James Hill-Khurana

Eclectic. Curious about machine learning, tech history, HCI and biomimicry. I am interested in helping augment human work with machine intelligence.

I briefly studied philosophy and cognitive science at the University of Waterloo and also worked at a few startups.

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Writing

Don Braben and Scientific Freedom Fall '20

On funding transformative research.

A Brief History of the Mouse Cursor Spring '20

That cute arrow, from Engelbart to PARC.

General Magic: An Oral History Fall '19 New!

A pocketable personal computer.

Collections

Tools, Computing, and Research Labs Summer '19

Assorted media about the history of computing.

Projects

Open Library Explorer Summer '20

A new interface for browsing the library. With Ziyad, Tinnei and others.

Immigrant Founders Fall '19

Building Of Winter '17

We must build the most beautiful things