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Prof. AN, Bo (安博)

 

Research Assistant Professor

Tel.: (852) 2616-8527
Fax.: (852) 2467-7478
Email: [email protected]

Location: Room 322, Ho Sin Hang Building, 何善衡樓322室

 

Areas of Interest

History of AI, computing, and software

Modern Chinese history

Digital humanities and digital history (www.daihum.com)

Research software engineering

Global history of science and technology

Ph.D., Yale University (2022) 

M.A., Pennsylvania State University (2015) 

M.A., Nanjing University (2013) 

B.A., Heilongjiang University (2009)

1. "Post Maintenance: The Disconnected Chinese Software Crisis." Transnational Pathways to the Digital Age, Leibniz-Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung, Potsdam (2024)

 

2. "Between Systems and AI: The European Origins of The New Three Theories in the Reform Era." AI in Flux, Deutsches Museum M√ºnchen (2021) 

 

3. "Growing Apple Trees: A History of Systems Engineering in the People's Republic of China Through the Work of Qian Xuesen." History of Science Society & Society for the History of Technology Joint Conference (2021) 

 

4. "The Dual Technological and Learning Reform: Computer Education Campaign and the Chinese Learning Machines." SIGCIS Conference (2021) 

 

5. "The Hall and the Typewriter: Ma Dayou and Modern Acoustic Phonetics." Humboldt Universit√§t zu Berlin (2020) 

 

6. "Chineseness and Digital Technologies: From the 'Basement' to the 'Tower' in Early Machine Translation." International Association of Communication Annual Conference, Washington DC (2019) 

 

7. "Shadows of Formalization: Qian Xuesen and Somatic Science." History of Science Society Annual Meeting, Seattle (2018) 

 

8. "Self-Organization and Radical Networking: FidoNet in China (1995-1998)." The Society for the History of Technology Annual Meeting, Philadelphia (2017) 

 

9."From Mnemonics to Pseudo-Universals: Philology, Sinology, and Machine Translation (1938-1962)." History of Science Society Annual Meeting, Toronto (2017)

1. "Qian Xuesen and Chinese AI." In Machine Decision Is Not Final: China and the History and Future of AI, edited by Benjamin H. Bratton, Anna Greenspan, and Bogna Konior. Urbanomic (2025)