12
Nov
Ten Things You Need to Know About AI
Ten things students should know as they graduate into careers in the age of AI
17 min read
History of Technology
09
Sep
Briefly Noted for September 9, 2025
This week in my DMD 2010: History of Digital Culture class, I've been teaching the history and theory
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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
25 min read
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
3 min read
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
15 min read
29
Nov
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
1 min read
07
Oct
Why STEM can't answer today's hard questions
If STEM wants to solve the big problems, it's going to have to solve for more than technical questions, but also for the values questions that precede them
1 min read
09
Dec
Looks Like the Internet: Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage Projects Succeed When They Look Like the Network
A rough transcript of my talk at the 2013 ACRL/NY Symposium last week. The symposium's theme was
5 min read
23
Oct
An Unexpected Honor
Yesterday I received a letter from Google addressed to Robert T. Gunther at Found History. As founder of the Museum
12
Oct
E-Book Readers: Parables of Closed and Open
During a discussion of e-book readers on a recent episode of Digital Campus, I made a comparison between Amazon'
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