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Aaron Mendon-Plasek is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Purdue University and a historian of science and technology. His work examines the schemes of quantification and the material, cultural, technical, and institutional instantiations of knowledge used to imagine, enact, and justify social order. Mendon-Plasek is currently building a dissertation and book project that provides a revisionist history of machine learning, exploring how concepts from World War II to the present have shaped understandings of what it means to have 'reasonable' learning machines. His research is rooted in the conceptions of creativity and human judgment, adjudicating social questions in the 21st century. His work has been supported by various fellowships and grants, including those from the National Science Foundation and Columbia University. Mendon-Plasek’s publications include articles in BJHS Themes and chapters on the cultural life of machine learning.
Information Society Project, Yale University • Yale University
Worked as an associate research scholar focusing on the intersection of information technology and society.
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