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SUMMARY:Digital Complexity in Historical Perspective: Lessons from the Study of Technological Transitions in Data Production and Visualization - Charlotte Bigg (Paris)
DESCRIPTION:This event is part of our winter term 2025/26 Lecture Series Digital Complexity: Beyond Human Understanding. \nIf you would like to attend\, please register with events@khk.rwth-aachen.de.
URL:https://khk.rwth-aachen.de/event/digital-complexity-in-historical-perspective-lessons-from-the-study-of-technological-transitions-in-data-production-and-visualization-charlotte-bigg-paris/
LOCATION:Stadtpalais/Online\, Theaterstraße 75\, Aachen\, 52062\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Lecture Series 25/26
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20260121T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20260121T183000
DTSTAMP:20260602T052006
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LAST-MODIFIED:20260116T094750Z
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SUMMARY:Did the Computer Drive Science? Hardware Development and Digital Complexity in the 20th Century - Ulf Hashagen (Munich)
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: \nThe assumption that economic\, technological and scientific development is driven by technological\ndeterminism is widespread in politics\, business\, and society\, as well as among scientists and\nengineers. A notable example of this belief is the current notion that advances in scientific\nknowledge are inextricably linked to the development of AI technology. Since the AI boom in the\n2010s was based on the particular potential of graphics processing units (GPUs) for implementing\ndeep learning algorithms\, the question arises as to what extent modern science in the 20th century\nwas already based on computers and driven by hardware innovations. \nA historical review should enable a critical examination of this assumption from a broader historical\nperspective. The lecture addresses the question of the extent to which the development of computer\nhardware and scientific development have influenced each other since the invention of the computer\nin the 1940s. Historical research has shown that the design and development of the first computers\nwas primarily driven by scientific problems in war research. From the mid-1950s onwards\,\nuniversities and non-university research institutions increasingly entered into “alliances with\nindustry” in the planning and production of new computers and eventually became customers of the\ncomputer industry. How this bilateral producer-customer relationship and the trilateral relationship\nbetween the computer industry\, the state\, and science have developed since the 1950s in terms of\nresearch funding\, the equipping of scientific institutions with computers\, and their use by scientists\nfrom various disciplines is a question that has received relatively little attention in historical research\nto date. \nThese questions are discussed against the backdrop that\, since the 1970s\, the history of technology\nhas been committed to a model of contextualized historiography and has sought to prove in\nnumerous studies that the assumption that technology is an autonomous factor in the continuous\ntransformation of the human environment is a naïve idea. \nThis event is part of our winter term 2025/26 Lecture Series Digital Complexity: Beyond Human Understanding. \nIf you would like to attend\, please register with events@khk.rwth-aachen.de.
URL:https://khk.rwth-aachen.de/event/did-the-computer-drive-science-hardware-development-and-digital-complexity-in-the-20th-century-ulf-hashagen-munich/
LOCATION:Stadtpalais/Online\, Theaterstraße 75\, Aachen\, 52062\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Lecture Series 25/26
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20260107T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20260107T183000
DTSTAMP:20260602T052006
CREATED:20250926T101612Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260116T094815Z
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SUMMARY:Reimagining Cities: Computational Thinking in the Post War Period - Nathalie Bredella (Hanover)
DESCRIPTION:This event is part of our winter term 2025/26 Lecture Series Digital Complexity: Beyond Human Understanding. \nIf you would like to attend\, please register with events@khk.rwth-aachen.de.
URL:https://khk.rwth-aachen.de/event/reimagining-cities-computational-thinking-in-the-post-war-period-nathalie-bredella-hanover/
LOCATION:Stadtpalais/Online\, Theaterstraße 75\, Aachen\, 52062\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Lecture Series 25/26
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20251219T093000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20251219T103000
DTSTAMP:20260602T052006
CREATED:20250926T102846Z
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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.
URL:https://khk.rwth-aachen.de/event/desktop-to-discourse-philosophy-born-of-wordstar-and-visicalc-robin-hill-laramie/
LOCATION:RWTH Aachen University – Super C\, Templergraben 57\, Aachen\, 52062
CATEGORIES:Lecture Series 25/26
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20251218T093000
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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.
URL:https://khk.rwth-aachen.de/event/what-is-a-computer-program-or-how-i-liberated-myself-as-a-computer-user-liesbeth-de-mol-lille/
LOCATION:RWTH Aachen University – Super C\, Templergraben 57\, Aachen\, 52062
CATEGORIES:Lecture Series 25/26
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20251217T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20251217T183000
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CREATED:20250926T102449Z
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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.
URL:https://khk.rwth-aachen.de/event/a-portrait-of-the-scientist-as-a-user-alexandre-hocquet-nancy/
LOCATION:RWTH Aachen University – Super C\, Templergraben 57\, Aachen\, 52062
CATEGORIES:Lecture Series 25/26
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20251126T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20251126T183000
DTSTAMP:20260602T052006
CREATED:20250926T101637Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260116T095308Z
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SUMMARY:Stochastic Systems - Dirk Baecker (Friedrichshafen)
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: \nDigital complexity eludes human understanding not only because it is based on the synchronization of incommensurable systems\, but also because each of these systems operates stochastically. We owe this insight to the “synthetic intelligence” (Brian Cantwell Smith) of machine learning models. An initially random variation of model assumptions enables the discovery and description of chance-dependent structures of an object or field ‘out there’. Stochastic systems “tame” (Ian Hacking) chance with the help of chance. This may apply not only to artificial systems\, but also to neural\, mental\, and social systems. And perhaps their stochasticity is the condition of possibility for their synchronization\, which can only ever be temporary. The lecture outlines a basic understanding of technology\, society\, consciousness\, and the brain in order to plausibly demonstrate that we are dealing with stochastic systems here. It discusses three concepts that can be used to describe the synchronization of these systems. The concept of information comes from computer science and formulates a relational understanding of information. The concept of feedback comes from cybernetics and brings the observer into play. And the concept of chance comes from stochastics and establishes a medial as well as formal understanding of reality. Digital complexity arises from the unavailability of the difference between the systems involved. \nThis event is part of our winter term 2025/26 Lecture Series Digital Complexity: Beyond Human Understanding. \nIf you would like to attend\, please register with events@khk.rwth-aachen.de.
URL:https://khk.rwth-aachen.de/event/stochastic-systems-dirk-baecker-friedrichshafen/
LOCATION:Stadtpalais/Online\, Theaterstraße 75\, Aachen\, 52062\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Lecture Series 25/26
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20251112T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20251112T183000
DTSTAMP:20260602T052006
CREATED:20250926T101655Z
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SUMMARY:Computer Science and Computer Use in Public Administration in Switzerland (1960-1984) - Ricky Wichum
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: \nIn my presentation\, I examine the digital culture of public administration in Switzerland from 1960 to 1990. The perspective on Switzerland is significant for the history of computing because the country lacks its own computer industry\, but has an internationally well-connected computer science department at ETH Zurich. As I will demonstrate\, numerous formal and informal interactions took place between ETH’s computer science department and government agencies\, which significantly influenced both sides’ work with computers. \nThis presentation focuses on debates about data protection in Switzerland during the mid-1970s. I argue that data protection can be seen as a trading zone between academic computer science and administrative computer use. Despite their different interests\, both sides agree to cooperate for a time. While the administration was eager to avoid federal laws and relied on the data protection mechanisms of the computer itself (and the computer scientists who promoted trust in the computer with public data)\, the academics used the bureaucratic routines of data processing and data protection as inspiration for teaching and research in the newly established discipline. Finally\, I would like to speculate on whether elements of a political theory of digital societies can be found in the administrative knowledge of computer science. \nThis event is part of our winter term 2025/26 Lecture Series Digital Complexity: Beyond Human Understanding. \nIf you would like to attend\, please register with events@khk.rwth-aachen.de.
URL:https://khk.rwth-aachen.de/event/computer-science-and-computer-use-in-public-administration-in-switzerland-1960-1984-ricky-wichum/
LOCATION:Stadtpalais/Online\, Theaterstraße 75\, Aachen\, 52062\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Lecture Series 25/26
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20251029T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20251029T183000
DTSTAMP:20260602T052006
CREATED:20250926T101921Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260116T095416Z
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SUMMARY:Digitality as a Triad: From the Love Letter to Emotion AI - Anna Tuschling (Bochum)
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: \nThe lecture presents various historical and contemporary concepts of digitality that highlight the three characteristics of digital systems: discreteness\, arbitrariness\, and systematicity. In short\, digitality is often understood as a triad that applies not only to modern electronic computers but also to analog sign and writing systems. The lecture examines this form of digital complexity in terms of its epistemic and ontological status on the one hand\, and in relation to historical changes in the coding of qualities such as affectivity and emotionality on the other. Although digitality as a triad allows us to draw a line from love letters to emotional AI as historically varying forms of coding\, it by no means precludes a critique of AI. Rather\, systematically focusing on digital complexity helps us understand how emotions are to be made computable and enables us in the humanities to define more clearly what “emotion” and “affect” mean in the approaches of affective computing and emotion AI. \nThis event is part of our winter term 2025/26 Lecture Series Digital Complexity: Beyond Human Understanding. \nIf you would like to attend\, please register with events@khk.rwth-aachen.de.
URL:https://khk.rwth-aachen.de/event/digitality-as-a-triad-from-the-love-letter-to-emotion-ai-anna-tuschling-bochum/
LOCATION:Stadtpalais/Online\, Theaterstraße 75\, Aachen\, 52062\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Lecture Series 25/26
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20251022T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20251022T183000
DTSTAMP:20260602T052006
CREATED:20250926T101856Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260116T095502Z
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SUMMARY:Digital Complexity: De-Anthropological Trends in Computing\, AI\, and Robotics - Gabriele Gramelsberger (Aachen)
DESCRIPTION:‼️ Unfortunately\, tonight’s lecture by Gabriele Gramelsberger has to be canceled due to illness.\nWe hope to see you next week for Anna Tuschling’s lecture on “Digitality as a Triad: From the Love Letter to Emotion AI”. \nAbstract: \nCurrent developments in the fields of simulation and artificial intelligence (AI) have shown that the complexity of digital tools has exceeded the level of human understanding. We can no longer comprehend\, understand or explain the results that AI delivers. Even AI deceptions and hallucinations are now almost impossible to detect. This raises the question of the relationship between humans and their technology anew. Are technologies as instruments useful extensions of human capabilities\, as it was understood in the classical philosophy of technology\, or are we now extensions of our technologies? Will AI dominate and manipulate us in the near future? \nThis event is part of our winter term 2025/26 Lecture Series Digital Complexity: Beyond Human Understanding. \nIf you would like to attend\, please register with events@khk.rwth-aachen.de.
URL:https://khk.rwth-aachen.de/event/digital-complexity-de-anthropological-trends-in-computing-ai-and-robotics-gabriele-gramelsberger-aachen/
LOCATION:Stadtpalais/Online\, Theaterstraße 75\, Aachen\, 52062\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Lecture Series 25/26
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