Frederic Kaplan: How to build an information time machine
Frederic Kaplan: Cum am construit o mașină informațională a timpului
Frederic Kaplan seeks to digitize vast archives of historical information to make maps that move -- through time. Full bio
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(Institutul Politehnic Federal din Lausanne).
the less information you will have.
cu atât mai puțină informație vom avea.
many journeys of that period.
more than 1,000 years.
1000 de ani
făcută în oraș.
character recognition method
recunoaștere a caracterelor
la documentele scrise de mână.
that seems impossible,
ce pare imposibil,
constrângeri suplimentare.
al unui document,
în cele mai multe cazuri.
în subseturi mai mici,
actually shares similar features,
atunci mai este și altceva:
este spațială.
have a sustainable development
aibă o dezvoltare durabilă
Venice if you just look at the city.
Veneția doar uitându-te la oraș.
questions you could ask
întrebări pe care le puteți pune voi
of a project like this one
a unui asemenea proiect
at each step of this process.
la fiecare pas al procesului.
the wrong name of the captain,
numele capitanului greșit,
correct these inconsistencies?
a new form of uncertainty,
cu o formă nouă de nesiguranță,
the Venice of a given year,
Veneția într-un anume an,
you can construct out of it,
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Frederic Kaplan - Digital humanities researcherFrederic Kaplan seeks to digitize vast archives of historical information to make maps that move -- through time.
Why you should listen
Frederic Kaplan is the Digital Humanities Chair at Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL) and the EPFL's Digital Humanities Lab Director. Kaplan leads the lab in applying computation to humanities research. His latest project is the Venice Time Machine, a collaborative work archiving 80 kilometers of books from throughout 1000 years of Venetician history. The goal of the time machine is to create an information system which can be searched and mapped. Think of it as a Google Maps for time.
Kaplan holds a PhD in artificial intelligence from the University Paris VI. He lives in Switzerland.
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