Inquiry-based Strategies for the Classroom

Under the directorship of David Theo Goldberg, UCHRI has pursued several initiatives in digital technology for the humanities, arts, and social science (HASS) disciplines. The Institute has hosted CI HASS (Cyberinfrastructure for the Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences) workshops and devoted the highly successful SECT III to cutting edge theoretical issues in technology.

UCHRI has also launched the HASS Grid, a major cyberinfrastructure initiative which provides cyberbricks or storage computers to enable access to aggregated, integrated HASS data collections. Initially the HASS Grid will be a test-bed for HASS researchers throughout the University of California, and will eventually be released to a wider audience. 

Cyberinfrastructure for Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences Summer Institute

Event Date: July 24-28, 2006

Event Location: UC San Diego Campus

The comprehensive infrastructure needed to capitalize on dramatic advances in information technology has been termed cyberinfrastructure. Cyberinfrastructure integrates hardware for computing, data and networks, digitally-enabled sensors, observatories and experimental facilities, and an interoperable suite of software and middleware services and tools. Investments in interdisciplinary academic teams and cyberinfrastructure professionals with broad expertise in content production and technology systems is essential to exploit the full power of cyberinfrastructure to create, disseminate, and preserve data, information, and knowledge.

The University of California Humanities Research Institute (UCHRI) and the University of California San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) invited applications from scholars, faculty, graduate students and IT intellectuals of all ranks to participate in a hands-on workshop designed to introduce humanists, artists and social scientists to commonly used and emergent information technology tools and resources.

HASS COMPUTING for the Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences: Inquiry-based Strategies for the Classroom

Event Date: July 29 – August 4, 2007

Event Location:San Diego Supercomputer Center and Cal Poly San Luis Obispo

A summer workshop open to faculty and students in the humanities, arts and social sciences at the San Diego Supercomputer Center and Cal Poly San Luis Obispo.

Funded by the SC07 Education Program.

Program Overview
Computers are empowering people in all domains to advance discovery in new and innovative ways that are revolutionizing research and education. The workshop was an intensive one-week hands-on summer program for undergraduate faculty and college students in the humanities, arts and social sciences. The Institute hosted participants in a “laboratory”where together they could engage important and creative thought and application. Workshops included conversations with cutting edge technological innovators, humanists, artists, and social scientists; they involved demonstrations of new technological devices, and their applications as well as scholarly practices. Participants had opportunities to familiarize themselves with new digital applications in the context of small working groups.