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The Yale Review published twenty-eight poems by Robert Frost. In a new essay, Kamran Javadizadeh goes into our archive and finds a poet reckoning with mortality, rivalry, and the limits of form.

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On the Calculation of Meaning, or Doing Words without Things | Critical Inquiry: Vol 52, No 3 Abstract Inspired by Michael Riffaterre’s Fictional Truth (1990), this article brings computational mechanisms of the first generation of LLMs using the transformer architecture in conversation with l...

Delighted (and slightly bewildered) to see my article “On the Calculation of Meaning, or Doing Words without Things” finally published in Critical Inquiry. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...

"Firstly, a print publication wasn’t enough. Their goal was to enable anyone anywhere in the world to freely access Perceptron and, as such, have perpetual access to Frank’s machine learning and computer vision research and to know who he was beyond his scientific outputs."

Spring issue has arrived! Read new work by Loren Glass, Mercedes Bunz, Alexandre Gefen, Lawrence Venuti, Maxwell Gontarek, Emily McAvan, James I. Porter, and Boris Maslov.

criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu/past_issues/...

But oh no. A few minutes later I got an email from IT services telling me that I had failed the phishing test that they had sent, and that the previous email had in fact been initiated by IT services to catch people out. This is in itself quite infuriating.

New work from me in AI & Society: "Systems Programming the Model" theorizes LLMs as systems-level objects. Agentic AI makes this obvious now, but my argument is that LLMs have always been systems +

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AI slop of grandmother and mother and kids and digital something...

This image of theirs is one of the most impressive pieces of AI slop I've ever seen.

iSchool launches Summer Intensive This summer, iSchool students will have the opportunity to enroll in in select courses through the new Summer Intensive pilot program, which will take place on campus over the course of two weeks. Eac...

I’m excited to be coordinating a new @ischoolui.bsky.social program

The Summer Intensive will offer 6 courses over 2 weeks in May & June this year—SI weeks will also include a range of academic, professional, & social events—we are hoping to cultivate real "summer camp for LIS nerds vibes"

A Forgotten Pioneer of AI, Recovered Through Poetry and Biography | Faculty of Arts and Sciences In their new book, James Dobson and Rena Mosteirin explore the elusive life of Frank Rosenblatt, whose groundbreaking invention laid the foundation for modern AI.

We did a fun interview about our recent @punctumbooks.bsky.social book Perceptron, our research and writing process, and our fascination with and love for Frank Rosenblatt. Check it out! @renamosteirin.bsky.social fas.dartmouth.edu/news/2026/03...

A Forgotten Pioneer of AI, Recovered Through Poetry and Biography | Faculty of Arts and Sciences In their new book, James Dobson and Rena Mosteirin explore the elusive life of Frank Rosenblatt, whose groundbreaking invention laid the foundation for modern AI.

In “Perceptron” from @punctumbooks.bsky.social, @jeddobson.bsky.social and @renamosteirin.bsky.social explore the elusive life of Frank Rosenblatt, whose groundbreaking invention laid the foundation for modern AI.

"An English professor at Dartmouth was appointed as the special advisor to the Provost on AI, and drafted a report last year on the adoption of the technology." I can almost hear the NotebookLM hosts saying "wild stuff" when reading that line. Seriously, though, more reporting on AI at Dartmouth.

The Birth of Computer Vision A revealing genealogy of image-recognition techniques and technologies  Today’s most advanced neural networks and sophisticated image-analysis methods com...

I write all about this history in my 2023 book The Birth of Computer Vision. The cover art sets the scene. www.upress.umn.edu/978151791421...

This is no coincidence as this is the original task and origins of so much of today’s “AI” and Computer Vision. Military targeting and identification is precisely what CV was trained to do.

Percepton is available in print or PDF. It is open-access. Buy a print copy or freely download here: punctumbooks.com/titles/perce...

A Forgotten Pioneer of AI, Recovered Through Poetry and Biography | Faculty of Arts and Sciences In their new book, James Dobson and Rena Mosteirin explore the elusive life of Frank Rosenblatt, whose groundbreaking invention laid the foundation for modern AI.

We did a fun interview about our recent @punctumbooks.bsky.social book Perceptron, our research and writing process, and our fascination with and love for Frank Rosenblatt. Check it out! @renamosteirin.bsky.social fas.dartmouth.edu/news/2026/03...

And here I thought most people were partaking in Critical Digital Humanitiesless Fridays this Lenten season.

If you’re around NYU next week, join us! We have a very exciting list of speakers lined up

LLM-based technology is good for many things, but it is not a reliable tool for autonomous weaponry. LLMs require large GPU computers to operate; you can't put them on standard military platforms, and certainly not on drones.

It's pretty concise and comes with a long bibliography. I'm more than happy to share a copy with anyone wanting one--just DM or email!

The chapter concludes with a look toward emerging "theoretical work addressing conceptual problems arising from the modeling and generation of language...[and philosophical questions of] agency, language, and authorship."

I review developments from "humanities computing" to the present AI-saturated discourse and argue that "the computational transformation of the humanities has been uneven and contested, and remains incomplete." 2/n

My contribution to the digital in the humanities discourse: I have a new chapter freshly out titled "The Digitalization of the Humanities: Recent Trends and Future Prospects." It's in a Morgan Kaufmann collection titled "Digital Transformation in Artificial Systems." 1/n

Dartmouth College went all-in on AI. Then came the tension. - The Boston Globe The swift rollout at the Ivy League school is a case study in the turbulence that AI can bring.

Dartmouth has moved swiftly to embrace AI. @ditikohli.bsky.social and I covered its deal w/ Anthropic, how AI is leading to classroom tension, and how officials are under fire for paying an undergrad to promote a mental health chatbot in the student paper. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/02/25/b...

Frontiers | Computational hermeneutics: evaluating generative AI as a cultural technology Generative AI (GenAI) systems are increasingly recognized as cultural technologies, yet current evaluation frameworks often treat culture as a variable to be...

I'm on a 38(!)-author paper just published in Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence, "Computational hermeneutics: evaluating generative AI as a cultural technology". We splice Schleiermacher and hermeneutic theory into AI debates, arguing AI are "context machines".
www.frontiersin.org/journals/art...

Remembering James Tatum, Pioneering Classicist and Scholar of War and Memory | Faculty of Arts and Sciences The beloved professor brought ancient literature into conversation with modern American culture.

The #Dartmouth Arts and Sciences community mourns the loss of James Tatum, a pioneering classicist and beloved professor who brought ancient literature into conversation with modern American culture.

Dartmouth's engineering program embraces artificial intelligence - Valley News Dartmouth introduces a new AI concentration in engineering, aiming to educate students on responsible AI use and address the AI talent shortage.

A bit of a round-up on AI developments out of Dartmouth in our local paper: vnews.com/2026/02/05/d...

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