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Cal Poly Frankenreads: An All-Day Public Reading Of Mary Shelly’S Frankenstein, Robert E. Kennedy Library

Creative Works

Celebrating the 200th anniversary of Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein, the Cal Poly English Department and Kennedy Library organized a series of interdisciplinary events including FrankenReads, an all-day public reading of the novel. Spanning twelve hours, members of the Cal Poly community from all colleges participated in the celebration by volunteering to read portions of Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus.

This catalog is based on the celebration of events “FrankenFall” which took place on October 31, 2018 at the Robert E. Kennedy Library.

25–35, Anna Teiche

Creative Works

25–35 is a powder-coated steel installation by Anna Teiche. In honor of Phil Bailey, dean emeritus of the College of Science and Mathematics, who founded and championed the Study 25–35 Hours Per Week principle: To succeed, students need to study two hours per unit each week, or the equivalent of 25–35 hours per week.

“25–35” was conceptualized and designed by student Anna Teiche, who completed all of the fabrication using on-campus resources and labs. Anna learned to TIG weld with instruction from Doug Brewster and welding assistance from fellow Art and Design student Tommy Stoeckinger.

The piece is a visual …

Amjambo Africa! (October 2019), Kathreen Harrison

Amjambo Africa!

In This issue...

Lewiston ..................................Page 2

Mana Abdi

Lewiston High School

Lewiston Adult Education

African Gala.............................Page 9

Candidates Talk Issues ...Page 10/11

Nlp Modeling And Analysis Of Popular Vloggers, Zhaofang (Zach) Wang

IPHS 300: AI for Humanity

Vlog, or video blog, is the chicest form of personal production on YouTube First appearing at the beginning of the 21 st century, vlogs saw an enormous rise in popularity around 2005 Differing from other forms of production, vlogs allow their producers more freedom in expressing themselves without the limitation of content, word count, and forms of expression The absence of censorship and early stage marketing allows an almost free market effect in the sense that the most popular vloggers and videos are purely the choice of people Therefore, analyzing viral vlogs and vloggers can offer a more accurate representation …

Image Generation Through Stylegans: Is It Art?, Sophie Dodd

IPHS 300: AI for Humanity

I wanted to explore how the role of artificial intelligence is developing within the art world and how current attitudes surrounding AI as a creative tool are changing. I want to experiment with AI generated images using GANs and then seek feedback on them from art and non-art students alike before telling them that they had been generated by an AI. I focused my research on examining the emotional responses people had to AI generated art and the overall question of “can an AI make art?”

Friends Of Musselman Library Newsletter Fall 2019, Musselman Library

Friends of Musselman Library Newsletter

From the Dean (Robin Wagner)

Library News

• Cite and Bite Workshops
• Open Access Week (Janelle Wertzberger, Alecea Standlee, Hana Huskic)
• Notes at Noon
• Friends Sponsor Guild Participation (Mary Wootton)
• Stop the Bleed
• The Wall Must Go
• Story Time
• Table to Farm
• Pop-up Library
• Take the Reading Challenge
• 1,000,000
• Grant to Digitize Asian Art

Vietnam Oral Histories (Ron Bailey '67, Sue Hill '67, Michael Birkner, Devin McKinney)

Alexander von Humboldt's Secretary (William Bowman)

Focus on Philanthropy: Walter Miller Trust

A Gift in 3 Dimensions (Richard C. Ryder '70)

Remembering Richard Ryder '70 (Michael Birkner)

New Externship - Careers in Library and …

Fake News Poetry Workshop As Radical Digital Media Literacy: It’S For The Thing We’Re Not Yet,, Alexandra Juhasz

Publications and Research

One of 17 saddle stitched pamphlets + custom designed box

What does pedagogy mean to your writing practice? How do your poetics intersect with your pedagogy and education commitments? We invited participants to join together to think about the inventive and urgent possibilities of intertwined poetic-pedagogical work. What might emerge differently when we bring them together?

Urgent Possibilities, Writings on Feminist Poetics & Emergent Pedagogies grew out of the Feminist Poetics, Emergent Pedagogies Symposium organized by Andrea Quaid and Margaret Rhee. The publication collects work by symposium participants with documents and elaborations, including poems, poetic tracts, essays, workshop plans, and …

Boyd H. Graeber, Josh Milliken

Fall 2019 - Digital Media Analysis: The Photograph and Memory Class Projects

Analysis of a memory book created by Boyd H. Graeber done for a class taught by Philip Hopper in Fall 2019

Irma Dovey, Gabby Leitner

Fall 2019 - Digital Media Analysis: The Photograph and Memory Class Projects

Analysis of some writings of Irma Dovey done for a class taught by Philip Hopper in Fall 2019

World War I Veterans, Reese Stolte

Fall 2019 - Digital Media Analysis: The Photograph and Memory Class Projects

Analysis of three photographs of people who served in World War I done for a class taught by Philip Hopper in Fall 2019

Eugene Grossman, Brandon Haraldson

Fall 2019 - Digital Media Analysis: The Photograph and Memory Class Projects

Analysis of three photographs of Eugene Grossman done for a class taught by Philip Hopper in Fall 2019

Topic Modeling Analysis Of Supreme Court Opinions Focusing On Privacy Rights In The Context Of Abortion Law, Ellen Morrissey

IPHS 300: AI for Humanity

No abstract provided.

Doubles And Reflections: Sentiment Analysis And Vladimir Nabokov’S Pale Fire, Catherine Perloff

IPHS 300: AI for Humanity

In his novel, Pale Fire, Vladimir Nabokov uses a non-linear narrative composed in three parts: Foreword, Poem, and Commentary, apparently written by two distinct authors, John Shade and Charles Kinbote. Storylines appear to be separate at surface level yet work in interconnected ways at a deeper level. The novel deals with life after death, the story arc of a disguised, exiled king, and provides meta commentary on the art of commentary. The text was tricky to analyze without sentiment analysis principally because of its seemingly disjointed structure. Thus, there’s a bit of irony in that we found a repeated structure …

Analyzing Popular Music Using Spotify’S Machine Learning Audio Features, Noah Amsterdam

IPHS 300: AI for Humanity

The modern ability to stream music using services such as Spotify, Pandora, and Apple music has revolutionized how it is consumed. There is now more music accessible at our fingertips than ever before in history. As someone who has played an instrument their whole life and with some music theory knowledge, I always strive to better understand what I’m listening to. This motivated me to dive into finding out how music is quantified, specifically on Spotify, and what makes up people’s musical taste. I will be approaching music tastes from 3 angles: Spotify, music critics, and my own analysis and …

Can Gpt-2 Replace A Sex And The City Writers’ Room?, Alasia Destine-Defreece, Samara Handelsman, Talia Light Rake, Ally Merkel, Gracie Moses

IPHS 300: AI for Humanity

Someday, in the not-so-distant future, will the writers’ room be replaced by artificial intelligence? This poster was created by a group of actors and writers who were curious about the role artificial intelligence could play in the future of television writing. In the first stage of this project, we prompted GPT-2 with the opening lines of a scene from the television show Sex and the City, and had GPT-2 finish the scene. We filmed the three best GPT-2 generated scenes, and screened these scenes for our “AI for the Humanities” class, along with a filmed version of the original Sex …

Lost In Translation: Using Sentiment Analysis To Analyze Translations Of Homer’S Odyssey, Erin Shaheen

IPHS 300: AI for Humanity

For my final project in AI for the Humanities, I knew that I wanted to examine the creative role of translators in classic literature. I ran three different translations of Homer’s The Odyssey through Syuzhet.R, a sentiment analysis tool that has grown increasingly popular in the Digital Humanities field. Syuzhet tracks the emotional arc (also called “emotional valence”) of a text by giving each word a different score. For example, on a scale of -1 to 1, “terrible” might score -1 and “amazing” might score 1. A more neutral word like “okay” would score closer to 0. I chose translations …

Using Machine Learning To Predict Mlb Success Based On Milb Performance, Alexander Gow

IPHS 300: AI for Humanity

In 2017 alone Major League Baseball organizations spent a combined 492 million dollars on acquiring new, young, talented players through the draft or signing international free agents. The effectiveness of an MLB organization’s scouting department is pertinent to ensuring future success. Due to the highly volatile nature of professional sports, identifying a predictive and measurable statistic(s) associated with success among players would be valuable. Furthermore, a team’s ability to quickly and correctly identify players on their Minor League affiliates that will have a positive impact at the Major League level can give them an advantage over other teams. For this …

Guns In D.C. Appellate Court: Sentiment Analysis On Opinions From The Court Of Appeals For The D.C. Circuit, Grace Peterson, Jon Chun, Katherine Elkins

IPHS 300: AI for Humanity

No abstract provided.

Generating 3d Sculptures Using A Recurrent Neural Network With Long Short-Term Memory, Nick Downey

IPHS 300: AI for Humanity

Sophisticated generative models have been some of the most obviously impressive achievements of AI in the past decade. Indeed, AI has approached or achieved human-level performance in a variety of domains, with a particular focus placed on artistic disciplines. Because writing a value function for this kind of model is effectively impossible, these models are notoriously difficult to evaluate. My aim was to create such a model, and in doing so elucidate the characteristics of successful generative AI and explore how generative models can be adapted successfully to new domains. And more broadly, I hoped to create a model capable …

Creating Art Using Generative Adversarial Networks, Henry Abbott

IPHS 300: AI for Humanity

I set out to explore how artificial intelligence generated artwork compares to human created artwork. Using CycleGANs, my goal was to create art, and then conduct a Turing Test in order to determine whether or not one could distinguish between A.I. and human art. Using this test, as well as my own observations, I planned to analyze where CycleGANs succeeds in creating art, as well as where it struggles. Following this analysis, I thought more about what the results mean for art moving forward, and if artificial intelligence can truly create art.