Stephanie Dick is an Assistant Professor in the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University. She is a historian of mathematics, computing, and artificial intelligence whose work examines how formal methods—from mathematical proof to automated reasoning systems—reshape knowledge, authority, and social organization. Her research traces the postwar history of attempts to mechanize reasoning, with particular attention to the epistemic, political, and labor consequences of automation. Her forthcoming book, Making Up Minds: Automating Artificial Intelligence in the Postwar United States, explores how projects in automated theorem proving and formal verification redefined what it means to know, prove, and reason collectively. In addition to her academic work, she advises organizations on AI and the social implications of large-scale automated decision systems. She holds a PhD in History of Science from Harvard University, and prior to joining the faculty at SFU held positions at the Harvard Society of Fellows and the University of Pennsylvania. She sits on the editorial boards for the Cambridge Forum on AI: Culture and Society, the Harvard Data Science Review, the IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, and is co-editor, with Janet Abbate of Abstractions and Embodiments: New Histories of Computing and Society.

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