Team

Dr. Kurt Fendt is Senior Lecturer Emeritus in Comparative Media Studies/Writing (CMS/W) and Director of MIT’s Active Archives Initiative at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, MA, USA. He directed MIT’s Digital Humanities Lab HyperStudio for more than 20 years. Kurt also taught Digital Humanities subjects in CMS/W and German Studies courses in Global Languages. He is Co-PI of the Lumnina CHiP project, PI of the collaborative annotation platform Annotation Studio and several other digital media and archival projects.

Dr. Tomáš Musil holds a Ph.D. in Computational Linguistics from Charles University, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics. His research at the intersection of AI and humanities focuses on representations of meaning, computational text analysis, and the application of generative language models to historical and literary texts. As a researcher at the Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics (ÚFAL), Tomáš brings expertise in neural language models and text processing technologies crucial for working with archival materials.