“The humanistic inquiry and innovation may appear to be independent of one discipline to another. Yet they weave a more interconnected story as well as demonstrate the pervasiveness of digital technologies in modern culture.” -Jennifer Baum Sevec In her lecture “It From Bit: Cross-Cultural & Interdisciplinary Links in Modern Computing,” Kluge Staff Fellow Jennifer Baum …
Pioneers of the internet and the world wide web unveiled their ideas on how to preserve the web’s contents at a day-long symposium called “Saving the Web” held Thursday, June 16 at The John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress. Hosted by computer scientist Dame Wendy Hall, the event featured web pioneers and …
The following is a guest post by Janina Schupp, Ph.D. candidate at the University of Cambridge and an Arts and Humanities Research Council Fellow at The John W. Kluge Center. In a rural part of France, in close proximity to Paris, lies the town of Jeoffrécourt. A seemingly average municipality with riversides and playgrounds, the …