2007

"Art and the Humanities: Using Digital-Images in Education and Research"

The Marconi Society in cooperation with the Stanford University School of Engineering will sponsor a luncheon on the Stanford campus on Saturday, September 29, at noon at the Arrillaga Alumni Center.  The two highly talented and articulate speakers will be Neil Rudenstine, President-Emeritus of Harvard, formerly Provost of Princeton and Executive VP of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and current Chair of the Board of ARTstor.  The second speaker will be Max Marmor, President of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, and formerly an art librarian with UCLA, Princeton, Columbia University, NYU and Yale.

Rudenstine and Marmor will present a special program on Art and the Humanities: Using Digital-Images in Education and Research.  Select Stanford Museum Directors and art lovers will be invited to join the Marconi Fellows and Board. The speakers will discuss the possibility of building one (or more) databases in art (and related fields) that could be broadly shared across thousands of educational institutions and all their members.  The goal would be to create literally millions of high-quality images from all cultures and time-periods.