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A French Writer Goes In Search of Lost Time, with a Little Help From Google New York Review of Books, 2021 "In the internet there is a fountain of youth into which at first you drunkenly plunge your face, and then in the dawn light you see your reflection, battered by the years," writes Maël Renouard. In "Fragments of an Infinite Memory", he takes a step back to meditate on the effects of online browsing upon our lives. Maël Renouard begins Fragments of an Infinite Memory: My Life with the Internet with a memory about memory itself: One day, as I was daydreaming on the boulevard Beaumarcha...

Brent Seales is among 213 recipients of NEH grants, totaling $32.8 million, awarded to humanities projects across the country. Pete Comparoni | UK Photo. LEXINGTON, Ky. (March 3, 2021) — The University of Kentucky is one step closer to becoming a global center for imaging and restoring ancient artifacts thought to be damaged beyond repair. Brent Seales, professor and chair of the Department of Computer Science, is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) grant to create EduceLab — a cultural heritage imaging and analysis laboratory. Seales is among 213 recipients of...

This is what could have been. If the computer geeks at MIT in 1960 had just held on just a little while longer with the Mississippi freedom riders. If uprisings in Watts, and Detroit, and Newark and Kansas City did not make Black people the computing revolution’s first problem to solve. If Black people had averted the collision between civil rights and computing technology that Willard Wirtz once predicted. If Black people had bothered to seriously engage Roy Wilkins’ admonition to “computerize the race problem.” This talk will walk the attendees through the alternative black technol...