23 February 2022 10:00 KST Mél Hogan (University of Calgary) As media objects, the ‘data center’ and ‘the cloud’ serve as a kind of oracle; they are buildings that embody much of the hype and many of the anxieties that stem from our now globally wired planet, as well as […]

26 January 2022 10:00 KST Victoria Lemieux (University of British Columbia) In this talk, Dr. Victoria Lemieux presents an overview of the uses and potential of blockchain in records management and archival applications, along with some perils and pitfalls. The presentation will draw upon Dr. Lemieux’s work as a member […]

27 November 2021 10:00 KST Hossein Azari (CEO, cmorq) Joseph Kim (CEO, LSJ Technologies) Is humanity creating a new economic system? Will blockchain technology and the move toward decentralization manage to overcome performance bottlenecks and the troubles of surveillance capitalism? Big Data Studies Lab invites two business experts in the […]

13 November 2021 10:00 KST Matthew G. Kirschenbaum (University of Maryland) What are the future prospects for literary knowledge now that literary texts—and the material remains of authorship, publishing, and reading—are reduced to bitstreams, strings of digital ones and zeros? What are the opportunities and obligations for book history, textual […]

25 September 2021 Bo Zhao, Associate Professor of Geography and GIScience, University of Washington The developing convergence of Artificial Intelligence and GIScience has raised a concern on the emergence of deep fake geography and its potentials in transforming human perception of the geographic world. Situating fake geography under the context […]