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Crowdsourcing, a Honey of an Idea

Chronicle Technology - Fri, 05/28/2010 - 00:01

When a biologist at San Francisco State started the Great Sunflower Project, to study honeybees, the effort quickly took wing.

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The Spoken Word, Searchable for Scholarship

Chronicle Technology - Fri, 05/28/2010 - 00:01

Linguists at the Universities of Oxford and of Pennsylvania are using new technology to analyze 9,000 hours of recorded speech.

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Scholars Scale Up Music Studies

Chronicle Technology - Fri, 05/28/2010 - 00:01

By gathering about 23,000 hours of digitized music into a framework for analysis, researchers hope to discover large-scale patterns.

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The Humanities Go Google

Chronicle Technology - Fri, 05/28/2010 - 00:01

Big Data comes to the humanities, and it could bring sweeping changes in how people "read" and study them.

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The 'Unconference': Technology Loosens Up the Academic Meeting

Chronicle Technology - Sun, 05/23/2010 - 00:01

Are you tired of the cumbersome preparation and stifling schedule of the traditional humanities conference? Here's an idea for you.

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The 'Unconference': Technology Loosens Up the Academic Meeting

Chronicle Technology - Sun, 05/23/2010 - 00:01

Are you tired of the cumbersome preparation and stifling schedule of the traditional humanities conference? Here's an idea for you.

Categories: mishmash

The 'Unconference': Technology Loosens Up the Academic Meeting

Chronicle Technology - Sun, 05/23/2010 - 00:01

Are you tired of the cumbersome preparation and stifling schedule of the traditional humanities conference? Here's an idea for you.

Categories: mishmash

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