Merrick L Jones
Biographic Data
| ID | 299472 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Merrick L Jones |
| GIVEN NAMES | Merrick L |
| FAMILY NAME | Jones |
| SIGNATURE | JONES M L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Columbia University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6163-9401 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 86 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Histories of artificial intelligence: A genealogy of power
Like the polar bear beleaguered by global warming, artificial intelligence (AI) serves as the charismatic megafauna of an entangled set of local and global histories of science, technology and economics. This Themes issue develops a new perspective on AI that moves beyond conventional origin myths – AI was invented at Dartmouth in the summer of 1956, or by Alan Turing in 1950 – and reframes contemporary critique by establishing plural genealogies…
Users Gone Astray: Spreadsheet Charts, Junky Graphics, and Statistical Knowledge
This story, which begins from the widely deplored look of the graphing in Microsoft’s spreadsheet program, Excel, and extends back some seventy-five years, is about code that enables users to create visualizations without enough craft—at least in the eyes of their critics. It investigates two facets of data visualization since World War II: iterative analysis through graphical means and the making of business charts concerning numerical data. The…
Forgetting Machines: Knowledge Management Evolution in Early Modern Europe
Matters of Fact
At the end of Matters of Exchange , Harold Cook's major revisionist account of the early modern scientific revolution, he locates the political and economic writings of Bernard Mandeville within the practices and values of contemporaneous Dutch observational medicine. Like Mandeville, Cook describes the potency of early modern capitalism and its attendant value system in generating industry and knowledge; like Mandeville, Cook finds coercive syst…
Bollywood, Rasa and Indian Cinema: Misconceptions, Meanings and Millionaire
Slumdog Millionaire. Produced by Fox Searchlight Pictures; directed by Danny Boyle and Loveleen Tandan; story by Vikas Swarup; screenplay by Simon Beaufoy; music by A.R. Rahman; lyrics by Gulzar; s
The Instauration magna. Part 3: Historia naturalis et experimentalis: Historia ventorum and Historia vita & mortis
Francis Bacon. The Instauration magna. Part 3: Historia naturalis et experimentalis: Historia ventorum and Historia vita & mortis. Ed., Graham Rees. The Oxford Francis Bacon 12. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2007. lxxxiv + 502 pp. index. append. bibl. $285. ISBN: 978–0–19–926500–8. - Volume 62 Issue 2
Lettres Latines
Pierre Gassendi. Lettres Latines. Ed. and trans. Sylvie Taussig. 2 Vols. Monothéismes et Philosophie 5. Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2004. xxxiv + 622 pp.; x + 609 pp. €175. ISBN: 2-503-51353-0. - Sylvie Taussig. Pierre Gassendi (1592–1655), introduction à la vie savante. Monothéismes et Philosophie 6. Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2003. 456 pp. illus. bibl. €60. ISBN: 2 -503-52182-7. - Volume 59 Issue 1
Descartes’s Mathematical Thought
Chikara Sasaki. Descartes’s Mathematical Thought. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science 237. Dordrecht and Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003. xiv + 496 pp. index. illus. bibl. $158. ISBN: 1-4020-1746-4. - Volume 58 Issue 3
Wahtohtana heda Nyutˆachi Mahin Xanje Akipa: The Year the Otoe and Missouria Meet the Americans
It was the year that Wahtohtana héda Ñyút^achi Mahín Xánje akípa. We were on our gixrán ché (buffalo hunting expedition), preparing for tanñyí (freezing water, winter), when the Mahín Xánje (Long Knives, white Americans) came into our country. Not all our people went on the gixrán ché. Some stayed behind because they were wáxwatan (poor) and didn't have sunge (horse), some were in mourning, and others had chúyu winhinre (sickness in family). Ther…
Writing and Sentiment: Blaise Pascal, the Vacuum, and the Pensées
Descartes's Geometry as Spiritual Exercise
Twinning’ as a Method of Sustainable Institutional Capacity Building
‘Twinning’ is the distinctive method employed during the last two decades by the Swedish International Development Co-operation Agency (Sida) to promote institutional capacity building in development co-operation. This article reports on a study undertaken to provide evidence which would help Sida to make judgements about the efficacy of the twinning model as a basis for sustainable capacity building, and to explore ways of enhancing the method. …
Motivational muddles, recycled conventional wisdom and straw men in Malaŵi: Comments on Carr, MacLachlan, Kachedwa and Kanyangale (1997)
Managing Organisations in Africa
Organizational development and change in Africa (1)
Little is known about organizational functioning and managerial behavior in Africa. The need for organizational development and change is urgent. Current attempts to reform African public sector organizations tend to focus on mechanistic measures, neglecting the complexity of organizational life. Western approaches to organizational development tend to reflect their cultural milieu and may contain elements which are irrelevant or inimical to Afri…
Managing Organisations in Africa
Die zentrale Bedeutung, die dem Aufbau leistungsfahiger im afrikanischen Entwicklungskontext zukommt, ist unbestritten. Internationale Entwicklungsagenturen sehen in der Starkung einheimischer Organisationskapazitaten einen Schlusselfaktor in der Bewaltigung der Entwicklungsprobleme des Kontinents. Vor diesem Hintergrund kann eine Veroffentlichung wie die von Blunt und Jones mit grosem Interesse rechnen. Dabei nehmen sich die Autoren vor, das vor…
Managing Organisations in Africa
Die zentrale Bedeutung, die dem Aufbau leistungsfahiger im afrikanischen Entwicklungskontext zukommt, ist unbestritten. Internationale Entwicklungsagenturen sehen in der Starkung einheimischer Organisationskapazitaten einen Schlusselfaktor in der Bewaltigung der Entwicklungsprobleme des Kontinents. Vor diesem Hintergrund kann eine Veroffentlichung wie die von Blunt und Jones mit grosem Interesse rechnen. Dabei nehmen sich die Autoren vor, das vor…
Descartes's Geometry as Spiritual Exercise
Writing and Sentiment: Blaise Pascal, the Vacuum, and the Pensées
Organizational development and change in Africa (1)
Little is known about organizational functioning and managerial behavior in Africa. The need for organizational development and change is urgent. Current attempts to reform African public sector organizations tend to focus on mechanistic measures, neglecting the complexity of organizational life. Western approaches to organizational development tend to reflect their cultural milieu and may contain elements which are irrelevant or inimical to Afri…
Wahtohtana heda Nyutˆachi Mahin Xanje Akipa: The Year the Otoe and Missouria Meet the Americans
It was the year that Wahtohtana héda Ñyút^achi Mahín Xánje akípa. We were on our gixrán ché (buffalo hunting expedition), preparing for tanñyí (freezing water, winter), when the Mahín Xánje (Long Knives, white Americans) came into our country. Not all our people went on the gixrán ché. Some stayed behind because they were wáxwatan (poor) and didn't have sunge (horse), some were in mourning, and others had chúyu winhinre (sickness in family). Ther…
Managing Organisations in Africa
Die zentrale Bedeutung, die dem Aufbau leistungsfahiger im afrikanischen Entwicklungskontext zukommt, ist unbestritten. Internationale Entwicklungsagenturen sehen in der Starkung einheimischer Organisationskapazitaten einen Schlusselfaktor in der Bewaltigung der Entwicklungsprobleme des Kontinents. Vor diesem Hintergrund kann eine Veroffentlichung wie die von Blunt und Jones mit grosem Interesse rechnen. Dabei nehmen sich die Autoren vor, das vor…
Organizational development and change in Africa (1)
Little is known about organizational functioning and managerial behavior in Africa. The need for organizational development and change is urgent. Current attempts to reform African public sector organizations tend to focus on mechanistic measures, neglecting the complexity of organizational life. Western approaches to organizational development tend to reflect their cultural milieu and may contain elements which are irrelevant or inimical to Afri…
Managing Organisations in Africa
Motivational muddles, recycled conventional wisdom and straw men in Malaŵi: Comments on Carr, MacLachlan, Kachedwa and Kanyangale (1997)
Twinning’ as a Method of Sustainable Institutional Capacity Building
‘Twinning’ is the distinctive method employed during the last two decades by the Swedish International Development Co-operation Agency (Sida) to promote institutional capacity building in development co-operation. This article reports on a study undertaken to provide evidence which would help Sida to make judgements about the efficacy of the twinning model as a basis for sustainable capacity building, and to explore ways of enhancing the method. …
Writing and Sentiment: Blaise Pascal, the Vacuum, and the Pensées
Descartes's Geometry as Spiritual Exercise
Wahtohtana heda Nyutˆachi Mahin Xanje Akipa: The Year the Otoe and Missouria Meet the Americans
It was the year that Wahtohtana héda Ñyút^achi Mahín Xánje akípa. We were on our gixrán ché (buffalo hunting expedition), preparing for tanñyí (freezing water, winter), when the Mahín Xánje (Long Knives, white Americans) came into our country. Not all our people went on the gixrán ché. Some stayed behind because they were wáxwatan (poor) and didn't have sunge (horse), some were in mourning, and others had chúyu winhinre (sickness in family). Ther…
Descartes’s Mathematical Thought
Chikara Sasaki. Descartes’s Mathematical Thought. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science 237. Dordrecht and Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003. xiv + 496 pp. index. illus. bibl. $158. ISBN: 1-4020-1746-4. - Volume 58 Issue 3
Lettres Latines
Pierre Gassendi. Lettres Latines. Ed. and trans. Sylvie Taussig. 2 Vols. Monothéismes et Philosophie 5. Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2004. xxxiv + 622 pp.; x + 609 pp. €175. ISBN: 2-503-51353-0. - Sylvie Taussig. Pierre Gassendi (1592–1655), introduction à la vie savante. Monothéismes et Philosophie 6. Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2003. 456 pp. illus. bibl. €60. ISBN: 2 -503-52182-7. - Volume 59 Issue 1
The Instauration magna. Part 3: Historia naturalis et experimentalis: Historia ventorum and Historia vita & mortis
Francis Bacon. The Instauration magna. Part 3: Historia naturalis et experimentalis: Historia ventorum and Historia vita & mortis. Ed., Graham Rees. The Oxford Francis Bacon 12. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2007. lxxxiv + 502 pp. index. append. bibl. $285. ISBN: 978–0–19–926500–8. - Volume 62 Issue 2
Matters of Fact
At the end of Matters of Exchange , Harold Cook's major revisionist account of the early modern scientific revolution, he locates the political and economic writings of Bernard Mandeville within the practices and values of contemporaneous Dutch observational medicine. Like Mandeville, Cook describes the potency of early modern capitalism and its attendant value system in generating industry and knowledge; like Mandeville, Cook finds coercive syst…
Bollywood, Rasa and Indian Cinema: Misconceptions, Meanings and Millionaire
Slumdog Millionaire. Produced by Fox Searchlight Pictures; directed by Danny Boyle and Loveleen Tandan; story by Vikas Swarup; screenplay by Simon Beaufoy; music by A.R. Rahman; lyrics by Gulzar; s
Forgetting Machines: Knowledge Management Evolution in Early Modern Europe
Histories of artificial intelligence: A genealogy of power
Like the polar bear beleaguered by global warming, artificial intelligence (AI) serves as the charismatic megafauna of an entangled set of local and global histories of science, technology and economics. This Themes issue develops a new perspective on AI that moves beyond conventional origin myths – AI was invented at Dartmouth in the summer of 1956, or by Alan Turing in 1950 – and reframes contemporary critique by establishing plural genealogies…
Users Gone Astray: Spreadsheet Charts, Junky Graphics, and Statistical Knowledge
This story, which begins from the widely deplored look of the graphing in Microsoft’s spreadsheet program, Excel, and extends back some seventy-five years, is about code that enables users to create visualizations without enough craft—at least in the eyes of their critics. It investigates two facets of data visualization since World War II: iterative analysis through graphical means and the making of business charts concerning numerical data. The…
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