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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://test.khk.rwth-aachen.de/event/did-the-computer-drive-science-hardware-development-and-digital-complexity-in-the-20th-century-ulf-hashagen-munich/
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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://test.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/
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