James E. Dobson

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author of The Birth of Computer Vision (Minnesota, 2023) and Critical Digital Humanities (Illinois, 2019) and more.
Websitehttps://jeddobson.github.io/
Faculty Profilehttps://english.dartmouth.edu/people/james-e-dobson
James E. DobsonApr 18, 2024
CriticalAIApr 11, 2024

Have you seen #CriticalAI's new sneak preview yet? Check out @katrina and Nicolas Malevé's review of @jeddobson sigmoid.social 's “THE BIRTH OF COMPUTER VISION."

https://criticalai.org/2024/04/05/sneak-preview-review-james-e-dobsons-the-birth-of-computer-vision/

SNEAK PREVIEW: REVIEW: JAMES E. DOBSON’S “THE BIRTH OF COMPUTER VISION”

Nicolas Malevé and Katrina Sluis [Critical AI 2.2 is a special issue, co-edited by Lauren M.E. Goodlad and Matthew Stone, collecting interdisciplinary essays and think pieces on a wide range of top…

Critical AI
James E. DobsonFeb 6, 2024
Multilingual DH DARIAH-EU WGFeb 5, 2024

Integrating Digital Humanities and German Studies

Digital Humanities
seminar at the annual German Studies Association conference

Sept. 26-29 2024, Atlanta, Georgia

Conveners:
Fabian Offert @zentralwerkstatt
University of California, Santa Barbara
[email protected]

Thorsten Ries
@riesthorsten
UT Austin
[email protected]

Deadline: February 23, 2024 (23:59 PST)

Applications through:
https://thegsa.secure-platform.com/48/
GSA membership required to
apply

#DH #GermanStudies

German Studies Association -

James E. DobsonFeb 4, 2024
Ted UnderwoodFeb 4, 2024

The School of Information Sciences at IL Urbana-Champaign is seeking postdoctoral researchers for AY 2024-25, renewable for a second year. We're interested in fields from children's literature through computational social science; your doctorate doesn't have to be in IS.

Applications are due March 15. It's a good idea to reach out to potential faculty mentors in advance.

Please repost and tell friends!

https://ischool.illinois.edu/research/postdoctoral-researchers

Postdoctoral Research Associate Program

Description of the postdoctoral research associate program including requirements and application process.

School of Information Sciences
Show threadJames E. DobsonJan 25, 2024
Links to the books: James E. Dobson: The Birth of Computer Vision (Minnesota) (https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/the-birth-of-computer-vision)
Jussi Parikka: Operational Images: From the Visual to the Invisual (Minnesota) (https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/operational-images)
Jill Walker Rettberg: Machine Vision: How Algorithms are Changing the Way We See the World (Polity) (https://www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?book_slug=machine-vision-how-algorithms-are-changing-the-way-we-see-the-world--9781509545223)
The Birth of Computer Vision

A revealing genealogy of image-recognition techniques and technologies

University of Minnesota Press
James E. DobsonJan 25, 2024
Recording of new book (Machine Visions: New Books by Parikka, Dobson & Rettberg) talk on computer/machine vision featuring Jill Walker Rettberg, Jussi Parikka, and James E. Dobson. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26qY66PlX0g
Machine Visions: New Books by Parikka, Dobson & Rettberg

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Show threadJames E. DobsonJan 17, 2024
Updated with correct day of the week!
James E. DobsonJan 16, 2024
CriticalAIJan 16, 2024

#AmReading this article from @techreview : "These six questions will dictate the future of generative AI." A thread 🧵 /1.

https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/12/19/1084505/generative-ai-artificial-intelligence-bias-jobs-copyright-misinformation/

These six questions will dictate the future of generative AI

Generative AI took the world by storm in 2023. Its future—and ours—will be shaped by what we do next.

MIT Technology Review
James E. DobsonJan 16, 2024
Jill Walker RettbergJan 16, 2024
A special section of Issues is out with a collection of short pieces about AI & society from a group of us led by @Katecrawford - Contributions from Kate Crawford, Florian Jaton, Mike Ananny, Lucy Suchman, Xiaochang Li, Linnet Taylor, Mark Andrejevic, Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, Matt Canute, Stephanie Dick, Emmanuel Didier, Katie Gentelet and me. https://issues.org/an-ai-society/
An AI Society

Social scientists and humanities experts explore how to harness the interaction, revealing urgent avenues for research and policy.

Issues in Science and Technology
James E. DobsonJan 16, 2024
If you are interested in the history of computer and machine vision and machine learning, please join this Zoom-based panel with Jill Walker Rettberg, Jussi Parikka, and me! Tuesday, January 23rd at 12:00pm Eastern/9:00am Pacific. Zoom registration here:
https://uib.zoom.us/meeting/register/u5ckcuirpj0iHNeBMlFIG7CIwk44xjvvtsjQ#/registration
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Machine Visions: New Books by Parikka, Dobson & Rettberg. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.

Join the authors of three new books about automated vision in this 60 minute online event. James E. Dobson: The Birth of Computer Vision (https://shorturl.at/IQU35) Jussi Parikka: Operational Images: From the Visual to the Invisual (https://shorturl.at/jxZ38) Jill Walker Rettberg: Machine Vision: How Algorithms are Changing the Way We See the World (https://shorturl.at/gklQ1) This panel discussion offers an exploration of their recently published works, emphasizing the historical, theoretical, and cultural dimensions of algorithmic visual technologies.

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Show threadJames E. DobsonNov 27, 2023
I'm still working on cleaning up a handful of Jupyter notebooks that support the ideas and strategies found in this paper. As that happens, these will wind up in this Github repository: https://github.com/jeddobson/blackbox-transformers/
GitHub - jeddobson/blackbox-transformers: Code (notebooks) and notes for "On Reading and Interpreting Black Box Neural Networks" (published in International Journal of Digital Humanities in November, 2023) article

Code (notebooks) and notes for "On Reading and Interpreting Black Box Neural Networks" (published in International Journal of Digital Humanities in November, 2023) article - GitHub - jedd...

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