Six Degrees of Francis Bacon Awarded Coveted NEH Grant (IMAGE)

Carnegie Mellon University

Six Degrees of Francis Bacon Awarded Coveted NEH Grant

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Six Degrees of Francis Bacon -- the interactive online tool that allows anyone to trace the personal relationships among figures like Bacon, William Shakespeare, Isaac Newton and many others -- has received a coveted National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) grant.

The $325,000 Digital Humanities Award, one of 300 new grants announced, will allow the Carnegie Mellon University and Georgetown University team to continue reconstructing Britain's early modern social network, improve the user experience, connect the project with other digital resources and work to permanently curate, maintain and preserve it.

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