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The National Endowment for the Humanities is proud to announce a series of
lectures on eHumanities, which will bring leading scholars to Washington,
DC, to discuss digital technology and its importance to the humanities.
Lecture I
Professor John Unsworth
Director of the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities
University of Virginia
"Knowledge Representation and the Humanities"
Tuesday, April 3, Noon - 1:00 pm
Washington, DC
For background information on knowledge representation see:
John F. Sowa, Knowledge Representation: Logical, Philosophical, and
Computational Foundations, Brooks Cole Publishing Co., Pacific Grove, CA,
©2000 (http://www.bestweb.net/~sowa/krbook/index.htm)
Other lectures to be announced soon!
What is eHumanities all about?
How does technology affect traditional humanities disciplines? Some
scholars and educators have argued that in just a few short years, advances
in information technology and the development of the Internet have had a
more dramatic affect on the way people read, write, and exchange information
than any invention since the printing press. In the long term, what will its
impact be on our notions of literature? On our culture and society? What
are some of the philosophical ramifications of these advances? The goal of
this series is to highlight some of the important work being done by
scholars who are studying digital technology from various perspectives in
the humanities.
The lectures will take place at the National Endowment for the Humanities,
1100 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Washington, DC 20506 in Room M-09. Attendance is
free, but please register in advance Feel free to share this announcement
with your colleagues.
Registration is free. Please see:
http://www.neh.gov/online/ehumanities.html
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