JustCodeCulture

JustCodeCulture, 1 hour ago to vr

New Review Essay on @lmesseri tremendous new book, ethnography & tech, social hopes, & false dreams of tech solutionism. Also discussing work of Andrew Brock, Zeynep Tufekci & Kelsie Nabben on Black Twitter, Twitter & ethnographies of DAOs.

@histodons
@commodon
@anthropology
@sociology
#vr #ai #artificialintelligence #blockchain #DAO #science #tech #history

https://z.umn.edu/EthnographicSublime

JustCodeCulture, 10 days ago to ai

Congratulations to Harvard University History of Science doctoral candidate Aaron Gluck-Thaler on the 2024-25 CBI Tomash Fellowship. We are thrilled to have Aaron as a fellow in the upcoming academic year! #ai #artificialintelligence #surveillance #science #tech #history

@histodons
@sociology
@commodon

https://z.umn.edu/2024-25-Tomash

JustCodeCulture, 12 days ago to ai

ICYMI, MIT HASTS ABD Alex Reiss Sorokin presented an excellent CBI Tomash Fellow Lecture, "From Search to Research Technologies 1964-1994," on April 30th. The video of the talk now is available. #ai #datascience #librarians

@histodons
@sociology
@anthropology
@law
@libraries https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TymdfoQYqbg

JustCodeCulture, 28 days ago to Bitcoin

With the April 19 bitcoin "halving," am resharing an essay I wrote on it from early in 2024. "Bitcoin's Baptism in the Heavenly City of 21st Century Financiers." #bitcoin #cryptocurrency #halving #crypto #BitcoinHalving
@histodons
@cryptodon

https://z.umn.edu/BTCbaptism

JustCodeCulture, 1 month ago to history

Yale's Joanna Radin gave a brilliant UMN History of Sci, Tech, Med
Colloquium talk this afternoon, "Tales from the Crypt: Craniometry, Computers and Mass Culture in 1960s Cambridge." #history
@histodons
@anthropology
@commodon

JustCodeCulture, 1 month ago to history

Gloria Childress Townsend, eds. Rendering History: Women of ACM-W was just published this past week and is available on the ACM Digital Library. #histsci

@histodons #gender #history #womenintech
@sociology
@ACM
@sigchi
@anthropology

http://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3640508

JustCodeCulture, 1 month ago to histodons

Just published a review essay and reflection of Harvard Business School's recent conference "Oral History of Business in the Global South" in the April Interfaces.

#globalsouth #businesshistory #laborhistory #HarvardBusinessSchool #HBS #oralhistory #CreatingEmergingMarkets
@histodons
@commodon
@management

Article at https://cse.umn.edu/cbi/interfaces

JustCodeCulture, 1 month ago to history

Please join us April 30th 2pm Central/3pm E. for the Tomash Fellow Lecture w/ 2023-24 Tomash Fellow MIT HASTS' Alex Reiss-Sorokin's "From Research to Search: Legal Research Technologies, 1964-1994." Register now! (free, required)

@histodons
@sociology
@law
@anthropology #history #sts #law #lexisnexis #automation

https://z.umn.edu/Reiss-Sorokin

JustCodeCulture, 2 months ago to history

Absolutely delighted that NYU MCC Prof. Mara Mills & UCSB Prof. Patrick McCray @LeapingRobot have signed on as new CBI @BabbageInst Research Fellows. Please see article link on these two incredible scholars! #sts #history

@histodons
@sociology
@commodon
@historyofmedicine

https://z.umn.edu/cbifellows

JustCodeCulture, 3 months ago to privacy

Disturbing article on NSA surveillance and right to privacy, without warrant or warrants.

#privacy #surveillance #tech #technology
@histodons
@politicalscience

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/25/us/politics/nsa-internet-privacy-warrant.html

JustCodeCulture, 3 months ago to history

CBI HCI History Lecture with HCI pioneer Aaron Marcus.

"Aaron Marcus: A Lifetime of Design." Please join us and register for this free online lecture held Jan. 31st 3pm Central/1PM Pacific/4pm Eastern.

#hci #histsci #tech #technology #graphics #history #humancomputerinteraction
@sigchi
@histodons
@ACM

https://umn.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMtc-GgqDsoHNBhfNvysrqo4eDRp1j4r2kG#/registration

JustCodeCulture, 4 months ago to technology

@ACM ACM History Committee (HC) Fellowships.

Our ACM HC awards up to 4 fellowships (up to $4K each) to advance projects that substantially focus on ACM's history. Info @ link (pdf of call) Due Feb. 15, '24 #acm #computerhistory
@histodons
@communicationscholars
@sociology
@anthropology
#technology #computing #software #history #professionalorganizationshistory

https://history.acm.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/ACM-fellowship_CFP_2024.pdf

JustCodeCulture, 4 months ago to btc

New essay (Jan. 2024).

"Bitcoin's Baptism in the Heavenly City of 21st Century Financiers."

On cypherpunk Bitcoin religion/cult and how its ethos squares w/ BlackRock and giant asset mgt ETF issuers, all in some historical contexts.

#BTC #ETH #BlackRockETF #halving #ai #history #blackrock #bitcoinetf
@histodons
@communicationscholars
@sociology a.gup.pe
@economics

https://z.umn.edu/BTCbaptism

JustCodeCulture, 4 months ago to ai

ew Interfaces Essay Jan. '24 William Aspray "Is AI an Existential Threat? Let’s First Understand What an Existential Threat Is." provides a compelling analysis of existential threats & institutions studying them.

#ai #artificialintelligence #sts #existentialthreat #technology #tech #science #history
@histodons
@sociology a.gup.pe
@politicalscience
@anthropology

https://cse.umn.edu/cbi/interfaces

JustCodeCulture, 4 months ago to movies

Big Blue Misses Out on Action Classic Die Hard (CBI image o' day)

If you look closely (expand color image and on its left), you'll see the Control Data Cyber 180 in 'Die Hard.'

From former CDC employee I. Johnson: "The production co.'s first pick backed out at the last minute. They made a last-minute deal to use our Cybers."

#Diehard #movies #films #technology #tech #history #mediastudies @commodon
@histodons

B&W Control Data office image of Control Data Cyber 180 set up with four office workers. A woman doing paper work in the middle and two workers at machines seated with a man looking over the shoulders at one of the two monitors.

JustCodeCulture, 5 months ago to InformationTechnology

Congratulations to CBI Sr. Research Fellow William Aspray who just published Understanding Information History: The Case of America in 1920 (Springer).

@histodons #informationscience #informationstudies #informationtechnology #technology #science #tech #data #dataprocessing #business #history

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-44134-9#about-this-book

JustCodeCulture, 5 months ago to ComputerScience

CBI Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) History Award Call for 2024

Applications/nominations (self-nominations are WELCOME) due Feb. 15, '24, for book, article, other media from trailing 3 yrs '23, '22, '21. PLS Share! Cmt: @teaselmuir, G. Con Diaz, Dag Spicer, Liz Petrick & me.

@histodons @a.gup.pe
@ACM
@sigchi
@anthropology
https://z.umn.edu/HCI-history
#hci #computerscience #science #artificialintelligence #UserX #humancomputerinteraction #tech #graphics #ai #history

https://z.umn.edu/HCI-history

JustCodeCulture, 5 months ago to tech

Explorer 8 satellite mockup, Parade Of Progress Show at the Public Hall, Cleveland, Ohio (Aug. 14, 1964).

@histodons #tech #science #technology #space #history

JustCodeCulture, 5 months ago to ai

Excellent response in this essay, by Sephora Bemba, to the NYT's recent & repeated profiling only/or primarily male AI "pioneers."

#AI #gender #womeninscience #womeninstem
@histodons @sociology
https://medium.com/@bemba.sephora/ny-times-missed-these-12-trailblazers-meet-the-women-transforming-ai-ae522f52a8b7

JustCodeCulture, 5 months ago to Electronics

CBI Image of the Day

Did you know that before they were making razors,
@PhilipsNorelco
made intercom systems? Neither did we! The image of the day shows the Norelco S1 (left and the Norelco S2 (right), ca. 1960s.

#electronics @histodons #intercom #communication @commodon
@sociology #communications #technology #tech #history

JustCodeCulture, 5 months ago to ai

Visionary book, Unmasking AI, & commentary from Dr. Joy Buolamwini on AI & amplifying inequalities!

"With the adoption of AI systems, at first I thought we were looking at a mirror, but now I believe we're looking into a kaleidoscope of distortion," Buolamwini says. "Because the technologies we believe to be bringing us into the future are actually taking us back from the progress already made."

#ai #unmaskingai #aibias #history @histodons @sociology @anthropology

https://www.npr.org/2023/11/28/1215529902/unmasking-ai-facial-recognition-technology-joy-buolamwini

JustCodeCulture, 5 months ago to internet

A bit ironic given this is disseminated over the Internet...

The Internet would be far better if giant corporations didn't control platforms & endlessly surveille & profile & do so very unequally--to me that largely is a capitalism, governance & regulatory failure--power & control of infrastructure.

@histodons @sociology @anthropology #internet #web #networking #tech #technology #history

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/11/home-internet-landline-amazon-smartphone/676070/

JustCodeCulture, 5 months ago to IBM

CBI image of the day is of women working on binding wires together, following a schematic on paper pinned to the work surface as part of the Semi-Automatic Ground Environment (SAGE) air defense system. The processing power for SAGE was driven by the IBM AN/FSQ-7.
#IBM @histodons @sociology @anthroplogy

JustCodeCulture, 5 months ago to ai

Excellent article by Luba Kassova on
gender imbalance & bias in AI.

"From analysing data and conversations with experts, I realise that, whether as developers, news editors or AI experts, women are largely absent from the AI world."

@histodons @sociology #AI #aibias #gender #history

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2023/nov/25/where-are-godmothers-of-ai-womens-voices-not-heard-in-tech-sam-altman-openai?s=09