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I write you ton inform you of two upcoming seminars with Cyrus Mody on the 29<span class="x_ContentPasted21 ContentPasted0"><sup class="x_ContentPasted21 ContentPasted0">th</sup> and 30<span class="x_ContentPasted21 ContentPasted0"><sup class="x_ContentPasted21 ContentPasted0">th</sup> november
2023</span></span> (both in english, online or in-person in Paris). Those talks might be of interest for subscribers of this list and the history of computing more broadly.
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Hope you'll be able to join, looking forward for the discussion!</div>
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/ CNAM Paris or via Microsoft Teams (you receive link after registration)</div>
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there were largescale changes in the organization of American and global science in the two decades before and the two decades after the end of the Cold War - that science became more entrepreneurial, more collaborative, more interdisciplinary, more applied,
and generally adapted to the neoliberal turn in culture and politics. The paradigmatic cases for illustrating this neoliberal turn have come from the life sciences. In The Long Arm of Moore's Law I show that many of these changes directly or indirectly resulted
from the semiconductor industry's need to maintain the pace of miniaturization (and hence innovation) in microelectronics. I present a series of case studies of corporate, academic, and government research laboratories looking at: (failed) attempts to accelerate
Moore's Law though alternative electronics technologies; new institutions bridging universities and industry that aimed to respond to growing competition from Japan; and the effects of the migration of corporate researchers into academia as the giant corporate
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housing, public transport, pollution detection and remediation, assistive devices for people with disabilities, delivering energy and medicine to remote (often poor and minoritized) communities, etc. In today's language, the early 1970s were a golden age of
Responsible Research and Innovation; and, indeed, the fields that make up RRI today (including Technology Assessment and STS) came out of this milieu. Yet after the energy crisis of 1973 and the recession of 1975, the nation's changing political mood encouraged
square scientists and engineers to refocus on less radical topics, often in collaboration with industry. Thus, the late 1970s saw a swing away from responsible innovation - something that today's RRI rarely acknowledges is possible. This talk explores the
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<span class="x_ContentPasted0 x_ContentPasted9 x_ContentPasted10 x_ContentPasted11 x_ContentPasted15 ContentPasted2" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Cyrus Mody is an historian at Maastricht University of recent science and technology, specifically
the applied physical sciences in the United States since 1965. His research studies the commercialization of academic research, the longue durée of responsible research and innovation (RRI), and the technopolitics of scarcity in the long 1970s. For 2020-2025,
Prof. Mody is the principal investigator for an NWO (Netherland Organisation for Scientific Research) Vici grant, "Managing Scarcity and Sustainability: The Oil Industry, Environmentalism, and Alternative Energy in the Age of Scarcity" (https://managingscarcity.com/).
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