Author Archives: Gabriel Bodard

Nexus network journal

Posted on 2006-04-10 by Gabriel Bodard

New in Humbul: Nexus (ISSN 1522-4600) is an online journal on architecture and mathematics, which contains a number of research papers on ancient architecture. Architecture, mathematics, perspective, and landscape formation are the most frequently recurring topics. Among the papers of … Continue reading →

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PhD studentship in Digital Humanities

Posted on 2006-03-31 by Gabriel Bodard

The Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King’s College London, is very pleased to announce the availability of a studentship for its PhD in Digital Humanities, to commence October 2006. Applications must be received by 7 April, so almost immediate … Continue reading →

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Student-Generated Timelines

Posted on 2006-03-27 by Gabriel Bodard

from Academic Commons Student-Generated Timelines In Teaching and Technology Malcolm Brown from Darmouth’s Academic Computing Services polled a list I am on, looking for software to allow students to generate timelines. Owen Ellard from Mt. Holyoke pointed him to the … Continue reading →

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Robot guide for museum visitors

Posted on 2006-03-27 by Gabriel Bodard

(Seen at Rogueclassicism) Robot guide for museum visitors Cicerobot to steer tourists round Agrigento museum (ANSA) – Palermo, March 21 A flaming-red robot will soon be guiding tourists round a Sicilian archaeological collection . The 1.5-metre-high robot, named Cicerobot by … Continue reading →

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DRHA conference 2006

Posted on 2006-03-23 by Gabriel Bodard

Digital Resources in the Humanities And Arts * *  Conference 2006  * * Dartington College of Arts, UK September 3-6, 2006 for further details see https://www.dartington.ac.uk/drha06/index.asp and https://www.ahds.ac.uk/drha2006/index.php?cf=5

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Most convincing endorsement of Creative Commons I have seen

Posted on 2006-03-22 by Gabriel Bodard

This week’s New Scientist has an interview with Cameron Sinclair, award-winning architect, founder of Architecture for Humanity, and winner of the Technology Entertainment Design conference award, who plans to spend the $100 000 prize building an open source databank of … Continue reading →

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Survival of the Fittest – open source and sustainability

Posted on 2006-03-17 by Gabriel Bodard

“Sustainability” is really just another word for survival. Open source projects either survive or they do not. But what makes one project survive and another die? And does the answer matter? Open Source and Sustainability https://www.oss-watch.ac.uk/events/2006-04-10-12/ The answer *does* matter. … Continue reading →

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Global grid for Big Bang research reaches milestone

Posted on 2006-02-27 by Gabriel Bodard

A timely article (from Computer World) for those of us becoming interested in e-Science… FEBRUARY 16, 2006 (COMPUTERWORLD) – A huge 100,000-PC grid-computing network being built to help research the origin of the universe passed the third of four major … Continue reading →

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Robot explores ancient Greek shipwreck

Posted on 2006-02-09 by Gabriel Bodard

Seen in Boingboing.net this week: Robot explores ancient Greek shipwreck David Pescovitz: Last summer, a team researchers dispatched an autonomous undersea robot to explore a Greek merchant ship that sank in the eastern Aegean Sea in the fourth century BC. … Continue reading →

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Thesaurus Linguae Latinae CD Rom reviewed

Posted on 2006-02-06 by Gabriel Bodard

A review at Bryn Mawr Classical Review of the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae, Third electronic edition, published by K. G. Saur. Peter Heslin at Durham has some interesting things to say about the value of this work and of such Greek … Continue reading →

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Fellowship for digital art students

Posted on 2006-02-02 by Gabriel Bodard

Linden Lab Fellowship in the Visual and Performing Arts For Creative Innovation in the Online World of Second Life This fellowship is made possible by Linden Lab®, the creators of Second Life®, to provide a young artist with a chance … Continue reading →

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1-2 Posts in 3D Visualisation (London)

Posted on 2006-01-25 by Gabriel Bodard

(From https://www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/cch/about/vacancies.html) (1) Network Development Officer JISC 3D Visualisation in the Arts Network Part-time, 0.5FTE, 36 months The Centre for Computing in the Humanities at King’s College London wishes to employ, an outgoing, dynamic and organised person to initiate a … Continue reading →

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Fair Use vs. Copyright Control

Posted on 2006-01-23 by Gabriel Bodard

Seen in Academic Commons: Will Fair Use Survive? Free Expression in the Age of Copyright Control In Fair Use Our new friends at the Institute for the Future of the Book gave me a nifty report called “Will Fair Use … Continue reading →

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Teuchos conference

Posted on 2006-01-15 by Gabriel Bodard

The preliminary programme for the conference “Digital philology — problems and perspectives” (Hamburg, 20-22 January 2006) is now available at https://www.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/RV/other/projects/conference.html. The organisers of the Teuchos Centre have also created an automated mailing list to distribute future information regarding the … Continue reading →

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English-Greek Dictionary online at Chicago

Posted on 2006-01-05 by Gabriel Bodard

Rogueclassicism notes that the University of Chicago Library have put online a searchable version of Woodhouse’s English-Greek Dictionary. At first glance, it looks as though this–although it has a bit of a clunky search engine–will be a nice complement to … Continue reading →

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