CBI Tomash Lecture of Aaron Mendon Plasek on May 5th on History of ML
Dear Colleagues, We at CBI are delighted to announce this free virtual lecture of CBI Tomash Fellow Aaron Mendon-Plasek (ABD, History, Columbia University). We very much hope you will join us for this CBI event on May 5th (1-2 pm Central; 2-3 E; 11-noon P). Registration is required and will close several days prior to the event day (please register now/soon). Best, Jeff <http://umn.edu/> <https://justcode.cbi.umn.edu/> A CBI Tomash (Virtual) Lecture on the History of Machine Learning <https://justcode.cbi.umn.edu/home> Please join CBI on Wednesday, May 5 at 1 p.m. CST as our 2020 - 2021 Tomash Fellow Aaron Mendon-Plasek, History Department, Columbia University presents his paper *"How 1950s ideas about creativity in machine learning continue to inform social and political possibility today."* *This virtual event is free and open to the public but registration is required. * Register <https://umn.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_dyVYwVCJQXiYNpvwZQ5e-A> *Brief Abstract: *Accounts of early machine learning often center on late 1950s work well-known to artificial intelligence researchers such as Samuel's checkers-playing program and Rosenblatt's perceptron. However, as Newell observed retrospectively in 1983, by 1955 machine learning researchers had already splintered off from what "became the AI community.” If early machine learning wasn’t artificial intelligence, what was it? This talk provides an answer. (Full abstract is on the event page on the CBI Website.) *Bio* Aaron Mendon-Plasek is a historian of science and U.S. history and a Ph.D. candidate at Columbia University. His work examines how schemes of quantification, including their material, cultural, technical, and institutional instantiations, have been used to imagine, enact, and justify social order. *About the Tomash Fellowship* Each year the Adelle and Erwin Tomash Graduate Fellowship is awarded to a standout ABD graduate student for doctoral dissertation research in the History of Computing, Information, and Culture. [image: Facebook] <http://www.facebook.com/> [image: Twitter] <http://www.twitter.com/BabbageInst> [image: Website] <https://cse.umn.edu/cbi> *Copyright © 2021 Charles Babbage Institute, All rights reserved.* *Our mailing address is:* Charles Babbage Institute Andersen Library, University of Minnesota 222 21st Ave S Ste 211 Minneapolis, MN 55455-4400 *"Injustice wears the same harsh face wherever it shows itself."*-Ralph Ellison Jeffrey R. Yost, Ph.D. Director, Charles Babbage Institute Research Professor, Program in the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine Co-Editor (w/ Gerard Alberts), Springer, History of Computing Book Series Founder and Co-Editor (w/ Amanda Wick), *Interfaces: Essays and Reviews in Computing and Culture* c <https://cse.umn.edu/cbi/interfaces>se.umn.edu/cbi/interfaces <https://cse.umn.edu/cbi/interfaces> 222 21st Avenue South University of Minnesota Minneapolis, MN 55455 612 624 5050 Phone 612 625 8054 Fax
Dear Friends & Colleagues, An anecdotical query : does someone know why the inventors of Bluetooth choose this name? I know about the Viking chief Harald Blåtand , but why had the two developers from Intel and Ericsson in mind when they chose that name and the two runic initials? Thanks if someone can give me some clues about this mystery! Best, Pierre Mounier-Kuhn CNRS & Université Paris-Sorbonne
It seems that there is an official version: https://www.bluetooth.com/about-us/bluetooth-origin/ Which is related to the Viking chief :) CIao, Giovanni. On 22/04/21 18:11, Pierre Mounier-Kuhn wrote:
Dear Friends & Colleagues, An anecdotical query : does someone know why the inventors of Bluetooth choose this name? I know about the Viking chief /Harald Blåtand/, but why had the two developers from Intel and Ericsson in mind when they chose that name and the two runic initials? Thanks if someone can give me some clues about this mystery! Best, Pierre Mounier-Kuhn
CNRS & Université Paris-Sorbonne
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Dear Pierre, Greetings! Yes. When I interviewed one of the main creators Nils Rydbeck of Ericsson for the mobile gallery in our Revolution exhibition (scroll down on this page <https://www.computerhistory.org/revolution/mobile-computing/18/398> for Bluetooth headset entry), he said they chose it because Harold Bluetooth united warring tribes, and Bluetooth the standard was meant to unite a little galaxy of peripherals, at the time mostly headsets to go with phones. Of course they also thought the name was fun. Here’s an interview clip <https://www.computerhistory.org/revolution/mobile-computing/18/341/2322> with Nils on an early touchscreen phone, he worked with Jan Uddenfeldt at Ericsson who was a major GSM pioneer, there’s also a bit of GSM history in our texting <https://www.computerhistory.org/makesoftware/exhibit/texting/> gallery. I can try to dig up the full interview with Nils if you like, I also did an oral history with Jan. Best, Marc Revolution: The First 2000 Years of Computing, Mobile Computing <https://www.computerhistory.org/revolution/mobile-computing/18> gallery. Marc Weber <http://www.computerhistory.org/staff/Marc,Weber/> | marc@webhistory.org | +1 415 282 6868 Curatorial Director, Internet History Program Computer History Museum, 1401 N Shoreline Blvd., Mountain View CA 94043 computerhistory.org/nethistory | Co-founder, Web History Center and Project
On Apr 22, 2021, at 09:11, Pierre Mounier-Kuhn <mounier@msh-paris.fr> wrote:
Dear Friends & Colleagues, An anecdotical query : does someone know why the inventors of Bluetooth choose this name? I know about the Viking chief Harald Blåtand, but why had the two developers from Intel and Ericsson in mind when they chose that name and the two runic initials? Thanks if someone can give me some clues about this mystery! Best, Pierre Mounier-Kuhn
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Thanks a lot, Marc! I will follow these links. The reason for my question is journalistic: Someone from France-Culture wants an interview with me over this fundamental question… I thought that Loki, the Nordic gods' messager-trickster, would have made also a relevant saint-patron for a communication device, but Nils Rydbeck choose Bluetooth , so be it. Best, Pierre De: "Marc Weber" <marc@webhistory.org> À: "Pierre Mounier-Kuhn" <mounier@msh-paris.fr> Cc: "members" <members@sigcis.org> Envoyé: Jeudi 22 Avril 2021 18:55:07 Objet: Re: [SIGCIS-Members] Meaning of "Bluetooth"? Dear Pierre, Greetings! Yes. When I interviewed one of the main creators Nils Rydbeck of Ericsson for the mobile gallery in our Revolution exhibition (scroll down on [ https://www.computerhistory.org/revolution/mobile-computing/18/398 | this page ] for Bluetooth headset entry), he said they chose it because Harold Bluetooth united warring tribes, and Bluetooth the standard was meant to unite a little galaxy of peripherals, at the time mostly headsets to go with phones. Of course they also thought the name was fun. Here’s an [ https://www.computerhistory.org/revolution/mobile-computing/18/341/2322 | interview clip ] with Nils on an early touchscreen phone, he worked with Jan Uddenfeldt at Ericsson who was a major GSM pioneer, there’s also a bit of GSM history in our [ https://www.computerhistory.org/makesoftware/exhibit/texting/ | texting ] gallery. I can try to dig up the full interview with Nils if you like, I also did an oral history with Jan. Best, Marc Revolution: The First 2000 Years of Computing, [ https://www.computerhistory.org/revolution/mobile-computing/18 | Mobile Computing ] gallery. [ http://www.computerhistory.org/staff/Marc,Weber/ | Marc Weber ] | [ mailto:marc@webhistory.org | marc@webhistory.org ] | +1 415 282 6868 Curatorial Director, Internet History Program Computer History Museum, 1401 N Shoreline Blvd., Mountain View CA 94043 [ http://computerhistory.org/nethistory | computerhistory.org/nethistory ] | Co-founder, Web History Center and Project On Apr 22, 2021, at 09:11, Pierre Mounier-Kuhn < [ mailto:mounier@msh-paris.fr | mounier@msh-paris.fr ] > wrote: Dear Friends & Colleagues, An anecdotical query : does someone know why the inventors of Bluetooth choose this name? I know about the Viking chief Harald Blåtand , but why had the two developers from Intel and Ericsson in mind when they chose that name and the two runic initials? Thanks if someone can give me some clues about this mystery! Best, Pierre Mounier-Kuhn CNRS & Université Paris-Sorbonne _______________________________________________ This email is relayed from members at [ http://sigcis.org/ | sigcis.org ] , the email discussion list of SHOT SIGCIS. Opinions expressed here are those of the member posting and are not reviewed, edited, or endorsed by SIGCIS. The list archives are at [ http://lists.sigcis.org/pipermail/members-sigcis.org/ | http://lists.sigcis.org/pipermail/members-sigcis.org/ ] and you can change your subscription options at [ http://lists.sigcis.org/listinfo.cgi/members-sigcis.org | http://lists.sigcis.org/listinfo.cgi/members-sigcis.org ]
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Giovanni A. Cignoni -
Jeffrey Yost -
Marc Weber -
Pierre Mounier-Kuhn