Associate professor of computer science at Northeastern University. Natural language processing, digital humanities, OCR, computational bibliography, and computational social sciences. Artificial intelligence is an archival science.
![It is a characteristic of institutions of higher learning that they treat knowledge (Wissenschaft) always as a problem that is not yet completely solved and that they thus always remain engaged in research, while schools are engaged with, and teach, information as ready and completed to be mastered (Kentnissen). The relationship between teacher and student becomes thus something completely different than before. The teacher is not there for the student. Both are there for knowledge. His [the teacher’s] business depends upon their [the students’] presence and would, without them, not proceed nearly so well. He would, if they did not assemble themselves around him, seek them out, so that he could more nearly approach his goal through linking the well-practiced, but also therefore more one-sided and indeed less dynamic power with less-developed and still unaligned, power that strives mightily in every direction.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:jo5wv5j5acfdb2meqihugdff/bafkreig3jtwjrkbyjwece7h2lup6dbi4hew442hztpcnc5dnrdvmfk4pq4)
Associate professor of computer science at Northeastern University. Natural language processing, digital humanities, OCR, computational bibliography, and computational social sciences. Artificial intelligence is an archival science.