Category Archives for Digital Portals & Initiatives
Library self-disruption: The key to surviving and thriving
Disruption and change, especially in the area of technology, continue to have a major impact on society. The higher education community is certainly not immune to these trends. In this article, the authors, the library dean and a professor of … Continue reading
The smart campus: a future for our universities?
What is the ‘smart campus’? What might it be like to study, teach, research or work in one? How might learning spaces research, educational data, estate management practices, smart devices and artificial intelligence converge to shape the direction of our … Continue reading
Virtual reality content for higher education curriculum
Virtual Reality content has quickly become embedded into popular culture and everyday purposes. Interaction within a virtual environment has enormous possibilities for a number of different industries such as business, healthcare, entertainment, architecture, engineering and all levels of education. This … Continue reading
NASIG updates strategic plan
NASIG recently announced availability of the NASIG Strategic Plan 2017-2021. This new strategic plan reflects NASIG’s evolution from an organization primarily focused on serials management to one with a broader scope including electronic resources management and scholarly communications. Read More
Choosito Is Using Artificial Intelligence To Build A Better Search Engine and Digital Library For Education.
Dr. Eleni Mitsakaki has set out to create a better, more effective, and safer way for students to search and learn. Her startup, Choosito, is backed by the National Science Foundation and is paving the way for teachers to have … Continue reading
Librarians, faculty collaborate on digital scholarship across campus
Prof. Richard Hornbeck (center), Head of Digitization Kathleen Arthur (left) and Preservation Librarian Sherry Byrne discuss a digitized 19th-century business census with their research team at Mansueto Library. Read More
Novel approach to AI wages war on writer’s block
Researcher Janelle Shane, in a recent blog post, detailed her efforts to build a neural network capable of creating the first sentence of a novel. She began by feeding her AI the first lines from popular novels in hopes it … Continue reading
The Drawings of the Florentine Painters: From Print Catalog to Linked Open Data
The Drawings of The Florentine Painters project created the first online database of Florentine Renaissance drawings by applying Linked Open Data (LOD) techniques to a foundational text of the same name, first published by Bernard Berenson in 1903 (revised and … Continue reading
Stunning AI Breakthrough Takes Us One Step Closer to the Singularity
A new paper published in Nature today describes how the artificially intelligent system that defeated Go grandmaster Lee Sedol in 2016 got its digital ass kicked by a new-and-improved version of itself. Read More
NTU medical students could get customised help from ‘virtual tutor’ in future
SINGAPORE – Students at the Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine may, in the future, be assisted by a “virtual tutor” that can adapt learning to each individual, said Nanyang Technological University (NTU) on Wednesday (Oct 25). Read More