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January 2009

Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Software Studies in Chronicle of Higher Education

MATTHEW KIRSCHENBAUM.
Where Computer Science and Cultural Studies Collide. The Chronicle of Higher Education. January 23, 2009.

"Academic study of new media is increasingly spawning more specialized inquiry: Game studies, software studies, critical-code studies, even platform studies are all buzzwords in the field. One high-profile meeting last year at the University of California at San Diego, hosted by Lev Manovich and Noah Wardrip-Fruin, brought together an international array of scholars, artists, and technologists, including many of the names mentioned in the accompanying article, to discuss "the meaning of studying software cultures, and the direction and goals of software studies as an emerging movement."

Sunday, January 18, 2009

Calit2 article about our Humanities High-Performance Computing grant



Calit2 published an article about our umanities High-Performance Computing grant from NEH Digital Humanities office. They also took nice fotos of Lev and So with the HIPerSpace wall:

Supercomputing to Help UC San Diego Researchers Visualize Cultural Patterns