Diana E Forsythe
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 139971 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Diana E Forsythe |
| NOMBRES | Diana E |
| APELLIDO | Forsythe |
| FIRMA | FORSYTHE D E |
| AFILIACIONES | Stanford University |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 10 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 107 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 10 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1980 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2002 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Studying Those Who Study Us
Diana E. Forsythe was a leading anthropologist of science, technology, and work, and especially of the field of artificial intelligence. This volume collects her best-known essays, along with other major works that remained unpublished upon her death in 1997. The essays proceed as a series of developing variations on the key questions that still confront science and technology studies today. What assumptions do expert systems designers make about…
It's Just a Matter of Common Sense
Ethics and Politics of Studying Up in Technoscience
New Bottles, Old Wine
Sophisticated computer programs known as "intelligent systems" have been developed for use in medical settings for over two decades. Such systems explicitly encode information about task domains, problem attributes, and problem-solving strategies. They also embody tacit assumptions held by those who build them, reflecting meanings taken for granted in particular cultural and disciplinary arenas. This article examines assumptions built into the de…
STS (Re)constructs Anthropology
Engineering Knowledge
This paper presents an anthropological study of knowledge production in the expert systems community within AI. Expert systems are built by knowledge engineers, specialists in the task known as `knowledge acquisition'. This is a complex process of interpretation and translation; not surprisingly (to an anthropologist, at least), it presents a troublesome `bottleneck'. However, knowledge engineers have a different perspective on why this is so. Ty…
The Construction of Work in Artificial Intelligence
Although technology is often viewed as value-free, an anthropological perspective suggests that technological tools embody values and assumptions of their builders. Drawing upon extended field research, this article investigates the construction of work in the expert systems community of artificial intelligence (AI). Describing systematic deletions in practitioners' representations of their own work, the article relates these to both the selectiv…
The social impact of the new urban-rural migration on one of the Orkney Islands
The Rural Community and the Small School
Urban Incomers and Rural Change
Previous research in Britain on the effects of urban-rural migration has focused on commuters and retired people, who while moving from city to country remain economically and socially separate from the receiving community. The present study looks at a new kind of urban-rural migrant - the urban refugee, who moves from city to remote rural area in order to get away from urban life and "become rural". Based on extended field research in Orkney, no…
Engineering Knowledge
This paper presents an anthropological study of knowledge production in the expert systems community within AI. Expert systems are built by knowledge engineers, specialists in the task known as `knowledge acquisition'. This is a complex process of interpretation and translation; not surprisingly (to an anthropologist, at least), it presents a troublesome `bottleneck'. However, knowledge engineers have a different perspective on why this is so. Ty…
Studying Those Who Study Us
Diana E. Forsythe was a leading anthropologist of science, technology, and work, and especially of the field of artificial intelligence. This volume collects her best-known essays, along with other major works that remained unpublished upon her death in 1997. The essays proceed as a series of developing variations on the key questions that still confront science and technology studies today. What assumptions do expert systems designers make about…
It's Just a Matter of Common Sense
Urban Incomers and Rural Change
Previous research in Britain on the effects of urban-rural migration has focused on commuters and retired people, who while moving from city to country remain economically and socially separate from the receiving community. The present study looks at a new kind of urban-rural migrant - the urban refugee, who moves from city to remote rural area in order to get away from urban life and "become rural". Based on extended field research in Orkney, no…
Ethics and Politics of Studying Up in Technoscience
New Bottles, Old Wine
Sophisticated computer programs known as "intelligent systems" have been developed for use in medical settings for over two decades. Such systems explicitly encode information about task domains, problem attributes, and problem-solving strategies. They also embody tacit assumptions held by those who build them, reflecting meanings taken for granted in particular cultural and disciplinary arenas. This article examines assumptions built into the de…
The Construction of Work in Artificial Intelligence
Although technology is often viewed as value-free, an anthropological perspective suggests that technological tools embody values and assumptions of their builders. Drawing upon extended field research, this article investigates the construction of work in the expert systems community of artificial intelligence (AI). Describing systematic deletions in practitioners' representations of their own work, the article relates these to both the selectiv…
Urban Incomers and Rural Change
Previous research in Britain on the effects of urban-rural migration has focused on commuters and retired people, who while moving from city to country remain economically and socially separate from the receiving community. The present study looks at a new kind of urban-rural migrant - the urban refugee, who moves from city to remote rural area in order to get away from urban life and "become rural". Based on extended field research in Orkney, no…
The social impact of the new urban-rural migration on one of the Orkney Islands
The Rural Community and the Small School
Engineering Knowledge
This paper presents an anthropological study of knowledge production in the expert systems community within AI. Expert systems are built by knowledge engineers, specialists in the task known as `knowledge acquisition'. This is a complex process of interpretation and translation; not surprisingly (to an anthropologist, at least), it presents a troublesome `bottleneck'. However, knowledge engineers have a different perspective on why this is so. Ty…
The Construction of Work in Artificial Intelligence
Although technology is often viewed as value-free, an anthropological perspective suggests that technological tools embody values and assumptions of their builders. Drawing upon extended field research, this article investigates the construction of work in the expert systems community of artificial intelligence (AI). Describing systematic deletions in practitioners' representations of their own work, the article relates these to both the selectiv…
STS (Re)constructs Anthropology
New Bottles, Old Wine
Sophisticated computer programs known as "intelligent systems" have been developed for use in medical settings for over two decades. Such systems explicitly encode information about task domains, problem attributes, and problem-solving strategies. They also embody tacit assumptions held by those who build them, reflecting meanings taken for granted in particular cultural and disciplinary arenas. This article examines assumptions built into the de…
It's Just a Matter of Common Sense
Ethics and Politics of Studying Up in Technoscience
Studying Those Who Study Us
Diana E. Forsythe was a leading anthropologist of science, technology, and work, and especially of the field of artificial intelligence. This volume collects her best-known essays, along with other major works that remained unpublished upon her death in 1997. The essays proceed as a series of developing variations on the key questions that still confront science and technology studies today. What assumptions do expert systems designers make about…
Sociology (7 obras) · Computer Science (4 obras) · Epistemology (4 obras) · Political science (4 obras) · Anthropology: Ethics, History, Culture (3 obras) · Philosophy (3 obras) · Social science (3 obras) · Anthropology (2 obras) · Artificial Intelligence (2 obras) · Engineering (2 obras)