Underwater Acoustic Localization with Bayesian Learning

Dr. Noam Scheindlin & Bijoyeta Das​

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Over the upcoming year, a broad group of LaGuardia’s diverse student body will be trained to gather, transmit and safeguard memories of familial, cultural or traditional everyday life practices from people who, having come from many parts of the world, live in the borough of Queens.  In doing so, we hope to contribute to a repository of possible solutions to the over-reliance on technologies that alienate humans from natural processes, and that are contributing to climate change and other menaces to life on Earth. In looking backwards, we look toward the future, hoping that our elders will be able to teach us resilience.

 

The project will kick off with an intensive oral history institute, in which experts from LaGuardia and the academic community at large will train students and faculty in oral history collection. The project has two tracks: in the first, a select group of students will produce a series of six 30-minute interviews of leaders and community mainstays from various immigrant communities where LaGuardia draws its students. In the second track, faculty trained in oral history pedagogy will create intergenerational oral history assignments; their students will then produce 30 interviews, comprising audio, photographic and written documentation of their own family members.  The archive that will comprise this work will be made public and circulated through Queens communities, including during a collective showcase event.

 

In this community college project, the community is the focus, bringing to the foreground knowledge and expertise that is often minimized, ignored, or belittled. If one of the world’s greatest problems is over-consumption, this project aims to give voice to the resourceful people who are not at the center of things. - Noam Scheindlin & Bijoyeta Das