<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><p>Dear colleagues,</p>
<p>This message is to inform you of the resumption of our seminar on the socio-history of computing, organized by the HT2S laboratory at CNAM (Paris), with two inaugural sessions in English.</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">October 8th 2025 15h-17h - </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Kevin Driscoll, University of Virginia</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> - Small AI: Amateur participation in artificial intelligence of the 1980s</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">October 13th</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> 2025 15h-17h - </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Lennart Vincent Schmidt et Michael Homberg, Leibniz Centre for Contemporary History Potsdam</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> - Digital Inequalities. Divides, Hierarchies, and Boundaries in Germany</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Inscriptions: </span><a href="https://framaforms.org/inscription-seminaire-de-socio-histoire-de-linformatique-1757664332" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://framaforms.org/inscription-seminaire-de-socio-histoire-de-linformatique-1757664332</span></a></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Informations on our seminar: </span><a href="https://sohistinfo.github.io/" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://sohistinfo.github.io/</span></a></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Localisation: 2 rue Conté 75003 Paris et en visio</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">-----</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Next session's summary:</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Small AI: Amateur participation in artificial intelligence of the 1980s</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Kevin Driscoll is the author of The Modem World (2022), co-author of Minitel: Welcome to the Internet, and head of et Minitel Research Lab, USA with Julien Mailland. He is associate professor in Media studies at the University of Virginia.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Today, artificial intelligence systems are portrayed as massive, remote, costly, and obscure. But there is nothing natural or inevitable about these characteristics. This talk will consider how microcomputer enthusiasts made sense of the 1980s artificial intelligence boom (and bust) through an exploration of hobbyist print media of the period. Beginning in the mid-1970s, an international literature of how-to books, magazine articles, and “type-in” programs promised to teach new computer owners the fundamental principles of AI through hands-on engagement with BASIC code. Recovering and re-running these materials with the help of software emulation reveals a different set of beliefs about technology and expertise than those that have come to dominate today’s AI discourse. Glimpses of a “micro” AI invite us to imagine an alternative future in which AI is imminent, affordable, accessible, and comprehensible to expert and non-expert computer users alike.</span></p><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(136,136,136);font-size:12.8px"><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102);font-size:x-small">Institutional email address : <a href="mailto:camille.paloque_berges@cnam.fr" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">camille.paloque_berges@cnam.fr</a></span><span style="font-size:x-small;color:rgb(102,102,102)"><br></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(136,136,136);font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:x-small;color:rgb(102,102,102)">*Laboratory for the History of Techno-Sciences (HT2S), </span><span style="font-size:x-small;color:rgb(102,102,102)">Conservatoire national des arts et métiers, 2 rue Conté, 75003 Paris, France</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(136,136,136);font-size:12.8px"><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>