{"id":18,"date":"2009-02-19T14:28:23","date_gmt":"2009-02-19T22:28:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danielcswilson.net\/?page_id=18"},"modified":"2025-07-09T12:30:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T11:30:12","slug":"about-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.danielwilson.info\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As of 2025 <a href=\"https:\/\/profiles.ucl.ac.uk\/95181-daniel-wilson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">I work<\/a> at UCL in the Department of Information Studies, where I am a member of the UCL Centre for Digital Humanities. My research includes an ongoing collaboration with the University of Cambridge Digital Library, where I am developing a project on Humphrey Jennings and his <em>Pandaemonium<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdh.cam.ac.uk\/about\/people\/daniel-wilson\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Associate<\/a> of Cambridge Digital Humanities and continue to be affiliated to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hps.cam.ac.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Department of History and Philosophy of Science<\/a> where I occasionally teach and examine. I am a Research Fellow in the Department of Science &amp; Technology Studies at UCL and also at the Digital Humanities Hub at the School of Advanced Study in London.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I was previously a Senior History Research Associate on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.turing.ac.uk\/research\/research-projects\/living-machines\">Living with Machines<\/a> project (led by Ruth Ahnert), which was a collaboration between The Alan Turing Institute and The British Library. I have also done things like work at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crassh.cam.ac.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"CRASSH\">CRASSH<\/a> in Cambridge on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techdem.crassh.cam.ac.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"T&amp;D Page\">Technology and Democracy<\/a> project, at the Science Museum in London, and at EHESS&#8217;s Centre de recherches historiques in Paris. 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