Matthew L Jones

Biographic Data

ID3785145
NAMEMatthew L Jones
GIVEN NAMESMatthew L
FAMILY NAMEJones
SIGNATUREJONES M L
AFFILIATIONSPrinceton University Smith Family Professor of History, , US
ORCID0000-0003-2255-6686
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS11
TOTAL CITATIONS17
AUTHOR COUNT11
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2001
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
H-INDEX2

  • Histories of artificial intelligence: A genealogy of power

    Open AccessSaeed Muzafar Ali, Syed Mustafa Ali et al.ARTICLEBJHS Themes2023

    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…

  • AI in History

    Open AccessMatthew Jones, Matthew L JonesARTICLEThe American Historical Review2023

    Journal Article AI in History Get access Matthew L. Jones Matthew L. Jones Smith Family Professor of History, Princeton University, US Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 128, Issue 3, September 2023, Pages 1360–1367, https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/rhad361 Published: 26 September 2023

  • Users Gone Astray: Spreadsheet Charts, Junky Graphics, and Statistical Knowledge

    Merrick L Jones, Matthew L JonesARTICLEOsiris2023References: 34

    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…

  • Calculating Machine

    Matthew L Jones, Maria Rosa AntognazzaCHAPTERThe Oxford Handbook of Leibniz2018

    This chapter sketches the challenges Leibniz faced in building a calculating machine for arithmetic, especially his struggle to coordinate with skilled artisans, surveys his philosophical remarks about such machines and the practical knowledge needed to make them, and recounts the eighteenth-century legacy of his failure to produce a machine understood to be adequately functional.

  • Forgetting Machines: Knowledge Management Evolution in Early Modern Europe

    Merrick L Jones, Matthew L JonesARTICLEIsis2018

  • The Instauration magna. Part 3: Historia naturalis et experimentalis: Historia ventorum and Historia vita & mortis

    Open AccessMerrick L Jones, Matthew L JonesARTICLERenaissance Quarterly2009

    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

    Open AccessMerrick L Jones, Matthew L JonesARTICLERenaissance Quarterly2006

    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

    Open AccessMerrick L Jones, Matthew L JonesARTICLERenaissance Quarterly2005

    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

    Merrick L Jones, Matthew L JonesARTICLEWicazo Sa Review2004Cited by: 1

    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

    Open AccessMerrick L Jones, Matthew L JonesARTICLEStudies in History and Philosophy…2001Cited by: 4References: 25

  • Descartes's Geometry as Spiritual Exercise

    Merrick L Jones, Matthew L JonesARTICLECritical Inquiry2001Cited by: 12