As on Threads (& X, for now), using aspirational @JustCodeCulture
Historian-social politics of #AI #HCI #privacy #labor #gender #race #disability #infosec & #climate
Prof. of Hist. of Sci/Tech & Dir., Charles Babbage Inst. for Computing, Info & Culture- a Res. Ctr/#Archives, U of MN
Co-Editor, Johns Hopkins U. P. interdisciplinary book series #Computing & #Culture
blockchainandsociety.com is my crit. inq. essays blog on #blockchain & AI
EIC #Interfaces
#Histodons #STS #commodon #Sociology
| My Profile Page at CBI | https://cse.umn.edu/cbi/jeffrey-r-yost-phd |
| Co-Editor, book series JHUP Computing & Culture | https://www.press.jhu.edu/books/series/studies-computing-and-culture |
| Blockchain and Society | https://blockchainandsociety.com/ |
| Recent book, Making IT Work | https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262036726/making-it-work/ |
Brilliant New Interfaces article by Arizona State University's Arthur Daemmrich & Smithsonian Institution's Eric Hintz "Sports in an Algorithmic Era. (a bases clearing, slam dunk, hole-in-one hat trick of insights!!)
#artificialintelligence #ai #datascience #sport #sports #baseball #basketball #tech #science #sts #sociology #anthropology #journalism #computerscience #history
We at CBI are delighted to announce Simon Fraser University School of Comm. ABD Jiaqi Wen is the incoming CBI Tomash Fellow!!! Read about her & her creative & insightful (interdisciplinary) historical research in the article linked below!
#Tech #Science #Computing #semiconductors #ai #artificialintelligence #history #sts #sociology #mediastudies #communication #computerscience #labor
Jiaqi Wen is Named as the 2026-2027 CBI Tomash Fellow https://cse.umn.edu/cbi/news/jiaqi-wen-named-2026-2027-cbi-tomash-fellow
New Interfaces article!! (link below) Insightful article on the history of Indian supercomputing by Cornell U. STS scholar Andra Sonia Petrutiu "Disrupting Flattening Universal Ambitions: The Case of Supercomputing in India."
#histsci #supercomputing #india #highperformancecomputing #software #technology #tech #science #sociology #anthropology #mediastudies #computerscience #ai #artificialintelligence #datascience #history
cse.umn.edu/cbi/interfaces
Thrilled to announce this virtual CBI Tomash Fellows Lecture!! Please join us!! Free registration at link below. "Calculating Knowledge: Computing, Cspitalism and the Modern University." MARCH 10TH 1PM C.
#Computing #Computers #ComputerScience #AI #Tech #Science #Universities #Capitalism #History #mediastudies #policy #sociology #Anthropology
New Interfaces article by CBI Senior Research Fellow William Aspray & Union College Prof. Emeritus David Hemmendinger "Using Reference Works to Study the Intellectual and Cultural History of Computing." It reflects on their terrific new book pictured below. #HistoryOfComputing #computers #AI #computerscience #technology #science #history
Interfaces:
cse.umn.edu/cbi/interfaces
Thrilled to announce an online lecture by Indiana U. Prof. & CBI Research Fellow Rachel Plotnick "Computers are a Mess: What Hygiene Can Bring to the History of Computing." Wed., Feb. 11, '26, 1 pm Central.
#technology #science #history #STS #mediastudies #communication #informationscience
Via Zoom
Register:
https://umn.zoom.us/meeting/register/JJKMQZsBRu600TVICxQHBg#/registration
Thrilled to see our special issue "Automation by Design: Politics, Culture and Landscape in an Age of Machines That Learn" is out!
The issue has a wide range (geographies, themes...) of articles on the history of Automation/"AI".
Authors in order of ToC: Colettte Perold, Jeffrey Yost; Megan Wiessner; Christos Karampatsos, Polyxeni Malisova; David Dunning; Eliza Pertigkiozoglou; @ranjodh & Jason Ludwig.
#ai #artificialintelligence #automation #labor #STS #history
CBI & UMN Anthro are delighted to host Nov. 14th lecture (noon to 1pm, Andersen Lib. 120) by Yale U. Prof. of Anthropology & CBI Research @lmesseri Lisa Messeri!!
"IN THE LAND OF THE UNREAL"
Free talk & lunch, reg. req.
Registration:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
#Anthropology #ethnography #gender #vr #tech #history #hollywood
Just published in Interfaces-- tremendously insightful & timely essay by U. of Toronto's
Hope Latta's
"People-in-Progress: 'Debate Escrow,' and the Language of Delay in Tech Research on Adolescent Digital Health." #histsci
cse.umn.edu/cbi/interfaces
@histodons
@sociology
@commodon
@anthropology
@politicalscience
#tech #technology #policy #science #sociology #history
Talk tomorrow on history, power, & ironies & paradoxes of rhetorical & infrastructural appropriations of AI.
