I am a historian of science and technology working on the politics and provenance of data and machines in the nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first centuries. My work combines traditional close-reading and archival study with computational techniques.
I am currently a Turing Research Fellow at The Alan Turing Institute in London. and in 2024-25 I will be working with the University of Cambridge Digital Library, developing a project on Humphrey Jennings and his Pandaemonium.
Until recently I was a Senior History Research Associate on the Living with Machines project (led by Ruth Ahnert) in collaboration with The British Library, and before that, I worked at CRASSH on the Technology and Democracy project.
I continue to be affiliated to the Department of History and Philosophy of Science in Cambridge where I occasionally teach and examine the Sociology of Scientific Knowledge and the History of Modern Science and Technology. I am a Research Fellow in the Department of Science & Technology Studies at UCL and also at the Digital Humanities Hub at the School of Advanced Study in London.
daniel @ danielwilson.info