Lessons in IT Innovation From Silicon Valley

For its part, Clorox’s IT department uses what Loura calls a “scrum-style model,” a form of agile management in which developers sit regularly with business-side colleagues to show how an application is progressing and increase the likelihood the finished product will serve business needs. “You put up something quick and dirty, learn from it, and in the next iteration improve on it,” Loura says.

Radiant Textuality: Literature after the World Wide Web, by Jerome McGann

The archive was built under the auspices of the University of Virginia’s Institute for Advanced Technology in Humanities (IATGH), which was founded the same year as The Rosseti Archive was begun..

The use of IT in humanities disciplines began in the late 1940s with Father Roberto Busa SJ, whose work on the copus of St. Thomas Aquinas set the terms in which humanities computing would operate successfully for more than 40 years.  Two lines of work dominate the period: first the creation of databases of humanities materials — almost exclusively textual materials — for various types of automated retrieval, search, and analysis; second, the design and construction of statistical models for studying language formalities of many kinds, ranging from social and historical linguistics to the study of literary forms.

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