Daniel 🤖💀 Wilson @dan9000.bluesky.social @technocene

History / Science & Technology Studies / 'Data' / Researcher @turinginst on @livingwmachines project | https://t.co/py9HfPia2H turing.ac.uk/people/researc… London Joined June 2010

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Anne Hidalgo @Anne_Hidalgo

2 years ago

Why I am leaving Twitter. I have made the decision to leave Twitter. Twitter, far from being the groundbreaking medium that initially made information accessible to the greatest possible number of people, has in recent years become an impressive tool for destroying our…

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The Society for the History of Technology (SHOT) @SocHistTech

2 years ago

In ‘The Living Machine: Computational Approaches to the 19th Century Language of Technology’ @technocene et al., use language models to explore how the changing human-machine relation was depicted in Victorian Britain. Read the full article here: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/…

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The Society for the History of Technology (SHOT) @SocHistTech

2 years ago

Have you read Technology and Culture's July issue? It had a excellent assortment of articles! Stay tuned over the coming days for a review of all the great pieces that were published. #histtech #histSTM

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Living with Machines @LivingwMachines

2 years ago

Big news! MapReader has won the 2023 Roy Rosenzweig Prize for Innovation in Digital History, awarded by @AHAhistorians & @chnm. Thank you to the committee for recognizing our work. historians.org/awards-and-gra… Congrats to all involved!! @ahrcpress @britishlibrary @turinginst

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Living with Machines @LivingwMachines

2 years ago

Stop Press! 🧵The Living Machine! 🤖 New OA Article in Technology & Culture (muse.jhu.edu/article/903976) by @technocene et al., using a language model to explore 19th century texts #history #dh @SocHistTech @turinginst @ahrcpress @BLpressoffice 1/n...

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Living with Machines @LivingwMachines

2 years ago

The project may be winding down, but we have fresh research for you. New blogpost by @technocene about a long research article: 'The Living Machine', published this week in history journal Technology & Culture. More details to follow... #history #histtech livingwithmachines.ac.uk/stop-press-the…

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Living with Machines @LivingwMachines

2 years ago

...2/2: @technocene reflects on experiments with computer vision and the value of in-person collaboration for multi-disciplinary challenges such as document layout. Thanks @ahrcpress @SmgResearch @wjbfarrell @historianjon @jon_agar @khetiwe24 @vanstriendaniel @f_nanni @amsichani

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Living with Machines @LivingwMachines

2 years ago

New blogpost! 'Directory Enquiries Part 2' livingwithmachines.ac.uk/directory-enqu… by @technocene reporting on a workshop @turinginst on machine-learning approaches to parsing difficult historical documents such as 19th-century Trade Directories... 1/2 #dh #computervision #twitterstorians

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Daniel 🤖💀 Wilson @dan9000.bluesky.social @technocene

2 years ago

ift.tt/wi2lF4M It's been on preview for a while, but delighted to share our officially published 'Environmental Scan' article (with page numbers!) in DSH on 'Bias and Representativeness in Digitised Newspaper Collections', led by Kaspar Beelen… academic.oup.com/dsh/article/38…

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SMGResearch @SmgResearch

3 years ago

Interested in how #digital tools can be used to create new collections-based histories? #CongruenceEngine research fellow Daniel Wilson is using trade directories and machine learning to unlock radical historical contexts. Read more about his work here: ceblog.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/2023/02/06/dir…