Orit Halpern is an Associate Professor in Sociology and Anthropology at Concordia University. Her work bridges the histories of science, computing, and cybernetics with design. She completed her Ph.D. at Harvard. She has published widely and has held numerous visiting scholar positions including at the Max Planck Institute for History of Science in Berlin and at Duke University. She is currently working on two projects. The first is a history and theory of 'smartness' and the second examines the changing relationship between environment, finance, and artificial intelligence. She is also the director of the Speculative Life Research Cluster, a laboratory bridging the arts, environmental and biosciences, and the social sciences.
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