Some Paper Presentations
Negotiating Boundaries: Karl Steinbuch between Communications Engineering and Computer Science in the 1950s
Conference „Paths to ‚Informatik‘: Values, Machines, Sciences,“ Deutsches Museum München, 23.-25.11.2025.
Historical Re-Enactment with “Dead” Technologies: The Case of the German Electron-Synchrotron
Annual Meeting of the Society for the History of Technology (SHOT), Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C2DH). 11.10.2025, Luxembourg.
Seeing Patterns, Creating Differences: Neurophysiological Experiments on Vision in 1970s West Germany
Annual Meeting of the Society for the History of Technology (SHOT), Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C2DH). 11.10.2025, Luxembourg.
Digitale Medien und Wissen. Prof. Dr. Hans-Jörg Rheinberger im Gespräch mit Dr. Dinah Pfau
Summer School „Aufschreibesysteme 1800·1900“, Friedrich-Kittler-Gesellschaft, Juniorprofessur für digitale Medien und Computation, Humboldt-University of Berlin. 16.9.2025, Berlin.
Epistemology of a Matrix. Micro-study on research into an “artificial neural network” in the Federal Republic of Germany 1950-1961
International Conference ICHST/ICOHTEC, 29.6.2025, Dunedin, NZ (online).
Sehen als Arbeitspraxis: Historische Perspektiven auf Neuronales „Sehen“ und seine Modellierungsansätze
Conference of the DFG Priority Program 2267 “Digitalisierung der Arbeitswelten”, Topic “Transformation“, 12.6.2025, Nürnberg.
How to Find Signatures of New Particles: A Comparative Assessment of the Scanning Girls and Current Expectations about Machine Learning in Elementary Particle Physics
International Conference “10th Integrated HPS Conference” of The Committee for Integrated HPS, CalTech, CA. 27.3.2025, Los Angeles, CA (online).
Epistemology of a Matrix, or how Communication Engineering invented the Human
Workshop “Clustering: Automated Order in the Social Sciences” of University of Vienna and the International Research Center for Cultural Studies (ifk). 29.11.2024, Vienna.
Auf den Mensch gekommen. Epistemologische Annäherungen an Karl Steinbuchs „Lernmatrix“
Oberseminar der Abteilungen Unternehmensgeschichte und Wirkungsgeschichte der Technik (GUT), Historisches Institut d. Universität Stuttgart, 12.11.2024 Stuttgart.
Digital Practices? ‚Scanning Girls‘ and the Computerization of Image Evaluation at the German Electron Synchrotron (DESY)
Workshop „Fabricating Archaeologies: Feminist Craft, Human Hands and Intelligent Architectures“, Technical University Munich, Deutsches Museum Munich. 4.7.2024, Munich.
Steinbuch’s Matrices. Epistemology of an Artificial Neural Network
Workshop “Why Intelligence? The political and social roots of a scientific object”, University Erfurt. 23.2.2024, Erfurt.
Digital Practices? ‘Scanning Girls’ and the Computerization of Image Evaluation at the German Electron Synchrotron (DESY)
Early Career Group 2023 Workshop, Early Career Interest Group (ECIG) of the Society for the History of Technology (SHOT). 27.10.2023, Los Angeles.
Making of the ‘real world’
6th CUHKSZ (Chinese University of Hongkong, Shenzhen) History Seminars, Chinese University of Hongkong, Shenzhen. 5.5.2023, Shenzhen (online).
