Stephen Ramsay, Digital Humanist extraordinaire, posted a blog entry about wanting to learn Groovy, and made a comment about Java being the predominant language in Digital Humanities. I posted a comment indicating that scripting languages like PHP and Perl seem to me to be more common, for noteworthy cultural reasons, like the availability of...
The Adobe CS3 Master Collection is a treasure chest of well-respected applications for graphic design (Photoshop and Illustrator), video editing (Premiere and After Effects), web authorship (Dreamweaver and Fireworks), and various other useful tools (like Acrobat Pro). All these goodies don’t come cheaply, of course: the regular version is $2,500 USD, though the academic...
Given the recent irregularity of my blog posts, I don’t imagine there are a lot of regular visitors to my site, but those who do visit occasionally might have noticed that I’ve finally removed my “temporary message” claiming that I’d be filling in additional contents within the next few days (I had added the...
I try not to think of myself as a Mac nut, but sometimes it’s hard to ignore the evidence, like the irrepressible urge to upgrade immediately when Leopard was released. I had no specific reasons to upgrade, aside from a vague sense that there would be a few enhancements, and the desire to be...
Thanks to Chad (one of my students) for sending me a link to this picture comparing a 1GB drive from the early 1980’s to a more recent 1GB flash card. Although the technologies represented are very different, the story is clear: the continuous minuturisation of technologies is astounding. Though not represented in this picture,...
Well I still haven’t had a good chunk of time to update my site and reboot my blogging activities after a prolonged state of stasis, but Blog Action Day (thanks Johnny) seems like a good opportunity to shake off my blogging slumber and resume my digital scribblings. I like how this initiative isn’t about...
I am an Associate Professor of Digital Humanities at McGill University and Directory of the McGill Centre for Digital Humanities. My primary area of research is in the design, development, usage and theorization of tools for the digital humanities, especially for text analysis and visualization. I have led or contributed significantly to projects such as Voyant Tools, the Text Analysis Portal for Research (TAPoR), the MONK Project, the Simulated Environment for Theatre, the Mandala Browser, and BonPatron. In additional to my work developing sophisticated scholarly tools, I have numerous publications related to research and teaching in the Digital Humanities, including Hermeneutica:
Computer-Assisted Interpretation in the Humanities, with Geoffrey Rockwell (MIT 2016), and Visual Interface Design for Digital Cultural Heritage, with Stan Ruecker and Milena Radzikowska (Ashgate 2011).
Other professional activities include serving as an editor of Digital Humanities Quarterly (Digital Humanities Quarterly). Prior to moving to McGill University, I was Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Studies and Multimedia at McMaster University from 2004 to 2011, where I was also Director of the Sherman Centre for Digital Scholarship. Before joining McMaster University, I was at the University of Alberta where I was co-responsible for the creation and development of the M.A. in Humanities Computing programme from 2001 to 2004. My Ph.D. in French Literature is from Queen's University (2000), my M.A. in French literature is from the University of Victoria (1995), and my honours B.A. in French is from the University of British Columbia (1994).
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