Research Prof @ NYU. Author: A People's History of Computing in the US from @Harvard_Press. Feminist antiracist historian.
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I've written a lot recently (see: my book). This was the hardest thing to write, and perhaps the most important. Please read it, share it, and stand with me. #MeToo medium.com/@drjoy/why-im-fir…
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What a treat! Loved this conversation with @merbroussard @cmcilwain @thekibosh — and excited to read this anthology! 🔥 @grimmelm @WillOremus @JoyMLRankin @EthanZ ++ press.princeton.edu/books/pa…
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So many great essays in this book from the likes of @EthanZ, @elenabotella, @JoyMLRankin, @maasalan, @quinndupont, @DavidCasselTNS, @grimmelm, @WillOremus, @margaretomara, @lilyhnewman, @lowenliu, @katiehafner, @josephinecwolff
and many more!
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Join us on Zoom tomorrow night for what is sure to be a fascinating a conversation between @thekibosch, @TheUniverse and @JoyMLRankin as they discuss their contributions to a newly published anthology from @PrincetonUPress.
Register here: princetonlibrary.libnet.info…
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New In Focus Alert: "New Histories of Computational Personhood: An Introduction" edited by @kcohen and @bazintastic with contributions by @jacobgaboury, @JoyMLRankin, Avery Slater, and @homay in our latest 61.4 (Summer 2022) issue online and #OpenAccess on jcmsjournal.org
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[3/23, 5PM] What does computing's history say about STEM's pipeline problem? What does the pipeline problem say about computing, power, + society? Join @MCMBrownU + @BrownCSDept for a talk with @JoyMLRankin, part of the Critical Computing Series. Register: bit.ly/3KIOkMQ
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🚀🧶 It's wonderful to have our research on the hardware weavers for the moon missions included in this essay, alongside history of technology s'heroes @JoyMLRankin and @lnakamur!
"Hundreds of thousands ... contributed to Apollo over a decade. Among them: the Navajo women who assembled state-of-the-art integrated circuits for the Apollo Guidance Computer and the women employees of Raytheon who wove the computer’s core memory." sciencenews.org/article/core…
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This is a great article full stop but especially great for teaching! Womens hands were the Apollos greatest resource even if nobody knew it, now is a good time to acknowledge that!
My latest essay, with thanks to @lnakamur @SamShorey @danielarosner @thatbrock and Helen Remick for their work that inspired it: sciencenews.org/article/core…
My latest essay, with thanks to @lnakamur @SamShorey @danielarosner @thatbrock and Helen Remick for their work that inspired it: sciencenews.org/article/core…
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“The greatest trick that capitalism ever pulled was convincing the world that what women do in the home isn’t work,” says Joy Rankin, a historian of computing who works for the AI Now Institute,
“… in order to realize these changes, we as a society would have to face the uncomfortable prospect that high-status and low-status work are both integral to a functioning society and should be economically viewed as such.”
wired.com/story/second-shift…
More great writing from @histoftech, also featuring quotes from yours truly.
My latest for @wired, on the privilege and the paradox of working from home: wired.com/story/second-shift…
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Where in the world is…Cathy Carlston? In our 45th issue historian and then-contributing editor @JoyMLRankin uncovered the story of Carmen Sandiego's least known creator, a woman named Cathy Carlston. buff.ly/3qtqf4d
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"The Silicon Valley mythology does us a disservice. It creates a digital America dependent on the work of a handful of male tech geniuses. It deletes the work of the many individuals who had been computing, and it effaces their diversity"
I'm loving @JoyMLRankin's book
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🧵 Hey y’all! My name is Thalía Menchaca, and I’ve created a short presentation on a piece by @JoyMLRankin titled, "Whitewashing tech: Why the erasures of the past matter today."
I wrote this based on some of my current research @AINowInstitute (published last week but I was taking time off to be w/family, so sharing it here now): slate.com/technology/2021/03…
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Histories of AI: Imaginaries and Materialities
Online Seminar hosted by @DigiLabour and Histories of AI Project - University of Cambridge
April 19-20. See the schedule below
digilabour.com.br/2021/04/05…
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Samy was, with @JeffDean + Andrew Ng, one of the co-founders of Google Brain and a towering figure within machine learning. This is a big deal.
Scoop w/ @NicoAGrant & @dinabass: Google AI research manager Samy Bengio has resigned from his position, following the ousting of Ethical AI leaders @timnitGebru and @mmitchell_ai
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Not only was Samy's leadership severely undermined while continuing to dismantle his team & perpetuate the opposite of the values he holds, it was very clear he had been getting sidelined since before we were even fired.
I had even said that in my email they cited while firing me
Scoop w/ @NicoAGrant & @dinabass: Google AI research manager Samy Bengio has resigned from his position, following the ousting of Ethical AI leaders @timnitGebru and @mmitchell_ai
bloomberg.com/news/articles/…