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Darwin’s Semantic Voyage

Jaimie Murdock
posted on September 30, 2015November 30, 2015
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The preprint of my project “Exploration and Exploitation of Victorian Science in Darwin’s Reading Notebooks” was released on arXiv on Friday. The paper is joint work with my

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Thomas Jefferson’s Mind: Polymathic and Polygraphic

Jaimie Murdock
posted on May 30, 2015November 23, 2015
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This summer I am a Fellow at the International Center for Jefferson Studies (ICJS) at Monticello writing a grant proposal for the study of Thomas Jefferson’s Mind through his libraries. The day

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Topic Modeling Tutorial at JCDL2015

Jaimie Murdock
posted on May 14, 2015November 23, 2015
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Join the HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC) and InPhO Project for a half-day tutorial on HathiTrust data access and topic modeling at JCDL 2015 in Knoxville, TN on Sunday, June 21, 2015, 9am-12pm!

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Six Upcoming Talks

Jaimie Murdock
posted on March 16, 2015March 16, 2015
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For the past 6 months, I’ve been very busy working on a number of collaborations with Simon DeDeo and Colin Allen. Now, I’m taking to the road to show the fruit of my labors. Below are 6

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Wisdom of the Few?

Jaimie Murdock
posted on February 11, 2015November 23, 2015
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Wisdom of the Few? “Supertaggers” in Collaborative Tagging Systems Jared Lorince, Sam Zorowitz, Jaimie Murdock, Peter M. Todd A folksonomy is ostensibly an information structure built up

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Topic Explorer at AAAI

Jaimie Murdock
posted on January 20, 2015November 23, 2015
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Next week, I’ll be headed to Austin, TX for AAAI-15 to present a demo of the Topic Explorer. With this presentation is a short paper: Topic models remain a black box both for modelers and for

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Nothing was ever the same again…

Jaimie Murdock
posted on December 25, 2014January 28, 2015
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On a frigid night in February, I was supposed to show a prospective student around Bloomington, but it turned into an evening with a beautiful linguist flirting about perscriptivism. Before she left,

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Granddad’s Indonesian Career

Jaimie Murdock
posted on December 5, 2014November 27, 2014
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The Granddad had two tenures in Indonesia at the Bogor Agricultural School (Institut Pertanian Bogor – IPB) from 1968-1970 and 1980-1985. IPB became independent from the University of Indonesia

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Debut Album: “We are the 123s!”

Jaimie Murdock
posted on November 21, 2014November 28, 2014
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On November 21st, The 123s will release our debut album “We are the 123s!” Recorded on June 10, 2014 at Russian Recording in Bloomington, IN, the album features 7 tracks and is available

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Granddad

Jaimie Murdock
posted on September 18, 2014December 23, 2014
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On August 29, Granddad passed away suddenly at 86 in his home on Terrapin Creek. As the public obituary shows, Granddad was a legendary man: a Professor of Soil Science for 39 years at University of