Florian Jaton

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Florian Jaton is a researcher and lecturer at EPFL (College of Humanities) and at the University of Lausanne (Faculty of Social and Political Sciences). He previously worked at the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Science at the University of California, at the Centre de sociologie de l'innovation at Mines Paris, and at the Geneva Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies. His research interests are the sociology of algorithms, the philosophy of mathematics, and the history of computing. He is the author of the book The Constitution of Algorithms: Ground-Truthing, Programming, Formulating (MIT Press, 2021; Open Access).

Curriculum vitae

Teaching & PhD

Courses

Artificial intelligence and society

HUM-286

This course integrates social sciences and humanities with engineering sciences, and introduces students to the social, technical and political issues surrounding artificial intelligence.

2025-2026

AI & Society
Sociology of innovation
Science & Technology Studies