I’m currently taking part in a series of online workshops hosted by the Epistemology of the Large Hadron Collider Research Unit at CERN. The conversations are focused on what we mean when we speak of the ‘virtual’ in science and philosophy: virtual particles, virtual reality etc.

On March 19, 2021 I’ll be presenting a paper entitled “Emergent Metaphors of ‘Virtual’ and ‘Artificial’ in Computer Science in the 1950s”

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