Which chain of work processes are triggered by a click in an app? Whose bodies are thereby set in motion and exposed to the elements? And how will our cities …
Due to the heat, the lecture will only take place online. Abstract: Is behaviorism a revenant? This talk traces the emergence and expansion of data behaviorism – an epistemic and …
Tagung "Illustratives Denken – Zur Rolle von Zeichnungen, Scribbles und Visualisierungen im wissenschaftlichen Entdeckungsprozess" by the Aachen Competence Centre for the History of Science (AKWG) is organizing the AKWG Conference …
This event is part of our summer semester 2025 Lecture Series Expanding Science and Technology Studies. Abstract: Residual Uncertainty is a historiographical concept of mine that combines the contingency part …
This workshop explores the borderlands of knowing, where knowledge claims are made and rejected, and where credibility is negotiated through appeals to evidence, replication, plausibility, and authority. Using concepts from …
Abstract: Current 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 …
Abstract: The 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 …
Europe stands at a crossroads: Political polarization, disinformation, and social fragmentation threaten the cohesion of our continent. National interests clash, while external crises put increasing pressure on our democracies. At …
Abstract: In 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 …
Abstract: Digital 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 …
The KHK c:o/re is proud to host the 8th edition of the international conference on History and Philosophy of Computing (HaPoC), taking place every two years under the auspices of …
Abstract: Why 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 …
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