MIT Department of Anthropology

Anthropology awarded grant from the MIT-SenseTime Alliance

MIT Anthropology

Anthropology awarded grant from the MIT-SenseTime Alliance

September 18, 2018

Heather Paxson

The MIT-SenseTime Alliance (https://news.mit.edu/2018/mit-sensetime-alliance-funds-projects-human-machine-intelligence-0824) awarded a grant to Anthropology for a project headed up by Professor Heather Paxson. The project hopes to prototype a search tool, "Relata", which will use machine-readable metadata looking for relations among literatures, authors, and publications in anthropology. The tool will be launched on the Society for Cultural Anthropology's website.

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