Richard Gross
Biographic Data
| ID | 6030327 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard Gross |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard |
| FAMILY NAME | Gross |
| SIGNATURE | GROSS R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Technische Universität Dresden |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4433-8428 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Stochastic contingency machines feeding on meaning
In this paper, I reflect on the puzzle that machine learning presents to social theory to develop an account of its distinct impact on social reality. I start by presenting how machine learning has presented a challenge to social theory as a research subject comprising both familiar and alien characteristics (1.). Taking this as an occasion for theoretical inquiry, I then propose a conceptual framework to investigate how algorithmic models of soc…
Situating machine learning – On the calibration of problems in practice
In this paper, we employ John Dewey’s notion of the situation as an analytic lens for observing and theorizing machine learning. Based on two ethnographic case studies in art and science, we account for machine learning as practice and examine the dynamics of the situations it gives rise to. Following Dewey, our observations focus on the transformation of situations from an initial state of indeterminacy through to problematizations and their res…
Why La Salle Hung French Fortunes on a Western Branch
In 1684, La Salle proposed to establish a naval base for France on the doorstep of New Spain by sea. The site he chose was a fork in the Mississippi River 180 miles from the Gulf of Mexico. This was where Bayou Lafourche formed a western branch, a distributary of the great river. When the difficult captain of his frigate escort vanished in a fog and headed south in January 1685, La Salle was forced to pursue him for more than 2 weeks down the Tex…
Native Villages of La Salle's Illinois Country
ROBERT CAVELIER, SIEUR DE LA SALLE encountered four villages of the Illinois nation during his first journey to Illinois in 1679–80. Only the summer village of the migratory Kaskaskia has ever been correctly identified. It lies on the upper Illinois River, less than a mile and a half east of the landmark known as Starved Rock. As “the Zimmerman site,” it has hosted archaeological excavations in 1941, 1970, and 1991.1 However, two small winter vil…
Mapping the Chicago Portage
On their return to Canada in 1673, Louis Jolliet’s group became the first Europeans documented to have passed from the Mississippi River watershed to the Great Lakes watershed via the Chicago Portage. This carrying place, between the Des Plaines and Chicago Rivers, would remain a politically and commercially important location during the fur trade era. A podcast by a group of Chicago historians, writers, and artists has promoted the assertion tha…
Discovering the Lost Lake, Pimiteoui
Colbert, La Salle, and the Search for Empire
Research Article| July 01 2020 Colbert, La Salle, and the Search for Empire Richard Gross; Richard Gross Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Craig P. Howard Craig P. Howard Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society (1998-) (2020) 113 (2): 68–101. https://doi.org/10.5406/jillistathistsoc.113.2.0068 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Sit…
La Salle's Claim and the Ohio River Valley
The 1754 incident precipitating the French and Indian War took place over a disputed claim between France and England for the Ohio River Valley. A young George Washington commanded a Virginia militia company to the Forks of the Ohio at the site of present-day Pittsburgh. The French duly rousted him and his men. The French had established Fort Duquesne, the latest in a series of forts on the Allegheny River built by them to protect their claim. Th…
Psychology
Psychology of Grief
Psychology for Nurses and Health Professionals
Social Psychology
In everyday life we depend upon, interact with, influence are influenced by many people in situations that range from brief single encounters to the special relationships we form with family and close friends. Social interactions such as these are just a part of what make up social psychology, the study of human social behaviour and thought.In 'Social Psychology', the authors have incorporated the most recent theoretical developments and research…
Themes, issues, and debates in psychology
Diversity Efforts at the Los Angeles Times
Survey data from Los Angeles Times editorial employees and residents of Los Angeles County were gathered to determine respondents' views of the newspaper's efforts to increase minority coverage, specifically with regard to the market-driven nature of those efforts. How respondents perceive market-driven journalism and the extent to which newsroom and community perceptions of it are similar were specifically addressed. This is an important and neg…
Diversity Advances Both Journalism, Business
From their analysis of interviews with 76 Los Angeles Times newsroom employees, researchers found that the publisher's business diversity goals also made the paper a stronger journalistic product
Reasons for the Limited Acceptance of the Problems Approach
Knowledge of police and court procedures and respect for the law a survey
Speculation and History
Diversity Efforts at the Los Angeles Times
Survey data from Los Angeles Times editorial employees and residents of Los Angeles County were gathered to determine respondents' views of the newspaper's efforts to increase minority coverage, specifically with regard to the market-driven nature of those efforts. How respondents perceive market-driven journalism and the extent to which newsroom and community perceptions of it are similar were specifically addressed. This is an important and neg…
Reasons for the Limited Acceptance of the Problems Approach
Diversity Advances Both Journalism, Business
From their analysis of interviews with 76 Los Angeles Times newsroom employees, researchers found that the publisher's business diversity goals also made the paper a stronger journalistic product
Speculation and History
Knowledge of police and court procedures and respect for the law a survey
Reasons for the Limited Acceptance of the Problems Approach
Diversity Advances Both Journalism, Business
From their analysis of interviews with 76 Los Angeles Times newsroom employees, researchers found that the publisher's business diversity goals also made the paper a stronger journalistic product
Diversity Efforts at the Los Angeles Times
Survey data from Los Angeles Times editorial employees and residents of Los Angeles County were gathered to determine respondents' views of the newspaper's efforts to increase minority coverage, specifically with regard to the market-driven nature of those efforts. How respondents perceive market-driven journalism and the extent to which newsroom and community perceptions of it are similar were specifically addressed. This is an important and neg…
Themes, issues, and debates in psychology
Social Psychology
In everyday life we depend upon, interact with, influence are influenced by many people in situations that range from brief single encounters to the special relationships we form with family and close friends. Social interactions such as these are just a part of what make up social psychology, the study of human social behaviour and thought.In 'Social Psychology', the authors have incorporated the most recent theoretical developments and research…
Psychology for Nurses and Health Professionals
Psychology of Grief
Colbert, La Salle, and the Search for Empire
Research Article| July 01 2020 Colbert, La Salle, and the Search for Empire Richard Gross; Richard Gross Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Craig P. Howard Craig P. Howard Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society (1998-) (2020) 113 (2): 68–101. https://doi.org/10.5406/jillistathistsoc.113.2.0068 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Sit…
La Salle's Claim and the Ohio River Valley
The 1754 incident precipitating the French and Indian War took place over a disputed claim between France and England for the Ohio River Valley. A young George Washington commanded a Virginia militia company to the Forks of the Ohio at the site of present-day Pittsburgh. The French duly rousted him and his men. The French had established Fort Duquesne, the latest in a series of forts on the Allegheny River built by them to protect their claim. Th…
Psychology
Discovering the Lost Lake, Pimiteoui
Native Villages of La Salle's Illinois Country
ROBERT CAVELIER, SIEUR DE LA SALLE encountered four villages of the Illinois nation during his first journey to Illinois in 1679–80. Only the summer village of the migratory Kaskaskia has ever been correctly identified. It lies on the upper Illinois River, less than a mile and a half east of the landmark known as Starved Rock. As “the Zimmerman site,” it has hosted archaeological excavations in 1941, 1970, and 1991.1 However, two small winter vil…
Mapping the Chicago Portage
On their return to Canada in 1673, Louis Jolliet’s group became the first Europeans documented to have passed from the Mississippi River watershed to the Great Lakes watershed via the Chicago Portage. This carrying place, between the Des Plaines and Chicago Rivers, would remain a politically and commercially important location during the fur trade era. A podcast by a group of Chicago historians, writers, and artists has promoted the assertion tha…
Situating machine learning – On the calibration of problems in practice
In this paper, we employ John Dewey’s notion of the situation as an analytic lens for observing and theorizing machine learning. Based on two ethnographic case studies in art and science, we account for machine learning as practice and examine the dynamics of the situations it gives rise to. Following Dewey, our observations focus on the transformation of situations from an initial state of indeterminacy through to problematizations and their res…
Why La Salle Hung French Fortunes on a Western Branch
In 1684, La Salle proposed to establish a naval base for France on the doorstep of New Spain by sea. The site he chose was a fork in the Mississippi River 180 miles from the Gulf of Mexico. This was where Bayou Lafourche formed a western branch, a distributary of the great river. When the difficult captain of his frigate escort vanished in a fog and headed south in January 1685, La Salle was forced to pursue him for more than 2 weeks down the Tex…
Stochastic contingency machines feeding on meaning
In this paper, I reflect on the puzzle that machine learning presents to social theory to develop an account of its distinct impact on social reality. I start by presenting how machine learning has presented a challenge to social theory as a research subject comprising both familiar and alien characteristics (1.). Taking this as an occasion for theoretical inquiry, I then propose a conceptual framework to investigate how algorithmic models of soc…
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