Mastodawn

Mark C Marino Feb 5, 2025

If you want to chat with a faithful recreation of the first chatbot, try this one, created by Team ELIZA superstar Anthony Hay!

https://sites.google.com/view/elizaarchaeology/try-eliza

#artificialintelligence #softwarestudies #critcode

ELIZA Archaeology - Try ELIZA

View ELIZA re-implementation full-screen Type *help to access the help pages: ELIZA is configured with Joseph Weizenbaum's 1966 DOCTOR script. Type about your feelings and thoughts; make the sort of statements you might make to a psychiatrist in an initial psychiatric interview. When you wish a

µP Jul 30, 2024

In the winter term 2024/25 I am teaching at the universities in Halle and Bonn:

http://www.simulationsraum.de/blog/2024/07/30/lehre-im-wintersemester-3/

#ComputerArchaeology #CriticalCodeStudies #SoftwareStudies #GDR #ComputerHistory #GameLabs

Lehre im Wintersemester | SimulationsRaum

EngagingSTSjournal Jun 13, 2024

How do #programmers + #codes shape a shared understanding of what is acceptable & necessary to un/know to #maintain #software in relation to the politics of organizational work?

Read by
@xmacex
& Marisa Leavitt Cohn: https://doi.org/mz3z

#SoftwareStudies #Epistemology

Software Maintenance as Materialization of Common Knowledge | Engaging Science, Technology, and Society

Robert W. Gehl May 28, 2024

I'm at Mark Coté's presentation "Taking Technical Objects Seriously," at the U of Toronto, where he's sharing work with Jen Pybus on Software Development Kits. You can see some this deep dive in this article:

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/20539517241231270

This is such cool #softwareStudies work!

µP May 16, 2024

#Piracy on the #C64:

https://dfarq.homeip.net/piracy-on-the-commodore-64-a-problem-with-happy-accidents/

#RetroComputing #SoftwareStudies

Piracy on the Commodore 64: A problem with happy accidents

I lay it all out there in this longform blog post. The bad, the ugly, and the good.

The Silicon Underground

Andy K S Apr 3, 2024

still searching for the right term for something I emphasize a lot in a thesis chapter: how radio automation software still uses the tape cartridge as a {structural metaphor? virtual component? skeuomorph? process metaphor?} in its architecture. skeuomorph seems almost right but rings too ornamental/visual, when the organization of digital audio into "carts" has structural implications. any ideas? #softwarestudies #sts

Mark C Marino Jan 24, 2024

Very cool! John Cayley will be co-hosting our discussion of the Critical Code Studies DHQ special issue in the 2024 CCSWG! Sign up for our online February discussions!

https://bit.ly/ccswg24

#critcode #softwarestudies #eliterature #digitalpoetry