Mai Sugimoto ( 杉本 舞 )
Associate Professor
Faculty of Sociology, Kansai University
Research Interests: History of Computing, Computers, and Society. History of Hisotory of Science Education in Japan.
Positions
- April 2015 ~ Present, Associate Professor at Faculty of Sociology, Kansai University, Osaka, Japan.
- September 2016 ~ September 2017 Visiting associate professor, the College of Science & Engineering, University of Minnesota, USA.
- April 2012 ~ March 2015, Assistant Professor at Faculty of Sociology, Kansai University, Osaka, Japan.
Memberships
- History of Science Society
- Society for the History of Technology
- IEEE
- The History of Science Society of Japan
- Philosophy of Science Society, Japan
Books, Articles, and BookReviews
Book
- 『「人工知能」前夜』("Jinko Chino" Zenya (Artificial Intelligence Eve)), Seidosha, 2018. (Japanese) (Go to Seidosha Website)
Articles
- " "It Became All Right to Teach History of Science": History of Science Education and the Introduction of General Education in Postwar Japan," Historia Scientiarum, The International Journal of the History of Science Society in Japan, Vol.31, No.3 (No.135), pp.208-223, March 2022. (pdf)
- " What Subjects are Taught in the History of Science and Technology Courses?: Analyzing Text Data of Syllabi in 2016, " Kagakusi Kenkyu, Vol. 57, No.285, pp.2-19, April, 2018. (Japanese). （pdf, Errata）
- "AI," Gendai Shisou, April 2019. pp.64-68. (Japanese)
- Katsuhiko Sano and Mai Sugimoto, "From Computing Machines to Learning Intelligent Machines: Chronological Development of Alan Turing's Thought on Machines", Understanding Information: From the Big Bang to Big Data, Alfons Josef Schuster(Ed.), Springer International Publishing AG, 2017, pp.101-130. (Go to Springer Website)
- "When Computers Meet Logic," Sugaku Seminar , Vol.53, No.11, Oct. 2014. pp.8-14. (Japanese)
- "Von Neumann Architecture and John von Neumann," Gendai Shisou, August 2013. pp.135-145. (Japanese)
- "Edmund Berkeley as a Popularizer and an Educator of Computers and Symbolic Logic," Historia Scientiarum, The International Journal of the History of Science Society in Japan, Vol.23, No.1 (No.109), July 2013. pp.1-23.(pdf)
- "Making Computers Logical: Edmund Berkeley' s promotion of logical machines" (pre-circulated paper), Special Interest Group Computers, Information and Society Workshop 2010, Society for the History of Technology , http://www.sigcis.org/files/Sugimoto.pdf , October, 2010.
- "Solving nonlinear problems in the mid-20th century", Philosophical Study of Research in Chaos on Proof Stage, Reports of Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), pp. 33-41, April 2010. (Japanese)
- "Claude Shannon's Maze Solving Machine: Transition of its interpretation in Bell labs", PHS Studies, No.4, pp.1-19, February 2010. (Japanese)
- "The transition of Wiener’s conception of cybernetics from 1942 to 1945", PHS Studies, No. 2, pp.17-42, 2008. (Japanese)
- "How did C.E. Shannon quantify information on his communication theory and cryptography theory?", Journal of History of Science, pp.145-154, 2007. (Japanese)
- "C.E. Shannon's theory of cryptography", PHS Studies, No. 1, pp. 139-152, 2006. (Japanese)
Research Note and others
- Mai Sugimoto, Sayaka Oki, " Final Report for Survey on Courses Related to History of Science and Technology " , Kagakusi Kenkyu, Vol. 57, No.286, pp.120-137, July 2018. (Japanese) (pdf)
- " List of Textbooks and Reference Books Used in Syllabi in 2016 for Courses Related to History of Science and Technology ", PHS Studies, No. 12, pp. 105-128, 2018. (Japanese). (pdf)
- "A report on the operations of archival systems and a museum on popular music in the United States of America, No.2", Bulletin of the Faculty of Sociology, Kansai University, Oct 2017. pp.217-232. (Japanese)
- "A report on the operations of archival systems and a museum on popular music in the United States of America", Bulletin of the Faculty of Sociology, Kansai University, Oct 2015. pp.85-103. (Japanese)
- M. Sugimoto, K. Shibadai, and F. Miura, "Present and Potential Future Issues in the Popular Music Archives at Kansai University," IPSJ SIG Notes, 2014-CH-104(6), Oct. 2014. pp.1-5. (Japanese)
- "On the original copies of "First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC" by John von Neumann", PHS Studies, No. 6, pp. 83-89, Feb 2012.(pdf / See Research Note on the "First Draft")
Translations
- Mai Sugimoto trans., Irasuto de manabu Sekai wo kaeta Computer no rekishi.(in Japanese) Sogensha, 2023. (Rachel Ignotofsky, The History of the Computer: People, Inventions, and Technology that Changed Our World, Ten Speed Press, 2022.)
- Mai Sugimoto, Osamu Uda, and Chigusa Kita trans., Computing shi.(in Japanese) Kyoritsu Shuppan, 2022. (Martin Campbell-Kelly, William Aspray, Nathan Ensmenger, and Jeffrey R. Yost, Computer: A History of the Information Machine, Westview Press, 2013.)
- Kazuyuki Ito ed. Katsuhiko Sano and Mai Sugimoto. Turing, Konpyuta riron no kigen. 1 (in Japanese). Kindaikagakusha, 2014. (Japanese Translation and Bibliography of A.M. Turing's "On Computable Numbers"(1936), "Leture to the London Mathematical Society,February, 1947", "Intelligent Machinery"(1948), and "Computing Machinery and Intelligence"(1950).)
- Mai Sugimoto trans. "CHAPTER NINE Physics in Industry and War", "CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE Engineering Physics and Quantum Electronics", 20seiki Butsurigakushi.(in Japanese) Nagoya University Press, 2015. (Helge Kragh, Quantum Generations: A History of Physics in the Twentieth Century, Princeton University Press, 2002.)
- Mai Sugimoto trans. "4.4: Mary Croarken: Human computers in eighteenth and nineteenth-century Britain", "5.4: Carrie Brezine: Algorithms and automation: mathematics and weaving", Oxford Sugakushi(in Japanese). Kyoritsu Shuppan, 2014.(The Oxford Handbook of the History of Mathematics, Eleanor Robson and Jacqueline Stedall eds. Oxford University Press, 2008)
Talks at International Conferences
- "Why Did The Number Of History Of Science Courses Increase In Japanese Higher Education After World War II? Influence Of Postwar Advisors From The United States", History of Science Society Annual Meeting, November 4, 2018, Sheraton Seattle, Seattle, Washington, U.S.A. abstract
- "Collecting, Archiving, and Exhibiting Culture and Experience of Japanese Popular Music", From Japanese Popular Music to Guizhou Mountain Song: A Cross-Cultural and Bodily-Experience Perspective (從日本流行音樂到貴州山歌--跨文化與身體經驗的探討), Workshop. Research Center for Philosophy in Practice in East Asia, School of Humanities and Social Science, National Yang-Ming University, Taiwan, Sep. 9, 2015.
- "How did Edmund C. Berekely popularize and educate the roles of computers and symbolic logic?", Invited talk, National Yang-Ming University, Taiwan, March 25, 2013.
- "Making Computers Logical: Edmund Berkeley' s promotion of logical machines", Work in Progress Session, Special Interest Group Computers, Information and Society 2010 Workshop: Materiality & Immateriality in the History of Computing, October 3, 2010, Hotel Murano, Tacoma, Washington, U.S.A. http://www.sigcis.org/files/Sugimoto.pdf
Bookreview and Others
- Thomas J. Misa(ed). Gender codes: Why women are leaving computing (Wiley-IEEE Computer Sociery, 2010), PHS Studies, No. 5, pp. 111-115, 2011. (Japanese)
- Event Report, "Making the History of Computing Relevant", Events and Sightings, IEEE Annals o the History of Computing, Volume 35, Number 4, pp.82-83, October-December 2013.
Past
-Kansai University. Adjunct lecturer, 2011. Course: History of Natural Science.
-Setsunan University. Adjunct lecturer, 2011. Course: General Education Seminar IIa (English).
- Kyoto University. Adjunct lecturer, 2010-2011. Course: Seminar on Contemporary Culture.
- Kyoto Seika University. Adjunct lecturer, 2010-2011. Course: Science, Technology and Society I & II.
Education
- Ph.D. Dept. of Philosophy and History of Science, Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan. 2013.
- Master of Letters, Dept. of Philosophy and History of Science, Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University, 2005.
- Bachelor of Letters, Dept. of Philosophy and History of Science, Faculty of Letters, 2003.
Fellowship, Grant and Award
- 2014 The History of Science Society of Japan Paper Award.
- Computer History Museum Travel Award; SIGCIS Workshop on Materiality & Immateriality in the History of Computing in Tacoma, Washington, U.S.A. 2010.($500)
- The Konosuke Matsushita Memorial Foundation Grant, 2010. (500,000 Japanese Yen)
- Fulbright Sholarship Program (University of Minnesota), 2008-2009.
Contact
Mai Sugimoto
Faculty of Sociology, Kansai University
3-3-35, Yamatecho, Suita,
Osaka, Japan 564-8680