Results for "Technology"
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Brave New Museum
- Date: March 11, 2010
- Description: Computer science researchers at the University of Washington and Cornell University have announced a new system of powerful graphics algorithms that will create three-dimensional renderings of buildings, neighborhoods, and potentially even entire cities. Fittingly the inventors went for the gold and named the system PhotoCity. Like its precursor, Microsoft’s Photosynth, the
Hot Topics in Archival Research
- Date: May 2, 2017
- Creator: Deborah Shapiro
- Description: We highlight a few topics explored this spring by researchers at the Archives.
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It Pays to Be Free
- Date: March 25, 2010
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="400" caption="Bus Seats, by Adam Gerard, Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.0 Generic License"][/caption] I took a stroll at lunch today since it’s that time of year again when the magnolia trees bloom in the Smithsonian Castle’s Enid Haupt Garden. It’s important to catch it before a rain or a big breeze snatches
Link Love: 10/19/2018
- Date: October 19, 2018
- Creator: Deborah Shapiro
- Description: The Theodore Roosevelt Papers are now digitized and available online through the Library of Congress Digital Collections. Don't try browsing all at once—there are over 450,000 images! [via Library of Congress][edan-image:id=siris_sic_9575,size=300,center]With the help of ground-penetrating radar, the Norwegian Institute for Cultural Research has discovered a thousand-year-old
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Collaboration’s Value in the Pursuit of Science and Peace
- Date: September 19, 2019
- Creator: Ricc Ferrante
- Description: Advancing peace requires a strong, wide, and active network.
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Collection Highlights: New Additions to the Archives’ Website
- Date: April 3, 2018
- Creator: Tammy L. Peters
- Description: [edan-image:id=siris_arc_392769,size=450,center]The Smithsonian Institution Archives continually strives to add more collection information to its website.See new collection highlights posted to the Smithsonian Institution Archives website.
Collection Highlights: New Additions to the SIA Website
- Date: October 4, 2018
- Creator: Tammy L. Peters
- Description: See new collection highlights posted to the Smithsonian Institution Archives website.
Web Archiving Update, October 2014
- Date: October 7, 2014
- Creator: Jennifer Wright
- Description: A progress report on the Archives' most recent two years of web archiving.
The Good Wife
- Date: September 28, 2011
- Creator: Marvin Heiferman
- Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.
Happy 100th Flag Day!
- Date: June 14, 2016
- Creator: Hillary Brady
- Description: In celebration of Flag Day, a look at the series of flags designed for the Smithsonian’s museums and research centers, 1965.
Who's Answering Your Questions
- Date: October 16, 2012
- Creator: Ricc Ferrante
- Description: Meet the people who will be answering your questions about your personal archives from 10-5, today, October 17th, 2012.
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Couriers of the Flight
- Date: October 22, 2009
- Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="400" caption="Photograph of airmail planes at Elko, Nevada, by unknown photographer, c. 1920, Smithsonian National Postal Museum."][/caption] Just last week, we uploaded some new photos of early US airmail from the National Postal Museum to the “People and the Post” set on the Flickr Commons. I was immediately drawn in by the portraits