Conveners
Big Data in Humanities
- Yannis Ioannidis
Prof.
Frederic Kaplan
(EPFL)
29/05/2013, 09:00
The Venice Time Machine, a joint project between EPFL and the University of Venice aims at building a multidimensional model of Venice and its evolution covering a period of more than 1000 years. Venice was Europe's economic hub for centuries, a door to the Orient and dominated the seas. The digitalization of hundreds of kilometers of Venetian archives, itself a daunting task already underway,...
Prof.
Dirk Helbing
(ETH Zurich)
29/05/2013, 09:20
FuturlCT is a global initiative pursuing a participatory approach, integrated across the fields of ICT, the social sciences and complexity science, to design socio-inspired technology and develop a science of global, socially interactive systems. The initiative wants to bring together, on a global level, Big Data, new modelling techniques and new forms of interaction, leading to a new...
