Early modern European natural science, meaning of agency, bible literalism and religion, Protestant Reformation,
Early modern engineering around the world, Japanese automata, early algorithms,
The 19th Century, First Industrial Revolution, electricity, telegrams, typewriters
Second Industrial Revolution, automation, feedback engineering & governors, rise of population statistics/sampling
World wars, the Cold War, U.S. defense research, command and control, ARPA/DARPA
History of language AI, chatbots, speech synthesis and recognition,
Mid-20th C algorithms and game theory, AI for games
Modernizing AI as a field, AI conferences,
Microchips and hardware for AI, Cold War geopolitics and Asia Pacific, Silicon semiconductors, GPUs/TPUs/NPUs,
Silicon Valley and the 1980s
The Internet, consumer tech, deep learning
21st C AI and data policy, international geopolitics,
Today's AI data centers, multi-modal AI, large language models, the imagined AI,
