Jennifer Patiño
World Digital Preservation Day is November 7th and this year’s theme is “At-Risk Digital Materials.”
Researchers at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa uncovered a glitch in a computer program that produced different results depending on operating systems, possibly affecting more than 100 published studies. A good reminder to make sure you have a detailed README file for any code you create!
Wired reports on a study in Science that revealed racial bias in a widely used algorithm that assigned lower levels of care to Black patients in U.S. hospitals. The study shows how by focusing on healthcare costs, the algorithm replicated disparities in access and provides suggestions on reformulating the algorithm.
Kent Emerson
Researchers at UW-Madison’s Wisconsin Institute for Discovery, working on a project called Wisconsin Expansion of Renewable Electricity with Optimization under Long-term Forecasts (WEREWOLF), are producing mathematical models that will help policy makers make decisions about the future of Wisconsin’s renewable energy resources.
The Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University is celebrating its 25th anniversary. During this time, the RRCHNM has produced some of the most widely used open source digital resources including Omeka, Zotero, and Tropy as well as discrete art and art history projects.