At Aarhus University, I had a chance to present some preliminary work on training Low-Rank Adaptations of diffusion models to emulate the style of 19th century painting. I’ve written up some of my notes, including the synthetic Golden Age...
This week I was in Sweden and had a chance to visit the National Library in Stockholm. Together with my Stanford colleagues Peter Broadwell and Lindsay King, I spoke on some of the AI work that seemed most interesting to...
Obviously PDF was not around in 1985. I’ve been working on a project to create PDF versions of late-1980s files, mostly in MacWrite 5.0 format. There’s a whole other post to be written about that subject, but here I...
Although it sometimes seems like developments in large language models have sucked all the air out of any other discussions, the attention paid to commercial systems such as ChatGPT has the side benefit of encouraging a lot of interesting...
A while back I posted about trying to collect a full run of the print edition of MacWEEK, a tabloid-sized weekly publication printed between 1987 and 1998. (A cross-platform reboot, eMediaweekly, lasted from August of 1998 to February of 1999.)...
I’m very excited to announce a new collaborative project, funded by a joint NEH-AHRC program to support US-UK collaboration: Enriching Exhibition Scholarship: Reconciling Knowledge Graphs and Social Media from Newspaper Articles to Twitter. Yale and the University of Edinburgh...
On a recent trip to Sweden, I spent some time with folks who edit Litteraturbanken, the national archive of literature. They raved about the reMarkable tablet, a product from neighboring Norway. (Rare indeed is a Swede recommending a Norwegian...
The ‘6’ key on my Mac 512k’s keyboard had, at some time in the past, suffered some kind of blow that snapped off the stem of the switch inside the upper keycap: It looks like a previous owner had attempted...
Prices for the late-1980s/early-1990s 8-bit ISA AdLib sound cards have risen steadily in recent years, thanks to nostalgia about this era of 8-bit computer audio. Adventure games from companies such as Sierra On-Line, and Lucasarts (below) used the new...
In Paris, a beautiful Citroën DS awaits a green light on the Rue de Rivoli:...
In April I took a trip out to Las Vegas for the annual National Association of Broadcasters conference. I’ve been attending this show since the 1990s, when it served as the focal point for a transition from analog tape to...
This was our first time experiencing the “Exhibition Road” entrance to the Victoria & Albert Museum: Also new: the member’s lounge… A hidden treasure inside the V&A, the UK’s National Art Library: Sixteen years ago I took this picture...
For Thanksgiving 2017 I found myself in Uppsala, north of Stockholm, to talk about Digital Humanities with folks from the university there. The talks I gave were held inside Carolina Rediviva, the University Library. It holds a number of...
As part of the trip to Hong Kong, I travelled to Singapore this October to visit Yale-NUS, a liberal arts college embedded within the National University of Singapore. Although the College was founded in 2011, its campus was recently...
I had a chance to travel to Hong Kong in October, my first trip there. The occasion was the Fall Symposium on Digital Humanities 2017, held at Hong Kong Baptist University, where me and my partner were speakers. One...