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The Rise Of The Megacorporation, Richard Adelstein Aug 2013

The Rise Of The Megacorporation, Richard Adelstein

Richard Adelstein

A podcast interview with Sarah Green of the Harvard Business Review on the rise of big business in the United States.


Boise's Big Business: History Of Morrison-Knudsen Construction Company, Jim D. Duran Jul 2013

Boise's Big Business: History Of Morrison-Knudsen Construction Company, Jim D. Duran

Jim D. Duran

Jim Duran presents a multi-media history of one of Boise's largest international companies: Morrison-Knudsen Construction Company. From beginnings, in road construction in Boise, to multi-billion dollar projects in Vietnam and Afghanistan, M-K workers, or EmKayans, experienced it all. From triumph to tragedy, this presentation will highlight the accomplishments and failings of a business that Boise was sorry to lose.


Coptic Scriptorium Dec 2012

Coptic Scriptorium

Caroline Schroeder

Coptic SCRIPTORIUM is a platform for interdisciplinary and computational research in texts in the Coptic language, particularly the Sahidic dialect.  As an open-source, open-access initiative, our technologies and corpus facilitate a collaborative environment for digital research for all scholars working in Coptic.

We provide:
  • tools to process Coptic texts
  • a searchable, richly-annotated corpus of texts using the ANNIS search and visualization architecture
  • visualizations of Coptic texts
  • a collaborative platform for scholars to use and contribute to the project research results generated from the tools and corpus

Coptic SCRIPTORIUM is a collaborative, digital project created by Caroline T. Schroeder (University of …