Damien Huffer and I are working on a project that elaborates from our ‘Insta-Dead‘ work, which data mined Instagram to explore the trade in human remains. We have an opportunity for two potential MA students to start September 2018 to work with us, at Carleton University. At the same time, the students would pursue their own research within the ambit of this project, which revolves around the use of various AI technologies – especially, but not limited to, various kinds of neural networks. Ideally, the students’ own research projects would push the research into other domains, for instance, historical photographs; tourist photos; advertising using historical imagery, digital historical consciousness.
Interested candidates are invited to contact Dr. Shawn Graham at shawn dot graham at carleton dot ca to discuss their potential research project, to gauge their potential fit with the funding envelope and other potential supplementary funding sources. Candidates are also invited to review the MA History, MA Public History, with Collaborative Digital Humanities Program requirements –
https://carleton.ca/history/m-a-in-public-history/
Criteria:
– a good first degree in a relevant subject (history, archaeology, etc)
– existing ability in digital humanities methods or issues is desirable, but not critical. Much more important is an ability to think creatively about the problems or potentials of computational viewpoints.
Activities that the students might be involved in:
+ Writing code to generate datasets
+ Developing various NN
+ Analyzing results
+ Ground-truthing training datasets (making sure that training images are properly classified)
+ Curating and preparing materials for data publication in appropriate venues
+ Research and writing of tutorials
+ Research and writing connected with their own research interests as they intersect with this project
+ Communicating the results of research with relevant publics at conferences and other venues
featured image by Green Chamelon on Unsplash
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