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[1] From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk>
Subject: history of AI (26)
[2] From: Magnus Rust <magnus.rust@unibas.ch>
Subject: WEIZENBAUM'S WORLDS (November 03-04, Zoom Workshop) (43)
[3] From: Diane Jakacki <dkj004@bucknell.edu>
Subject: Public lecture: DH in the Library: Collaboration and Complementarity (56)
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Date: 2023-10-26 05:49:46+00:00
From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk>
Subject: history of AI
Working Group 9.7 of the Human Choice in Computers (HCC) conference
series for 2024, “Humans, Technological Innovations and Artificial
Intelligence: Opportunities and Consequences”, will sponsor a track of
papers about the history of AI. Particular interest has been expressed
in any papers from scholars who can show how the history of computing
can shed light on the current development and future directions of
generative artificial intelligence. Thinking about other researchers,
museums, archives, and educators, the best papers will suggest how to
improve contemporary practice. What are the most important historical
developments related to today’s use of AI?
Even though researchers established the field of artificial intelligence
in the 1950s, with famous milestones like the Turing Test and the
Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence, papers
could consider antecedents. Cultural representations of artificial
intelligence, such as Čapek’s 1921 play R.U.R., could also provide an
effective starting point for analysis.
See <https://ifipwg97.org/workshops/hcc16/> for more information. [Note:
the above is a slightly revised version of text from this website.]
--
Willard McCarty,
Professor emeritus, King's College London;
Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews; Humanist
www.mccarty.org.uk
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Date: 2023-10-25 14:36:20+00:00
From: Magnus Rust <magnus.rust@unibas.ch>
Subject: WEIZENBAUM'S WORLDS (November 03-04, Zoom Workshop)
My name is Magnus Rust and I am currently an assistant/PhD candidate at
the University of Basel, where I am doing historical research on the
life and work of computer science pioneer and technology skeptic Joe
Weizenbaum (1923-2008), whose biography has not yet been researched (as
far as I know).
In the year of his 100th birthday, next week I am co-organizing with
Christian Strippel of the Weizenbaum Institute in Berlin a two-day
workshop entitled:
"Weizenbaum's Worlds: Technological Change and Computer Criticism in the
U.S. and Germany, ca. 1960-1990" ´
We’ve got a great line-up of presenters for Friday, November 03:
(1)Zachary Loeb: “Not Merely Academic Foolery“: Mumford, Weizenbaum, and
the Computer as “Authoritarian Technic”
(2)Jeff Shrager, Art Schwarz, Peggy Weil, Mark Marino, David Berry,
Sarah Ciston, Anthony Hay & Peter Millican: Reading ELIZA: Understanding
Weizenbaum Through His Code
(3)Patrick McCray: “I Have Pronounced Heresy” – Joseph Weizenbaum’s
Politics of Pessimism
And the best part of it: It all takes place exclusively on Zoom, 3.00 –
8.00 pm CET / 7.00 am – 12.00 am PDT.
So no reason not to tune in. All critical perspectives welcome.
All infos with abstracts and time schedule:
<https://www.weizenbaum-institut.de/en/events-1/weizenbaums-worlds-technological-change-and-computer-criticism/>
Best,
Magnus
Magnus Rust | Assistent
Seminar für Medienwissenschaft
Universität Basel
Tel. +41 61 207 67 43
magnus.rust@unibas.ch
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Date: 2023-10-25 05:25:24+00:00
From: Diane Jakacki <dkj004@bucknell.edu>
Subject: Public lecture: DH in the Library: Collaboration and Complementarity
Dear all,
Bucknell University Library & Information Technology cordially invites
you to a virtual lecture on “Collaboration and Complementarity”
by Lisa Goddard (University of Victoria), Monday October 30, 2023,
4:45 Eastern Time.
Lisa’s talk will be open to the public via Zoom webinar. Register for
the event here:
<https://bucknell.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_o4ZnU-cqS8OCc-6HRcNEtg>
This event is part of our year-long celebration of a decade of digital
scholarship initiatives at Bucknell University.
"Collaboration and Complementarity"
Abstract: “Libraries are critical campus collaborators for the Digital
Humanities, offering funding and staffing models that complement
grant-funded projects and provide benefits to both partners. Many
libraries provide creative spaces, specialized equipment, and software
instruction for students and research teams. Libraries can extend their
publishing and digital exhibit infrastructure to DH projects, improving
research impact and knowledge mobilization. As cultural memory
institutions, libraries are typically the only campus partner with
experience preserving and curating research objects for the long term.
This talk will review some of the great work that libraries and DH
researchers have accomplished together, and will consider future
directions for fruitful collaboration.”
Lisa Goddard’s biography: Lisa Goddard is Associate University Librarian
for Advanced Research Services at the University of Victoria Libraries.
Her research interests include open access publishing, linked data,
digital preservation, and digital humanities. Lisa is a co-investigator
on the Endings Project: Preserving Digital Projects for Long-Term
Usability, and is a member of the Canadian Persistent Identifiers
Advisory Committee. She is the storage lead for the Linked
Infrastructure for Networked Cultural Scholarship (LINCS) project. ORCID
ID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4970-053X
<http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4970-053X>
Look for more events over the coming months.
Please contact me with any questions.
Best wishes,
Diane
--
Diane Jakacki, Ph.D.
Digital Scholarship Coordinator
Affiliate Faculty in Comparative & Digital Humanities
Bucknell University
diane.jakacki@bucknell.edu <mailto:diane.jakacki@bucknell.edu>
(she/her)
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