If we want to figure out the proper way to control A.I. models, we need to recognize what they really are.

A revealing and surprising origin story, showing how attempts to render human speech and language computable led from the era of big data to today’s AI. Since the advent of computers, society has fant...

The hidden hands behind history’s great scholarly works

The University of Bologna has opened a new public library housing the personal book collection of writer Umberto Eco, a decade after his death.

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Aveva 87 anni. Era famoso in tutto il mondo per le sue ricerche sulla stregoneria e le credenze popolari

It remains controversial whether the human sciences can quantify the phenomena they study. The feasibility of quantification is usually assessed by id…

This Introduction to the Special Issue “The Past and Present of Peer Review in the Humanities” situates the currently dominant evaluative regime of peer review within a longer and broader history of s...

Colonial Legacies and Global Inequalities in the Anglo-Caribbean - Negotiating Social Knowledge Production in Research and Career-Making; This book examines how Anglo-Caribbean scholars navigate globa...

Peer review, i.e. the institutionalized evaluation of scholars and their outputs by others working in the same field, is fundamental to knowledge production ...

Alex Csiszar (Department of the History of Science, Harvard University, USA)

This collection examines the uses of quantification in climate science, higher education, and health.   Numbers are both controlling and fragile. They drive public policy, figuring into everything fro...

The House Committee on Science, Space and Technology

The agency issued designs for front-of-package lists that food companies would be required to include.

Macron has spoken. He will not resign--no surprise there. Beyond that, he gave nothing away about his intentions, except to make it clear that he continues to believe in the possibility of a "republic...

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