applications in the Clojure programming language1 to serve the college of Humanities and the Office of Digital Humanities, and utility libraries that serve the university and the broader developer community. Here …
- Knowledge at Play
- October 29, 2022 /Michael Call
In her 2007 New Yorker piece “The Meaning of Life,” Jill Lepore tells the story of the classic American board game The Game of Life, whose first iteration was developed by the Massachusetts engraver Milton Bradley in 1860. Lepore argues that each subsequent version of the game can be read …
- WordCruncher – Evolving to meet the needs of students and faculty
- September 12, 2022 /Jason Dzubak
Over the last 40 years, students and scholars have used WordCruncher to search, study, and analyze various digital texts ranging from the Dead Sea Scrolls to the Peanuts comics to baseball statistics. From time to time, we are asked by researchers if WordCruncher can perform a specific function or help …