• Comment: A fellow enby from ENS, how cool! Noting that you should definitely source the personal life section (see Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons for our stuff on that topic), and try to provide independent secondary sources talking about them, rather than primary sources from themself. If points like their relationship history haven't been discussed by secondary sources, it's best not to mention them here (for reasons of both privacy and encyclopedic relevance). Chaotic Enby (talk · contribs) 00:12, 30 November 2024 (UTC)

Camille Akmut (22 August 1986) is a French historian born in Germany.

Life and work

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A former student of the École Normale Supérieure.[1], archivist at the Canguilhem archive[2], fellow of Cambridge University, researcher at Uppsala University, scholar at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science.

Advised by Christophe Charle[3], they were part of a group known as "Carlists". Prior to their work on the history of computer science and technology, they produced a notable monograph on French philosophers.[4]

During employment as a software engineer, they worked on an Electronic voting application[5], experience which they later criticized. They are a contributor to Graham Hutton's Programming in Haskell[6]. Presentation of their research was accepted at LibrePlanet 2020[7], whose participants included Brewster Kahle and Alyssa Rosenzweig, and Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium-associated PUT[8]

Bibliography

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(selection)

  • "Social conditions of outstanding contributions to computer science : a prosopography of Turing Award laureates (1966-2016)" (2018[2017]). 150 p. HAL[9], SocArXiv[10]
  • Computers and philosophy. A proof of infinity in the XVIIth century. (2020).[11] 122 p.
  • Last days of disco : Philosophy and anthropology of computer science and technology[12]
  • Ideologies of computer scientists and technologists (Correctness beyond reason)[13]
  • The history of computer science and technology in multiple volumes.

Translations

  • Georges Canguilhem. The formation of the concept of reflex in the XVIIth and XVIIIth centuries (2024).[14] 241 p.
  • Georges Canguilhem. Life and Death of Jean Cavaillès (2024).[15] 41 p. (A previous translation from 2019 is also available.[16])
  • Fundamental texts of the RAF (2023).[17]

Politics, Personal life

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A Marxist. They grew up half orphan (father painter, impressionist-expressionist and abstract art) and separated irrevocably from the rest of their family after transition (heavy corporal punishment from their mother).

They were possibly the first transgender student of the ENS, where they lived from 2009 to 2012 (medical transition begun at the end of that year).

A lesbian, they had two relationships, including with a Red Hat developer.

References

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  1. ^ https://www.ens.psl.eu/IMG/file/admission/2009/Recrutement-Lettres-septembre-2009.pdf (archive https://web.archive.org/web/20091007062230/http://www.ens.fr/IMG/file/admission/Recrutement-Lettres-septembre-2009.pdf)
  2. ^ https://caphes.ens.fr/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/CAPHES-rapport_2012.pdf
  3. ^ https://shs.cairn.info/la-deregulation-culturelle--9782130545408-page-731 Contrary to information found in this source they were not a doctoral student of Charle, but wrote their Master's thesis on realism under their direction, awarded by the University of Paris, Paris 1. https://centrehistoire19esiecle.pantheonsorbonne.fr/sites/default/files/inline-files/2019Base%20de%20donn%C3%A9es%20m%C3%A9moires%20et%20th%C3%A8ses.pdf
  4. ^ Apprentice philosophers (2011). Referenced among others in https://www.jstor.org/stable/26624155 ; https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9780691237435-009/html ; https://www.researchgate.net/publication/324531723_Bourdieusian_Field_Theory_and_the_Reorientation_of_Historical_Sociology
  5. ^ "OpenSlides/AUTHORS at main · OpenSlides/OpenSlides". GitHub.
  6. ^ "Programming in Haskell - 2nd Edition - Errata". people.cs.nott.ac.uk.
  7. ^ https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/libreplanet-day-1-can-free-software-carry-an-entire-online-conference-yes-it-can (slides https://osf.io/preprints/osf/4u9zv)
  8. ^ https://petsymposium.org/2019/files/workshop/abstracts/PUT_2019_paper_7.pdf and https://petsymposium.org/2019/files/workshop/abstracts/PUT_2019_paper_8.pdf Referenced in Tor: From the Dark Web to the Future of Privacy
  9. ^ Akmut, Camille (June 12, 2018). "Social conditions of outstanding contributions to computer science : a prosopography of Turing Award laureates (1966-2016)" – via hal.science.
  10. ^ "OSF". osf.io.
  11. ^ https://osf.io/8we4t/ (uploaded 2020-05-16)
  12. ^ "OSF". osf.io.
  13. ^ "OSF". osf.io.
  14. ^ https://osf.io/pq4tz (uploaded 2024-07-23)
  15. ^ https://osf.io/zdqme (uploaded 2024-08-05)
  16. ^ Released in 3 parts https://osf.io/preprints/osf/dqhxz ; https://osf.io/preprints/osf/m7dju (both uploaded 11/09/2019) ; https://osf.io/preprints/osf/un5dr (11/19/2019). 21 pages [10+6+5]
  17. ^ https://osf.io/preprints/osf/b4975 (uploaded 04/05/2023) ; https://osf.io/preprints/osf/jw3d8 (04/17/2023) ; https://osf.io/preprints/osf/rpqzh (04/20/2023). 26 p. [13+8+5]