Neither Good Nor Old-Fashioned: Rereading Soviet AI

Event time: 
Wednesday, April 10, 2019 - 11:30am to 12:30pm
Location: 
William L. Harkness Hall
100 Wall Street false
06511 New Haven , CT
Connecticut
Speaker/Performer: 
Benjamin Peters, Associate Professor of Media Studies at the University of Tulsa
Event description: 

Benjamin Peters, Associate Professor of Media Studies at the University of Tulsa, will present a lecture on Soviet artificial intelligence, entitled, “Neither Good nor Old-Fashioned: Rereading Soviet AI.” Professor Peters is a scholar of media theory and Russian and Soviet media and technology. He is the author of “How Not to Network a Nation: The Uneasy History of the Soviet Internet” and editor of “Digital Keywords: A Vocabulary of Information Society and Culture.”