Published On: Oct 4 2024
Deadline: Oct 7, 2024
The Winter School on Emerging Technologies: Accelerating Impactful Scholarship will be held January 3-10, 2025 in Arizona. Winter School provides junior scholars and scientists an introduction to and practical experience with methods and theory for better understanding the social dimensions of emerging technologies. The 2025 program will be focused on the broad notion of impact with an aim to explore ways for participants to increase and diversify the impact of their work.
Published On: Jul 30 2024
The 4S Palestine Forum, launched earlier this year as the initial project of the Working Group on War and Genocide that was initiated at 4S Honolulu in 2023, is welcoming further contributions.
Please submit new short blog-style entries, as well as references to published work, syllabi, and other resources by writing info@4sonline.org.
View the Palestine Forum in its entirety here: https://www.4sonline.org/palestine_forum.php
Published On: Aug 20 2024
A critical examination of the figure of the neural network as it mediates neuroscientific and computational discourses and technical practices.
Available Open Access: https://meson.press/books/neural-networks/
Neural Networks reconstructs situated practices, social histories, mediating techniques, and ontological assumptions that inform the computational project of the same name. If so-called machine learning comprises a statistical approach to pattern extraction, then neural networks can be defined as a biologically inspired model that relies on probabilistically weighted neuro...
Published On: Aug 20 2024
Deadline: Sep 30, 2024
Dates of Event: 2024–2025
Location: Online
Professor Kean Birch is hosting a virtual reading group throughout the academic year of 2024/2025 on the topic of assetization. Please fill out the link below to express your interest in participating in the group. Meetings will take place once a month to discuss readings. Dates and times to be decided depending on interest.
Expression of Interest: https://forms.office.com/r/RpZZp92y7B
Email: daynaj@yorku.ca