<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">FYI from my Inbox</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br></div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><h2 id="m_1754536320435740889gmail-towards-a-history-of-artificial-intelligence" style="margin:0px 0px 20px;line-height:1.1;font-family:"Noto Sans","Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#000000">Towards a History of Artificial Intelligence</font></span></h2><h3 id="m_1754536320435740889gmail-workshop-at-columbia-university" style="margin:0px 0px 20px;line-height:1.1;font-family:"Noto Sans","Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#000000">Workshop at Columbia University</font></span></h3><p style="margin:0px 0px 20px;font-family:"Noto Sans","Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#000000">May 24, 2019<br><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__matthewljones.github.io_historyai2019_&d=DwMFaQ&c=slrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ&r=fL-HZ3beQSCwiZoyCRj8LPGQuC0S6bt-8mx3vjHdNRc&m=i8DhIMNnuQJZWVIJGN_MbB2OomHWefCwrK3Rw9VOxWI&s=bHs6Q9up9CZD9eyb6Tb2366kl4omhxrxJ6QFGuT6M34&e=" target="_blank">https://matthewljones.github.io/historyai2019/</a></font></span></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 20px;font-family:"Noto Sans","Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#000000"><u><em>Due date</em> for abstracts: March 18, 2019, 5pm EST.</u></font></span></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 20px;font-family:"Noto Sans","Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#000000">No thorough professional history of artificial intelligence and machine learning from World War II to the present exists, despite the longstanding importance of the field to intellectual history, the history of science and technology, and its spectacular and explosive rise in quotidian systems worldwide in the last decade, for good, for evil—and, well, for–the jury’s still out. Numerous participant histories, written by former researchers, provide a rich if largely internalist view of the field’s development.</font></span></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 20px;font-family:"Noto Sans","Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#000000">No one scholar could write such a broad ranging history with authority. We seek to scaffold one by bringing together a broad community of scholars. In May 2019, with support from Center for Science and Society at Columbia University and the Leverhulme Center for the Future of Intelligence (CFI) at the University of Cambridge, a group of historians will gather to share their current research and plan a short volume on the major stages of AI’s development since the Second World War.</font></span></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 20px;font-family:"Noto Sans","Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#000000">While seeking to revisit major narratives centered on the UK and US, we plan as much as possible to incorporate a global story of AI, which has often been told predominantly in an Anglo-American framework, and to draw together a capacious range of methodological approaches, kinds of histories, and historians.</font></span></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 20px;font-family:"Noto Sans","Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#000000">Each participant will provide a <em>draft</em> work in progress–a chapter or paper from their current research project–for circulation around three weeks before the first workshop. We will come together at Columbia this spring to discuss all the papers. The subsequent year, pending funding, we hope for each participant to return with a shorter, highly accessible, chapter, connected to their research, for a collectively authored volume.</font></span></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 20px;font-family:"Noto Sans","Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#000000">At the meeting we will first workshop the works in progress together. Second, we will plan together a collectively authored volume of short chapters (c. 10pp) providing a legible and brief introduction to the history of artificial intelligence, ideally to be published by a major press for a wide audience. Contributions from grad students and early career researchers are especially welcome, particularly from underrepresented communities.</font></span></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 20px;font-family:"Noto Sans","Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#000000">We have limited funds for travel and housing for some participants, which we plan to allocate primarily to early career scholars.</font></span></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 20px;font-family:"Noto Sans","Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#000000">We invite you to apply to join the workshop by filling out this form: <a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__goo.gl_forms_ddMQE36kWievsmG92&d=DwMFaQ&c=slrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ&r=fL-HZ3beQSCwiZoyCRj8LPGQuC0S6bt-8mx3vjHdNRc&m=i8DhIMNnuQJZWVIJGN_MbB2OomHWefCwrK3Rw9VOxWI&s=nB8LS5zNHgeazyAiHrfb6mBuPjbGUMQ2KdXU2Sx8f4U&e=" target="_blank">https://goo.gl/forms/ddMQE36kWievsmG92</a>, including a title and abstract. Please direct questions to Matt Jones (<a href="mailto:mjones@columbia.edu" target="_blank">mjones@columbia.edu</a>) and/or Jonnie Penn (<a href="mailto:jnp28@cam.ac.uk" target="_blank">jnp28@cam.ac.uk</a>). The hard deadline is March 18, 2019, at 5pm.</font></span></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 20px;font-family:"Noto Sans","Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#000000">Join a new list serve on the History of AI here: <a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__lists.cam.ac.uk_mailman_listinfo_ucam-2Dcfi-2Daihistoriansnetwork&d=DwMFaQ&c=slrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ&r=fL-HZ3beQSCwiZoyCRj8LPGQuC0S6bt-8mx3vjHdNRc&m=i8DhIMNnuQJZWVIJGN_MbB2OomHWefCwrK3Rw9VOxWI&s=1OKjJF6xvdU4qh23eQqEIo53mKapZlBaYz6V0m80bjI&e=" target="_blank">https://lists.cam.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/ucam-cfi-aihistoriansnetwork</a> .</font></span></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 20px;font-family:"Noto Sans","Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#000000">Organizers:</font></span></p><ul style="margin:0px 0px 20px;font-family:"Noto Sans","Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><li><p style="margin:0px 0px 20px"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#000000">Stephanie Dick, History and Sociology of Science and Medicine, Pennsylvania</font></span></p></li><li><p style="margin:0px 0px 20px"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#000000">Matthew L. Jones, History, Columbia; Big Data and Science Studies Cluster, Center for Science and Society</font></span></p></li><li><p style="margin:0px 0px 20px"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#000000">Jonnie Penn, HPS, Cambridge, Harvard Berkman-Klein, and Leverhulme Centre for History of the Future of Intelligence</font></span></p></li><li><p style="margin:0px 0px 20px"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#000000">Aaron Plasek, Columbia</font></span></p></li></ul><p style="margin:0px 0px 20px;font-family:"Noto Sans","Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#000000">Current Funders:</font></span></p><ul style="margin:0px 0px 20px;font-family:"Noto Sans","Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><li><p style="margin:0px 0px 20px"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#000000">Center for Science and Society, Columbia University</font></span></p></li><li><p style="margin:0px 0px 20px"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#000000">Division of Social Science, Columbia University</font></span></p></li><li><p style="margin:0px 0px 20px"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#000000">Leibniz Fund</font></span></p></li><li><p style="margin:0px 0px 20px"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#000000">Leverhulme Centre for History of the Future of Intelligence</font></span></p></li></ul></div></div>
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