@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
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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
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May 28
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
May 6
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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13 Aug 2025
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…
ALT Cover of Thomas Mullaney's book The Chinese Computer. Blue and gray image/illustration with a woman at a keyboard and a QWERTY keyboard above with Chinese characters on the keys.
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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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Jeffrey Yost retweeted
22 May 2025
Mullaney Awarded 2025 CBI Human-Computer Interaction History Prize
cse.umn.edu/cbi/news/mullane…
I'm floored and honored in equal measure. My thanks to the committee heartfelt congratulations to CMU colleague Brad Myers
cc @mitpress @WEAI_Columbia @StanfordHistory @StanfordLibs
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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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27 Feb 2025
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
ALT Laptop streaming 1980s sitcom Family Ties' PC episode on computer dating with Alex behind an early personal computer typing away and Mallory looking on.
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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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Jeffrey Yost 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
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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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Jeffrey Yost 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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Jeffrey Yost retweeted
26 Dec 2024
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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Jeffrey Yost retweeted
21 Dec 2024
Incredible, important victory. So much gratitude to those who waged this long winning battle 🙏💐
21 Dec 2024
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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Jeffrey Yost retweeted
19 Dec 2024
"Plutocracy is its own kind of dictatorship. When companies larger, wealthier and more powerful than most world governments threaten individual liberty with coercive private taxation and regulation, it threatens our way of life."
Jonathan Kanter, Assistant Attorney General, 2024
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Jeffrey Yost retweeted
18 Dec 2024
Likely cover of a new book, coming from Oxford University Press, likely in May. Widely said to be "the one book you need to read, if you want to have a happy, fun-filled life, with friends, and without stomach pain."
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