James E. Dobson

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Associate Professor of English and Creative Writing at Dartmouth College. Author of The Birth of Computer Vision (Minnesota), Critical Digital Humanities (Illinois), and co-author of Moonbit (punctum) and Perceptron (punctum). American Literature, ML/AI/DH

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Title page for MIT S.B/M.Eng thesis: "If it Works, It's Not AI: A Commercial Look at Artificial Intelligence Startups."
distorted cover image for a book titled Research Genres. "Genres" bleeds into noise.
Charlie Rosen of SRI dressed as gremlin to move blocks in front of the path planning (and world-model making) computer vision robot Shakey (1966-1972).
Slide from "Critical AI" course with concluding lines to Birhane et al's "Multimodal Datasets" paper: "We critique because we care. And it is good to care."
Courage is to smile When the doctor jabs the needle Into frightened flesh, thinking (But not saying) “Look, Mother, How brave I am!” Courage is to see dreams crumble, And then shaking out the dust, To dream again; to apprehend The ambush hidden in the path And still go forward; to explore Within the hidden craters Of your own desires; to submit The working and creations of your mind For public judgment. And courage Is to hope When others have surrendered. And courage Is to face surrender When others hope.
Box of freshly arrived copies of Perceptron. Front cover displays an image of Frank Rosenblatt's U.S. passport.
Minsky showing a slide titled "Examples of Early AI Research" and no mention of Frank Rosenblatt.
Title reading "Early Machine Learning and Artificial Animal Intelligences"
Katherine and E.B.
E.B. White in cap and gown to receive an honorary degree at Dartmouth College.
Weatherby’s just published Language Machines
Barred owl sitting on a post in downtown Lyme, NH.
Title page of grant report.
In the classroom with a two faculty members facing group of smiling students
Covert art for Machine Vision, Operational Images, and Birth of Computer Vision
Illustration from edition of Emerson’s essays. This one was paired with “Self-Reliance”
Image of an older Frank Ferdinand Rosenblatt
Image of title page of The Magic Flight: Jewish Tales and Legends by Yossef Gaer
Article quoting Frank F. Rosenblatt on the situation in Europe.
A photo of a younger Frank Ferdinand Rosenblatt