[ fine print ] The Human Face of Big Data By Rick Smolan ’72 Big Data is defined as the real-time collection, analyses and visualization of vast amounts of information. In the hands of data scientists, this raw information is fueling a revolution that many people believe may have as big an impact on humanity as the Internet has during the past two decades. The Human Face of Big Data captures—in glorious photographs and moving essays—this extraordinary revolution that is sweeping, almost invisibly, through business, academia, government, health care and everyday life.
The Poet’s Freedom: A Notebook on Making By Susan Stewart ’73 Why do we need new art? How free is the artist in making? And why is the artist, and particularly the poet, a figure of freedom in Western culture? MacArthur Award-winning poet and critic Susan Stewart ’73 ponders these questions in The Poet’s Freedom. Through a series of evocative essays, she not only argues that freedom is necessary to making and is itself something made but also shows how artists give rules to their practices and model a self-determination that might serve in other spheres of work.
A Violet Season By Kathy Leonard Czepiel ’88 The violet industry is booming in 1898, and a Hudson Valley farm owned by the Fletcher family is turning a generous profit for its two oldest brothers. But Ida Fletcher, married to the black sheep youngest brother, has taken up wet nursing to help pay the bills, and her daughter, Alice, has left school to work. As they risk losing their share of the farm, the two women make increasingly greater sacrifices for their family’s survival— sacrifices that will set them against each other in a lifelong struggle for honesty and forgiveness. A Violet Season is the story of an unforgettable mother-daughter journey in a time when women were just waking to their own power and independence.
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