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Standing on the Shoulders of Open Source Giants

by Jessica Pettengill | Feb 22, 2024 | CHI Articles & Discussions, CHI Fellowship Program, CHI Grad Fellow Post

Among my friends and family, it’s widely assumed that because I have some vague knowledge of HTML and CSS I can make anything on the internet work. I don’t have the heart to tell them how wildly inaccurate this is. One of the reasons I wanted to become a...

Pictures and Conversation

by Daniel Fandino | Mar 7, 2018 | CHI Articles & Discussions, CHI Fellowship Program

Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, ‘and what is the use of a book,’ thought Alice...

Lost in Translation or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Learn to Love Github

by Daniel Fandino | Feb 2, 2018 | CHI Announcements, CHI Articles & Discussions, CHI Fellowship Program, CHI Grad Fellow Post, CHI Project Info

Grandiose ideas are often the downfall of any undertaking. Take Napoleon and the decision to invade Russia, Tony Stark building Ultron, the Sega Dreamcast and the withdrawal of Sega from the console market. The most important point I am trying to keep in mind for the...

Tokyo: The Virtual City

by Daniel Fandino | Jan 12, 2018 | CHI Articles & Discussions, CHI Fellowship Program, CHI Grad Fellow Post

In May of 2017 while in Tokyo I visited Meiji shrine in Shinjuku for the Spring Grand Festival, a series of traditional performances including dance, archery and theater. After returning home, I posted a few photos of the event to social media, as people of my...
Visualizing Southern Television (v. 1.0) Launched!

Visualizing Southern Television (v. 1.0) Launched!

by David Bennett | May 9, 2014 | CHI Announcements, CHI Articles & Discussions, CHI Fellowship Program, CHI Project Info

In 1987, the University of Mississippi held a symposium entitled “Covering the South: A National Symposium on the Media and the Civil Rights Movement” wherein participants discussed the influence of media on the civil rights movement. During one panel, a group...

Announcing “The Virtual Black Romulus Cultural Heritage Map (VBRCHM)”

by David Walton | Jan 12, 2014 | CHI Articles & Discussions, CHI Project Info

In this brief blog, I will provide a description of my project, discuss the importance of my project, and present the intended functionality of my project.  The hope is that the discussion of this project may inspire others to embark on similar projects as well as...
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