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Frederic Kaplan: How to build an information time machine

Frederic Kaplan: How to build an information time machine

Imagine if you could surf Facebook ... from the Middle Ages. Well, it may not be as far off as it sounds. In a fun and interesting talk, researcher and engineer Frederic Kaplan shows off the Venice Time Machine, a project to digitize 80 kilometers of books to create a historical and geographical simulation of Venice across 1000 years.

Location: Venice

Contributors/Organisations: TEDxCafoscari

Keywords: Time machine, Venice, Digital Humanities, digital history, big data, TEDTalks, big data of the past

Posted by: Frederic Kaplan

Posted on: 25 May 2014

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