Welcome
This is the archive site for the 2006 DHCS conference. For the 2008 conference, please visit:
Welcome to the ARCHIVE home page of the Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science. We will gather at the University of Chicago on November 5th and 6th, 2006 (see schedule) to share ideas and tools that address the important issues surrounding Greg Crane’s aptly expressed question: What Do You Do with a Million Books?
All events except the banquet take place in Ida Noyes, 1212 East 59th Street. The banquet and following keynote take place in the Quadrangle Club at 1155 E. 57th Street.
Registration is now officially closed. Please contact us at
dhcs-conference@listhost.uchicago.edu
if you have questions about attending the Colloquium.
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Topics
Please see the program and associated abstracts to find out more about the topics to be aired, and for a glimpse of the important work that is going on in and around the Digital Humanities and Computer Science.
Although we are no longer accepting paper submissions, you may wish to examine our Call For Papers to find out more about what we will be discussing.
Speakers
Along with many distinguished and innovative paper presentors (stay tuned for a full program!) we are pleased to feature keynote presentations from the following individuals:
- John Unsworth, Dean and Professor, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, Professor, Department of English and Professor, Library Faculty at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
- Gregory Crane, Professor of Classics, Winnick Family Chair of Technology and Entrepreneurship and Editor-in-Chief of the Perseus Project at Tufts University
- Ben Shneiderman, Professor, CS, ISR, UMIACS; Founding Director of the Human-Computer Interaction Lab, at the University of Maryland
Location
The colloquium will take place on the University of Chicago campus in lovely Hyde Park, Chicago. Paper presentations, poster sessions and the reception will take place in Ida Noyes and the banquet will take place in the Quadrangle Club.
Sponsors
This colloquium is sponsored by the Division of the Humanities and the Computation Institute at the University of Chicago & the College of Science and Letters and the Departments of Computer Science and Humanities at the Illinois Institute of Technology.
Program Committee
Prof. Helma Dik, Department of Classics, University of Chicago
Dr. Catherine Mardikes, Bibliographer for Classics, the Ancient Near East, and General Humanities, University of Chicago
Prof. Martin Mueller, Department of English and Classics, Northwestern University
Dr. Mark Olsen, Associate Director, The ARTFL Project, University of Chicago
Prof. Shlomo Argamon, Computer Science Department, Illinois Institute of Technology
Prof. Wai Gen Yee, Computer Science Department, Illinois Institute of Technology