Matthew L. Jones

Matthew Laurence Jones{{Cite web |title=Matthew Laurence Jones |url=https://collaborate.princeton.edu/en/persons/matthew-laurence-jones |access-date=2024-07-14 |website=Research With Princeton |publisher=Princeton University |language=en}} was born in 1972{{Cite web |date=2024-05-11 |title=Jones, Matthew L. (Matthew Laurence), 1972– |url=https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2006010796.html |access-date=2024-07-14 |website=LC Linked Data Service: Authorities and Vocabularies |publisher=The Library of Congress}} and raised in Reno, Nevada.{{Cite web |title=Professor Jones |url=https://www.cc-seas.columbia.edu/reslife/resoffice/ec/faculty.php |access-date=2024-07-14 |website=Columbia College and Columbia Engineering |publisher=Columbia University |language=en}} He attended Harvard University, graduating with a B.A. in 1994 and later attended the University of Cambridge, receiving an M.Phil. in 1995. He returned to Harvard for his Ph.D., which he received in 2000.{{Cite web |date=September 1, 2023 |title=Jones, Matthew L. |url=https://history.columbia.edu/person/jones-matthew-l/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240412154126/https://history.columbia.edu/person/jones-matthew-l/ |archive-date=Apr 12, 2024 |access-date=Jul 14, 2024 |website=Department of History |publisher=Columbia University}}

Jones joined the faculty of Columbia University in 2000, where he served as James R. Barker Professor of Contemporary Civilization. In 2023, he joined Princeton as Smith Family Professor of History.{{Cite web |date=Apr 11, 2024 |title=Matthew Jones (0000-0002-6163-9401) |url=https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6163-9401 |access-date=2024-07-14 |website=ORCID Registry |publisher=ORCID}}{{Cite web |date=Feb 2, 2023 |title=Faculty members named to endowed professorships |url=https://dof.princeton.edu/news/2023/faculty-members-named-endowed-professorships |access-date=2024-07-14 |website=Office of the Dean of the Faculty |publisher=Princeton University |language=en}}

As a history professor, Jones is also an academic in the fields of data science{{Cite web |title=Matthew L. Jones |url=https://datascience.columbia.edu/people/matthew-l-jones/ |access-date=2024-07-14 |website=The Data Science Institute at Columbia University |publisher=Columbia University |language=en-US}} and cybersecurity.{{Cite web |title=Security vs. Security: AI and the Golden Age of Signals Intelligence |url=https://informationsecurity.princeton.edu/events/security-vs-security-ai-and-golden-age-signals-intelligence |access-date=2024-07-14 |website=Information Security Office |publisher=Princeton University |language=en}} He has published widely on big data,{{Cite web |last=Magee |first=Phoebe |date=Winter 2014–2015 |title=A Secret History |url=https://magazine.columbia.edu/article/secret-history |access-date=2024-07-14 |website=Columbia Magazine |publisher=Columbia University |language=en}} surveillance,{{Cite web |title=(Online) Entre Nous: Data's Human History with Chris Wiggins and Matthew Jones |url=https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/wiggins-jones23/ |access-date=2024-07-14 |website=Events |publisher=The American Library in Paris |language=en-US}} and artificial intelligence.{{Cite web |last=Penn |first=Jonnie |date=2021-06-30 |title=Dr Matthew Jones |url=https://www.ai.hps.cam.ac.uk/co-organisers-0/dr-matthew-jones |access-date=2024-07-14 |website=Histories of Artificial Intelligence: A Genealogy of Power |publisher=University of Cambridge |language=en}}

While at Columbia, Jones received a Guggenheim Fellowship (2012),{{Cite web |title=Matthew L. Jones |url=https://www.gf.org/fellows/matthew-l-jones/ |access-date=2024-07-14 |website=Fellows |publisher=John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation |language=en}} a Mellon Foundation New Directions Fellowship (2012),{{Cite web |date=Jan 1, 2023 |title=New Directions Fellowships Recipients |url=https://www.mellon.org/article/new-directions-fellowships-recipients |access-date=2024-07-14 |website=New Directions |publisher=Mellon Foundation |language=en}} an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation grant,{{Cite web |title=Columbia University |url=https://sloan.org/grant-detail/G-2014-13825 |access-date=2024-07-14 |website=Grants |publisher=Alfred P. Sloan Foundation |language=en}}{{Cite book |url=https://sloan.org/storage/app/media/files/annual_reports/2014-Annual-Report.pdf |title=Alfred P. Sloan Foundation: 2014 Annual Report |publisher=Alfred P. Sloan Foundation |access-date=2024-07-14}} and multiple grants from the National Science Foundation.{{Cite web |title=Award # 0551849: Scholar's Award – The Matter of Calculation: Early Modern Calculating Machines, Statecraft and Thinking about Thinking |url=https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0551849&HistoricalAwards=false |access-date=2024-07-14 |website=NSF Award Search |publisher=National Science Foundation}}{{Cite web |title=Award # 1829357: Doctoral Dissertation Research: Recovering the Polyvalent Genealogies of Machine Learning, 1948–2017 |url=https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1829357&HistoricalAwards=false |access-date=2024-07-14 |website=NSF Award Search |publisher=National Science Foundation}} Jones is also a Future Flourishing Fellow of CIFAR.{{Cite web |title=Matthew L. Jones |url=https://cifar.ca/bios/matthew-l-jones/ |access-date=2024-07-14 |website=Fellows & Advisors |publisher=CIFAR |language=en-US}}

Books include: The Good Life in the Scientific Revolution (2006), Reckoning with Matter (2016), and How Data Happened (2023).{{Cite web |title=Matthew L. Jones |url=https://history.princeton.edu/people/matthew-l-jones |access-date=2024-07-14 |website=Department of History |publisher=Princeton University |language=en}}

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