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Aug
Briefly Noted: AI links for back-to-school
As a new semester begins, I'm pretty sure we're all thinking about how AI will affect
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Tom Scheinfeldt
Tom is Professor of Digital Humanities at the University of Connecticut. He writes about history, technology, digital humanities, design, higher education, and (sometimes) politics.
06
Aug
Digital Humanities Outreach and Media Fragmentation
Reaching an audience for a digital humanities project used to be straightforward. It isn’t anymore. The fragmentation and toxicity
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03
Aug
Briefly Noted for August 3, 2025: Some Good News for the Humanities
For those of us in the humanities, the last 20 years have often felt like a siege. But maybe we’
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22
Jul
Generative Artificial Intelligence and Archives: Two Years On
Yesterday I gave a talk on AI and archives at the Colby/Bates/Bowdoin Special Collections and Archives Staff Retreat.
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10
Jun
Jim Bennett, Digital Humanist
I've just returned from London, where I joined a celebration at the Science Museum of the life of
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21
May
Writing the History of the Future with Google Gemini
With the end of the semester, I have been experimenting with Google Gemini 2.5 Pro (preview) to see how
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29
Apr
Innovation as Habit: Practicing looking forward in a backward-looking business
The following are lightly edited speaker notes for a talk I first delivered in October 2024 at the Greater Hudson
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30
Jan
The New England Option
As an academic researcher with at least three current and several pending federal grants, this week has left me with
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05
Apr
What’s in a name? AI, LLMs, Chatbots and what we hope our words will accomplish
There’s a lot of debate in academic circles about what to call ChatGPT, the new Bing, Bard, and the
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23
Mar
Teaching and Learning with Primary Sources in the age of Generative AI
The following is a (more or less verbatim) transcript of a keynote address I gave earlier today to the Dartmouth
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