@BabbageInst Dir. I Prof Hist Sci/Tech UMN I CoEdit J Hopk Bk Srs Computing & Cltr I Rsch-AI, HCI, Priv, Gender, Race. Same hndl on Bsky @JustCode

MPLS, Land of Dakota, Ojibwe..
Joined March 2021
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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Honored to join MOSAICS (Meanings, Ontologies & Structures of AI in Culture & Society) on Oct 15-16, hosted by the Charles Babbage Institute! I present on Fri, Oct 16, 10:45 AM (US Central): ’The Memory/Intelligence Divide: A Manual/Intellectual, Raced, and Classed Hierarchy’
MOSAICS Symosium on Interdisciplinary critical AI Studies. Registration for this free online 2 day event w/ more than 30 standout humanities & soc. sci. scholars is now open. Register today! Org. Cmt. @wrongrrl, S. Amrute, G. Con Diaz, @BabintsevaK, & me. cse.umn.edu/cbi/events/mosai…
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MOSAICS Symosium on Interdisciplinary critical AI Studies. Registration for this free online 2 day event w/ more than 30 standout humanities & soc. sci. scholars is now open. Register today! Org. Cmt. @wrongrrl, S. Amrute, G. Con Diaz, @BabintsevaK, & me. cse.umn.edu/cbi/events/mosai…
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Thrilled to announce Prof. of Media Study, SUNY, Buffalo, @andrewlison Lison CBI Book Launch Lecture for his MIT Press book, entitled, "100% Utilization." Wed. June 3, '26. 1 PM Central. Online. #computerhistory #mediastudies Register: umn.zoom.us/meeting/register…
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Jeffrey Yost retweeted
My book Decentralised Digital Security: Code, Crisis, Community is out now (Open Access). Inside the strange, high-stakes world of blockchain security—watching code break, communities respond, and crises unfold. A field site like no other. Read it here: manchesterhive.com/display/9… (ebook) Hardcover: manchesteruniversitypress.co…
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Register now for this noon hour CBI talk by @AmSwedInstitute President & CBI Research Fellow Dr. Molly Steenson @maximolly May 6th noon-1pm (free lunch starting at 11:30). Andersen Lib. 120B "Generating AI's History Through Architecture." #aistudies #ai z.umn.edu/SteensonAITalk
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Register now & join us/CBI online Tuesday, May 5th at 1pm C/2pm E. for @BuBaykurt Book Drop Day Talk on her tremendous ethnographic book "Smart as a City: The Politics of Testbed Urbanism." #smartcities #aistudies #mediastudies #sts Register at: umn.zoom.us/meeting/register…
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Thrilled to announce CBI's MOSAICS Symposium & to work with Sareeta Amrute, Ekaterina Babintseva, Anita Chan, & Gerardo Con Diaz on this. #aihistory #aistudies #mediastudies #sts October 15-16, 2026, Online Event Deadline for Proposals May 29, 2026 CFP: cse.umn.edu/cbi/call-papers
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Sharing a book review of @tsmullaney The Chinese Computer that I just published in the British Journal of the History of Science. #historyofcomputing #ChinaHistory doi.org/10.1017/S00070874251…
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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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So grateful to the incredible @wrongrrl her tremendous lecture (& wonderful conversation) in MPLS "Predatory Data: Feminist Resistance to Eugenics in Big Tech," on Thursday!!! Hosted by CBI for Computing, Info. & Culture & Ctr. on Women, Gender, & Public Policy. #eugenics #gender
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How did TV shape early conceptions of personal computing & computer dating? Standout media studies scholar Dr. Myrna Moretti's (just published) Interfaces essay "Part of Our Lives Now: The Personal Computer on "Family Ties” " insightfully analyzes this! cse.umn.edu/cbi/interfaces
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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/predatorydataCBI
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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/u…
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AHA members: The AHA is accepting applications for the 2025-26 research grants until February 15, 2025. Preference will be given to advanced doctoral students, nontenured faculty, and unaffiliated scholars and to those with specific research needs. historians.org/community-car…
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Incredible, important victory. So much gratitude to those who waged this long winning battle 🙏💐
BREAKING: NSO Group liable for #Pegasus hacking of @WhatsApp users. Big win for spyware victims. Big loss for NSO. Bad time to be a spyware company. Landmark case. Huge implications. 1/ 🧵
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