讲座信息

题目：The Informatic Fix: Systems Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, and Chinese Economic Reforms

主讲人：孔思宇（Uluğ Kuzuoğlu）  圣路易斯华盛顿大学历史系教授

主持人：雷 震（John N. Alekna）  北京大学科技医史系助理教授

时间：2025年5月29日 15:10-17:00

地点：静园一院201

内容摘要

This talk examines the history of Chinese economic reforms (1978–1993) as part of a global history of cybernetics, systems engineering, and artificial intelligence. Tracing the genealogies of reform to emergent technologies from the US to the USSR to Japan, it describes how computation became central to economic transformation in the 1980s and how the entire project of economic reform was powered by a quintessentially cybernetic epistemology.

主讲人

Dr. Kuzuoğlu (孔思宇) is a professor of history at Washington University in St. Louis. He works at the intersection of science and technology studies and media studies to explore the social and political history of information technologies in China and the world. His first monograph, Codes of Modernity: Chinese Scripts in the Global Information Age (New York: Columbia University Press, 2023), examines the political economy of information in China through a history of Chinese script reforms––the effort to alphabetize and simplify the writing system––from the 1890s to the 1980s.