CWRC Launch Workshop
The Canadian Writing Research Collaboratory (CWRC) is having an inaugural launch here in Edmonton. As part of the launch there is a workshop that involves CIRCA folk. Geoffrey Rockwell will be leading a workshop on Voyant which was developed by CIRCA Scholar St
Compute/Calcul Canada has Program for Humanists
Compute/Calcul Canada has partnered with Super Micro to offer a High-Performance Computing platform for humanities researchers. Super Micro has kindly donated an HPC system that Compute Canada will make available with support to humanists. See the full call for proposals here. Proposals are due by October 18th, 2011.
Pipelines Inaugural Meeting
The Edmonton Pipelines: Narrating Digital Urbanism project is running a half-day retreat and meeting to bring together projects working on mapping. Researchers came from the University of Alberta, from King’s College and from organizations like the city of Edmonton (which has an Open Data Catalogue.)
Patrick Juola talks on The Tyrannyof Assumptions
CIRCA Scholar Patrick Juoala gave a talk as part of the CIRCA organized Humanities Computing Research Colloquium on “The Tyranny of Assumptions.” He talked about problems with assumptions in textual statistics about what is a “normal” distribution. He proposed that we need more linguistically nuanced statistical measurements. Dr. Juoala also consulted on using the Conjecturator […]
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