Christine Aicardi
Biographic Data
| ID | 934536 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christine Aicardi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christine |
| FAMILY NAME | Aicardi |
| SIGNATURE | AICARDI C |
| AFFILIATIONS | King's College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1112-7720 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Experiments in anticipation
Foresight is central to facilitating Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) for future and emerging technology. Foresight enables anticipatory action that can help shape upstream development pathways in socially desirable ways and build capacity to cope with potential risks. In this paper, we discuss our experience of conducting futures studies of emerging science and technology as part of an overall RRI strategy in the context of the Human Br…
Formal and Informal Infrastructures of Collaboration in the Human Brain Project
This article draws on long-term engagement with the Human Brain Project (HBP), one of the Future and Emerging Technology Flagship Initiatives funded by the European Commission to address EU "grand challenges" of understanding the human brain and applying these insights to brain-inspired technology development. Based on participant observation and interviews with researchers and project administrators, our findings suggest that the formal infrastr…
Clinical translation of computational brain models
Computational brain models use machine learning, algorithms and statistical models to harness big data for delivering disease-specific diagnosis or prognosis for individuals. While intended to support clinical decision-making, their translation into clinical practice remains challenging despite efforts to improve implementation through training clinicians and clinical staff in their use and benefits. Drawing on the specific case of neurology, we …
Ethical and Social Aspects of Neurorobotics
The interdisciplinary field of neurorobotics looks to neuroscience to overcome the limitations of modern robotics technology, to robotics to advance our understanding of the neural system’s inner workings, and to information technology to develop tools that support those complementary endeavours. The development of these technologies is still at an early stage, which makes them an ideal candidate for proactive and anticipatory ethical reflection.…
Accompanying technology development in the Human Brain Project
This paper addresses the question of managing the existential risk potential of general Artificial Intelligence (AI), as well as the more near-term yet hazardous and disruptive implications of specialised AI, from the perspective of a particular research project that could make a significant contribution to the development of Artificial Intelligence (AI): the Human Brain Project (HBP), a ten-year Future and Emerging Technologies Flagship of the E…
The integrated ethics and society programme of the Human Brain Project
The EU-funded Human Brain Project (HBP) aimed to deliver advances in brain science, cognitive neuroscience and brain-inspired computing which would have broad-ranging implications and benefit European citizens. Achieving such outcomes is dependent, in part, upon the ability of large scale research projects to anticipate potential needs and concerns of user communities as well as other stakeholders and society in general and integrate these into t…
Towards future archives and historiographies of ‘big biology’
The 20 th -century has seen the progressive rise of 'big science', especially after 1945.In the last seventy years, research has increasingly been conducted by large, interdisciplinary teams spanning different countries and institutions, and attracting generous funding by both public and private actors (Galison and Hevly, 1992).The first paradigmatic example of this way of doing science was the Manhattan Project to build the atomic bomb that even…
Francis Crick, cross-worlds influencer
The essay is an empirical case study of famed British scientist Francis Crick. Viewing him as a 'cross-worlds influencer' who was moreover dedicated to a cause, I have tried to understand how these two characteristics influenced the trajectory of his long career and how they shaped his contributions to the diverse research fields in which he was active, and concluded that these characteristics reconfigure Crick's career into a coherent whole. Fir…
Of the Helmholtz Club, South-Californian seedbed for visual and cognitive neuroscience, and its patron Francis Crick
Taking up the view that semi-institutional gatherings such as clubs, societies, research schools, have been instrumental in creating sheltered spaces from which many a 20th-century project-driven interdisciplinary research programme could develop and become established within the institutions of science, the paper explores the history of one such gathering from its inception in the early 1980s into the 2000s, the Helmholtz Club, which brought tog…
The Analytic Spirit and the Paris Institution for the Deaf-Mutes, 1760-1830
Francis Crick, cross-worlds influencer
The essay is an empirical case study of famed British scientist Francis Crick. Viewing him as a 'cross-worlds influencer' who was moreover dedicated to a cause, I have tried to understand how these two characteristics influenced the trajectory of his long career and how they shaped his contributions to the diverse research fields in which he was active, and concluded that these characteristics reconfigure Crick's career into a coherent whole. Fir…
Of the Helmholtz Club, South-Californian seedbed for visual and cognitive neuroscience, and its patron Francis Crick
Taking up the view that semi-institutional gatherings such as clubs, societies, research schools, have been instrumental in creating sheltered spaces from which many a 20th-century project-driven interdisciplinary research programme could develop and become established within the institutions of science, the paper explores the history of one such gathering from its inception in the early 1980s into the 2000s, the Helmholtz Club, which brought tog…
Clinical translation of computational brain models
Computational brain models use machine learning, algorithms and statistical models to harness big data for delivering disease-specific diagnosis or prognosis for individuals. While intended to support clinical decision-making, their translation into clinical practice remains challenging despite efforts to improve implementation through training clinicians and clinical staff in their use and benefits. Drawing on the specific case of neurology, we …
Accompanying technology development in the Human Brain Project
This paper addresses the question of managing the existential risk potential of general Artificial Intelligence (AI), as well as the more near-term yet hazardous and disruptive implications of specialised AI, from the perspective of a particular research project that could make a significant contribution to the development of Artificial Intelligence (AI): the Human Brain Project (HBP), a ten-year Future and Emerging Technologies Flagship of the E…
Experiments in anticipation
Foresight is central to facilitating Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) for future and emerging technology. Foresight enables anticipatory action that can help shape upstream development pathways in socially desirable ways and build capacity to cope with potential risks. In this paper, we discuss our experience of conducting futures studies of emerging science and technology as part of an overall RRI strategy in the context of the Human Br…
The Analytic Spirit and the Paris Institution for the Deaf-Mutes, 1760-1830
Of the Helmholtz Club, South-Californian seedbed for visual and cognitive neuroscience, and its patron Francis Crick
Taking up the view that semi-institutional gatherings such as clubs, societies, research schools, have been instrumental in creating sheltered spaces from which many a 20th-century project-driven interdisciplinary research programme could develop and become established within the institutions of science, the paper explores the history of one such gathering from its inception in the early 1980s into the 2000s, the Helmholtz Club, which brought tog…
Francis Crick, cross-worlds influencer
The essay is an empirical case study of famed British scientist Francis Crick. Viewing him as a 'cross-worlds influencer' who was moreover dedicated to a cause, I have tried to understand how these two characteristics influenced the trajectory of his long career and how they shaped his contributions to the diverse research fields in which he was active, and concluded that these characteristics reconfigure Crick's career into a coherent whole. Fir…
Towards future archives and historiographies of ‘big biology’
The 20 th -century has seen the progressive rise of 'big science', especially after 1945.In the last seventy years, research has increasingly been conducted by large, interdisciplinary teams spanning different countries and institutions, and attracting generous funding by both public and private actors (Galison and Hevly, 1992).The first paradigmatic example of this way of doing science was the Manhattan Project to build the atomic bomb that even…
The integrated ethics and society programme of the Human Brain Project
The EU-funded Human Brain Project (HBP) aimed to deliver advances in brain science, cognitive neuroscience and brain-inspired computing which would have broad-ranging implications and benefit European citizens. Achieving such outcomes is dependent, in part, upon the ability of large scale research projects to anticipate potential needs and concerns of user communities as well as other stakeholders and society in general and integrate these into t…
Accompanying technology development in the Human Brain Project
This paper addresses the question of managing the existential risk potential of general Artificial Intelligence (AI), as well as the more near-term yet hazardous and disruptive implications of specialised AI, from the perspective of a particular research project that could make a significant contribution to the development of Artificial Intelligence (AI): the Human Brain Project (HBP), a ten-year Future and Emerging Technologies Flagship of the E…
Ethical and Social Aspects of Neurorobotics
The interdisciplinary field of neurorobotics looks to neuroscience to overcome the limitations of modern robotics technology, to robotics to advance our understanding of the neural system’s inner workings, and to information technology to develop tools that support those complementary endeavours. The development of these technologies is still at an early stage, which makes them an ideal candidate for proactive and anticipatory ethical reflection.…
Clinical translation of computational brain models
Computational brain models use machine learning, algorithms and statistical models to harness big data for delivering disease-specific diagnosis or prognosis for individuals. While intended to support clinical decision-making, their translation into clinical practice remains challenging despite efforts to improve implementation through training clinicians and clinical staff in their use and benefits. Drawing on the specific case of neurology, we …
Formal and Informal Infrastructures of Collaboration in the Human Brain Project
This article draws on long-term engagement with the Human Brain Project (HBP), one of the Future and Emerging Technology Flagship Initiatives funded by the European Commission to address EU "grand challenges" of understanding the human brain and applying these insights to brain-inspired technology development. Based on participant observation and interviews with researchers and project administrators, our findings suggest that the formal infrastr…
Experiments in anticipation
Foresight is central to facilitating Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) for future and emerging technology. Foresight enables anticipatory action that can help shape upstream development pathways in socially desirable ways and build capacity to cope with potential risks. In this paper, we discuss our experience of conducting futures studies of emerging science and technology as part of an overall RRI strategy in the context of the Human Br…
Sociology (7 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Engineering (4 works) · Engineering ethics (4 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Neuroscience (4 works) · Cognitive psychology (3 works) · Cognitive science (3 works) · Neuroethics, Human Enhancement, Biomedical Innovations (3 works)