Geoffrey Rockwell, PhD

Professor, Faculty of Arts - Media Tech Studies (MTS)
Professor, Faculty of Arts - Philosophy Dept
Canada CIFAR AI Chair and Amii Fellow

Pronouns: he, him, his

Contact

Professor, Faculty of Arts - Media Tech Studies (MTS)
Email
Geoffrey.Rockwell@ualberta.ca
Address
209 D Arts Building (Main & Conv Hall)
113 St and 91 Ave
Edmonton AB
T6G 2E6

Professor, Faculty of Arts - Philosophy Dept
Email
grockwel@ualberta.ca

Canada CIFAR AI Chair and Amii Fellow
Email
grockwel@ualberta.ca

Overview

Area of Study / Keywords

Digital Humanities AI Ethics Text Analysis and Visualization


About

Dr. Geoffrey Martin Rockwell is a Professor of Philosophy and Digital Humanities at the University of Alberta, Canada since 2008. He studied philosophy at Haverford College (BA) and the University of Toronto (MA, PhD). He is currently an Amii (Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute) Fellow and a Canada CIFAR AI Chair.


Research

Geoffrey Rockwell has published on textual visualization and analysis, AI ethics and computing in the humanities including a book from the MIT Press, Hermeneutica: Computer-Assisted Interpretation in the Humanities (2016). He is a co-developer of Voyant Tools, a suite of text analysis tools, and leads the TAPoR project documenting text tools. He blogs at theoreti.ca.


Teaching

Geoffrey Rockwell teaches in the MA in Digital Humanities. He teaches courses on Theoretical Issues in Humanities Computing, Big Data and Text Analysis in the Humanities, and Information Ethics.