Join us for this undergraduate-facing event at the Merrill Cultural Center featuring leading historian of computing, Thomas Haigh. He will contextualize the current Artificial Intelligence hype in the longer history of boom and bust for for the AI brand, critiquing claims made for large language models. Pizza will be served and all are welcome. Presented by Merrill College/Ming Ong Tech Cluster and co-sponsored by Humanizing Technology and the Humanities Division.

Thomas Haigh is lead author of A New History of Modern Computing (MIT Press, 2022) and ENIAC In Action: Making & Remaking the Modern Computer (MIT Press, 2016) and a regular contributor to Communications of the ACM.