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Greece and Mesopotamia

Hello everyone. I think I am next on the list of scheduled posts, though after Mark’s fascinating blog from Malawi I am not sure I can meet the brief. My name is Johannes Haubold, I am spending the Spring Semester as a resident fellow here at the Center. My project… Read more

Why to mine (but leave the pickax at home)

Everyone is into data mining these days. Retailers find patterns in what you buy so that they can better market to you, governments search for patterns that identify terrorist threats, and data mining is at the core of privacy debates about the quarry of information collected by Facebook, Google and other websites. But the news isn't all potentially nefarious or the subject of impending litigation. Data mining is simply a… Read more