[Asis-l] Human IT 7:3

[Mats Dahlström]

Dear all,

The new issue of Human IT is now available on the Web at http://www.hb.se/bhs/ith/3-7/, with a number of articles that we hope will be of interest to readers of Asis-l.

The theme is Artificial Intelligence with a focus on Machine Learning. This fairly technical area is introduced by guest editor Ulf Johansson in an editorial that starts and ends in a concert with the German group Kraftwerk. The three articles that follow all show different aspects of how artificial intelligence can be used and improved: in order to interpret ancient Roman stylus tablets, to make the computer-controlled actors in computer games more similar to those controlled by humans, and to facilitate predictability in data mining. The issue also contains two contributions in Swedish, one on libraries' Web based user education and an interview with Henry Jenkins, professor at MIT.

Human IT is a multidisciplinary, scholarly journal aiming to present research and discussion on digital media as communicative, aesthetic, and ludic instruments.

Contents (all available free of charge):
*  From Ding to Überding: An Introduction to the Artificial Intelligence Issue Theme
by guest editor Ulf Johansson
<http://www.hb.se/bhs/ith/3-7/>
*   Image and Interpretation: Using Artificial Intelligence to Read Ancient Roman Texts
by Melissa Terras & Paul Robertson
<http://www.hb.se/bhs/ith/3-7/mtpr.pdf>
*  Synthetic Players: A Quest for Artificial Intelligence in Computer Games
by Jouni Smed & Harri Hakonen
<http://www.hb.se/bhs/ith/3-7/jshh.pdf>
*  Predicting the Benefit of Rule Extraction: A Novel Component in Data Mining
by Tuve Löfström & Ulf Johansson
<http://www.hb.se/bhs/ith/3-7/tluj.pdf>
*  Webbaserad användarundervisning: Ett forum för förhandlingar om bibliotekariers professionella expertis [Web Based User Education]
by Olof Sundin
<http://www.hb.se/bhs/ith/3-7/os.pdf>
*   Fanfiktion, datorspel och tillämpad humaniora [Fan Fiction, Computer Games, and Applied Humanities]
by Patrik Svensson
<http://www.hb.se/bhs/ith/3-7/ps.pdf>


Kind regards,
Mats Dahlström and Helena Francke, editors

Mats Dahlström, PhD student and lecturer
Swedish School of Library and Information Studies
Univ. College of Borås / Univ. of Gothenburg, Sweden
Mats.Dahlstrom at hb.se ; +46 33 435 44 21 ; http://www.adm.hb.se/~mad/