SAM H FRANZ
Doctoral Candidate
History & Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania
History of Science & Technology, History of Computing, History of Higher Education, Political Economy, Historiography, Historical Epistemology
samfranz@sas.upenn.edu
Doctoral Candidate
History & Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania
History of Science & Technology, History of Computing, History of Higher Education, Political Economy, Historiography, Historical Epistemology
samfranz@sas.upenn.edu
SPEAKING
“An Interdisciplinary Computing Science: Initiatives at the University of Michigan, 1960-1990” at History of Science Society (HSS) Annual Meeting 2023, Portland, OR, 9-12 November 2023.
“Computing Labor, Computing Science: The Computer and Communication Sciences at the University of Michigan, 1960-1990” at Society for the History of Technology (SHOT) Annual Meeting 2023, Los Angeles, CA, 26-29 October 2023.
“Interdisciplinarity Beyond Knowledge: Training and Research at the University of Michigan” at Special Interest Group for Computing, Information, and Society (SIGCIS) Annual Meeting 2023 (virtual), 21-23 September 2023.
“Archaeology and the History of Disciplines in the History of Science” at French Historical Epistemology Workshop, Organized by University of Pennsylvania Philosophy and History and Sociology of Science Departments (virtual), 29 March 2023.
“Adaptation as Learning” at Graduate Student Works-in-Progress Group, University of Pennsylvania, 11 April 2022.
“Adaptation as Learning: John H. Holland and Evolutionary Computing at the University of Michigan” at The 56th Joint Atlantic Seminar in the History of Biology, Jointly held by MIT HASTS and Harvard History of Science (virtual), 8-9 April 2022.
“Adaptation as Learning: John H. Holland and Evolutionary Computing” at Histories of Artifical Intelligence, Winter Symposium, Homerton College, University of Cambridge, UK, 14-15 December 2021.
“Thinking about Automating Thinking: A History of Early Computing” at Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) Annual Meeting, New Orleans, USA, 4-7 September 2019.
“A History of Computing(s),” at Michigan Museum of Natural History Scientist Spotlight, Ann Arbor, MI, 18 August 2019.
“A (Pragmatic) Computer Science: Arthur W. Burks and the Logic of Computers Group,” at Michigan Museum of Natural History Scientist Spotlight, Ann Arbor, MI, 4 August 2019.
“An Interdisciplinary Computing Science: Initiatives at the University of Michigan, 1960-1990” at History of Science Society (HSS) Annual Meeting 2023, Portland, OR, 9-12 November 2023.
“Computing Labor, Computing Science: The Computer and Communication Sciences at the University of Michigan, 1960-1990” at Society for the History of Technology (SHOT) Annual Meeting 2023, Los Angeles, CA, 26-29 October 2023.
“Interdisciplinarity Beyond Knowledge: Training and Research at the University of Michigan” at Special Interest Group for Computing, Information, and Society (SIGCIS) Annual Meeting 2023 (virtual), 21-23 September 2023.
“Archaeology and the History of Disciplines in the History of Science” at French Historical Epistemology Workshop, Organized by University of Pennsylvania Philosophy and History and Sociology of Science Departments (virtual), 29 March 2023.
“Adaptation as Learning” at Graduate Student Works-in-Progress Group, University of Pennsylvania, 11 April 2022.
“Adaptation as Learning: John H. Holland and Evolutionary Computing at the University of Michigan” at The 56th Joint Atlantic Seminar in the History of Biology, Jointly held by MIT HASTS and Harvard History of Science (virtual), 8-9 April 2022.
“Adaptation as Learning: John H. Holland and Evolutionary Computing” at Histories of Artifical Intelligence, Winter Symposium, Homerton College, University of Cambridge, UK, 14-15 December 2021.
“Thinking about Automating Thinking: A History of Early Computing” at Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) Annual Meeting, New Orleans, USA, 4-7 September 2019.
“A History of Computing(s),” at Michigan Museum of Natural History Scientist Spotlight, Ann Arbor, MI, 18 August 2019.
“A (Pragmatic) Computer Science: Arthur W. Burks and the Logic of Computers Group,” at Michigan Museum of Natural History Scientist Spotlight, Ann Arbor, MI, 4 August 2019.
ORGANIZING & MISC.
Co-Organizer, “Unity and Interdisciplinarity in the Postwar Sciences” w/ Libby O'Neil, History of Science Society (HSS) Annual Meeting 2023, Portland, OR, 9-12 November 2023.
Co-Organizer, French Historical Epistemology Online Workshop, Organized by University of Pennsylvania Philosophy and History and Sociology of Science Departments (virtual), 29 March 2023.
Organizer, Graduate Student Works-in-Progress Group, University of Pennsylvania, 2021-2023.
Co-Organizer, “Unity and Interdisciplinarity in the Postwar Sciences” w/ Libby O'Neil, History of Science Society (HSS) Annual Meeting 2023, Portland, OR, 9-12 November 2023.
Co-Organizer, French Historical Epistemology Online Workshop, Organized by University of Pennsylvania Philosophy and History and Sociology of Science Departments (virtual), 29 March 2023.
Organizer, Graduate Student Works-in-Progress Group, University of Pennsylvania, 2021-2023.