Mark Marino

Recent appearances

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  How a 1960s chatbot fooled everyone | The Vergecast

  August 11, 2026 · 📺 The Verge

  From The Vergecast, this episode takes a look back at one of the earliest chapters in the history of AI. Before Alexa and Siri, there was ELIZA. The first chatbot ever was the creation of a man named Joseph Weizenbaum, who built the bot almost as a magic trick — and then couldn't believe how many people fell for it. David Berry and Mark Marino, two members of a team dedicated to restoring and understanding ELIZA, explain how Weizenbaum created the virtual conversant, why he came to regret it, and what ELIZA can teach us about life in the AI age. 0:00 Intro 01:24 90 Seconds on The Verge 03:12…

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  AI Research Tools: Bedazzlement

  February 21, 2025 · 📺 Mark Marino

  AI Research Tools: Bedazzlement Discussion hosted by the Jessica Piazza and Mark C. Marino of the USC Tech Committee, ...Hi, my name is Mark Marino. I teach writing at the University of Southern California and Today, Jessica Piazza and I are going to ...

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  What Is Code? A conversation with Mark Marino

  May 28, 2024 · 📺 Alex Saum

  Interview with Mark Marino (Writer, Performer, Professor of Writing at University of Southern California) conducted for the Fall 2020 graduate seminar, DIGITAL LITERARY ARTS AND [THE WEB OF LIFE][THE CAPITALIST WORLD ECOLOGY] taught by Profs. Élika Ortega and Alex Saum-Pascual.* Complete syllabus at https://bit.ly/4az5WY8 With generous funding by the University of California Berkeley Center for New Media and the Center for Humanities & the Arts at the University of Colorado Boulder. For more info contact Élika at https://elikaortega.net/ || [email protected] & Alex http://www.al…

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  Machine-Assisted Writing: generative Activities for the classroom with Mark Marino #MYFest23

  July 21, 2023 · 📺 Virtually Connecting & Equity Unbound

  Machine-Assisted Writing: generative Activities for the classroom with Mark Marino #MYFest23 #equityUnbound Link to webpage link to this conference: https://myfest.equityunbound.org

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  DH/Elit Virtual Book Talk: Mark Marino (USC)Critical Code Studies(MIT Press, 2020)

  February 08, 2021 · 📺 Digital Humanities Initiative

  View the DH@SDSU virtual book talk featuring Mark Marino discussing his latest book, Critical Code Studies (MIT Press, 2020), introducing the tools one needs to become sophisticated readers of texts written for digital media, especially if one wants their analysis to be more than screen-deep. An argument that scholars must read code for more than what it does-- they must read code as text to understand how code means.

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  3.1 Mark Marino - Data dramatization: bringing data to life through #netprov

  June 01, 2020 · 📺 Cultured Data

  Data dramatization: bringing data to life through #netprov part of the #cultureddata symposium in February 2020, UCSD cultureddata.net

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  Mark Marino

  March 28, 2013 · 📺 eLit MLA

  "Living Will" performance.

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  Writing Conference

  August 27, 2008 · 📺 USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences

  Mark Marino, USC College Assistant Professor of Writing, works with a student one-on-one to explore how to use the Topoi in writing a better essay. This video is part of a set of free, customizable tools for developing your essays. See the tools: http://www.pageflakes.com/markcmarino... To see a class discussion of the Topoi with a full introduction to their use, see this video:    • How To Write A Great Essay   Read more about The Topoi tools here: http://markcmarino.com/wordpress/?pag... For more about the USC Writing Program, go here: http://www.usc.edu/college/writi…

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  How To Write A Great Essay

  August 27, 2008 · 📺 USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences

  Using a simple process known as "the Topoi,' you can write great essays! Watch as Associate Professor of Writing Mark Marino, of the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, explains the method to his class. This video is part of a set of free, customizable tools for developing your essays. See the tools: http://www.pageflakes.com/markcmarino... To see a one-on-one conference with a student using the Topoi on an essay prompt, see this video:    • Writing Conference   Read more about The Topoi tools here: http://markcmarino.com/wordpress/?pag... For more about the Writing P…

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