Jun 9, 2004

Larry McDaniel
Environmental and Societal Impacts Group, National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Boulder

The HASTAC Vision: Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Advanced Collaboratory

Abstract

HASTAC is founded on the belief that the future of cyberinfrastructure
must be driven by creative discovery across disciplinary divides
because of the profound impact of new technologies on individuals and
society. The HASTAC Consortium is a strategic alliance of scientists,
humanists, artists, social theorists, legal specialists, and
information technology specialists who will think transformatively
about their disciplines and engage in the design and application of
innovative computing and scientific technologies for the humanities,
arts, and interpretive social sciences.

The founding HASTAC members include NCAR, the National Center for
Atmospheric Research; NCSA, the University of California Humanities
Research Institute; Duke University's John Hope Franklin Center and
Humanities Institute, Maryland Institute for Technology and the
Humanities (MITH); Stanford Humanities Lab; Virginia Institute for
Advanced Technology in the Humanities; San Diego Supercomputer Center
at the University of California, San Diego; Minority Serving
Institutions High-performance Computing Working Group; Creative Commons
(an advocacy group supporting flexible intellectual property licensing
applications); California Digital Library; and several other major
digital archiving and exhibition centers, along with groups with
overlapping concerns such as the Coalition for Networked Information,
the National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage, and industry
partners.

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