Aristotle Tympas

Aristotle Tympas

Professor of History and Philosophy of Science, School of Science, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

Aristotle Tympas (PhD in History and Sociology of Technology, Georgia Tech, 2021), works as professor at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. He specializes in the historical/STS study of artificial intelligence and renewable energy. Books: Aristotle Tympas, Calculation and Computation in the Pre-electronic Era: The Mechanical and Electrical Ages, Springer, 2017; Τέλης Τύμπας, Αναλογική Εργασία, Ψηφιακό Κεφάλαιο: Ιστορία των Τεχνολογιών Υπολογισμού και Αυτοματισμού στην Ενέργεια και την Επικοινωνία, Angelus Novus, 2018.  Recent publications on the history/historiography of artificial intelligence:  Manolis Simos, Konstantinos Konstantis, Konstantinos Sakalis and Aristotle Tympas, “‘AI Can Be Analogous to Steam Power’ or from the ‘Postindustrial Society’ to the ‘Fourth Industrial Revolution’: An Intellectual History of Artificial Intelligence”, ICON: Journal of the International Committee of the History of Technology, no 1 (2022), 97-116; Aristotle Tympas, “From the Display of a Digital-Masculine Machine to the Concealed Analog-Feminine Labour: The Passage from the History of Technology to Labour and Gender History”, Historein, 19.1, 2020. 

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