Montgomery Fellow Lunch - Orit Halpern

Come have lunch with Montgomery Fellow Orit Halpern

Orit Halpern is a media scholar and historian of science. She has researched the intertwined histories of computing, science, and design. Her analysis links mid-twentieth century perceptual and information systems with accounts of capitalism and contemporary economic thought through the description and operation of neural networks and machine learning emerging in the 1950s. These technologies have become the basis for today's artificial intelligence. The ways of thinking that emerged in this earlier moment sought to displace human agency and reason with "distributed intelligence and the technology of the market." In her latest work, Halpern takes up the proliferation of so-called "smart" devices and their implication in new modes of politics and economics, as well as their reconfiguration of the built and natural environment.

https://montgomery.dartmouth.edu/orit-halpern-94

Audience: Graduate students, postdocs
Registration: Required
Mode: In-person
Sponsor: GuariniGRAD