JustCodeCulture

JustCodeCulture, 4 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, 9 months ago to technology

CBI Image of the Day: The computer-laden fuselage of NASA's flying laboratory, the Galileo II, included dead-reckoning software, created by the Informatics General Corp., which was used to direct the plane's monitoring equipment for experiments, 1985.

@histodons
#technology #computer #tech Software #aerospace #NASA #Galileo #flight #space #history

JustCodeCulture, 8 months ago to technology

CBI Image of the Day:

[from earlier this week posted over yonder on CBI's new Instagram acct--busy wk just catching up ;-)]

Two Florida State University (FSU) students are using the Control Data 6400 Computer System in an FSU lab, 1968.

@histodons
#technology #ControlData #computer #computerscience #science #tech #Florida #FloridaState #FSU #supercomputer #supercomputers #hpc #history

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, 10 months ago to tech

CBI Image o' Day. A 1969 note from Grace Hopper to Jack Jones, US Air Force on their CODASYL work & COBOL’s creation by her, Jean Sammet, Jones, +others. Hopper is suggesting important contributors to CODASYL who were at the '59 demo, to invite for the '69 COBOL 10th Anniversary Celebration including Alan Taylor who had become Editor of then new magazine Computerworld.

#GraceHopper #COBOL @histodons #gender #womenintech #tech #science #technology #programminglanguages #software #history #sts

JustCodeCulture, 11 months ago to history

AWAITING DESTRUCTION--Old Pacific Electric cars are piled up at a junkyard on Terminal Island, in CA 1956. Parts Terminal Island w/in LA Port and Long Beach Port--used now for parking containers.

In the interwar years and mid-20th C. many US cities made fateful decisions for our climate in abandoning electric street railways for freeways & autos, none more than Los Angeles.

@histodons #history #climate #climatecrisis #environment #carbon #railways #autos #transportation @sociology #sts #tech

JustCodeCulture, 8 months ago to ai

Mis-History is no Mystery with LLMs

Poisoning Web search & misinformation further & faster. The obvious risks and reality of LLMs & bots.

What I like about the article is it discusses recent PhD Daniel Griffin's (Berekeley) accidental experiment regarding the history of Claude Shannon & information theory history & further corrupting search & information.

@histodons
@sociology
@anthropology
@ACM
#AI #LLMs #tech #technology #science #history

https://www.wired.com/story/fast-forward-chatbot-hallucinations-are-poisoning-web-search/

JustCodeCulture, 10 months ago to Automobiles

CBI Image o' Day

Car Fax Machine, 1971

Everyone had the 8 Track Tape player, so what dashboard (or near dashboard) amenities really made a car stand apart, well, a fax machine, of course!

#automobiles #autos #car #cars #1970s #vehicle #transportation #fax #tech #technology #sociology #communication #history
@histodons
@sociology
@commodon

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, 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, 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 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, 9 months ago to ai

Excellent overview of recent work by Signal President Meredith Whittaker & others on how "open" in AI is a myth & is far different from open source software's past in its structuring. It is poised to further concentrate capital & power for AI giants Meta & others.

#AI #artificialintelligence #ml #LLMs #opensource #opensourcesoftware #software #technology #tech #science #history @histodon

https://www.wired.com/story/the-myth-of-open-source-ai/

JustCodeCulture, 9 months ago to Medicine

FDA APPROVAL JUST IN!!! GET THE NEWLY FORMULATED VACCINE BOOST!!! (FOR YOUR HEALTH & OTHERS)

"Vaccination remains critical to public health and continued protection against serious consequences of COVID-19, including hospitalization and death," said Peter Marks, M.D., Ph.D., director of the FDA's Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research.

#FDA #medicine #healthcare #health #covid19 #covid #pandemic #pandemic #vaccineswork #vaccines #vaccine #hospitals #mds

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/09/11/1198719166/new-covid-vaccines-get-fda-approval

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, 8 months ago to technology

CBI Image of the Day:

The IBM 5100, one of the first portable computers, combined a typewriter-like electronic keyboard, a 10-keypad for data entry, a 1024-character display, a processing unit with up to 64K positions of main storage, and a tape cartridge for storing data. (1975).

#technology #computer #computing #ibm #tech #science #history #sociology

@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, 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, 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, 7 months ago to ai

Please share: In DC, on Fri, Oct. 20 @9am (& later airing on CSPAN) Princeton's Matt Jones VT's Janet Abbate, Columbia's Matt Connelly, & I are doing a public/free https://mastodon.social/@AHAHistorians@historians.social AHA Congressional Briefing on how AI history informs AI risks.

Location:
Dirksen Senate Off. Bldg. Rm G11

@histodons
@AHAHistorians
@sociology
@anthropology
@politicalscience
@ACM
@sigchi #ai #tech #aibias #technology #computer #science #history

Congressional Briefings | AHA (historians.org)

JustCodeCulture, 6 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

JustCodeCulture, 9 months ago to ArtificialIntelligence

CBI Image of the Day!

CBI Image of the Day: A West Germany radio telescope at Effelsberg, measuring at 300 ft across, was built in the 1970s to monitor telemetry from Germany’s first deep space probe satellite, Helios. Data collected was decoded by a dual-processor minicomputer system from Interdata.

#radio #networking #computer #tech #communication #communications #technology #science #sociology #sts #software #hardward #history

@histodons
@commodon
@sociology

JustCodeCulture, 7 months ago to internet

From the CBI Archives.
UCLA CS Prof Leonard Kleinrock, successfully transmitted the first message over ARPANET from UCLA to Stanford. The group intended to transmit the word “LOGIN,” but the system crashed just after they had sent the first two letters.

@histodons @sociology #internet #technology #computing #history

JustCodeCulture, 8 months ago to technology

CBI Image of the Day:

From the Tomash Library on the History of Computing, Galileo's proportional compass, which was a calculating instrument for performing geometrical & arithmetical operations, using the proportionality between corresponding sides of two similar triangles.

@histodons #technology #tech #science #compass #math #mathematics #computation #science #history

JustCodeCulture, 7 months ago to technology

Marty Goetz, a kind & wonderfully gifted pioneer in software products & software patenting, passed earlier this month--first software patent ever issued was Marty's!!!

I had the pleasure/honor of conducting an oral history interview with him. Both his Papers & ADR Corp. Records are at the Charles Babbage's Institute's Archives. @histodons @sociology #technology #science #tech #software #IP #history #Goetz

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/21/technology/martin-goetz-dead.html