About
Allen Romano is an AI developer, startup founder, and former Classics and digital humanities professor. As a professor, he founded and ran the Humanities MA program at Florida State University and before that held posts in Classics at FSU and the University of Chicago. He regularly taught a wide range of undergraduate and graduate courses, ranging from graduate classes in R, Python, digital pedagogy, Greek language, literature, and culture, to undergraduate classes at all levels of Greek and Latin language, and from the paleolithic through the middle ages and modernity. Trained as a classicist and specializing in Ancient Greek literature, Dr. Romano’s research work focused especially on Greek poetry and drama and, digitally, on text-mining and, more recently, deep learning with ancient literature. With Tarez Graban, Sarah Stanley, and Judith Pascoe, he has helped launch and run the
Demos Project for Data Humanities at FSU.
Education
BA in Classics and in Comparative Literature, University of Pennsylvania
PhD in Classics, Stanford University Mastodon Feed
I looked at advanced internet searching with my undergrad students using https://kit.exposingtheinvisible.org/en/how/google-dorking.html They were really scared by the "Safety first" warnings on that page. I'm trying to figure out if it's because they don't tend to think this way about the internet — namely that they can be tracked while typing in search terms — or whether there's actually something scary about advanced searching and what you might find that way. … or whether it's just the word "dorking" #dorking #search (2021-02-09 ↗)
I've been looking at a lot of decentralization projects for the web (Safe Network, Solid, and so forth) and trying to figure out what a Learning Management System would look like on these platforms. There are folks working on decentralized versions of the big tech platforms, but any one out there working in the edtech space? Get the kids on the decentralized web and they won't want to go back to big brother watching them? #edtech #decentralized #solid #safenetwork (2020-10-16 ↗)
#introductions Hi everyone. I'm Allen. I'm a professor in digital humanities, a recovering Classicist (where I nerd-ed out in ancient Greek literature), and a Linux hobbyist I suppose. I'm particularly interested in the intersections of FOSS, privacy, edtech, and k-12 and higher ed. I do a mix of teaching and work in data science, web development, literature, history, and culture. Egypt in the morning; R in the afternoon. I also tinker with retrotech and play saxophone from time to time. (2020-10-09 ↗)
