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Popular Science Representations of Artificial Intelligence Research: Investigating the Values of Doing Science in China
China’s communist government has always understood its rule to be scientifically enlightened. Even though the ideal society that China’s eli
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Against this backdrop, this project uses the sociology of knowledge approach to discourse to look at the breadth of science popularization materials p
Sarah Lowengard
Sarah Lowengard is a New York City-based historian of technology and science whose research inte...
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Lorraine Daston in The Washington Post on scientific cooperation and the history of astronomy
Go to ArticleLorraine Daston in der Washington Post über wissenschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Astronomie
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MoreA Book on al-Khazini’s Book on the Balance of Wisdom
This project studies the book ’Abd al-Rahman al-Khazini’s Kitab Mizan al-hikma (The Book of the Balance of Wisdom). This project aims to produce a tra
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A draft English translation of Khazini’s book has been prepared. It is superior to the complete Russian and partial English, French, and German transl
Keeping Time With the Earth
When the second-most-destructive earthquake in Mexico City’s history struck on September 19, 2017, 32 years to the day after the most-destructive eart
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Ownership of Knowledge
MoreModeled Modernity: A Critical History of Computing in the People's Republic of China
At the MPIWG, Bo An is working on his dissertation, an interdisciplinary history of computation and modeling in the People's Republic of China ov
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A central working hypothesis—widely held but rarely investigated—is that modern computing has significantly changed Chinese governance, society, and c