JustCodeCulture

JustCodeCulture, 10 months ago to tech

CBI Image of the Day. It is 1984 & the Apple MacIntosh quickly stood out for its relative, small form factor, GUI, and ease of use--garnering substantial adoption in businesses, like this NYC office, schools, and homes.

The cityscape and office setting stand in contrast to the computer lib myth (more than a little irony to revolution myths presented in ultra-expensive Superbowl ads)

@histodons @sociology #tech #technology #history #STS #Apple #macintosh #mac #computer #software #gui #ux #hci

JustCodeCulture, 6 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, 10 months ago to Wyze

CBI Image o' Day. General Electric was showing off various forms of robots in the 1950s. Here, we see mechanical hands, striking match & lighting a cigarette of a GE employee. Isn't automation grand!?

#automation #robotics #smoking #health #ai #artificialintelligence #computing #software
#sts #tech #technology #engineering #robot #robots #science #medicine #sociology #anthropology #smoking #cigarettes #gender #ge #generalelectric #history
@histodons
@sociology
@anthropology

JustCodeCulture, 9 months ago to privacy

As someone who studies data privacy, very little in surveillance capitalism & exploitation of users by corporations surprises me.

BUT THIS: Kia, Nissan & others privacy policies state collecting and using information on your "sexual activity" & "sex life." Given cars are computers on wheels!!!

#data #privacy #surveillance #sex #sexuality #automobiles #tech #technology #science #ai #history

@histodons
@commodon
@anthropology
@sociology
@politicalscience

https://www.msn.com/en-us/autos/other/the-sex-lives-of-nissan-and-kia-drivers/ar-AA1gn8BM

JustCodeCulture, 10 months ago to space

1974 NASA Comm Tech Solar Panel Assembly

National Aeronautics and Space Administration. John H. Glenn Research Center at Lewis Field.

COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY SATELLITE CTS SPA SOLAR PANEL ASSEMBLY
5/10/1974

Photographer: MARTIN BROWN

Public Domain. #NASA #Space #communication #Tech #Technology #Science #physics #chemistry @histodons

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, 9 months ago to politics

"TRUTH sign collapses on Vivek Ramaswamy."

Or

A HARD TRUTH A GONNA FALL

#politics #election #2024election #republicans #democrats #vivek #ramaswamy #vivekramaswamy #truth @politicalscience

JustCodeCulture, 10 months ago to Haiku

For Every Season....Tis' the Season of Indictments, which follows an all too long MAGA PD (Preeminent Deplorable) Season of Entitlement.

It inspired me to compose a Haiku.

🌱 🌳 🌱 🌳 🌱 🌳 🌱

Malevolent Aims
Grotesque Amorality
Prisoner Donald

🌳 🌱 🌳 🌱 🌳 🌱 🌳

[Prison cell drawing by Artist and Suffragette Katie Edith Gliddon, 1912]

#haiku #politics #Trump #prison #indictment #law #indictments #donaldtrump
@digitalhumanities
@histodons

JustCodeCulture, 10 months ago to punk

Certainly not a fan (more like lesser of evils) regarding Meta and Microsoft, but I would like them to take legal action against Musk's new X.

Since high school in the 1980s I have been fan of the Los Angeles based punk band "X" and it would be some kind of wonderful if they could find a way to sue Musk and X the corporation also ;-)

#punk #rock #music #x #xene #LosAngeles #Microsoft #Facebook #Meta #Twitter #ElonMusk #Musk #Copyright #Trademark #IP #Law @histodons

JustCodeCulture, 10 months ago to tech

CBI Image of the day: Two RESISTORS (Radically Emphatic Students Interested in Science Technology or Research Studies), one of the first computer clubs for science-minded students between the ages of 10 & 17, are shown working in their 'computer barn'
NJ ca. late 1960s.

@histodons @sociology
#tech #technology #science #engineering #computing #history #sts #sociology #youth #boyhood #electronics #tinkering

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, 10 months ago to ComputerScience

CBI Image o' Day. 1962. Large console of Army's BRLESC (Ballistic Research Labs Electronic Scientific Computer), Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD, @ controls mathematical technicians Gail I. Beck Taylor & Lloyd W. Campbell.

The fastest computer 'til Control Data Corp. 6600 in 1964, which was widely regarded as the start of supercomputing

#sts #computerscience #computing #software #tech #technology #science #history @histodons @commodon #supercomputing #hpc

JustCodeCulture, 9 months ago to ukteachers

CBI Image of the Day:

In keeping with our back-to-school theme this week, here we have an 8th-grade classroom at St. Veronica's school with 40 students seated at tables or desks, each equipped with a Burroughs calculating machine as a math tool, 1955.

#education #data #calculators #accounting #computer #mechanical #technology #classroom #students #K12 #burroughs
#history #gender
@histodons
@sociology

JustCodeCulture, 4 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, 8 months ago to tech

CBI Image of the Day:

The IBM EA-6B, used for the Navy's EA-6B Prowler, an electronic warfare aircraft. This marked the first time a micro-programmed logic control, implemented with read-only storage, was used in aerospace applications, ca 1960s.

#tech #technology #computer #ibm #memory #history
@histodons

JustCodeCulture, 7 months ago to politics

CBI Image of the Day (Election Day).

Today's image of the day shows Joe Sullivan (seated) and Tom Burke (standing) using PLATO terminals to record Hennepin County election returns at the Minneapolis Business & Technical Center, as local CBS TV affiliate WCCO films the action, 1982.

@histodons
@sociology
@politicalscience
#politics #politicalscience #elections #democracy #democrats #gop #technology #tech #science #history

JustCodeCulture, 1 year ago to science

Congrats Jacob Gaboury! '23 CBI Human-Computer Interaction History Prize recip. for his brilliant book Image Objects: An Archeology of Computer Graphics (MIT Press 2021). Thx for support from Ben Shneiderman and Catherine Plaisant.

Thanks to my fellow committee members Liz Petrick, @teaselmuir Con Diaz, Dag Spicer & Fabio Paterno.

@histodons @commodon @sociology @anthropology @sigchi @siggraph @ACM #science #tech #history #hci #graphics #utah #computerscience

More at: https://z.umn.edu/HCI_23

Book cover of Jacob Gaboury's Image Objects: An Archeology of Computer Graphics (MIT Press 2021).

JustCodeCulture, 9 months ago to ai

China IT giant Baidu released a gen AI chatbot, Ernie. This explores Ernie's misinformation.

ie. COVID-19 was a product of US vaping & came to Wuhan by way of imported US lobsters.

What is its model & training data? In the US, AI is corp. excesses in China gov excesses!

#ai #ChatGPT #largelanguagemodels #DataModel #china #COVID19 #artificialintelligence #generativeAI #china #technology #science #tech #history @histodons @sociology @anthropology @politicalscience

https://www.economist.com/business/2023/09/03/meet-ernie-chinas-answer-to-chatgpt?utm_medium=social-media.content.np&utm_source=linkedin&utm_campaign=editorial-social&utm_content=discovery.content&utm_term=li-newsletter-040923

JustCodeCulture, 6 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, 10 months ago to tech

CBI Image of the Day (from the vast CBI Historical Archives). Jean Hall and ADVIDAC

CBI Image of the day: Jean Hall at the Argonne Version of the Institute's Digital Automatic Computer (AVIDAC) console, showing the Ferranti photoelectric paper tape reader and the punch output bin, ca mid 1950s.

@histodons @sociology @commodon
@argonne
#tech #technology #computer #software #science #computerscience #womenintech #history

JustCodeCulture, 1 month 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 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, 1 month 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, 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, 23 days 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