Azure for Research Award May 10, 2016October 10, 2016 rburke Leave a comment Today we got word that Microsoft will be supporting Reading Chicago Reading for another year with their Azure for Research program. The program supports research projects by providing free access to Azure cloud computing services. Read more about the program here. The award will ensure continuity for our data storage, analysis and social media extraction efforts for the next year. … Read more
NEH Office of Digital Humanities Level II Start-Up Grant March 23, 2016October 12, 2016 jshanahan Leave a comment “Reading Chicago Reading” would like to thank the National Endowment for the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities for a Level II Start-Up grant. This NEH ODH award allows our project to continue its efforts to combine humanities and computing to capture — and ultimately predict — the reading habits of a city by studying a repeating series of literary events, the “One Book One Chicago” program. We also want to thank the Chicago Public Library, DePaul University, and Microsoft for previous and ongoing grant support.… Read more