[SIGCIS-Members] Can computers replace historians?

That is the provocative headline this morning on the BBC website… http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-28895098 It’s a brief puff-piece on Big Data… but I thought SIGCIS members would at least enjoy the headline… Also this anodyne conclusion: "Leetaru says historians should see this kind of computational tool as just another technique amongst many rather than a threat to their professional expertise.” I’m reassured! :_) Dag -- Dag Spicer Senior Curator Computer History Museum Editorial Board, IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 1401 North Shoreline Boulevard Mountain View, CA 94043-1311 Tel: +1 650 810 1035 Fax: +1 650 810 1055 Twitter: @ComputerHistory