Dr Daniel Wilson

Daniel Wilson is a historian of science and technology working on the politics and provenance of data and machines in the nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first centuries. His work combines traditional close-reading and archival study with computational techniques.

Daniel works on the Living with Machines project: a radical collaboration between historians, curators, data scientists and computational linguists exploring the industrial revolution in Britain during the long nineteenth century using digitised sources.

Prior to joining the Turing, Daniel worked on the 'Technology & Democracy' project at CRASSH in Cambridge – an inquiry into the politics of the digital – alongside David Runciman and John Naughton. He continues to teach occasionally in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at Cambridge.