KU ScholarWorks: Recent submissions
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The Hermeneutics of Data Representation
(2011-09-24)When we consult a file on disk, or receive a data stream on a network port, we see a sequence of bits. What does it mean? And can we tell the difference between a meaningful sequence of bits and garbage? Any work involving ... -
A World in a Grain of Sand: Uncertainty & Poetry Corpora Visualization
(2012-09-22)Under a grant funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities in the US and the Arts and Humanities Research Council, Economic and Social Research Council, and JISC in the UK, we recently embarked on a poetry visualization ... -
Fabrications, or How to Lie with Computer Vision
(2013-09-14)Since its initial role in artificial intelligence research during the early 1970s, computer vision — defined, for the purposes of this talk, as the automated description and reconstruction of the physical world (including ... -
New Technologies and Old Things
(2016-09-19)The study of the ancient world is currently undergoing a revolution. Many scholars are moving away from traditional approaches for recording artifacts, architecture, and landscapes, instead embracing a new array of highly ... -
Decolonizing Archival Practice and Diversifying the Historical Record Through Post-Custodial Human Rights Archiving
(2015-09-25)Over the past twenty years, archival discourse has shifted from embracing objectivity and neutrality as core professional values to rightfully questioning how these values negatively impact archival practice and the ... -
Not Just Point & Click: The Poetics of Choice (& Resistance) in Narrative Games
(2017-09-29)Mainstream video games are only occasionally seen as sites of compelling digital storytelling, and even more rarely attract controversy for their narrative representations. However, the medium of video games is far broader ... -
Digital Humanities in (Other) Contexts
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Virtual Reality on Stage
(2014-10-22)For almost 20 years, KU has been a world leader in the field of digitally mediated theatre production. Starting in 1995 KU’s University Theatre has mounted a series of ever-increasingly complex productions in which real-time ... -
Walter Freeman and the Visual Culture of Lobotomy
(2016-01-25)Head-and-Shoulder Hunting in the Americas: Walter Freeman and the Visual Culture of Lobotomy. Between 1936 and 1967, Walter Freeman, a prominent neurologist, lobotomized as many as 3,500 Americans. Freeman was also an ... -
Prosopography and Computer Ontologies: The ‘Factoid’ Model and CIDOC-CRM
(2011-09-24)Abstract: Structured Prosopography provides a formal model for representing prosopography: a branch of historical research that traditionally has focused on the identification of people that appear in historical sources. ... -
Random Borges | Infinite E Lit: A Look from Hispanic Legacies
(2015-03-25)Part of the inter-institutional collaborative project Hispanic Legacies in Electronic Literature, in this presentation Élika Ortega proposes a juxtaposition between Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges’ imagined figures ... -
Mapping Testimonies of Children Who Survived the 1994 Genocide in Rwanda
(2017-01-25)Voices of children who survived the 1994 genocide in Rwanda have to a great extent been muted, ignored, and excluded from discourse as if these children are invisible and do not exist. However, children were never spared ... -
The First Part of ‘Text Analysis’ is ‘Text’: Applying Digital Methods to an Under-Documented Language
(2014-09-29)The digitization and curation of large bodies of text has inspired and encouraged new methods of research into language and literature, but only into those languages for which such corpora have been established. What sort ... -
Digital Compensation of Transmission Impairments in Multi-Subcarrier Fiber Optic Transmission Systems
(University of Kansas, 2019-12-31)Time and again, fiber optic medium has proved to be the best means for transporting global data traffic which is following an exponential growth trajectory. Rapid development of high bandwidth applications since the past ... -
Prevention of Medical Implant Infection through Self-Assembled Engineered Peptides as Surface Active Bio-Agents
(University of Kansas, 2019-12-31)Titanium medical implants have revolutionized health care in treating bone and joint degeneration, neoplasms and inflammation. Due to their biocompatibility, mechanical strength, and non-corrosive properties, titanium and ... -
Optimization for Training Deep Models and Deep Learning Based Point Cloud Analysis and Image Classification
(University of Kansas, 2019-12-31)Deep learning (DL) has dramatically improved the state-of-the-art performances in broad applications of computer vision, such as image recognition, object detection, segmentation, and point cloud analysis. However, the ... -
Real-time DSP-enabled digital subcarrier cross-connect (DSXC) for optical communication networks
(University of Kansas, 2019-12-31)Elastic optical networking (EON) is intended to offer flexible channel wavelength granularity to meet the requirement of high spectral efficiency (SE) in today’s optical networks. However, optical cross-connects (OXC) and ... -
Learning from Constraints in Visualizations of Information
(2014-09-13)Visualizations have been part of both humanistic and scientific knowledge production and dissemination for quite a long time. In recent years, however, its use has risen exponentially, fueled in part by the need to extract ...
