The Osiris Roundtable

Session Submission Type: Sponsored Roundtable

English Abstract

The Osiris Roundtable is an opportunity to meet Osiris editors and to learn about the application process as well as the new Osiris volume. This year, Osiris presents its 38th volume Craft and Code guest-edited by James Evans and Adrian Johns

"We live in an “algorithmic culture,” wherein algorithms intersect with and shape nearly every sphere of modern life. Many of us are well aware of this fact thanks to the close attention paid to the issue by academics and popular journalists in recent years, many of whom have sounded the alarm about the associated social impacts and called for measures to protect against emerging artificial intelligence (AI) systems.
While such writing has broadly been well informed, there is a pressing need to grapple with the reality of algorithmic culture historically, write James Evans and Adrian Johns. In the newest volume of Osiris, entitled Beyond Craft and Code: Human and Algorithmic Cultures, Past and Present, volume editors Evans and Johns present a collection of works that set forth the questions algorithms pose for historians of science, exploring what the history of science looks like in an algorithmic age."

Sub Unit

• HSS Annual Meeting

Chair

• Ahmed Ragab, John Hopkins University

Commentator

• Stephanie Dick, Simon Fraser University

Session Organizer

• John Paul Gutierrez, History of Science Society