Jeff Soloway, Director of Literary Content and Information Literacy for Infobase, is responsible for the Bloom's Literature and Writer's Reference Center databases. A graduate of Harvard University, he gave the Broad Lecture at Florida International University in 2015 on the subject of “Humanities Publishing in the Database Age.” He lives in New York City with his wife and two children.
To many of us parents and educators, the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) in education has been both intriguing and disturbing. Over the past year, I’ve watched my two teenagers... read more →
ChatGPT is terrifyingly good at lots of things, but not at understanding literature—and we have the test scores to prove it. It’s been widely reported that the latest version of... read more →
Some claim that poetry is useless, to which we at Infobase respond: “Not on Valentine’s Day.” Anyone who’s received a classic love poem in a note—or better, been the subject... read more →
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby is not only one of the greatest of all American novels but also far and away the most popular in high school literature classes.... read more →