Come join us for our end of the year festivities, where students will get to showcase their capstone projects and we say a final goodbye to our graduating seniors!    

The Thomas Mann House and the UCLA Digital Humanities present Conference: Moral Code - Ethics in the Digital Age "The primary political and philosophical issue of the next century will be the definition of what we are," futurist Ray Kurzweil wrote just before the onset of the 21st century. Algorithms and autonomously operating machines have already begun to fundamentally change human beings and their surroundings. Meanwhile, social objectives and ethical standards regulating these developments often remain vague. While, historically and culturally,…

The Faculty Innovation Fellows is a new program co-sponsored by the Vice Chancellor of Research, the UCLA Technology Development Group, and Startup UCLA. Its purpose is to support startup culture, innovation, and social entrepreneurship across the campus. This year’s faculty projects come from across north and south campus and include a tech tool to decipher infant cries, an e-commerce site for cultural preservation, and an augmented reality experience platform. We expect that the program will be continued next year and hope…

Join UCLA's Excellence in Pedagogy and Teaching (EPIC) Digital Pedagogy Seminar for a discussion of teaching with digital tools in multiple languages. Sponsored by UCLA EPIC. Quinn Dombrowski has been involved with digital humanities since 2004, working on a variety of projects including a medieval Russian database, a digital research environment for Bulgarian linguistics and folklore, a Drupal-based platform for developing digital catalogues raisonnés for art historians, and the financial papers of George Washington. From 2008-2012, Quinn was on the…

What does it mean to speak of a pre-­history of the digital?  In response to recent efforts to read the concept back into the history of philosophy or to render it a kind of ontology, this talk suggests that digital develops in the course of what we call “the ecology and evolution of images.”  It’s no coincidence that the “biotechnology” of the hand and its fingers (digits) provide the etymological platform on which the concept of the digital was constructed.  In…

The experiences of murdered victims of Nazi persecution perished with them. In this lecture, Gabór Tóth will discuss the ways text and data mining technology has helped to recover fragments of these lost experiences out of oral history interviews with survivors. He will also demonstrate how a data-driven anthology of these fragments have been built. He will begin the lecture by situating the challenge of uncovering lost experiences in historiography, and then demonstrate how text and data mining techniques have been…