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Florian Jaton

florian.jaton@epfl.ch

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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

Awards

Société Académique Vaudoise

2018

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.

Phasing-out, innovation through withdrawal

HUM-428

The aim of the course is to acquire the concepts and methods of Science and Technology Studies in order to learn how to decode the interweaving of science and technology in society by applying these elements to the general issues of innovation.

Phasing-out, innovation through withdrawal II

HUM-426

The course aims at the acquisition of concepts and methods of Science and Technology Studies in order to learn how to decipher the intricacies of science and technology in society by mobilizing these elements in relation to the general issues of innovation.

Realities and practices of engineering work

HUM-332

Science and technology are experiencing changes that also affect the entire society. The course will take the example of nanoscience and nanotechnology to develop an analysis of this kind of phenomenon.

Science and technology in comics

HUM-353

Students analyze how science, technology and society are co-produced, by looking at how they are represented in comic strips.

2025-2026

AI & Society
Sociology of innovation
Science & Technology Studies