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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#467886" vlink="#96607D" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Hello SIGCIS,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I am currently a participant in the Modern History of Mathematics program at the Isaac Newton Institute (<a href="https://www.newton.ac.uk/event/mhm/">https://www.newton.ac.uk/event/mhm/</a>). As I still have a job in Milwaukee to do, I’m mostly in the US this semester, but was in residence for most of Jan and will be back in late-March and early April to coincide with the main period of activity for a subproject on the history of data and computing.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The institute encourages residents to give talks elsewhere in the UK, and even has some travel funding available for the purpose though I am not sure what the terms and details of that are. So if any of you are in the UK and would like me to try to set up a visit to give a talk, let me know and we’ll see what can be worked out. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>My main talk currently is called “Artificial Intelligence: The Brand that Wouldn’t Die” and presents material from my CACM series (described in my earlier message below) and upcoming book. But I also have talks on ENIAC labour, early data base management history, etc. I’ve also got a talk about <i>A New History of Modern Computing</i> should anyone be really into the historiography of computing, and a talk that adapts my article “Hey Google, What’s a Moonshot: How Silicon Valley Mocks Apollo” which I could freshen a little to acknowledge the huge sums currently being talked about around AI investment.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Some dates during the period are earmarked for activities at the institute. The best for a talk would be March 19-21 which are entirely free, but I can also be free Mar 31-April 2 and, depending on how things shape up, potentially on a couple of other days.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Best wishes,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Tom<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>Thomas Haigh<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Professor & Chair, UWM History Department<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Chair, IEEE Computer Society History Committee<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Director, ACM History Committee Turing Awards Project<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>See more at <a href="http://www.tomandmaria.com/Tom"><span style='color:#467886'>www.tomandmaria.com/Tom</span></a> <o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none'> thomas.haigh@gmail.com <thomas.haigh@gmail.com> <br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, January 13, 2025 4:39 PM<br><b>To:</b> members@sigcis.org<br><b>Subject:</b> History of AI series in CACM<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Hello SIGCIS,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>CACM recently put up the online version of the fifth and final part in my history of AI series, which has been appearing slowly over the past year and a half. These add up to a very short history of AI from 1955 to the present.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><ol style='margin-top:0in' start=1 type=1><li class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3'>Conjoined Twins: Artificial Intelligence and the Invention of Computer Science," <i>Communications of the ACM </i>66:6 (June, 2023):33-37. <a href="https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3593007">https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3593007</a> <o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3'>"There Was No 'First AI Winter'," <i>Communications of the ACM </i>66:12 (December 2023):35-39. <a href="https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3625833">https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3625833</a><o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3'>"How the AI Boom Went Bust," <i>Communications of the ACM</i> 67:2 (February 2024):22-26. <a href="https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3634901">https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3634901</a><o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3'>"Between the Booms: AI in Winter," <i>Communications of the ACM</i> 67:11 (November 2024):18-23. <a href="https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3688379">https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3688379</a><o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3'>“Artificial Intelligence Then and Now,” <i>Communications of the ACM</i> 68:2 (February 2025). <a href="https://cacm.acm.org/opinion/artificial-intelligence-then-and-now/">https://cacm.acm.org/opinion/artificial-intelligence-then-and-now/</a><o:p></o:p></li></ol><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>A somewhat less short (circa 50K words) version of this story will be appearing as an MIT Press book with the working title Artificial Intelligence: The History of a Brand. Other than more detail, context, and human background a main difference is that each short chapter in the book features a relatively detailed case study of a classic AI-branded system. This is a short history of AI in all senses, focusing on the brand itself and the relationship of AI to the development of computer science as a discipline. Given the huge industry focused on writing about modern AI the focus is almost exclusively on AI prior to the recent boom, with a brief discussion of contemporary approaches there primarily as a contrast. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>In all formats, I’ve been making an effort to showcase a variety of interesting work that’s been appearing on the topic from younger scholars over the last few years.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>In November I was at the IWM in Vienna as the Senior Digital Humanism fellow. While in town I also agreed to teach a compressed graduate course for the compute science students at the technical university, using a draft of the book as the core text. You can see the syllabus at <a href="https://www.tomandmaria.com/Tom/TUW">https://www.tomandmaria.com/Tom/TUW</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>If anyone is interested in trying out a newer draft of the book for teaching in the summer or fall then let me know and I’ll see what I can do.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Best wishes,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Tom<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Thomas Haigh<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Professor & Chair, History Department, University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Chair, IEEE Computer Society History Committee<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Director, ACM History Committee Turing Awards Project<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>See more at <a href="http://www.tomandmaria.com/Tom">www.tomandmaria.com/Tom</a> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>