Camille Akmut Researcher Commons username: @cami Following 0 members ViewActivityProfileSites 0CORE deposits 123Following 0Followers 2Groups 0DiscussionsDocsAcademic InterestsRecent Commons Activity deposited Hackers of Port-Royal : vario… deposited Computers and philosophy. A p… deposited Happiness in the world? (Pasc… deposited Pensees : proof of infinity. deposited Endless world of Blaise Pasca…Work Shared in COREBooksComputers and philosophy. A proof of infinity in the XVII th century.ArticlesHackers of Port-Royal : various philosophers and mathematicians of that institution.Happiness in the world? (Pascal before Port-Royal)Pensees : proof of infinity.Endless world of Blaise Pascal : a working bibliography.Pascal’s Pensees : problems of edition, problems of interpretation.Russell and Nietzsche contra Pascal : a famous and partial ‘History of philosophy’.The young Pascal : bourgeois origins, exceptional education, health.From selling to ‘thinking’ the Machine : Pascal’s intellectual trajectory, sociological aspects.Reception of Pascal in the history of sciences…Crown jewel computers : On the Schickard-Pascal “Prioritätsstreit”.Is this novel? Ideological antecedents of the ‘hacker thriller’Bittorrent over Tor: a bad idea? A scientific controversy revisited.Scholar and beggar : the birth of computer science. (The original erasure of diversity.)Birth of a “respectable” discipline : from Kant to new epistemological imperialism. On the early history of computer science.Elements of sociology of the Black Death (1340-1350s). Inequalities before pandemic death in the Middle Ages : “chantries”, “private” priests, lower “surgeons”, and other farces of the rich.“What is a scientific ideology?” Extracts from Ideology and rationality in the history of the life sciences by G. CanguilhemDiversity neither in promises nor whispers only : gender and other factors from the OTRv4 project.More data on an exclusive group : Linux kernel developers and diversity (2005-2020)A well of loneliness : diversity among leading Linux kernel developers (2005-2020)The ‘holy family’ of modern feminism, or Sheryl Sandberg : tax evasion and ideological evasion.LibrePlanet 2020 presentationDiversity : a problematic definition.Gabrielle Ferrieres – ‘Jean Cavailles’. Combat philosopher. 1903-44.Early Oshii. From Patlabor to Ghost in the Shell : a scientist jumped, and became a woman.Imagined “imagined conversations”. (Brief note on Danescu/Lee 2011)Computer science and technology literature companion to Swartz, MIT and JSTOR.Towards a biography of Aaron Swartz : selected archives from the FBI File and USA v. Swartz.”What is psychology?” Georges CanguilhemArmy of Shadows’s last shadow : Jean Cavailles as Luc and Jean-Francois.Introduction to Gabrielle Ferrieres’ Jean Cavailles (1950)Aaron’s final program. A formal approach to the analysis of software archives for the social and historical sciences.keepgrabbing.py : final additions, more documentsThe History and Sociology of Computer Science and Technology. Conclusion. (4/4)keepgrabbing.py : additions, and documents.The history and sociology of computer science and technology : 26 references.“Aber Herr Prof. Dr.! ” Computer scientists and Big tech funding : a database of modern lackeys.On a certain style of history that is not ours. Lucien Febvre.Aaron Swartz’s JSTOR code. Further research notes.From pink to red / V for Vendetta : trans and queer resistance, straightened out.“Don’t be humble and forgiving” : Bitcoin, Paypal, xenophobia, Tolstoy and drones – and other strange times at Cayman National Bank.On the Logic and Theory of Science : preface, warning, first page. – Cavailles with Bachelard, Canguilhem, Ehresmann.On certain modern aspects of tourism on the Isle of Man.“May the philosophers of existence do better next time”! Canguilhem, Life and death’s end.Two figures of the historian of computer science.Hustler academics : Science in the interest of the rich and mighty.“The philosophical principles of mathematics” : Elie Cartan, Henri Cartan and Jean Cavailles.Jean Cavailles: life and death. – Georges Canguilhem. (2/2)Jean Cavailles: life and death. – Georges CanguilhemThe History of Computer Science and Technology. 50 more references…Saint SherylA bigger sociology of programming languages.A small sociology of programming languages; beyond Guy Steele.Just us boys : diversity in the GNU project as measured by mailing list activity.On corporate diversity : open answer to false promises, a response to Red Hat.End of the first-wave free software movement.A summer of news with rmsA European party with all-American technology: The case of DiEM25.Introduction to computer science research : more papers discussed.The next 700 “bad” languages imagined.2 essays : ‘An anarchist created a centralized system’ and ‘On the responsibility of computer scientists, and democracy’.Big tech and ’the good Samaritans’ : a recent precedent on cy pres practices.PGP blues – a quick review of a computer science malaise.All average : neither good nor bad. – The case of a contemporary corporate language called Go.The popular culture of computer scientists… : addendum – the future past.The popular culture of computer scientists : No beginnings and no endings.Don’t defend your values by diluting them : end letters.The popular culture of computer scientists, hackers and programmers. Part II.A castle built on sand : ‘stochastic traffic padding’ – a paper review.4 constitutions 4 Cyberspace.Tech Dogma # 2 : Libertarianism as founding ethos – The ballad of John BarlowDonald Knuth at 80 : Lulea answers.Dingledine and buddies 2004; how to read computer science papers and stop worrying about the future.‘Spotlight’, or twilight : more letters.“A voice unknown and mysterious” : Emmy Noether / Jean Cavailles, Exchanges Cantor-Dedekind (1937) – a warning translated, and the birth of set theory.The popular culture of computer scientists, hackers and programmers. From Star Trek to Buffy – First research notes.PUT 2019 : “Fearless, 1000 days and still running…”A brief history of Aaron Swartz on GitHubScience in acts / “Mathematics and formalism” by Jean Cavailles and Georges Canguilhem; review Alonzo Church.An introduction to computer science research : selected papers with commentaryTor : a sociological problem. Or umbrella : one can be stopped but not two million.Adventures in data types : benefits of the comparative approach in computer science education.Cult of the Dead Cow by Menn, June 2019 : a fundamental misunderstanding.Counter-acts : letters to the The Guardian and the Electronic Frontier Foundation.Lustrum, the oldest relays of the Tor network and their ISP’s : more data.Fearless, 1000 days and still running : the ‘most resilient’ exit nodes of the Tor network and their ISP’s – a quantitative approach.The negation, and defense of pleasures : Introduction to Volume 2 of The History of Sexuality by Michel Foucault.“What is computer science? ” The original debates surrounding the birth of computer science and the myths born out of them (1960-1975) : a selected bibliography.Their books had become full of their names : computer science textbooks and ‘big tech’.They danced to all songs : double employments and conflicts of interest within academic computer science.New sources for a new history.Freedom in computing (How I do my computing)From “Computer Info” to “How I do my computing” : a foundational text’s history.Freedom in computing : Libreboot, Panfrost report.Big Boy. Smarts So Big, Senses So Little: The “theoretical” science of the respectable physicist Prof. Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, and 60,000 Hiroshima funerals5 Months of Haskell : Programming languages as just other programs. Contribution toward a field of computer science education.A Commoner Said “This!” : High times, and last hours of a nobility.Tech dogma # 1 : The Great Separation, between the “technical” and the “political”. Documents towards a history.BibliographiesWhat is Computer Science? The two crises of computer science.Other Publicationshcommons.org currently has a bug where, past one hundred articles, the oldest publications cease to appear on the front page. Social conditions of outstanding contributions to computer science : a prosopography of Turing Award laureates (1966-2016) https://hcommons.org/deposits/item/hc:19673 Minerva and Virgil – a program (Notes on Karpathy et al. 2014) https://hcommons.org/deposits/item/hc:23341 A User-Defined Web. And, on Systems modification in general. https://hcommons.org/deposits/item/hc:23691 Notes on the Freedom Tower. Current issues in Networking (mesh). https://hcommons.org/deposits/item/hc:23713 Hackers Revisited : the “original “hackers””. Clever solutions, political acts. https://hcommons.org/deposits/item/hc:23727 Ensuring the integrity of research in the Age of open access. A proposal : hashing + public-key cryptography signing. https://hcommons.org/deposits/item/hc:23759 When doing good pays : A first research into the remuneration practices of non-profit executives (particularly the IT sector). https://hcommons.org/deposits/item/hc:23863 “Not just a HR trend”. Behind the curtains of diversity : a statistical analysis of role distribution and hiring practices at a technology company. https://hcommons.org/deposits/item/hc:23867
