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Open Access Week

Reading Goes Electric: The Rise, Evolution and Significance of the eBook

Presenter:
Charles D'Aniello
Presenter Affiliation:
UB Libraries
Location:
212 Capen
Campus:
North Campus
Date:
10/25/12
Time:
10:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
Cost:
Free
Sponsor:
UB Libraries Scholarly Communications Committee
Contact:
Charles D'Aniello at 645-7745 (lclcharl@buffalo.edu)
Web site:
http://ubtlc.buffalo.edu/workshops/workshop.asp?EventID=1786
Can ebooks (especially free ones) make us more human? What would Thomas Jefferson say about ebooks? How powerful can artificial intelligence be if it grows on a low protein diet? What if Google (or something like it) "ruled" the world? How did IBM's Watson computer get so smart anyway? Look at the present - it hints boldly at a possible future, for ebooks and digital texts in general. What would a world corpus of recorded (textually remembered) knowledge make possible?

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