The 2021-2022 Harvard Discovery Series built on the strong slate of talks from 2020-21. While campus COVID restrictions gradually loosened throughout the year, we focused on running a consistently virtual Discovery Series, which allowed us Read more…
Just over a year ago, running an entirely virtual speaker series would have sounded crazy, but like all other areas of our work and personal lives which were upended by COVID, we pressed on and Read more…
Last Wednesday the DSSG hosted two excellent events related to machine learning and images, attracting nearly 150 virtual attendees between them. We first heard from Ben Lee, who presented “Newspaper Navigator: Re-Imagining Digitized Newspapers with Read more…
The Harvard Discovery Series is a collaboration between the DSSG and Cabot Science Library which brings scholars on the frontiers of digital knowledge-making to a Harvard audience in an intimate and interactive setting. These presentations demonstrate the Read more…
The 2020 Harvard Discovery Series kicked off in great style with a presentation by renowned data visualization expert Alberto Cairo, a journalist, designer, and the Knight Chair in Visual Journalism at the School of Communication of the Read more…
The following text is from a presentation at the 2018 Digital Initiatives Symposium, hosted by the University of San Diego. The full text can be seen at http://bit.ly/DIS18_DSSG. It Takes a Village: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Read more…
The Digital Futures Discovery Series kicked off its 2018 schedule on Feb. 7 with a presentation on digital datasets and Virtual Reality in an ongoing cultural heritage project. The talk and interactive demonstration, titled “MorgantinaVR: Read more…