Information science and intelligence work: Mutual history lessons from the Cold War. Sponsored by SIG HFIS

Approaches to Artificial Intelligence Sponsored by the National Science Foundation

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This article argues that the history of geography should be written from an externalist perspective; that is, its history should be directly related to the larger historical context in which it is embedded. My example is American human geography during the early Cold War period. The argument is that as a result of America’s experience during the Second World War, the USA mobilised its academy t...

Reports of the demise of the "user" have been greatly exaggerated: Dervin's Sense-Making and the methodological resuscitation of the user -- looking backwards, looking forward Sponsored by SIG/USE and SIG/HFIS

The War on Cancer: Lessons from the War on Terror

The war metaphor has become commonplace in discussions about our endeavor to find a cure for cancer. But beyond the power of imagery, this analogy offers the opportunity to highlight lessons that warriors of cancer can learn from the warriors of terror: that more efficient killing of the undesired cells may not always be better. Evidence suggesting that drug-stressed and dying cancer cells can ...

Exploring Greenland: science and technology in Cold War settings.

This paper explores a vacant spot in the Cold War history of science: the development of research activities in the physical environmental sciences and in nuclear science and technology in Greenland. In the post-war period, scientific exploration of the polar areas became a strategically important element in American and Soviet defence policy. Particularly geophysical fields like meteorology, g...