I think we all know where this is going, but, does anyone know who wrote it? Is there even a concept of author that could be reasonably applied to such doggerel? The question doesn't usually enter our minds. Why? Read more
Disclaimer: Not to worry—I have no intention of going wild with blogging, having now discovered it. This will be my last post for a bit, as I will be away working on other things Read more
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
I am a non-resident Fellow at the Center this year (I will be in residence, however, in April and hope to meet some of you then) and a research project in the field of Classics has brought me, mirabile dictu, to Africa. Read more
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
