Geoffrey Rockwell
About
Appointed Canada CIFAR AI Chair – 2024
Geoffrey Rockwell studies video games, textual visualization, text analysis, ethics of technology and the ethics of artificial intelligence.
He recently co-edited a book, Right Research: Modelling Sustainable Research Practices in the Anthropocene (Open Book Publishers, 2021) that looks at research practices. He co-authored a book Hermeneutica: Computer-Assisted Interpretation in the Humanities (MIT Press, 2016) that looks at how computers can be used to study electronic texts.
Rockwell is the co-developer with Stéfan Sinclair of Voyant Tools (voyant-tools.org), an award-winning suite of text analysis and visualization tools that complements Hermeneutica. He is now working on a book on dialogue and artificial intelligence that looks at the conversations we have about AI and the conversations we can have with the new chatbots like ChatGPT.
Awards
- Antonio Zampolli Prize for “a singular achievement in the digital humanities”, Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (2022)
- “Great Supervisor” award, Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research at the University of Alberta (2018)
- Outstanding Contribution Award (with Stéfan Sinclair), Canadian Society for Digital Humanities (2017)
- Outstanding Contribution Award (with team), Canadian Society for Digital Humanities (2014)
Relevant Publications
- Nyhan, J., Rockwell, G., Sinclair S. and A. Ortolja-Baird eds. (2023) On Making in the Digital Humanities. London, UK: UCL Press.
- Rockwell, G. and S. Sinclair. (2016) Hermeneutica: Computer-Assisted Interpretation in the Humanities. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
- Ramsay, Stephen and Geoffrey Rockwell (2012) “Developing Things: Notes toward an Epistemology of Building in the Digital Humanities” in Debates in the Digital Humanities. Ed. Matthew K. Gold. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2012, p. 75-84.
- Rockwell, Geoffrey and Bettina Berendt (2017) “Information Wants to Be Free, Or Does It? The Ethics of Datafication.” Electronic Book Review.
- Berendt, Bettina; Büchler, Marco; and Geoffrey Rockwell (2015) “Is it Research or is it Spying? Thinking-Through Ethics in Big Data AI and Other Knowledge Sciences.” Künstliche Intelligenz (German Journal of Artificial Intelligence.) Vol. 29, No. 2. P. 223 – 232.