Rodrigo Ochigame is a historian and anthropologist of computing and artificial intelligence. Their first book project, Remodeling Rationality, is a global history of unorthodox models of computational reasoning during the Cold War, such as non-classical logics, non-binary Turing machines, and unconventional artificial neural networks. Their second project, Beyond “Ground Truth”, is a historical and ethnographic study of computational modeling, especially machine learning, in diverse fields of scientific research, including pure mathematics, particle physics, and climate science. It is supported by a Veni grant from the Dutch Research Council (NWO). Ochigame holds a BA with highest honours from the University of California, Berkeley, and a PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

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Research

Ochigame’s first book project, Remodeling Rationality, is a global history of unorthodox models of computational reasoning during the Cold War, such as non-classical logics, non-binary Turing machines, and unconventional artificial neural networks.

Their second project, Beyond “Ground Truth”, is a historical and ethnographic study of computational modeling, especially machine learning, in diverse fields of scientific research, including pure mathematics, particle physics, and climate science. It is supported by a Veni grant from the Dutch Research Council (NWO).

At Leiden, Ochigame is part of the Digitalization Research Cluster.

Ochigame serves on the board of the Dutch Anthropological Association and the advisory board of Critical AI (Duke University Press).

Teaching

Ochigame’s teaching specialties include the history and anthropology of science and technology, classical and contemporary social theory, and ethnographic and historical methods.

Education

PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

BA with highest honours, University of California, Berkeley

Links

For more information, see Ochigame’s personal website.

Publications