Dr. Ekaterina Babintseva selected for prestigious Ann Johnson Institute Program

Dr. Ekaterina Babintseva, Assistant Professor in the Department of History, has been selected to receive funding from the Ann Johnson Institute for Science, Technology, and Society (AJI) at the University of South Carolina to take part in the institute’s book manuscript workshop program.

Leading scholars plus experts from the AJI and the University of South Carolina will meet for a one-day Book Manuscript Workshops program to discuss and read Babintseva’s book manuscript. This prestigious program is intended for individuals in any career stage who have not previously published a monograph. Participants have a first-time book manuscript near completion at the time of their application to the program.

AJI provides funding for workshop participants to invite up to three senior experts in their field to campus. A small group of relevant experts within the South Carolina community may also attend. The workshops are designed to support stronger and more rigorous manuscripts from first-time science, technology, and society authors.

Babintseva’s manuscript titled “Making Up Minds: Learning with Machines in the Cold War United States and the Soviet Union” examines the historical connection between artificial intelligence research and pedagogical computing in the US and the USSR. The workshop will help Babintseva in the final stage of revisions to submit a strong manuscript for publication.

Dr. Babintseva is a historian of science and technology working at the intersection of human sciences and computing. She joined the Department of History at Purdue University in 2020. Dr. Babintseva currently has two books in progress. The first, “Cyberdreams of the Information Age: Learning with Machines in the Cold War United States and the Soviet Union,” examines mid-century Artificial Intelligence by looking at the history of Soviet and American pedagogical computing. Her second book project, tentatively titled “From Machine Translation to Culture Debates,” examines the history of machine translation during the Cold War.

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