Jim Bennett, Digital Humanist
I've just returned from London, where I joined a celebration at the Science Museum of the life of my D.Phil. thesis advisor, Jim Bennett. Jim was one of the world&
Digital Humanities
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 it works with different things on my to-do list. I've used
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 Heritage Network's annual meeting at Reid Castle on the campus of
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 set of new technologies that operate on similar principles.
“AI” or “Generative AI”
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 College Teaching with Primary Sources Symposium. My thanks to Morgan Swan and Laura