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Stephanie Dick

Title: Professor, School of Communication

Institution: University Of Pennsylvani

Discipline: History & Cultural Studies

Appearances: 1

Notable: Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows; PhD in History of Science from Harvard University (2015); co-editor of Abstractions and Embodiments (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2022)

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Biography

Stephanie Dick is a historian of science and technology who studies the history of mathematics and computing in the twentieth century, with particular interest in how academic communities treated the computer as a scientific instrument. Her book project Making Up Minds explores attempts to reproduce human intelligence in computers. She co-edited Abstractions and Embodiments: New Histories of Computing and Society (Johns Hopkins, 2022).

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