Set in a time not far down the road, Drive explores our collective fears for the future, and what happens when individuals who are fiercely defined by their work are forced to reevaluate what drives them.
In a "New Yorker" column, Dan Rockmore, Director of the Neukom Institute writes about three renowned mathematicians whom he knew and admired. "On their journeys, these playful, curious mathematicians discovered Monsters and numbers so large that they can hardly be written down.... They will be missed," he says.
The fourth annual Neukom Award for Playwriting will consider full-length plays and other full-length works for the theater that address the question "What does it mean to be a human in a computerized world?"
From the scanning of terrestrial landscapes to make sense of human and geophysical processes, to the observations of the terrain and formations of Mars and the Moon, the techniques and technologies of remote sensing are changing the ways in which many disciplines create new and important understandings.
The mission of the Wright Center is to engage with the questions and challenges around the ways in which computation intersects with the development of just communities, at all scales and around the world.
"The places where forced migrant deaths are occurring are not exactly making it into the news," explained co-author Danielle Poole, a Neukom fellow in the department of geography at Dartmouth.
A $15 million gift honors Susan and Jim Wright, Dartmouth's 16th president.
Winners Ted Chiang (Exhalation) & Cadwell Turnbull (The Lesson) discuss Spec Fic with award winning author & judge Sam J. Miller & Neukom Director Dan Rockmore, Q&A to follow
Winners peer into imagined worlds with real consequences
Neukom Director Dan Rockmore on Infinite Powers and The Weil Conjectures on "Literary Hub".
