Tony Tran and Eric Hoyt present research at SCMS Seattle 2014

Tony Tran and Eric Hoyt presented their research at SCMS Seattle 2014 on the panel “Archives and Algorithms.” Tony’s presentation title was “Media Texts, Audiences, and Computers: Applying Software to Michelle Phan and her Anti-Phans” and Eric’s title was “How to Train Your Computer to Read a Thousand Screenplays and Twenty-five Years of Variety.”

Eric Hoyt wins the Anne Friedberg Innovative Scholarship Award for Lantern

Eric Hoyt won the Anne Friedberg Innovative Scholarship Award for Lantern, the search and visualization platform for the Media History Digital Library, at the 2014 Society for Cinema Conference, in Seattle, Washington. Hoyt shares this award with the Media History Digital Library and a team of graduate students from University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Communication Arts.