William Turkel on Physical Computing and the Humanities Mon 10/21, 4:15pm-5:30pm, Skylight Room (9100): William Turkel (Western University Ontario) on humanistic fabrication and physical computing   http://cunydhi-turkel.eventbrite.com/ The Hands-On Imperative The idea that “making is thinking,” as Richard Sennett puts it, has always had some place in the humanities.  Until recently, however, it was costly …

Mon, Oct 21, 6:30 - 8pm: George Otte "MOOCs and Other Hyped Disruptions" The GC Composition and Rhetoric Community is delighted to invite you to join us in GC room 5409 on Monday, October 21st from 6:30 - 8pm. George Otte (CUNY's Director of Academic Technology, Chief Academic Officer of the School of Professional Studies, and …

New Media Lab General Meeting The New Media Lab holds general meetings that are open to the Graduate Center community in addition to other less formal discussions that focus on individual projects.

Intro to ArcGIS This workshop will introduce the ArcMap user interface and the fundamentals of interacting with spatial datasets in ArcGIS mapping software. RSVP at http://tinyurl.com/pl5b6yv Tuesday, Oct. 22, 4-5.15 pm

Research Metrics for the Rest of Us- Come learn how scholarly output is measured (through impact factors, citation counts, h-index and more!) plus why it matters for you. RSVP at http://tinyurl.com/neb3uxj Tuesday, Oct. 22, 6.30-7.30

Establishing an Online Academic Identity Thursday, Oct 24, 6:30-8:30 pm, Room C196.02 The purpose of this workshop is to familiarize participants with the WordPress platform while creating a digital academic identity on the CUNY Commons.  We will focus on the main design and content components of a WordPress site, including theme editing, managing content, plugin capability …

Featurizing Text: Converting Text into Predictors for Regression Analysis CUNY Data Mining Initiative Friday, October 25, 2013 from 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM (EDT)   Speaker: Robert Stine, Wharton School at the Universtiy of Pennsylvania Bio: Robert Stine is Professor of Statistics in the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. His research spans a variety of …