Towards a History of Artificial Intelligence
Workshop at Columbia University
May 23-24, 2019
Brown Institute for Media Innovation Pulitzer Hall
This event was supported by the Center for Science and Society and Dean of Social Sciences at Columbia University, the Leibniz Fund, and the Leverhulme Center for the Future of Intelligence (CFI) at the University of Cambridge.
The following discussions are available as video recordings, please note that the whole event was not recorded.
Panel 2: Creative Reasoning
Reinventing the Wheel (again): The forgotten histories of AI and the Arts
Sofian Audry, University of Maine
Group Discussion
All Panelists
Panel 3 Sites of Decision Making
Chair: Jonnie Penn, University of Cambridge
Financial Heuristics: Investor Judgment in Artificial Intelligence Research, 1950-1963
Devin Kennedy, Harvard University
Are Neural Networks Neoclassical? Utility, Loss, and Cost from Wald to TensorFlow
Michael Castelle, University of Warwick
A Brain Model for the Perception of the Outside World
Rudolf Seising, The Research Institute for the History of Science and Technology Deutsches Museum, Munich, Germany
Computing as Organizational Behavior: Rules, Judgment, and the Automation of Bureaucratic Decision-Making, 1958–1962
Daniel Volmar, Harvard University
“In the Nervous System of the Beast”: Mapping Resistance in the Artificial Intelligence Industry
Sarah West, AI Now Institute
Group Discussion
All Panelists
Panel 4: Computing Institutions and Ideology
Chair: Laine Nooney, NYU Steinhardt
Public, as in Nongovernmental: Negotiating Trust in the New Cryptography, 1972-1984
Gili Vidan, Harvard University
The Standard Head
Stephanie Dick, University of Pennsylvania
Was the Fifth Generation a Failure? It Depends on Who you Ask—Fuchi, Feigenbaum, and the Japanese Fifth Generation Computer Systems Project, 1978-1995
Colin Garvey, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Panel 5: Knowledge Practices
Chair: Theodora Dryer, UCSD
The Machine and the Molecule: Chemistry in the History of AI
Evan Hepler-Smith, Boston College
Three Open Problems for Historians of AI
Momin Malik, Harvard University
Nondeterminate Lines: Pathfinding through Artificial Intelligence
Andrew Johnston, North Carolina State University
The rule of game has changed: ImageNet Challenges before and after Convolutional Neural Network
Yoehan Oh, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
The History of the Graphics Processing Unit in Contemporary AI
Yaqub Chaudhary, Cambridge Muslim College
Organisers: Stephanie Dick, History and Sociology of Science, Pennsylvania, Matthew L. Jones, History, Columbia; Big Data and Science Studies Cluster, Center for Science and Society, Jonnie Penn, HPS, Cambridge, Harvard Berkman-Klein and Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, Aaron Plasek, History, Columbia University