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Thrilled to be part of such an amazing group taking a fresh look at history of algorithms. Thx to @profjamesevans, Adrian Johns & Osiris editorial team for bringing it all together. My article on statistical speech rec, IBM & how we became "data-driven": journals.uchicago.edu/toc/os…
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Three cheers to @SIGCIS for a fantastically organized conference in Chile!! And my thanks to the organizing committee @morgangames @xiaochang @BabintsevaK Gili Vidan @coletteperold who put such care into logistics to support so many diverse needs! Can't wait for #SIGCIS2025!
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Many thanks to @wrongrrl for delivering the keynote address at this year’s @SIGCIS meeting! Her forthcoming book on eugenics & Big Tech (Predatory Data) should be on every #histSTM & #STS scholar’s reading list: ucpress.edu/book/97805204028… #SIGCIS2024
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So honored to be the Keynote for the 2024 ACM @SIGCIS in Vina Del Mar, Chile this July! This year's theme, Patchworks, is beautifully framed & evocative. Three cheers ​@morgangames @xiaochang @BabintsevaK Gili Vidan & @coletteperold! CFP's open until 2/12: meetings.sigcis.org/call-for…
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✨Just published: New @ISSUESinST collection of STS scholars addressing the urgent governance challenges of generative AI. This came from our year-long @ENS_ULM working group, where we each focused on one core problem: issues.org/an-ai-society/
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Thrilled to be part of such an amazing group taking a fresh look at history of algorithms. Thx to @profjamesevans, Adrian Johns & Osiris editorial team for bringing it all together. My article on statistical speech rec, IBM & how we became "data-driven": journals.uchicago.edu/toc/os…
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The article I wrote w/@maramills on the history of speech recognition and speaker identification for the special issue of Technology and Culture on sound data is finally out! muse.jhu.edu/article/727301. Thanks to @carobirdsall and Viktoria Tkaczyk for bringing the issue together!
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Well, this is definitely the most I've ever seen people talk about Bing.
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Heads up that registration closes Wed Feb 15th!
CBI's Automation by Design: Politics, Culture & Landscape in Age of Machines That Learn -a free symposium Feb. 17-18 '23 Register today at z.umn.edu/8d7l pls rt @SocHistTech @4sWeb @hssonline @labortechgroup #ai #hci #sts @SIGCIS @greenarchives1 @xiaochang @danbouk
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CBI's Automation by Design: Politics, Culture & Landscape in Age of Machines That Learn -a free symposium Feb. 17-18 '23 Register today at z.umn.edu/8d7l pls rt @SocHistTech @4sWeb @hssonline @labortechgroup #ai #hci #sts @SIGCIS @greenarchives1 @xiaochang @danbouk
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So, I definitely need there to be an enterprise software version of this.
BTS as Microsoft applications (thread)
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something something the demise of parody etc. 🫠
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So excited to read this!
We have some great new books coming out in January, including "Code" by @bernardionysius. Check them out! dukeupress.wordpress.com/202…
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Are image recognition systems okay?
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Also who is taking so many beach photos of chickens.
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omg help, who has taken this clearly powerful rogue AI's chicken friend. 😭
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Alright, who all is going to #SHOT2022 this year and wants to hang out. I feel like I haven't seen most of you in eons.
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Abstractions & Embodiments rev. in CBI's Bits & Bytes Congrats on this tremendous book @mysdick & Janet & ALL authors! @histoftech @liz_petrick @DocDre @xiaochang @BabintsevaK @tastarte @onthemasspike @tastarte @lnakamur @IveBeenKelceyG @libshipwreck z.umn.edu/8653

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Open access: My article "Orientalism and Informatics: Alterity From the Chess-Playing Turk to Amazon's Mechanical Turk," arguing ethnic, bodily, gendered difference key in AI, HCI, & our ideals of "reason" bit.ly/34GQRpd [thread from 2020; w/ 2022 updates at the end] 1/

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