biography : https://web.archive.org/web/20241129214640/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Camille_Akmut / https://archive.ph/FmJln

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

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]

(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]. 60 p.

• Ideologies of computer scientists and technologists (Correctness beyond reason)^[13]. 199 p.

• Ideologies of computer scientists and technologists, vol. 2.^[14] 175 p.

• Knowledge Networks. From centralized To decentralized.^[15] 134 p.

• An introduction to the history of European computer science and technology.^[16] 108 p.

• Queer interpretations^[17]. 93 p.

• Queer interpretations, vol. 2.^[18] 43 p.

• Popular culture writings. ^[19] 121 p.

• Popular culture writings volume 2^[20] 97 p.

• The history of computer science and technology in multiple volumes.

- Vol. 1^[21]. 155 p.

- Vol. 2^[22]. 240 p.

- Vol. 3^[23]. 181 p.

- Vol. 4^[24]. 146 p.

- Vol. 5^[25]. 264 p.

- Supplement vol. 1^[26]. 245 p.

- Supplement vol. 2^[27]. 240 p.

- Supplement vol. 3^[28]. 181 p.

- Supplement vol. 4^[29]. 260 p.

- Supplement vol. 5^[30]. 103 p.

- Specials 9-28^[31]. 172 p. [end]

Translations

• Georges Canguilhem. The formation of the concept of reflex in the XVIIth and XVIIIth centuries (2024).^[32] 241 p.
• Georges Canguilhem. Life and Death of Jean Cavaillès (2024).^[33] 41 p. (A previous translation from 2019 is also available.^[34])

• Georges Canguilhem. The three conferences at the College Philosophique, trans. Camille Akmut (2024).^[35] 103 pages.

• A Cavailles and Canguilhem reader : an introduction to the French philosophy and history of science.^[36] 76 pages.

• Fundamental texts of the RAF (2023).^[37] 26 pages.

Editions, catalogs

• Aaron Swartz on Wikipedia (2023)

- Vol. I : ‘US Civil liberties’ to ‘Firing Line’. ^[38] 333 pages.

- Vol. II : ‘James Fallows’ to ‘Shouting fire in a crowded theater’.^[39] 207 pages.

- Vol. III : ‘Peter Stearns’ to ‘Fred Kaplan’.^[40] 197 pages.

• Early video games

- A catalog of Famicom and Disk System video games (1985-1994). 39 p.^[41]

- A catalog of Game Boy and SFC games (1990-1994).^[42] 70 p.

- A catalog of SFC, PCE and MD games (1988-89; 1994-95) [part iii]. ^[43] 19 p.

Fuller bibliography : /works

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.