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Tom Scheinfeldt

Tom Scheinfeldt

Connecticut
Tom is Professor of Digital Humanities at the University of Connecticut. He writes about history, technology, digital humanities, design, higher education, and (sometimes) politics.
22
Jul
Generative Artificial Intelligence and Archives: Two Years On

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

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

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

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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02
Dec
Briefly Noted for December 7, 2022

Briefly Noted for December 7, 2022

Must read: Timothy Burke’s recent blogging on the implications of new AI technologies (ChatGPT, DALL-E, etc.) for teaching and
29
Nov
Briefly noted for November 29, 2022

Briefly noted for November 29, 2022

Check out these amazing WPA-style posters created by the Department of Energy to mark the infrastructure achievements made possible under
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23
Nov
Briefly noted for November 23, 2022

Briefly noted for November 23, 2022

It looks like the theme of this week's Briefly Noted post is Substack. I didn’t intend it,
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