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Computer Science and Digital Humanities at Princeton In-Person

This talk will describe experiences leading a seminar for undergrad computer science majors at Princeton University who are exploring digital humanities projects, hopefully along the way building tools and developing techniques that will help humanities scholars work more effectively with their data.

Brian Kernighan received his BASc from the University of Toronto in 1964 and a PhD in electrical engineering from Princeton in 1969.  He was a member of the Computing Science Research center at Bell Labs until 2000, and is now a professor in the Computer Science Department at Princeton.

He is a co-creator of several programming languages, including AWK and AMPL, and of a number of tools for document preparation.  He is the co-author of a dozen books and some technical papers, and holds 4 patents.  He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2002.  His research areas include programming languages, tools and interfaces that make computers easier to use, often for non-specialist users.  He is also interested in technology education for non-technical audiences; his latest book, "Understanding the Digital World", will appear in December 2016.

   Date: Thursday December 8, 2016, 8:00pm

     (refreshments at 7:30pm)

   Place: Princeton University Computer Science Building

     Small Auditorium, Room CS 105

     Olden and William Streets, Princeton NJ

   Information: Dennis Mancl (908) 285-1066

   On-line meeting notice:  http://PrincetonACM.acm.org/meetings/mtg1612.pdf

 

All ACM / IEEE-CS meetings are open to the public. Students and their parents are welcome.  There is no admission charge.

Date:
December 8, 2016
Time:
7:30pm - 10:00pm
Time Zone:
Eastern Time - US & Canada (change)
Location:
Off Campus
Host:
Off-Campus
Categories:
  Digital Scholarship  

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