Charles Babbage Inst. for Computing, Info, Culture @BabbageInst
Interdisciplinary acad. research ctr & mjr archives fostering & conducting computing/software studies rsrch (pubs, edit. ldrshp, events, archives, oral history) cse.umn.edu/cbi University of Minnesota Joined December 2018-
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Charles Babbage Inst. for Computing, Info, Culture retweeted
Copies of JUST CODE just arrived! Partnering w Con & teaming w 19 brilliant STS authors on the vital topic of code/codes & inequality was so special! Authors (full list ToC below): @histoftech Ya-Wen Lei; Hector Beltran; Meg Leta Jones, Stephanie Dick.. See ToC below #STS
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CBI & CWGPP @ U of MN are THRILLED to announce @wrongrrl will be giving a Humphrey Forum talk "Predatory Data: Feminist Resistance to Eugenics in Big Tech" co-hosted by CBI for Computing, Information & Culture, & CWGPP (March 6 @ 5pm CST). z.edu/predatorydataC…
Charles Babbage Inst. for Computing, Info, Culture retweeted
Just released cover of our book JUST CODE, out in Fall 2025. Honored to partner with Con in leading an absolutely stellar team of scholars for this interdisciplinary volume from Johns Hopkins University Press!!! #aibias #aiinequality #surveillance #privacy
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Call for Applications--Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) History & Archiving Fellowship Program. For projects in whole or part advancing ACM history. Applications due 28 Feb. 2025. Info @ link @SIGCIS @SocHistTech @4sWeb #historyofcomputing #sts history.acm.org/wp-content/upl…
CBI Sr. Research Fellow Jim Cortada on Business Talk podcast discussing IBM's history...Congrats Jim! youtube.com/watch?v=H-4ydI…
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Just published essay for the new year, in my critical blockchain studies essays blog, Blockchain & Society. #bitcoin #politicaleconomy blockchainandsociety.com/home-%2Fessays…
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Delighted to be on Melissa MK's podcast series Activists of Tech--discussed tech, AI, history, archives, social justice. Asked my song/album of the day (a few days post election) The Dead Kennedy's "Bedtime for Democracy." #sts #aibias #archives #history linkedin.com/posts/activist…
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"Bridges Over Troubled Waters" My just published essay on a major cybersecurity & privacy PI conf. of NSF, & broader social, policy, and ethical contexts. #ai #surveillance #privacy #gender #race #inequality #sts #nsf z.umn.edu/NSFSaTC
Charles Babbage Inst. for Computing, Info, Culture retweeted
Absolutely delighted to announce that Yale's @lmesseri , Colgate's Dan Bouk, & FL. Int.'s Ken Lipartito have signed on as new CBI Research Fellows!!! CBI Bits & Bytes article on their appointment: z.umn.edu/CBIFellows24 #anthropology #techhistory #sts
Join our colleagues @umnarchives Oct. 4 at 11:30 as they kick-off the 24-25 First Fridays series with presentations from the Upper Midwest Literary Archives and the YMCA Archives. libnews.umn.edu/event/first-fr…
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Latest Interfaces article! (Sept '24) UPenn History & Sociology of Sci ABD Sam Franz's insightful article on the UMich Computer Ctr in the 80s & debate on students playing computer games--useful to their education or a drain on computing resources? #sts cse.umn.edu/cbi/interfaces
The @mnstatefair is back for another 12 (now 11) days of food, farm animals, seed art and innovative technology. Here we see Control Data's latest offering at the 1969 fair.
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CT teen curates tech museum in his attic, showcasing historic innovations wshu.org/connecticut-ne…
Does shopping for back to school supplies include a Burroughs adding machine? Hopefully not. Here we see elementary-age students in 1955 working on the calculators of the day.
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We dug deep into our archives & found some Olympic gold from the 1972 games in Munich, Germany. Here we see a woman working on the electronic information system by Siemens for the 1972 Olympics, which supplied the details of practically everything connected with the Games.
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Thank you to CBI for this honor!
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