Deadline approaching: considering attending #AHA24 in San Francisco? December 15 is the last day for preregistration pricing. Visit our website to learn more about registration and hotels, access the program, and more. @histodons#histodonshttps://www.historians.org/annual-meeting
🎁 Looking for an original present for anybody curious to learn about the fascinating history of chess & its remarkable impact on culture, art, science, education, social advancement, prison reform and more?
FILM PAGE: ideasroadshow.com/chess/
BOOK PAGE: ideasroadshow.com/chessays/
On this day in 1833, Eliza Baldwin died. See this and other gravestone inscriptions from Templemartin, Co. Cork, in the Journals: https://tinyurl.com/baldwin1833
Congratulations to CBI Sr. Research Fellow William Aspray who just published Understanding Information History: The Case of America in 1920 (Springer).
By the way @histodons , its probably old news for people who are already engaging with this, but I just learned about two fascinating pioneers of humanities computing, Andrew and Kathleen Booth at Birkbeck College, London, who apparently worked on #NLP (specifically machine translation, but together with students/collabs. on other things) starting in the early 50s (perhaps earlier).
On this day in 1801, Mary Ledwith Higgins died aged 72. See this and other gravestone inscriptions from Ballymore, Co. Westmeath, in the Journals: https://tinyurl.com/higgins1801