For over three years, we archivists and technologists at WGBH Educational Foundation have been collaborating with computational linguists at Brandeis University to develop, test, and implement a set of tools…
Here's a taste of the innovative uses of technology from 1989, in this episode "Thriving on Chaos" from KERA and the American Archive of Public Broadcasting. I especially love the…
And so they retreat into dreams of private things: financial security - a home in the suburbs - a /'beer and a ballgame.' This is a troubling fact in a society that is counting on these same young Americans to solve the enormous problems of life in the twentieth century.
The next four years are going to be very exciting at the GBH Archives and for the American Archive of Public Broadcasting. In January, we received a grant from the…
I needed some transcripts with music in them. So, I grabbed the Thanksgiving Sermon and I've been transcribing the sermon of James A. Farmer Jr. Along the way, I've been thinking of monks copying and illuminating manuscripts, and this parallel feeling of doing something similar with modern technology.
Growing up in the '80s and '90s, Rocky Balboa held a certain appeal. He was the scrappy, American underdog who always came out on top. Recently, I was exploring the…