iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Jeffrey Yost @justcode.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Absolutely delighted to announce UVA's @lanalanalana.bsky.social, Cornell's @zwtz.bsky.social, & Oxford's Janaki Srinivasan have just been named CBI Research Fellows. CONGRATULATIONS & THANKS to Lana, Malte & Janaki!! Link to article below. #mediastudies #criticalai cse.umn.edu/cbi/news/new...

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New CBI Research Fellows Just Named: Janaki Srinivasan, Lana Swartz, and Malte Ziewitz

MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL (09/23/2026)—The Charles Babbage Institute (CBI) for Computing, Information and Culture is absolutely delighted to announce the addition of University of Oxford’s Janaki Sriniva...

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Jeffrey Yost @justcode.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

CBI's MOSAICS (Meanings, Ontologies & Structures of AI in Culture & Society) Symposium Program/Registration now open (link below). Org. Cmt.: Sareeta Amrute; @babintsevak.bsky.social @anitachan.bsky.social; G. Con Diaz; me. 32 terrific critical AI scholars. Oct 15-16. cse.umn.edu/cbi/mosaics-...

Poster/flyer for CBI's MOSAICS Symposium. Photos of keynote speakers Paula Chakravartty, Roderic Crooks, Tiara Roxanne, Janet Vertesi, image of a laptop keyboard with hands typing, co-sponsors names and logos.

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Jeffrey Yost @justcode.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

"Job postings and interviews with senior security officials at Anthropic show that the frontier AI lab is building out an extensive monitoring system to keep tabs on activists who oppose the rapid development of artificial intelligence." #surveillance #ai prospect.org/2026/09/09/a...

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Anthropic Is Building a Predictive Surveillance System to Monitor Activists - The American Prospect

New hires and comments in interviews show that the AI giant is using its capabilities against dissenters.

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Jeffrey Yost @justcode.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Thrilled to announce that NSF just awarded PI TSU Historian of Science & Mathematics Roger Hart & me (Co-PI) a major 3-Year NSF grant on the history of quantum computing/quantum information science (scholarship, 30 CBI oral histories, infrastructural tools for study...) cse.umn.edu/cbi/news/new...

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Newly Awarded Multiyear NSF Project to TSU and CBI on “The Second Quantum Revolution”

MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL (9/8/2026) — The Charles Babbage Institute (CBI) for Computing, Information and Culture is pleased to announce that in partnership Texas Southern University (TSU), we received a...

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Jeffrey Yost @justcode.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

In Mpls burbs...So pleased today to attend a history doc. film showing of "A Chip Odyssey" on Taiwan Semi. Mfrg. Co. & an AMAZING panel organized by @honghongtinn.bsky.social @waynesoon.bsky.social (moderating) & @Gier Dullerud, Molly Steenson, @seungjoonyoo.bsky.social & I-Chun Catherine Chang

On stage L to R. Wayne Soon moderating, Honghong Tinn , Gier Dullerud, Molly Steenson, Seungjoo Yoon (not yet at table...soon to join stage & on screen) & I-Chun Catherine Chang

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Jeffrey Yost @justcode.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

My article "Machine Learning"(a 12K word historical synthesis) was published today in Oxford Research Encyclopedia in Sci., Tech. & Society. SPECIAL THANKS to eds. Rayvon Fouché @histoftech.bsky.social @torinmonahan.bsky.social & referee @velocitygravity.bsky.social academic.oup.com/edited-volum...

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Jeffrey Yost @justcode.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Please join Us!! (Sept. 16th 1pm C.). Absolutely thrilled to announce an online book talk w/ thought-leading scholar @stanforduniversity.bsky.social @xiaochang.bsky.social on her stellar new book Divination Engines on NLP & AI! #criticalAI #histtech Registration (free): cse.umn.edu/cbi/events/d...

Flyer for talk with an image of Prof. Xiaochang Li other images and maroon, gold, and gray design elements and info on the event.

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Jeffrey Yost @justcode.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Deeply honored to have given a Keynote yesterday on AI History and Policy at the Humphrey School of Public Affairs' "7th World Conference on Remedies to Racial and Ethnic Economic Inequality." So glad to be a part of this wondrous and vital three-day global conference! #histtech #criticalai

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Jeffrey Yost @justcode.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Nearly through reading @xiaochang.bsky.social brilliant new book Divination Engines!! This is the best historical study on Natural Language Processing, & imo, the most insightful monograph on AI history! CBI was so fortunate have Xiaochang as a keynote at our 2023 "Automation by Design" symposium!

Cover of Xiaochang Li's Divination Engines sitting on computer desk. Black cover with gray symbolic notations and white and yellow lettering of author's name and title.

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Jeffrey Yost @justcode.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Just Code is an Open Access book thanks to a grant to CBI from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation!! The link is here: press.jhu.edu/books/title/...

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Just Code

Power, Inequality, and the Political Economy of IT

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Jeffrey Yost @justcode.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

It was an absolute joy & honor to work w Con & such amazing chapter authors on Just Code!! THANKS to T&C's reviewer Ricky Wichum! J.C.'s authors on Bsky: @histoftech.bsky.social @mysdick.bsky.social @shreeharsh.bsky.social @dmulvin.bsky.social @janakis.bsky.social muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

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Project MUSE -- Verification required!

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Jeffrey Yost @justcode.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

New from Interfaces, a review essay I just published on STS of blockchain with RMIT's Dr. Kelsie Nabben's insightful book Decentralised Digital Security as the centerpiece. Also discusses work of @ntnsndr.in others.. #histtech #eth #ethereum #cybersecurity #ethnography share.google/F55gFHqTfnnm...

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Jeffrey Yost @justcode.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Terrific UL, UMN article on Nappi Archives & CBI Project Archivist of Maureen Nappi Papers Jennifer Shaw-Spence. Dr. Nappi a NYC artist, multimedia, was videographer of concerts at Greenwich Vill. Pepperment Lounge in 80s--videos of Ramones, REM, Sonic Youth, Black Flag... z.umn.edu/CBI-Nappi

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Painting on the Art Speak Machine: CBI acquires the collection of Computer Artist Maureen A. Nappi - UMN Libraries News & Events

The digital world would be entirely opaque without screens and graphics, without computer artists and designers, without people like Maureen Nappi.

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Jeffrey Yost @justcode.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Book Cover Out! The Midterms fight will be vital & no better timing for this bk in Con Diaz & my JHUP Computing & Culture bk series, UVA Anthro. Bryan Pfaffenberger's Machining the Vote out this Fall! #democracy #histtech #anthropology Machining the Vote | Hopkins Press share.google/Mbh9PeYTXBWu...

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Machining the Vote

The Forgotten Story of the Mechanical Voting Machine, and Why It Matters

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Jeffrey Yost @justcode.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Congratulations to CBI Senior Research Fellow Prof. David Nye on his just published The Great Energy Transition: America from 1876 to 1929!! MIT Press. Here is a short article on it. "American Progress was an Optical Illusion" from @mitpress.bsky.social thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/american-pro...

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American Progress Was an Optical Illusion

The turn-of-the-century energy transition dazzled the nation — while concealing segregation, extraction, and ruin.

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Jeffrey Yost @justcode.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

So glad to be at the '26 SIGCIS Meeting! @sigcisconf.bsky.social @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social I-School. Grateful to the incredible Organizing Committee, a terrific program! @honghongtinn.bsky.social @babintsevak.bsky.social @cperold.bsky.social Jason Ludwig, Gili Vidan, Morgan Ames. #histtech

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Jeffrey Yost @justcode.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

CBI is thrilled to host "The Problem with Personalization." A talk by UPenn Annenberg School of Comm. Prof. Joseph Turow. June 30th 1pm Central. Via Zoom. Register for this free event at the link. #mediastudies #privacy cse.umn.edu/cbi/events/p...

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The Problem with Personalization: A Talk with Joseph Turow

CBI is pleased to host Joseph Turow, Robert Lewis Shayon Professor of Media Systems & Industries at the Annenberg School for Communication, as he presents a lecture from his recently published book, T...

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Jeffrey Yost @justcode.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Congratulation to CBI's 2026 Norberg Travel Grant Recipients Cornell University's Andra Sonia Petrutiu & Jordan Ali, and Harvard University's Max Kwass-Mason! Read about their fascinating dissertation projects in the short article in CBI Bits & Bytes. #histtech #sts cse.umn.edu/cbi/news/jor...

Portrait images of Andra Sonia Petrutiu, Jordan Ali, and Max Kwass Mason

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Jeffrey Yost @justcode.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Thrilled to announce Prof. of Media Study, SUNY, Buffalo, Andrew Lison CBI Book Launch Lecture for his MIT Press book, entitled, "100% Utilization." Wed. June 3, '26. 1 PM Central Online. #histtech umn.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Flyer for Andrew Lison's Book Launch talk, his photo and book design elements.

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Jeffrey Yost @justcode.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

"We fail to diagnose a societal illness like what is happening right now with the global buy-in to AI. But let it be noted here: the delusions of the Oligarchs might at first manifest as infrastructure, but we will later have to analyse them as societal ruins." #datacenters #environment

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Jeffrey Yost @justcode.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Grateful to Purdue University, Junto Conf., & to session colleagues. Saturday, I participated in the "Computing, Power & Politics" session (on Critical AI, Cybernetics & Blockchain) w past Tomash Fellow Aaron Mendon-Plasek, Erin Wilcox, Daniel Melbert. #aistudies #blockchain

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Jeffrey Yost @justcode.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

CBI in @cse.umn.edu is thrilled to host ASI President, CBI Research Fellow, TEDx speaker Dr. Molly Steenson @maximolly.bsky.social for "Generating AI History Through Architecture" May 6th at noon (free lunch, 11:45am), Andersen Lib. Rm 120C. #ai #sts #histech Register at: z.umn.edu/SteensonAITalk

Flyer with Molly Steenson's photo and design and text on the event.

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Jeffrey Yost @justcode.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Call for Papers for CBI's MOSAICS Symposium: cse.umn.edu/cbi/call-pap... Thrilled to announce this & to work with Sareeta Amrute, @babintsevak.bsky.social, @anitachan.bsky.social & Gerardo Con Diaz!! MOSAICS Symposium: October 15-16, 2026 Proposal Deadline: May 29, 2026 #AIstudies #histtech

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Jeffrey Yost @justcode.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

New Interfaces article!! (link below) Insightful article on the history of Indian supercomputing by Cornell U. STS scholar Andra Sonia Petrutiu "Disrupting Flattening Universal Ambitions: The Case of Supercomputing in India." #histsci #supercomputing #india #history cse.umn.edu/cbi/interfaces

The PARAM Pravega supercomputer at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore (image by Andra Sonia Petrutiu). Glass enclosed raised floor computer room with double glass door entrance.

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Jeffrey Yost @justcode.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Past CMU Vice Provost, American Swedish Inst. CEO, & CBI Research Fellow Molly Steenson just delivered a fascinating & insightful lecture on AI History to @honghongtinn.bsky.social "Digital World" UMN class. So glad to attend!!

Molly Steenson presenting at the front of an auditorium classroom with slide on AI history above.

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Lisa Messeri @lmesseri.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

For the Minnesotans out there, see post below for upcoming book talk! My host, @justcode.bsky.social, wrote a lovely review of my book right when it came out. Also it's the final days of the @dukepress.bsky.social Fall book sale (thru Nov 9). Use FALL25 code on the press website to get 50% off!

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An Ethnographic Sublime in The Land of the Unreal (Review Essay)

Intro-In the mid-1980s communication scholar Joshua Meyerowitz argued electronic media was leading to No Sense of Place. Over the next few decades, the Web and social platforms provided to the masses ...

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Jeffrey Yost @justcode.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

CBI is absolutely delighted to announce that thought-leading scholars University of Illinois' @anitachan.bsky.social & Indiana University's @rachelplotnick.bsky.social have just joined us as new CBI Research Fellows. Below is the link to the article. #histsci cse.umn.edu/cbi/news/cbi...

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CBI Names Anita Say Chan and Rachel Plotnick as the Institute’s New Research Fellows

MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL (10/09/2025)—The Charles Babbage Institute for Computing, Information and Culture (CBI) is delighted to announce the addition of University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana’s Anita...

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Jeffrey Yost @justcode.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Just published in Interfaces-- tremendously insightful & timely essay by U. of Toronto's @hopelatta.bsky.social "People-in-Progress: 'Debate Escrow,' and the Language of Delay in Tech Research on Adolescent Digital Health." #histsci cse.umn.edu/cbi/interfaces

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

2/2 Just Code Power, Inequality, and the Political Economy of IT Edited by Jeffrey R. Yost and Gerardo Con Díaz Table of Contents

9. Pushing Fintech: Testing Mobile Money, Financial Inclusion, and
“Rural Women” in Peru 212
Mariel García Llorens

10. Corporate Culture Made Material: Ephemera and In/equity at
Control Data Corporation, 1957–1975 236
Elizabeth Semler

11. Reassessing the Iconic and Unbundling the Ironic: IBM System
Engineering, Gender, and Antitrust 255
Jeffrey R. Yost

12. Y2K and the Politics of Labor 274
Dylan Mulvin

PART III. WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO GRAPPLE WITH CODE?

13. From Programming to Platform Expertise: Technical Reformers
and the Reinvention of Institutions 295
Shreeharsh Kelkar

14. Computers as Colonizers: British Computing Companies and
Indian Technological Resistance, 1955–1975 325
Mar Hicks

15. The Mask of Humanity: Manipulation and Psychopathy at the
Human-Computer Interface 344
Jennifer Alexander

16. Cryptography Goes Public: Contesting the Meaning of a New
Field in the 1970s United States 372
Gili Vidan

17. Nodes and Codes: Iterating with the State in México 388
Héctor Beltrán

Epilogue: Artificial Intelligence—Braiding Irony, Paradox, and
Possibility 411
Jeffrey R. Yost and Gerardo Con Díaz

Contributors 433

Index 435

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

1/2 Just Code Power, Inequality, and the Political Economy of IT Edited by Jeffrey R. Yost and Gerardo Con Díaz Table of Contents

Acknowledgments vii

Introduction: Encoding an Analytic. 1
Gerardo Con Díaz and Jeffrey R. Yost

PART I. HOW DOES CODE BECOME BOTH A SUBJECT AND A MEANS OF GOVERNANCE?

1. Delivering Solidarity: Platform Architecture and Collective Contention in China’s Platform Economy 23
Ya-Wen Lei

2. Consent Code and Default Dramas 64
Meg Leta Jones

3. A Mirror, Not a Glass Door: Legal Code and Software Code in Practice 87

Justin Petelka, Megan Finn, Janaki Srinivasan, Elisa Oreglia, and A. P. Janani

4. Algorithmic Collusion, Modern Monopolies, and Their Market Power 109
Hamid R. Ekbia

5. Reopening the Politics of Openness in the Age of Cloud Computing: Reflections on Recent FOSS Relicensing 127
Shun-Ling Chen

6. The Great E-book Conspiracy 148
Gerardo Con Díaz

PART II. HOW DOES CODE BECOME INFUSED WITH SOCIAL VALUES, ASSUMPTIONS, AND BIASES?

7. The Standard Head 171
Stephanie Dick

8. Spanning Space and Time Barriers: Computerized Conferencing, Disability, and Citizenship 193
Elizabeth Petrick

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Jeffrey Yost @justcode.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

"One of the throughlines in the history of technology is that big, new infrastructural technologies often make more uncompensated labor. People may have to do more things to essentially shepherd those technologies along and make sure that they don’t break down..." www.fastcompany.com/91384078/not...

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Historian Mar Hicks on why nothing about AI is inevitable

The author of Programmed Inquality peers through the AI hype by recalling the rise of past technologies.

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Jeffrey Yost @justcode.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

New Interfaces Essay, Aug. 2025. A super creative & insightful essay by Eóin Phillips, a Prof. of History and Sociology of Sci/Tech/Econ at La Salle-Ramon Llull Univ. "Computational Schemes and Technological Routines: A Wet History of the Phillips Machine." #histsci cse.umn.edu/cbi/interfaces

Rochdale Canal Lock 91, industrial setting with lock and water flowing. David Dixon Wikimedia Commons

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Jeffrey Yost @justcode.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Sharing a book review of Thomas S. Mullaney The Chinese Computer that I just published in the British Journal of the History of Science. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Cover of The Chinese Computer, blue and gray with a woman sitting at a keyboard/machine and QWERTY keys magnified above with smaller Chinese characters on the keys.

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Jeffrey Yost @justcode.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Copies of JUST CODE just arrived! Partnering w Con & teaming w 19 brilliant STS authors on the vital topic of code/codes & inequality was so special! Authors (full list ToC below) On bsky: @mysdick.bsky.social @histoftech.bsky.social @dmulvin.bsky.social & blurb from @anitachan.bsky.social #histtech

Open box of books with two out showing front and back covers propped up on the balcony railing of my Minneapolis condo. Trees and sunshine are in the background. The book's full title is JUST CODE: Power, Inequality, & the Global Political Economy of IT, and it is in bold black lettering with pastel fading trails of the letters.

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Jeffrey Yost @justcode.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Delighted to announce CBI Research Fellow (& close friend & collaborator) Prof. Gerardo Con Díaz's (Con's) stellar new book is out (got to read it early & blurb it). Everyone Breaks These Laws: How Copyright Made the Online World. Congrats Con! #histtech yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...

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Everyone Breaks These Laws

Copyright’s profound impact on the online world as we know it This book is a captivating exploration of the profound impact of American copyright law on...

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Jeffrey Yost @justcode.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

CBI is delighted to announce Stanford Univ. 's Tom Mullaney is co-recipient of the 2025 CBI Human Computer Interaction @benbendc.bsky.social ‬ History Award for his masterful book The Chinese Computer: A Global History of the Information Age. #histsci cse.umn.edu/cbi/news/mul...

Cover of Thomas Mullaney's book The Chinese Computer, blue book with gray image and lettering, a woman sits at a stenography machine and in the background a QWERTY keyboard with many Chinese Characters on each key.

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Jeffrey Yost @justcode.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

CBI is delighted to announce that Carnegie Mellon U. Prof. of CS Brad A. Myers is co-recipient of the 2025 CBI Human Computer Interaction ( @benbendc.bsky.social )‬ History Award for his monumental book Pick, Click, Flick!: The Story of Interaction Techniques. #histsci cse.umn.edu/cbi/news/mye...

Cover of Brad A. Myers' book Pick, Click, Flick! The Story of Interactive Techniques. black colored book with purple, white and gray design elements and computer keyboard keys in the background.

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Jeffrey Yost @justcode.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Just published in Interfaces (May '25). Delighted to publish James (Jim) Cortada's new essay! "When Tacit Knowledge Meets Artificial Intelligence" (drawn in part from his forthcoming book Beyond the Facts). #histtech cse.umn.edu/cbi/interfaces

Cover of Beyond the Facts book by James W Cortada. In pastel blue and green and white it shows a stack of books with a ladder up to a light bulb.

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Jeffrey Yost @justcode.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Thrilled to announce that on April 21 at 2pm Central CBI Tomash Fellow, Harvard ABD Aaron Gluck-Thaler will be giving an online Tomash Fellow Lecture entitled "Pattern Recognition and Intelligence Reform in Cold War America." Link is below for registration. #histtech cse.umn.edu/cbi/events/2...

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2025 Tomash Virtual Lecture with Aaron Gluck-Thaler

Join CBI's 2024-2025 Tomash Fellow Aaron Gluck-Thaler, Ph.D. Candidate, History of Science at Harvard University, presenting his paper Pattern Recognition and Intelligence Reform in Cold War America.T...

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Jeffrey Yost @justcode.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Just published, April 2025 Interfaces essay, "Business History Conference 2025, & CBI's Participation." In this historiographical essay, I focus on oral history, & IT, gender, political economy, & labor history (in spotlighting many CBI fellows/grantees @BHC). #histtech cse.umn.edu/cbi/interfaces

Business History Conf. 2025 in Atlanta. Session on IBM and Work with left to right Corinna Schlombs, Jim Cortada, and David Stebenne.

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Anita Chan @anitachan.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

So many thanks to @justcode.bsky.social and Christina Ewig for the fantastic visit with UMN's Charles Babbage Institute and Center on Women, Gender & Public Policy! Such engaging conversations with the archivists, students, and colleagues there - so excited for all the work underway there!

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Jeffrey Yost @justcode.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

CBI for Computing, Information & Culture is thrilled to announce UPenn History & Soc. of Science ABD Sam Franz is CBI's new Tomash Fellow, for his dissertation project "Calculating Knowledge: Computing, Capitalism, and the Modern University, 1945–1990." #histtech cse.umn.edu/cbi/news/sam...

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Sam Franz named as the 2025-2026 CBI Tomash Fellow

MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL (03/21/2025) — We are thrilled to announce that University of Pennsylvania ABD in the History and Sociology of Science Sam Franz is the incoming Erwin and Adelle Tomash Fellow f...

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Jeffrey Yost @justcode.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Join us TODAY at 5pm at Humphrey 105 for this important lecture, "Predatory Data," by @anitachan.bsky.social , hosted UMN @cwgpp.bsky.social, The Charles Babbage Institute for Computing, Information & Culture (Christina Ewig, Youngmin Chu & me). #histsci

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Jeffrey Yost @justcode.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

THRILLED to announce @anitachan.bsky.social will be giving a Humphrey Forum talk "Predatory Data: Feminist Resistance to Eugenics in Big Tech" co-hosted by CBI for Computing, Information & Culture, & Humphrey School of Public Affairs' CWGPP (March 6 @ 5pm CST). #hstsci cse.umn.edu/cbi/events/p...

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Jeffrey Yost @justcode.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

How did television help to shape early conceptions of personal computing & computer dating? See standout media studies scholar Dr. @myrnamoretti.bsky.social 's insightful (just published) Interfaces essay "Part of Our Lives Now: The Personal Computer on "Family Ties” "! cse.umn.edu/cbi/interfaces

Streaming shot of laptop with 1980s sitcom Family Ties playing--pictured is Alex and Mallory Keaton using an early personal computer in the family's living room.

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Jeffrey Yost @justcode.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Thrilled my tremendous HSTM & CBI, U. of Minnesota colleague Honghong Tinn will give a CBI lecture from her incredible new book Island Tinkerers on History of Computing in Taiwan. Feb 25th at 2pm Central. #histtech Join us! Register at link below for Zoom link. cse.umn.edu/cbi/events/i...

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Jeffrey Yost @justcode.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Call for Applications--Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) History & Archiving Fellowship Program. For projects in whole or major part advancing ACM history. Applications due 28 Feb. 2025. #histtech history.acm.org/wp-content/u...

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