Professor Ensmenger

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Professor Nathan Ensmenger

Nathan Ensmenger is an Associate Professor in the Informatics department of the Luddy School of Informatics, Computing and Engineering at Indiana University.

He specializes in the social and labor history of computing, gender and computing, and the relationship between computing and the environment.

New: Dirty Bits: An Environmental History of Computing

OFFICE HOURS (Spring 2025):
1-3pm Monday, noon-1pm Tuesday My office is in Myles Brand Hall, room 229

Upcoming Talks/Conferences:

University of Virginia
``How a computer sees a forest: FORPlan and the 'optimization' of natural resource management'', July 2024
North American Victorian Studies Association
Victorian Studies as Critical AI Studies, November, 2023
Notre Dame University
re-compute: media technologies and alternate futures
September 23, 2022
Universiteit van Amsterdam
From Deep Blue to Alpha Go: Games as the Experimental Organisms of AI
April 20, 2022
Princeton University
History of Science Colloquium
March 31, 2022
Centre Internet et Societe, Compiegne Technology University
Séminaire Politiques environnementales du numérique
December 16, 2021
University of Edinburgh
Digital Materialities / Digital Imaginaries
November 3, 2021
Czech Technical University in Prague
From Automation to Intelligence: A Long History of AI
June 7, 2021
Cambridge University
Sawyer Seminar on the History of AI: Algorithmic Cultures and the Environment
February 24, 2021
Complete list of invited talk