Charles Babbage Institute (CBI)

05/16/2026

CFP (2 wks to deadline) CBI's MOSAICS Symposium on Interdisciplinary AI Studies. We welcome paper proposals from the humanities, social sciences, arts, law, policy... Prog Comm. Anita Chan, Katya Babintseva, Sareeta Amrute, Con Diaz & me.

cse.umn.edu/cbi/call-papers

05/04/2026

Tuesday!! Register now at link below!



Smart as a City: A Book Release Day Talk by Burcu Baykurt | CHARLES BABBAGE INSTITUTE | College of Science and Engineering https://share.google/IYWAVRc3c6le1bEJ2

04/15/2026

Call for Papers for CBI's MOSAICS Symposium: cse.umn.edu/cbi/call-papers

Thrilled to announce this & to work with Sareeta Amrute, Gerardo Con Diaz , Anita Chan & Ekaterina "Katya" Babintseva.

MOSAICS Symposium: October 15-16, 2026

Proposal Deadline: May 29, 2026


Yuji Xu

03/02/2026

We at CBI are delighted to announce Simon Fraser University School of Comm. ABD Jiaqi Wen is the incoming CBI Tomash Fellow!!! Read about her & her creative & insightful (interdisciplinary) historical research in the article linked below!

MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL (03/02/2026) — We are thrilled to announce that Simon Fraser University (SFU) ABD in Communication Jiaqi Wen is the incoming Charles Babbage Institute (CBI) Erwin and Adelle Tomash Fellow. Prior to entering her doctoral program at SFU, Wen earned a BA in Editing and Publishi...

12/21/2025

Thrilled to see our (Colette Perold, Jeffrey Yost, Gerardo Con Diaz) special issue "Automation by Design: Politics, Culture and Landscape in an Age of Machines That Learn" is out!

The issue has a wide range (geographies, themes...) of articles on the history of Automation/"AI".

Article uthors in order of ToC: Colettte Perold, Jeffrey Yost; Megan Wiessner; Christos Karampatsos, Polyxeni Malisova; David Dunning; Eliza Pertigkiozoglou; & Jason Ludwig.



https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/RecentIssue.jsp?punumber=85

12/01/2025

Call for Applications: ACM History and Archiving Fellowship program, due 28th February 2026
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) History Committee plans to support up to 5 research projects with awards of up to $4,000 each. Call is at the link below.

https://history.acm.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/ACM-HC-fellowship-CFP-2026-final.pdf

11/12/2025

TWIN CITIES folks I hope you will join us Friday at noon for this CBI & UMN Anthropology Dept. talk by Yale U. & CBI Research Fellow Lisa Messeri. Free, reg. req. Lunch provided.

Registration https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc6kYammJ8flUjKLt5sSRvXm6gi-rJG4GBOa7uD-vVtSm9n3Q/viewform

09/23/2025

Just published in Interfaces-- tremendously insightful & timely essay by U. of Toronto's Hope Latta's

"People-in-Progress: 'Debate Escrow,' and the Language of Delay in Tech Research on Adolescent Digital Health."

Interfaces Essays and Reviews in Computing and Culture  Interfaces publishes short essay articles and essay reviews connecting the history of computing/IT studies with contemporary social, cultural, political, economic, or environmental issues. It seeks to be an interface between disciplines, and ...

08/15/2025

Physical copies of Just Code, just arrived (editor copies)!!!🎉🎉🎉 Here two copies of Yost and Con Diaz, eds. volume propped up on Yost's balcony to show the front and back covers. The book has an incredible, interdisciplinary team of 20 authors. In the order of appearance of their chapters in the volume (publication date is in Nov.):

Ya-Wen Lei; Meg Leta Jones; Justin Petelka; Megan Finn, Janaki Srinivasan; Elisa Oreglia; A.P. Janani; Hamid Ekbia; Shun-Ling Chen; Gerardo Con Diaz; Stephanie Dick; Elizabeth Petrick ; Mariel Garcia Llorens; Elizabeth Semler; Jeffrey Yost; Dylan Mulvin; Shreeharsh Kelkar; Mar Hicks; Jennifer Alexander; Gili Vidan; Hector Beltran.

06/18/2025

Congratulations Con! CBI Research Fellow & UC Davis Professor of STS Gerardo Con Díaz's stellar new book is just out... Everyone Breaks These Laws: How Copyright Made the Online World. Yale University Press.

This book is a captivating exploration of the profound impact of American copyright law on our online lives. By telling stories about hope, art, greed, and fear and how they have affected the legal dimensions of creativity and technological change, this book uncovers the hidden forces shapi...