On the 24:th of October I participated in the Språkbankens höstworkshop.It was interesting to learn more about word rains and how one of my InfraVis workshops related to that.
Handwritten Text Recognition – challenges and possibilities
I made a presentation fot the Gender and Work project with the above title. I had many inspiring questions and interesting discussions. I will continue working together with this group to tailor a pipeline for HTR of their unique historical material. This project is lead by Prof. Maria Ågren at the Department of History.
DIGARV and City Faces Project Meetings
I participated in a workshop about Image Analysis (without computer algorithms) at the Stockholm City Museum given as a part of DIGARV and connected to the City Faces Project. This was followed by a meeting for writing a book chapter for the same project, at the City Archive.
Presentation
I presented my work in the City Faces project at the City Museum, and the title in Swedish was: Historiska porträtt och modern ansiktsigenkänning med AI. Here is a link to the full program.
Teaching by letting students be creative
There was an interesting article in Swedish state news from my hometown about a visiting Japanese math teacher that teaches math in an unusual way. Instead of presenting a mathematical method and then letting pupils practice with lots of examples, in Japan it is up to students and their own imagination to figure out how … Continue reading Teaching by letting students be creative
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