New Dimensions in Testimony on NPR

Wed, 12/20/2017 - 6:01pm
New Dimensions in Testimony has been a work of passion for USC Shoah Foundation since 2010. After years of development at the University of Southern California including with USC Institute for Creative Technologies and with content developer Conscience Display, the program is now reaching audiences in museums around the world.
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First Mandarin-Language New Dimensions in Testimony Exhibit Premieres at Nanjing Massacre Memorial Hall

Tue, 12/12/2017 - 5:00pm
On the 80th anniversary of the Nanjing Massacre today, the Nanjing Massacre Memorial Hall in Nanjing, China, debuted its permanent exhibition of New Dimensions in Testimony (NDT), USC Shoah Foundation’s interactive survivor testimony technology.
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Scholars Consider Ethics, Possibilities, and Critiques of New Dimensions in Testimony at Digital Approaches to Genocide Studies Conference

Tue, 11/21/2017 - 5:00pm
This particular panel focused on NDT and its impact on the future of testimony at a time when fewer and fewer storytellers remain.
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Are holograms the future of how we capture memories?

At the Shoah Foundation, I was able to converse with a still-living Holocaust survivor named Pinchas Gutter. Pinchas wasn’t really there, though; I was chatting with a hologram of Pinchas, which appeared on a flat, 2D display in the hallway. The conversation felt almost absurdly natural, due in large part to the foundation’s development of its own natural language processing system. At one point, I realized I felt rude interrupting a video.

Kori Street is Educator-in-Residence at Sarah and Chaim Neuberger Holocaust Education Centre’s Holocaust Education Week

Thu, 11/02/2017 - 5:00pm
Street will lead presentations and workshops throughout the week-long event, which this year is centered on the post-Holocaust period and the specific events, or “pivotal moments,” that have shaped our understanding of the Holocaust.
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First Permanent New Dimensions in Testimony Exhibit Opens at Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center

Wed, 10/25/2017 - 5:00pm
New Dimensions in Testimony will be exhibited in the Abe & Ida Cooper Survivor Stories Experience, enabling visitors to interact with the project’s filmed testimonies of 13 survivors, including seven who live in the Chicago area.
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Staff Visit Nanjing University and Nanjing Massacre Memorial Hall to Present Indexing Methodology and New Dimensions in Testimony

Thu, 09/14/2017 - 5:00pm
The museum staff and students were among the first to see the NDT testimony of Nanjing Massacre survivor Madame Xia Shuqin.
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New Dimensions in Testimony Now Installed at Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust in New York City

Wed, 09/06/2017 - 5:00pm
The Museum of Jewish Heritage’s – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust's pilot NDT installation marks the world premiere of the NDT testimony of Eva Schloss, a survivor of Auschwitz-Birkenau and the posthumous stepsister of Anne Frank.
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Chief Technology Officer Sam Gustman to Speak at Future of Storytelling Summit

Tue, 08/15/2017 - 5:00pm
One year after the Future of Storytelling Festival exhibited USC Shoah Foundation’s New Dimensions in Testimony, Gustman has been invited back to give a talk at the 2017 Future of Storytelling Summit on October 4-5.
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Vox Media’s Code Conference to Feature New Dimensions in Testimony and “The Last Goodbye”

Fri, 05/12/2017 - 5:00pm
USC Shoah Foundation will present its interactive media projects to some of the brightest minds in technology at the prestigious Code Conference, hosted by Vox Media, in Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif., May 30-June 1.
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