“Digital Divide”: outline of a concept
A “digital divide” has accompanied the rise of digital technology since the 1990s. Outline of a problematical concept.
12 February 2022
Tagged: algorithm
Algorithms, programming…
Hubert L. Dreyfus, Martin Heidegger and the Others
Hubert L. Dreyfus was the first to criticize cognitivist and computationalist AI by invoking phenomenology, from Husserl to Heidegger.
15 January 2022
The black hole Pōwehi and the Mathematics
The image unveiled to the world in 2019 once again validates Einstein’s theory and wonderfully illustrates the awesome power of mathematics.
18 December 2021
PageRank, Parcoursup and other Moral Machines
Alexa, Siri, Uber, Tinder, TripAdvisor, Waze… The multiplication of “Moral Machines”, as the sociologist Dominique Cardon used to say, has only just begun!
28 September 2019
The promises of quantum computing
Google, IBM, Microsoft … will soon announce “quantum supremacy”. What are the main challenges of this new IT paradigm?
21 July 2019
Women and Mathematics: still a long way to go!
Why are there so few women in the higher reaches of mathematics? Review of this old and difficult question.
8 August 2018
“Non-modern” zombies
The digital world produces all kinds of “zombies”, structures and organizations without consciousness. Here are some examples.
15 June 2018
Return to Babylon
A daring parallel brings us back to Babylonian times. Do our algorithms play a role comparable to the old clay tablets?
21 November 2017
Being Stuart Russell – The comeback of Moral Philosophy
As the horizon of “intelligent” machines is autonomy, the question of their “ethics” is raised. Let’s follow Stuart Russell, AI researcher, on this topic.
30 September 2017
Liu Hui overcomes a Monster
Liu Hui, 3rd century Chinese mathematician, overcame one of the first mathematical “monsters”: the irrational number.
19 August 2017