HSS and Digital HPS Consortium

Center for Biology and Society grad students, faculty and affiliates had a large and notable presence at the recent History of Science Society (HSS) annual meeting held in Boston, MA.

Erick Peirson and Julia Damerow received terrific reviews for the workshop they organized for the international Digital HPS Consortium and the ASU Digital Innovation Group. "It went off without a hitch!" Manfred Laubichler introduced the session, which featured several speakers describing various ongoing efforts to scan, archive, analyze and represent historic source materials. In addition to offering new ways to preserve and distribute rare publications, ongoing advances in optical character recognition are making even some handwritten manuscripts accessible to digital textual analysis. The workshop served to expose HSS attendees to some of the cool things happening in the Digital HPS world, and to create an informal, friendly space where people interested in digital approaches could be inspired, discuss ideas, and get more information. Despite starting Friday at 8:45pm after an already full day of sessions and meetings, the room was packed!