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New MIT Center Will Explore New Forms of Storytelling (Including Holographic Ones). The Media Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology announced yesterday that it had signed a contract with a budding film-and-television studio to create the Center for Future Storytelling.

"Digital_Humanities is a compact, game-changing report on the state of contemporary knowledge production. Answering the question, "What is digital humanities?," it provides an in-depth examination of an emerging field. This collaboratively authored and visually compelling volume explores methodologies and techniques unfamiliar to traditional modes of humanistic inquiry--including geospatial analysis, data mining, corpus linguistics, visualization, and simulation--to show their relevance for contemporary culture." Open Access PDF version available for free download

Links to study materials for MIT's Japanese courses, 1st-4th year. Includes interactive practice quizzes, kanji study and quizzes, readings with audio, and photographic vocabulary aids.

Shows a diagram of a Roman QWERTY keyboard. As you press the keys, it displays the Hebrew letter that corresponds.