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Wiggins, Chris H.
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Artificial intelligence -- History.
Big data -- Political aspects -- History.
Data mining -- Political aspects -- History.
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Wiggins, Chris H.
Artificial intelligence -- History.
Big data -- Political aspects -- History.
Data mining -- Political aspects -- History.
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How
data
happened
: a
history
from the
age
of
reason
to the
age
of
algorithms
/ Chris Wiggins and Matthew L. Jones.
by
Wiggins, Chris H.
W. W. Norton & Company, 2023.
Call #:
519.535 W655h
Subjects
Artificial intelligence --
History
.
Big
data
-- Political aspects --
History
.
Data
mining -- Political aspects --
History
.
ISBN:
9781324006732 (hc.)
Description:
xiv, 367 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:
"From facial recognition — capable of checking people into flights or identifying undocumented residents — to automated decision systems that inform who gets loans and who receives bail, each of us moves through a world determined by data-empowered
algorithms
. But these technologies didn’t just appear: they are part of a
history
that goes back centuries, from the census enshrined in the US Constitution to the birth of eugenics in Victorian Britain to the development of Google search. Expanding on the popular course they created at Columbia University, Chris Wiggins and Matthew L. Jones illuminate the ways in which
data
has long been used as a tool and a weapon in arguing for what is true, as well as a means of rearranging or defending power. They explore
how
data
was created and curated, as well as
how
new mathematical and computational techniques developed to contend with that
data
serve to shape people, ideas, society, military operations, and economies. Although technology and mathematics are at its heart, the story of
data
ultimately concerns an unstable game among states, corporations, and people.
How
were new technical and scientific capabilities developed; who supported, advanced, or funded these capabilities or transitions; and
how
did they change who could do what, from what, and to whom? Wiggins and Jones focus on these questions as they trace data’s historical arc, and look to the future. By understanding the trajectory of
data
— where it has been and where it might yet go — Wiggins and Jones argue that we can understand
how
to bend it to ends that we collectively choose, with intentionality and purpose." --Barnes&Noble.
Other authors:
Jones, Matthew L.
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