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Posts by Valentin Goujon

📑 De retour dans AOC pour explorer le rapprochement accru entre le Pentagone et la Silicon Valley depuis le milieu des années 2010.

Au cœur de ce rapprochement, un aspect encore peu connu : l'encadrement organisationnel de l'innovation de défense, inspiré des « bonnes pratiques » californiennes !

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🗓️ This Wednesday (4–6pm, CET), join us for the first 2026 session of the "Digital Materialities" seminar!

Cyrus Khalatbari, design researcher at HEAD–Genève and EPFL, will present research-creation methods applied to the GPU lifecycle, from Taiwanese overclockers to urban miners in Ghana ♻️

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Call for Papers n° 19 : Towards New Social and Historical Studies o... Abstracts are due by January 16, 2026. Today public opinion on generative artificial intelligence is deeply divided. Techno-optimistic promises clash with ethical critiques, against the backdrop of...

Following our three (!) sessions on "Technologies of Pattern Recognition" at SHOT, @alexcampolo.bsky.social, M. Fichen and I have published a CfP to move "Towards New Social and Historical Studies of AI". As usual, the deadline will likely be extended by ~two weeks, feel free to join and share 😇

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🗓️ This Wednesday (4–6pm CET), join us online as historian @honghongtinn.bsky.social presents her new book on Taiwan's computing industry!

Check out her open-access book: direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon...

Info and registration on the "Digital Materialities" seminar page: cis.cnrs.fr/materialites...

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ABOUT | devikanarayan

On May 27, also at Cnam, Devika Narayan (@devikanarayan.bsky.social, University of Bristol) will discuss the material practices of technological acceleration, drawing on a sociotechnical analysis of computing infrastructure and an industrial political economy perspective on the tech sector 🖥️

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Gwladys Hadjimanolis - Université de Lille Doctorant

Le 29 avril, Gwladys Hadjimanolis (Clersé, Univ. de Lille) interviendra au Cnam pour présenter une partie de sa thèse de sociologie économique sur les aspirants traders-entrepreneurs, avec la mise en place d'une enquête ethnographique à couvert aussi bien en ligne que hors ligne 🪙

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More than Carbon: Cradle-to-Grave environmental impacts of GenAI training on the Nvidia A100 GPU The rapid expansion of AI has intensified concerns about its environmental sustainability. Yet, current assessments predominantly focus on operational carbon emissions using secondary data or estimate...

Le 18 février, David Ekchajzer (Hubblo, IMT-BS & Univ. Paris Saclay) sera lui aussi à Sciences Po pour nous présenter les résultats d'une analyse de cycle de vie (ACV) sur un processeur graphique Nvidia A100, illustrant ainsi les moyens à mettre en œuvre pour produire des données environnementales 💽

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Cyrus Thibault Lognonné Cyrus Thibault Lognonné's EPFL profile

On January 14, Cyrus Khalatbari (HEAD & EPFL) will kick off 2026 with a presentation inspired by a PhD thesis to be defended in the coming months, focusing on two communities at the periphery of the GPU lifecycle—Taipei's overclockers and Accra's urban miners—through research-creation methods 🇹🇼 🇬🇭

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Island Tinkerers How did Taiwan, a former Japanese colony and the last fortress of the defeated Chinese Nationalists, ascend to such heights in high-tech manufacturing? In Is...

On December 3, Honghong Tinn (@honghongtinn.bsky.social, University of Minnesota) will join us online to present her open-access book, "Island Tinkerers. Innovation and Transformation in the Making of Taiwan's Computing Industry", published earlier this year by MIT Press (@mitpress.bsky.social) 🇹🇼

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Nowmay Opalinski – Institut Français de Géopolitique

Le 19 novembre, Nowmay Opalinski (GEODE, @ifgeopolitique.bsky.social) sera sur le site Pouchet du CNRS pour évoquer les « routes de la soie numériques » de la Chine, permettant ainsi de mieux cerner la stratégie d'influence chinoise à partir du cas des infrastructures numériques au Pakistan 🇵🇰

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On October 29, Justin Kollar (MIT) will kick off the new season with an online talk based on his recently defended PhD thesis, developing the concept of techno-statecraft through a comparative analysis of TSMC's semiconductor production ecosystems in Taiwan and Arizona 🇹🇼 🇺🇸

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Matérialités du numérique - Centre Internet et Société

📅 Le séminaire « Matérialités du numérique » fait sa rentrée pour une troisième saison !

Un programme toujours aussi varié en termes de cas d'étude internationaux, de profils d'intervenant·es, de méthodes de recherche, etc.

Pour consulter les résumés et s'inscrire aux séances, c'est ici ⤵️

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If you are attending @shothisttech.bsky.social annual meeting in Luxembourg, please come say hello at one of the series of panels “Technologies of Pattern Recognition” organized by @vgoujon.bsky.social and I.

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🗓️ Let's talk about the instructional-conversational genre of LLMs with James E. Dobson (@jeddobson.bsky.social), Associate Professor of English and Creative Writing at Dartmouth College, on "Genre and GenAI"!

Tomorrow, 2-4pm (CET), at Sciences Po and online ⤵️

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🎙️De passage dans l'émission @questionsdusoir.bsky.social pour évoquer l'entreprise Palantir, ses nombreux contrats avec le complexe militaro-industriel et le profil de ses deux principaux cofondateurs, les milliardaires Peter Thiel et Alex Karp, qui en appellent à un patriotisme technique aux USA !

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Workshop des DFG-Projektes „ArtViWo“
18.7.2025 | Deutsches Museum München | Seminarraum Forschung 1
„Historical and Sociological Perspectives on the digital
Transformation”

09:00 – 09:15 Ulf Hashagen (DM) Opening
1. Histories of the digital Transformation and the Automation of Vision
09:15 – 09:45 Dinah Pfau (DM) “ArtViWo” – Vision between Physiology and Communications Engineering
09:45 – 10:15 Aaron Gluck-Thaler (Harvard) Learning from Particulars: Mid-Twentieth Century Data Processing Ambitions at the National Security Agency
10:15 – 10:45 Coffee Break
10:45 – 11:15 Rudi Seising (DM) Perception and Perceptron – Pattern
Recognition in the 1950s
11:15 – 11:45 Sebastian Kawanami-Breu (HU B) Retinas and Receivers: Modeling Vision at the NHK Labs, 1960-1980
11:45 – 12:00 Coffee Break
2. Computing Landscapes: Environmental History of the digital Transformation
12:00 – 12:30 Tjark Nentwig (TU B) Computing Landscapes – Sketching an Information History of the Environment
12:30 – 13:00 Kathrin Tschida (TU B) Computerlandschaften: A Student-led Project on the Environmental History of Computing
13:00 – 14:15 Lunch
3. Sociological Perspectives the digital Transformation and the Automation of Vision
14:15 – 14:45 Judith Neumer und Michael Heinlein (ISF) “ArtViWo” – The Automation of the Clinical Gaze? Artificial Intelligence in the Visual
Practice of Colonoscopy
14:45 – 15:15 Assia Wirth (CREST) Searching for facial recognition: uncovering the making of sensitive algorithmic technologies.
15:15 – 15:45 Coffee Break
15:45 – 16:15 Valentin Goujon (Sciences Po) Scalability, temporality and (mis)alignment: governing Artificial (General) Intelligence through benchmark datasets
16:15 – 16:45 Liliia Zemnukhova (DM) Air in the Room: How Quality Assurance Moves Digitalization
4. Artificial Intelligence, Vision and digital Transformation: Summary and Outlook
16:45 – 17:15 Dinah Pfau (DM) Summary, Outlook and Discussion

Workshop des DFG-Projektes „ArtViWo“ 18.7.2025 | Deutsches Museum München | Seminarraum Forschung 1 „Historical and Sociological Perspectives on the digital Transformation” 09:00 – 09:15 Ulf Hashagen (DM) Opening 1. Histories of the digital Transformation and the Automation of Vision 09:15 – 09:45 Dinah Pfau (DM) “ArtViWo” – Vision between Physiology and Communications Engineering 09:45 – 10:15 Aaron Gluck-Thaler (Harvard) Learning from Particulars: Mid-Twentieth Century Data Processing Ambitions at the National Security Agency 10:15 – 10:45 Coffee Break 10:45 – 11:15 Rudi Seising (DM) Perception and Perceptron – Pattern Recognition in the 1950s 11:15 – 11:45 Sebastian Kawanami-Breu (HU B) Retinas and Receivers: Modeling Vision at the NHK Labs, 1960-1980 11:45 – 12:00 Coffee Break 2. Computing Landscapes: Environmental History of the digital Transformation 12:00 – 12:30 Tjark Nentwig (TU B) Computing Landscapes – Sketching an Information History of the Environment 12:30 – 13:00 Kathrin Tschida (TU B) Computerlandschaften: A Student-led Project on the Environmental History of Computing 13:00 – 14:15 Lunch 3. Sociological Perspectives the digital Transformation and the Automation of Vision 14:15 – 14:45 Judith Neumer und Michael Heinlein (ISF) “ArtViWo” – The Automation of the Clinical Gaze? Artificial Intelligence in the Visual Practice of Colonoscopy 14:45 – 15:15 Assia Wirth (CREST) Searching for facial recognition: uncovering the making of sensitive algorithmic technologies. 15:15 – 15:45 Coffee Break 15:45 – 16:15 Valentin Goujon (Sciences Po) Scalability, temporality and (mis)alignment: governing Artificial (General) Intelligence through benchmark datasets 16:15 – 16:45 Liliia Zemnukhova (DM) Air in the Room: How Quality Assurance Moves Digitalization 4. Artificial Intelligence, Vision and digital Transformation: Summary and Outlook 16:45 – 17:15 Dinah Pfau (DM) Summary, Outlook and Discussion

Join us on Friday: Workshop on “Historical and Sociological Perspectives on the #DigitalTransformation”.

⏰ July 18, 2025, 9 a.m.
🏛️ Deutsches Museum Munich
👉 Organized by DFG-project #ArtViWO (@dfg.de)

#HistSci #HistTech #HistAI #STS
@vgoujon.bsky.social @assiaw.bsky.social

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Le nouveau numéro de la revue RESET est en ligne !

Coordonné par L. Cellard et C. Marquet, il porte sur les « Matérialités environnementales du numérique » 🌿

Métavers, cryptomonnaies, GPUs et autres stations 4G/5G - trois articles et un portfolio à lire ici : journals.openedition.org/reset/5909

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Retour sur la conférence « Social Science and Generative AI » | médialab Sciences Po Retrouvez en image la conférence « Social Science and Generative AI: Inquiries, Instruments, Consequences » organisée par le médialab le 5 juin 2025. Des intervenants internationaux ont discuté des qu...

Découvrez en rediffusion la conférence "Social Science and Generative AI" organisée par le médialab le 5 juin dernier.

Des intervenants internationaux se sont réunis pour explorer les rôles interconnectés de l'IA générative dans le monde universitaire et la société.

Vidéo disponible ci-dessous 👇

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🗓️ Prolongation d'une semaine de l'AAC n°18 de la revue RESET : « Se saisir des outils numériques dans l'articulation des temps sociaux » !

Des résumés (4 000 signes max.) en français ou anglais, à envoyer aux adresses des quatre coordinateur·rices pour le 7 juin.

Plus d'informations ⤵️

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🚀 How do the challenges of #digital #technology also affect outer #space and the #Arctic? ❄️

Come to meet and listen to Mia Bennett @cryopolitics.com (Uni. of Washington) on June 18, 4 PM - 6 PM (CET) in Paris and online!

You can register directly via this link: evento.renater.fr/survey/semin...

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Politics of Machine Learning Evaluation Is the data good enough for training purposes? Does the model perform accurately enough? Is the error rate low enough? Such questions of ‘good enough’ are at ...

In the meantime, feel free to take a look at the three papers already published as part of the Topical Collection in Digital Society: link.springer.com/collections/...

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🗓️ Join us next Tuesday for a talk by Anna Schjøtt Hansen and Dieuwertje Luitse on "The Politics of Machine Learning Evaluation: From Present to Future"!

A presentation followed by a collective discussion with @assiaw.bsky.social, @theolenoir.bsky.social, @alexcampolo.bsky.social and myself ⤵️

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le flashlab pour recevoir des nouvlles, c'est ici !

Feel free to join us online or in Paris on Monday, June 2nd (4pm-5:30pm, CET) by subscribing to our mailing list (flashlab@framalistes.org) or by contacting us directly (flashlab.contact@gmail.com) : flashlabinfo.wordpress.com

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🗓️ The next and final 2024-2025 session of the FlashLab seminar will feature Dieuwertje Luitse (@dluitse.bsky.social), PhD Candidate at the University of Amsterdam, with a talk on the technopolitical production of "otherness" through ML modelling and evaluation in medecine!

Abstract and more info ⤵️

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Il y aura bien un enregistrement, n'hésitez pas à nous contacter après la séance (gdt.matnum@gmail.com) pour l'obtenir !

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🗓️ Mesurer plus précisément l'impact environnemental de l'industrie des semi-conducteurs grâce à une meilleure analyse de ses chaînes de valeur ? On en parle dans deux jours avec Gauthier Roussilhe ! cis.cnrs.fr/materialites...

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Social Science and Generative AI: Inquiries, Instruments, Consequences | médialab Sciences Po This one-day conference will reflexively examine generative AI as sociotechnical devices, discussing its effects on scientific work and its epistemological and social implications. The presentations w...

📅 5th of June - Join the médialab conference "Social Science and Generative AI: Inquiries, Instruments, Consequences"

A one-day event examining generative AI as a sociotechnical device and exploring its effects on scientific work, as well as its epistemological and social implications 🌐

Info ⬇️

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❗Next session of the #Digital Materialities seminar with G. Roussilhe, PhD candidate at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, on "a 'new' method to explore the upstream materiality of #digitalisation".

Sciences Po Paris and online, on May, 21st (4 PM - 6 PM). cis.cnrs.fr/materialites...

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“Le flashlab” écrit en bleu sur fond jaune

“Le flashlab” écrit en bleu sur fond jaune

Nouvelle séance du #Flashlab organisée le 15/05 (16h-17h30) avec une présentation de Laurène Tetu, doctorante en #SIC à l'Université de La Réunion : “Questionner l’utilisation de l’intelligence artificielle en contexte postcolonial pour combler un manque de source et changer de paradigme”

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State-of-the-Art: The Temporal Order of Benchmarking Culture - Digital Society This commentary situates the epistemic values of machine learning’s culture of benchmarking and evaluation within larger temporal structures. Beyond questions of validity, whether model comparisons ar...

I have a short reflection on benchmarking in machine learning, titled "State-of-the-Art." Beyond questions of construct validity and rankings, how do benchmarks and model evaluation produce orientations towards progress or the future? Open access: doi.org/10.1007/s442...

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