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Corey J. Maley @coreymaley.net · 06/09/2026

I’ll probably read this, but the cover is maddening. One can absolutely disagree with Turing—I do about some things. But the guy was absolutely not a dunce.

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Corey J. Maley @coreymaley.net · 13/08/2026

So just because I'm annoyed, here's the relevant part of the piece I was told to go read. Which I did. And I agree with everything in it. I've actually read this whole paper before. I think it's a good one.

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Corey J. Maley @coreymaley.net · 08/08/2026

I'm really excited that photographer James Ball is letting me use one of his beautiful photos of an analog computer as part of the cover for my book!

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Corey J. Maley @coreymaley.net · 29/07/2026

"Don’t let fear get in the way and don’t be afraid to say “I don’t know” or “I don’t understand” – no question is a dumb question." — Margaret Hamilton, leader of the Software Engineering Division of the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory, who programmed the Apollo Guidance Computer for NASA.

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Corey J. Maley @coreymaley.net · 20/07/2026

Before Turing Machines, computability theory, and computational complexity theory, there were computers. They were people: mostly women. This is one of my favorite photos of a computer, because it shows her using two distinct computing methods.

Human computer, circa 1951, with an adding machine, slide rule, and graph paper.

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Corey J. Maley @coreymaley.net · 13/07/2026

I'm writing a book. It's hard. But the light at the end of the tunnel is visible.

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Corey J. Maley @coreymaley.net · 10/07/2026

Okay, this is completely nerdy, but I just found out that the shareware game I made in high school, called Blobs, still exists on the internet. www.macintoshrepository.org/76229-blobs-...

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Corey J. Maley @coreymaley.net · 08/07/2026

"There are many things which appear obvious when they are once stated but are not so easy to state precisely for the first time." Campbell, N. R. (1920). Physics: The Elements. p. 281

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Corey J. Maley @coreymaley.net · 12/06/2026

This was such an amazing conference! It was an honor to speak in front of a room full of scientists, engineers, and mathematicians who took the time to listen to me talk about foundational and conceptual issues in computation, especially analog computation. analog-computing-days.org

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Corey J. Maley @coreymaley.net · 06/05/2026

I’m giving a talk online! Structural Representation is Analog Representation Wednesday, May 6th, 12:00 pm (EST/GMT-5). Zoom-Link: ruhr-uni-bochum.zoom-x.de/j/6469292475... Meeting-ID: 646 9292 4755 | Passwort: 531564 I hope to see you there!

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Corey J. Maley @coreymaley.net · 22/01/2026

Last week, I was invited to give the Spring Convocation Keynote at St. Bonaventure University. I spoke on the topic of "Education in the Age of Artificial Intelligence." This moment is an opportunity to think carefully about what is valuable about education and why.

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Corey J. Maley @coreymaley.net · 17/01/2026

New paper “Structural Representation is Analog Representation” forthcoming! philsci-archive.pitt.edu/27929/

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Corey J. Maley @coreymaley.net · 03/05/2025

Great talk by Danielle Williams (@okaydaniellle.bsky.social) at SPAN (@socphilneuro.bsky.social). on the historical context in which computing and computational concepts were introduced into neuroscience.

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Corey J. Maley @coreymaley.net · 09/04/2024

Live in Cincinnati! One night only! #philsci #STS

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Corey J. Maley @coreymaley.net · 21/02/2024

New Orleans philosophy people: I’m on stage live, two nights only! I’d love to see you. #philsci

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Corey J. Maley @coreymaley.net · 14/02/2024

I’m now the proud owner of one of the coolest books about analog computers, published in 1960. The illustrations are fantastic, both in terms of how well they help explain complex mechanical components, and their Mad Men-esque aesthetic.

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Corey J. Maley @coreymaley.net · 10/01/2024

The classes I’m teaching this semester are in Grissom Hall. Very cool.

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Corey J. Maley @coreymaley.net · 04/01/2024

Friends: what are some gluten-free versions of normally gluten-full foods y’all like?

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Corey J. Maley @coreymaley.net · 11/11/2023

The physical copy arrived today! It’s a small (and somewhat arbitrary) thing, but it’s quite cool to have a chapter between David Marr and Alan Turing, two heroes of mine. Check out the many other fantastic contributions, both classics and new work.

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Corey J. Maley @coreymaley.net · 18/10/2023

From Marcin Miłkowski: “Corey Maley opens the HaPoC conference in Warsaw, talking on analog computing on a digital screen and in an analog room.” hapoc2023.sciencesconf.org

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Corey J. Maley @coreymaley.net · 27/09/2023

Gil, me (doing a very bad David Lewis impression), and Sarah-Jane Leslie (an excellent co-advisor) at my graduation.

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Corey J. Maley @coreymaley.net · 27/09/2023

I’m sad to be missing the Deep South Philosophy of Neuroscience meeting. At the same time, I’m honored to attend the memorial conference for Gil Harman. I was his last Ph.D. student, and he helped me tremendously, in many ways. harmania.princeton.edu

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Corey J. Maley @coreymaley.net · 04/09/2023

Time to sell my MacBook on eBay.

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Corey J. Maley @coreymaley.net · 17/08/2023

Fantastic metaphor for student belonging in college: holding a crown above students’ heads and challenging them to grow into it, rather than holding a question mark above their head and challenging them to remove it.

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