[Colloq] Talk Announcment - Phylogenetic Futures - Kari Krauss - January 16

[Jessica Biron]

PHYLOGENETIC FUTURES: Big Data and Design Fiction 

Kari Kraus, University of Maryland 

Wednesday, January 16 Noon-1:30 p.m. 325 Shillman Hall 

Bio 
Kari Kraus is an assistant professor in the College of Information Studies and the Department of English at the University of Mary-land. Her research and teaching interests focus on new media and the digital humanities, textual scholarship and print culture, digital preservation, transmedia storytelling, and game studies. She is the PI on an IMLS Digital Humanities Internship grant; and, with Derek Hansen (iSchool), the Co-Principal Investigator of an NSF grant to study Alternate Reality Games (ARGs) and transmedia storytelling in the service of education and design. Kraus has written for the New York Times and the Huffington Post, and her work has been covered in the Atlantic, Baltimore Public Radio, the Huffington Post, and the Long Now Foundation. Currently she is completing a book titled Hopeful Monsters: Computing, Counterfactuals, and the Long Now of Things about how artists, designers, and humanities researchers think about, model, and design possible futures. 




Jessica Biron 
Administrative Assistant – Office of the Dean and CCIS Development 
College of Computer and Information Science 
Northeastern University 
202 West Village H 
617-373-5204 
bironje at ccs.neu.edu 
http://www.ccs.neu.edu/ 
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