Professors Kathryn Starkey and Elaine Treharne, newly appointed co-directors of the Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies (CMEMS) at Stanford, announced a new major initiative to advance the study of medieval and early modern culture with a special emphasis on its primary sources.
The article describes NaSent (Neural Analysis of Sentiment) a program created by Stanford computer
scientists,
Richard Socher, Christopher Manning, Andrew Ng and linguist Christopher Potts.
Letter to the Editor is signed by Caroline Winterer, professor of
history
and director of the Stanford Humanities Center, and Burton Richter,
emeritus professor in the physical sciences, at SLAC.
Russell Berman, professor of German and of comparative literature
and
senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, is quoted about preparing
PhD
students for a diverse array of career choices.
Dan Edelstein, a history professor at Stanford, has received two NEH grants to support digital humanities projects visualizing correspondence collections from intellectuals in the 19th century.
Mary Sue Coleman, president of the University of Michigan and John L. Hennessy, president of Stanford University co-authored an OpEd entitled "Lessons from the humanities and social sciences."
