Context Quotes: “We shape our tool, thereafter they shape us” – Father John Culkin “A computer is nothing but the actualization of man’s greatest desire to possess and control” – The Pattern On The Stone “In order to skillfully operate instruments a human being must internalize aspects of those instruments into their kinesthetic and perceptual habits.” – Joseph Weizenbaum Working…
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The Iron Streets of Pompeii and the Curious Case of Liquid Roman Iron
The following is an update on Juliana van Roggen’s 2014-2015 undergraduate fellowship project with the Five College Digital Humanities Initiative. Her project is a public, digital resource that functions as a companion to ongoing archaeological research on iron deposits in the streets of Pompeii. The project will bring together new research on the ancient city with georeferenced maps to…