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X-WR-CALNAME:Digital Humanities Lecture: Tung-Hui Hu\, "The Grid vs. the Se
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DESCRIPTION:The Society for the Humanities & CNY Humanities Corridor (in pa
 rtnership with Cornell's Media Studies Colloquium) present: The Annual Dig
 ital Humanities Lecture\n\nThe world is teeming with objects\, and today's
  AI models rely on datasets such as ImageNet to learn\, for example\, that
  a "seat belt" and a "waffle iron" are both types of "commodities". But mi
 ght an earlier moment of scientific classification hold lessons for how we
  understand the dataset today? By examining collections of botanical speci
 mens in the 17th century\, this talk will track two competing modes of com
 putational logic that tried to contain the disorder of the natural world.\
 n\nPoet and scholar of digital media Tung-Hui Hu will present new work in 
 the annual Digital Humanities Lecture at the Society for the Humanities\, 
 entitled "The Grid vs. the Set: Early Attempts at Classifying Data." The l
 ecture is sponsored by the CNY Humanities Corridor\, Cornell's Media Studi
 es Colloquium and the Society for the Humanities. The event is free and op
 en to the public and will be followed by a reception in the A.D. White Hou
 se. \n\nHu\, Associate Professor of English Language and Literature at the
  University of Michigan\, is the author of "A Prehistory of the Cloud" and
  "Digital Lethargy". The winner of a Rome Prize and a NEA fellowship for l
 iterature\, Hu has also received an American Academy in Berlin Prize for h
 is research.  https://www.tunghui.hu/\n\nHu will also lead a space-limited
  workshop for graduate students on Thursday\, October 19\, entitled "New A
 esthetic Forms\, from Lethargy to AI."
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LOCATION:AD White House\, Guerlac Room
SUMMARY:Digital Humanities Lecture: Tung-Hui Hu\, "The Grid vs. the Set: Ea
 rly Attempts at Classifying Data"
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 set_early_attempts_at_classifying_data
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