Interdisciplinary acad. research ctr & mjr archives fostering & conducting computing/software studies rsrch (pubs, edit. ldrshp, events, archives, oral history)
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Charles Babbage Inst. for Computing, Info, Culture retweeted
12 Aug 2025
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
ALT Box with two copies of JUST CODE adjacent to each other one showing front cover and one back cover on my balcony in my condo in Minneapolis with trees in the background.
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Charles Babbage Inst. for Computing, Info, Culture retweeted
8 Mar 2025
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
ALT Prof. Anita Say Chan sitting during conversation of q and a following her lecture.
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Charles Babbage Inst. for Computing, Info, Culture retweeted
19 Feb 2025
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
ALT Poster for Anita Say Chan's Predatory Data talk at UMN on March 6th. Prof. Chan's photo, short bio, and event info and description are on the poster. The design work features U of MN maroon and gold colors.
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Charles Babbage Inst. for Computing, Info, Culture retweeted
17 Jan 2025
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
ALT Cover of Just Code black title on white book cover.
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Charles Babbage Inst. for Computing, Info, Culture retweeted
21 Jan 2025
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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CBI Sr. Research Fellow Jim Cortada on Business Talk podcast discussing IBM's history...Congrats Jim!
youtube.com/watch?v=H-4ydIrw…
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Charles Babbage Inst. for Computing, Info, Culture retweeted
2 Jan 2025
Just published essay for the new year, in my critical blockchain studies essays blog, Blockchain & Society. #bitcoin #politicaleconomy
blockchainandsociety.com/hom…
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Charles Babbage Inst. for Computing, Info, Culture retweeted
3 Dec 2024
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/activists…
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Charles Babbage Inst. for Computing, Info, Culture retweeted
10 Oct 2024
"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
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Charles Babbage Inst. for Computing, Info, Culture retweeted
1 Oct 2024
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
ALT Portrait images of Lisa Messeri, Dan Bouk, and Ken Lipartito
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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-…
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Charles Babbage Inst. for Computing, Info, Culture retweeted
26 Sep 2024
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
ALT Two images of computer centers circa early 1980s, both black and white pictures with students working at terminals or at tables.
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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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Charles Babbage Inst. for Computing, Info, Culture retweeted
18 Aug 2024
Prior art to imitating AI in videos is imitating NPC animations from video games!
Related to #glitch art, and other genres?
18 Aug 2024
Natural, fantastic extension on prior art: tiktok.com/@animals_wor1d0/v…
Have you found more in this new genre? Places to troll around for them?
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CT teen curates tech museum in his attic, showcasing historic innovations wshu.org/connecticut-news/20…
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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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Charles Babbage Inst. for Computing, Info, Culture retweeted
Anyone miss this format?!
Thank goodness we changed up our website a little!
@umnarchives
#UMN #UMNProud #UMNAlumni
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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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Charles Babbage Inst. for Computing, Info, Culture retweeted
18 Jun 2024
Thank you to CBI for this honor!
17 Jun 2024
Congrats to @SamSchirvar, UPenn, ABD in the History & Soc. of Sci. , the 2024 CBI Human-Computer Interaction History Award recipient for his '23 article “Machinery for Managers: Secretaries, Psychologists, and ‘Human-Computer Interaction’, 1973-1983." cse.umn.edu/cbi/cbi-announce…
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