JustCodeCulture

JustCodeCulture, 6 months ago to histodons

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, 6 months ago to anthropology

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, 6 months ago to histodons

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

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

JustCodeCulture, 6 months ago to histodons

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, 6 months ago to histodons

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, 6 months ago to anthropology

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, 6 months ago to histodons

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, 6 months ago to sociology

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 sociology

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, 7 months ago to sociology

A Thanksgiving Tale: Altruistically Giving SAMs WE ARE

There once were two Sams (A & BF), into Effective Altruism (EA), a eugenics-rooted cult only altruistic to the chosen few. SBF's in jail on fraud, Sam A runs nonprofit, OpenAI, that is for profit, not open & makes tech that isn't artificial or intelligent. Sam A was fired for not being full on EA enough, but rehired--capitalism wins!

The End

#artificialintelligence #crypyto #fraud #capitalism #tech #history @sociology @histodons

Sam Bankman Fried color photo Cointelegraph, CC BY 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

JustCodeCulture, 7 months ago to histodons

CBI Image of the Day: J. Boyer Machine Co. employees seated and standing outside of the Boyer Machine Shop in St. Louis, MO, ca 1890s. This would evolve into the Burroughs Adding Machine Company and later Burroughs Corporation, a computer manufacturer headquartered in Detroit for most of the 20th century before merging with Sperry Univac to become Unisys.

@histodons #labor #history #workers #laborers #laborhistory

JustCodeCulture, 7 months ago to sociology

Microsoft's Chief Scientific Officer E. Horvitz assembled this collection of essays, many from academics on AI helping humans to flourish.

While interesting, it collectively is a one-sided picture that MUST be read w/ a critical eye given its source & Microsoft's financial interests. It is light on surveillance, labor, racism, sexism & other risks & social harms AI is & will bring, especially AI controlled by giant corporations.

@histodons
@sociology
#aibias #tech

https://unlocked.microsoft.com/ai-anthology/eric-horvitz/?s=09

JustCodeCulture, 7 months ago to politicalscience

Throwback Thursday election version! Twin Cities CBS TV affiliate, @wcco anchors (L to R) Skip Loescher, Dave Moore, Pat Miles, reporting on the returns at the Control Data Corporation news desk on election night November 2, 1982.

@histodons
@politicalscience
#tech #elections #history

JustCodeCulture, 7 months ago to politicalscience

Grateful for Oct. trips to Capitol Hill to offer historical perspective on AI and to frame contemporary social risks and opportunities--first at the @AHAHistorians AHA Congressional Briefing on AI w/ Janet Abbate @nescioquid & Matt Connelly (to air on CSPAN) then at the AI Policy Symposium and Inauguration of Academic Alliance for AI Policy (for which I & the Babbage Institute will be ongoing participants)

@histodons
@politicalscience
@anthropology
#ai #tech #history

https://z.umn.edu/YostCapitolHill

JustCodeCulture, 7 months ago to sociology

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, 7 months ago to politicalscience

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, 7 months ago to anthropology

Each year the CHARLES BABBAGE INSTITUTE for COMPUTING, INFORMATION & CULTURE awards the Tomash Fellowship to an outstanding ABD researching/writing a history of computing/software dissertation.

Many leading scholars of the history and sociology of tech are past Tomash recipients!

Info at link. Deadline is January 15, 2024.

@histodons
@sociology
@anthropology
#technology #tech #science #history #sts

cse.umn.edu/cbi/adelle-and-erwin-tomash-fellowship-history-information-technology

JustCodeCulture, 8 months ago to sociology

CBI is thrilled to have just added three addtional, stellar scholars as CBI Research Fellows, UC, Davis' Gerardo Con Diaz, Cornell's Rebecca Slayton & American Swedish Institute President/CEO (past CMU Prof. & Vice Provost) Molly Wright Steenson. Congrats & many thanks to Con, Rececca & Molly! @histodons @sociology @sigchi @ACM
#technology #AI #HCI #history

https://cse.umn.edu/cbi/feature-stories/con-diaz-slayton-and-steenson-are-now-cbi-research-fellows

JustCodeCulture, 8 months ago to law

We are thrilled that MIT HASTS doctoral candidate Alex Reiss Sorokin was awarded the Tomash Fellowship & began her term in Sept. '23. CONGRATULATIONS Alex!!! Her fascinating & important dissertation project is: "From Research to Search: Technologies of Legal Research, 1964-1994." @histodons @sociology @politicalscience @anthropology @law #technology #science #tech #data #law #history

https://cse.umn.edu/cbi/feature-stories/sorokin-named-2023-2024-tomash-fellow

JustCodeCulture, 8 months ago to sociology

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

JustCodeCulture, 8 months ago to politicalscience

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/@[email protected] 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, 8 months ago to histodons

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, 8 months ago to sociology

Terrific article on the life and work of path breaking physicist Lise Meitner, & gender bias in awarding Nobel Prizes!

@histodons
@sociology
#physics #women #gender #tech #technology #science #history
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/02/science/lise-meitner-fission-nobel.html

JustCodeCulture, 8 months ago to anthropology

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, 8 months ago to histodons

CBI Image of the Day:

In the depths of the UMN Department of Computer Science and Engineering files, we find original FORTRAN punch cards, ca. early 1970s.

@histodons
#technology #history #ibm #universityofminnesota #minnesota #IBM #punchcard #computer #computerscience #science #tech #history

JustCodeCulture, 9 months ago to politicalscience

Time for the Fall of the Google Empire (or at least major regs).

This DOJ case will be critical to going after other Big Tech.

"Google has worked tirelessly over the last 20 years to ensure its search engine is the default option for a host of mobile devices, wireless carriers and web browsers. The company has done this despite knowing it risked creating a monopoly--U.S. DOJ."

@histodons
@sociology
@politicalscience #technology #tech #capitalism #google
#history

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/15/inside-the-start-of-the-landmark-google-antitrust-trial-00116263

JustCodeCulture, 9 months ago to anthropology

CBI Image of the Day:

Iconic image of Kay Mauchly (AKA: Kathleen Rita McNulty Mauchly Antonelli), one of the original programmers on the ENIAC during WWII, with husband John Mauchly, ENIAC co-inventor, and Arthur Draper, as they look over the UNIVAC LARC in 1960.

#computer #technology #tech #science #programming #ENIAC #gender #history #sociology

@histodons
@sociology
@anthropology

JustCodeCulture, 9 months ago to anthropology

CBI Image of the Day:

Iconic image of Kay Mauchly (AKA: Kathleen Rita McNulty Mauchly Antonelli), one of the original programmers on the ENIAC during WWII, with husband John Mauchly, ENIAC co-inventor, and Arthur Draper, as they look over the UNIVAC LARC in 1960.

#computer #technology #tech #science #programming #ENIAC #gender #history #sociology

@histodons
@sociology
@anthropology

JustCodeCulture, 9 months ago to histodons

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 sociology

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, 9 months ago to sociology

CBI Image of the Day:

From CBI's current exhibit by Amanda Wick and Darren Terpstra. "How IT Started, How IT is Going"

Atari interface and Atari 1050 disk drive with joystick, Pong game, etc. 1979-1982.

#pong #videogames #videogame #computergames #computer #science #technology #tech #games #gaming #exhibits #sociology #anthropology #gamers #games
@histodons
@commodon
@sociology

JustCodeCulture, 9 months ago to anthropology

An interesting historical article on cybernetics & AI pioneer MIT's Joseph Weizenbaum (ELIZA inventor), and his post-ELIZA critique of AI.

#AI #tech #technology #science #computers #computerscience #cybernetics #history #sociology #artificialintelligence #chatbot #ChatGPT #eliza

@histodons @sociology @anthropology @politicalscience

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/jul/25/joseph-weizenbaum-inventor-eliza-chatbot-turned-against-artificial-intelligence-ai

JustCodeCulture, 9 months ago to anthropology

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, 9 months ago to politicalscience

"TRUTH sign collapses on Vivek Ramaswamy."

Or

A HARD TRUTH A GONNA FALL

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

JustCodeCulture, 9 months ago to anthropology

CBI Image of the Day:

Nancy Gradwell, left, and Bradley Johnson, 8th graders at Philadelphia's Wagner Jr High, listen intently as Mrs, Phyllis Eggleston,
mathematics teacher, explains how to use an IBM 1050 terminal to help solve homework problems, 1966.

@histodons
@sociology
@anthropology
#technology #tech #gender #education #africanamericans #math #computing #computer #history #sociology #anthropology #science #mathematics #stem

JustCodeCulture, 9 months ago to sociology

Reboot Representation & Pivotal Ventures partnered with McKinsey & Co. on this major, just-released report studying Black, Latina, and Native Americans inclusion & empowerment in information technology.

#information #tech #technology #AI #artificialintelligence #blm #black #latina #nativeamerican #indigenous #computer #computers #software #stem #women#gender #genderstudies #ethics #computerscience #genderbias #racism #inclusion #dei @histodons @commodon @sociology
https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/social-sector/our-insights/empowering-black-latina-and-native-american-women-in-tech?cid=other-soc----oth----ip

JustCodeCulture, 9 months ago to sociology

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, 9 months ago to anthropology

Important Privacy Policy Win (for UK & beyond)!

@Mer__edith : “It’s absolutely a victory...It commits to not using broken tech or broken techniques to undermine end-to-end encryption.”

Interested in policy, social, & historical research on privacy? CBI has amazing archives on the topic & we are doing a [#privacy proj.+oral histories on a major NSF grant]

#tech #technology #encryption #science
@histodons @commodon
@sociology
@anthropology
@politicalscience

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/britain-admits-defeat-in-online-safety-bill-encryption

JustCodeCulture, 9 months ago to anthropology

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, 9 months ago to sociology

The far right's war on higher ed. & esp. the liberal arts is an attack on democracy. Unless stopped, it will play out on many US campuses.

“This is a test case for a conservative overhaul of higher education – and it isn’t going to stay isolated to New College or Florida.”

-Gender St. faculty, New College, resigned Prof. Clarkson.

#newcollege #desantis #fl #florida #HighEducation #universities #farright #rightwing @politicalscience @histodons @sociology @anthropol
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/sep/03/new-college-florida-desantis-teachers

JustCodeCulture, 9 months ago to sociology

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, 9 months ago to histodons

CBI Image of the Day:

An advanced computer-aided design program, called AD2000, available from Control Data Corp., helps to automate the industrial design and drafting process. It was used to create this automotive component model displayed on a computer graphics terminal (1978).

#graphics #computer #computers #computerscience #technology #tech #womenintech #womeninengineering #engineering #history
@histodons

JustCodeCulture, 9 months ago to histodons

CBI Image of the Day: In 1969, Macmillan Publishing printed its first edition of the Baseball Encyclopedia. This was also the first time ever stats were compiled using computer technology. #baseball #computer #technology #tech #sport #sports #statistics #stats #computation #data #book #books #history
@histodons

JustCodeCulture, 10 months ago to histodons

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, 10 months ago to economics

New! Essay Review of Joshua DÁVILA (aka The Blockchain Socialist) new book
Blockchain Radicals, & launch to further discussion of blockchain left, higher ed. etc. In my Blockchain and Society

https://z.umn.edu/blckchnradicals

#blockchain #socialism #left #crypto #cryptocurrency #gender #womenintech #women #tech #science #economics #politicaleconomy #Bitcoin #BTC #Ethereum #Eth
@histodons
@sociology
@anthropology
@theblockchainsocialist @economics
@politicalscience

https://z.umn.edu/blckchnradicals

JustCodeCulture, 10 months ago to histodons

CBI Image of the Day:

Jean Sammet (IBM) in a relaxed moment before her programming languages lecture at the UMD in 1979.

Michael Brodie and Edgar H. Sibley accompany her. (from CBI digital exhibit "Candid Photos of Computer Scientists.")

Photo part of a series by Ben Shneiderman, donated to CBI. CBI has Jean Sammet Papers (500 plus boxes)

@histodons
#computer #computerscience #compsci #sammet #software #tech #technology #science #gender #womenshistory #history
https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/dca79ac195634179aa562ce9d9fbfb4e