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SUMMARY:A Portrait of the Scientist as a User - Alexandre Hocquet (Nancy)
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: \nWhy are computational chemists so peculiar? The history of their relationship with software brings an interesting case study to understand how software may shape scientific activity. We present four key moments in this history — from 1962 to 2024 — to illustrate how visions of openness and user agency have evolved. These include a software-sharing initiative\, controversies over licensing and user management\, and debates about the Alphafold AI tool. \nThe multifaceted category of ‘users’ is key to understand discourses about openness. We identify patterns of evolution in the relationship between software packages and the computational chemistry community. Throughout our narration\, the notion of ‘users’ becomes more complex\, in line with the commodification of programs into packages and the increasing complexity of the packages themselves. \nThrough the dyanmics of sharing\, the legal consequences of software licenses\, Non-Disclosure Agreements\, and End-User License Agreements\, we point out that the overall resulting pattern of evolution amounts to a kind of dispossession of scientists’ agency in their relationships with their tools. We propose to view the history of computational chemistry as the formation of a particular ‘repertoire’ where software is central and where the issue of the forms of collaboration and interaction among practitioners implies visions of openness of software development\, circulation\, maintenance and uses\, all in friction. \nThis lecture is part of the 8th HaPoC Conference 2025 in Aachen. \nIf you would like to attend\, please register with events@khk.rwth-aachen.de.
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SUMMARY:What Is a Computer Program? Or\, How I Liberate(d) Myself as a Computer User - Liesbeth De Mol (Lille)
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: \nThe aim of this talk is to present the PROGRAMme project\, a collective work amongst researchers from diverse disciplinary and ideological backgrounds who met for several years to work on the question “What is a computer program?”. In that project we develop a research programme which assumes it is possible /and/ necessary to work together across disciplinary and other boundaries to turn around a number of fundamental problems we are facing in connection to “programs”. In that regard\, the project is first of all a humanistic work: while programs have been interpreted before as an exemplification of cold\, inhuman rationality\, it is clear that more humanistic visions are possible. I present the project from a personal perspective and show how my version of PROGRAMme is deeply anchored in a more activist stance aimed at user liberations which\, in my case\, goes hand-in-hand with so-called academic nomadisms. I conclude with some concrete proposals for the future of the history and philosophy of computing. \nThis lecture is part of the 8th HaPoC Conference 2025 in Aachen. \nIf you would like to attend\, please register with events@khk.rwth-aachen.de.
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SUMMARY:Desk to Discourse:  Development of the Philosophy of Computing from Wordstar and VisiCalc - Robin Hill (Laramie)
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: \nWhile the American Philosophical Association’s Committee on Philosophy and Computers started its mission with community tech help and suggestions\, the path proceeded through technique\, practice\, and application to philosophy. To explore interesting stages along the way\, this talk identifies and follows features of office software through their effects and implications to emerging philosophical questions. Some are known\, some are trivial\, but we find questions of potential depth concerning the affordances and constraints of naming\, values\, separation\, and structure\, all appropriate for the philosophy of computing. \nThis lecture is part of the 8th HaPoC Conference 2025 in Aachen. \nIf you would like to attend\, please register with events@khk.rwth-aachen.de.
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