Thomas Haigh’s research while affiliated with University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee and other places

... Una particularidad que surge durante este espacio temporal es la del avenimiento del «invierno de la IA», caracterizado por una reducción en la financiación y el interés en la investigación de la IA, atribuible a expectativas poco realistas y a un limitado adelantó; este fenómeno ha puesto en manifiesto claramente dos periodos de estancamiento, en un primer momento entre 1974-1980 y 1987-1993 consecuentemente. Ambos casos sufrieron una desaceleración en I+D (Haigh, 2024). ...

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Análisis bibliométrico de las herramientas de inteligencia artificial principalmente utilizadas por emprendedores: A bibliometric analysis of artificial intelligence applications mainly used by entrepreneurs

... In this case, a research agenda was sidelined for reasons that eventually proved to be misguided from an engineering, scientific, or societal perspective (e.g., due to "gatekeeping" effects against less popular research agendas; see Siler et al. 2015). Meanwhile, the AI industry went all in on the expert systems "bubble" (Haigh, 2024). Reductions in diversity within contemporary AI research can be a sign that similar mistakes are at play ( §2.6). ...

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Stop treating `AGI' as the north-star goal of AI research

... Key entities such as the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA), later renamed the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), played a crucial role in financing AI advancements (Piore et al. 2015). At this stage, access to computing technology remained limited to well-funded academic institutions and government agencies due to the high cost of early computer systems (Haigh 2023). The publication of ARPA Director J.C.R. Licklider's influential essay, Man-Computer Symbiosis (1960), along with Nobel Laureate Herbert Simon's assertion that "machines will be capable, within twenty years, of doing any work that a man can do" (Grudin 2009), further heightened expectations surrounding AI's potential. ...

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Thinking Through AI: Advancing Cognitive and Collaborative Research for AI in Education

... Research has been undertaken on the topic of new media literacy about the issue of false news. This body of research focuses on the efforts made by libraries to encourage users to critically evaluate materials before adopting any news presented through media platforms (Haigh et al., 2021). However, the study conducted by Shabani and Keshavarz (2021) suggests that the extent of media literacy has the potential to influence an individual's assessment of social media. ...

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Promoting New Media Literacy on Youth Usage of the Internet: A Conceptual Paper

... First, we carried out a systematic literature analysis to construct our conceptual basis by identifying studies that have already been published on the topic of propaganda in general and of Russian propaganda in particular. In doing so, we have looked at the works published by Haigh & Haigh (2020), O'Shaughnessy (2020), Colomina, et al. (2021), Pavlíková, et al. (2021), Solopova, et al. (2023, and Maci et al. (2024) Setting Theory (McCombs & Shaw, 1972), on Van Dijk's studies in discourse analysis (1995a; 1995b; 1997, 2006), on Fairclough's studies in discourse analysis (Fairclough, 1995;Chouliaraki & Fairclough, 1999;Fairclough, 2015), as well as on Lucas & Nimmo's 4Ds of disinformation: dismiss, distract, distort, dismay (Lucas & Nimmo, 2015). Consequently, we looked at the websites of the three political parties in the Republic of Moldova identified as Russophiles and we analysed the written discourses at a specific moment in the past (synchronic axis) while at the same time performing a systematic comparison in order to identify the elements that the three political parties have in common or that differentiate them. ...

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SHAPING MINDS THROUGH DISCOURSE: PROPAGANDA NARRATIVES IN MOLDOVA’S 2024 ELECTIONS

... Lastly, Haigh and Priestley (2018) recently developed a notion of programmability for historical discussion meant to classify COLOSSUS with respect to other wellstudied historical digital computing machines. 5 What distinguishes their conception from the previous ones is that it does not appeal to computability theory or any other formal apparatus. ...

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Physical Programmability

... This activity had not been planned in community statutes or budgets -the first programmers had been recruited for clerical posts, and the computing centre of the European Atomic Energy Community (Euratom) was still called the 'Mechanography Workshop', working on monoprogramming with sequential memories (wide magnetic strips) and punched cards … Updating the files from the Euratom Information and Document Centre took 3 hours and took up everybody's time (Publications Office, 2006: 10). This testimony shows that there was already a small initial movement towards digitalisation in the 1960s (on early digital, see Haigh, 2019), which was often the result of individual initiatives. ...

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From Print to Digital, from Document to Data: Digitalisation at the Publications Office of the European Union

... 29 32 This controversy is far from being resolved. For two recent contributions defending slightly opposite views on the matter, see Haigh and Priestley [46] and De Mol et al. [24]. and became appropriated in the 1950s, including the changes that took place in its visual representation. ...

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“Content Is Meaningless, and Structure Is All-Important”: Defining the Nature of Computer Science in the Age of High Modernism, c. 1950–c. 1965

... Kiernan (2017) suggested that IL skills could influence how individuals evaluate information on social media and apply reference and online evaluation abilities to identify fake news. Moreover, Haigh et al. (2019) emphasized the importance of developing IL skills and library infrastructure in combating fake news (Hartley & Khuong, 2021). However, the lack of familiarity with the terms "information literacy" or "information skills" among half of the population suggests the need for long-term efforts to improve IL programs (Kiernan, 2017;Khattak. ...

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Factors of Information Literacy Preventing Fake News: A Case Study of Libraries in Developing Countries

... A further important venue for the discussion, sharing, and improving of these ideas, according to Hoare (1974), was IFIP's Working Group 2.3. This "elite member's club" (Haigh, 2019) was formed in 1969 when a group of dissenters (including Dijkstra and Hoare) broke away from Working Group 2.1 in protest at the ALGOL 68 definition. WG 2.3, formed as 'Programming Methodology', reflected a new priority in computer science: moving away from programming language definition, by now beginning to seem a little old-hat, and toward application of ideas taken from that older paradigm to the programming level (Astarte, 2022). ...

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From Monitors to Monitors: A Primitive History