Women of Power Documentaries #media

On Tuesday, April 14, I will be responding to a screening of the documentary “To Dream Tomorrow,” which is about computing pioneer Ada Byron Lovelace, who is often referred to... more

Women in Engineering: Gender & Computing #media

This past evening I gave a talk for engineering week on women in information technology. Feminizing the field of computer science is some coverage of the event from the Daily... more

SAS Frontiers Magazine #media

The current issue of School of Arts & Science Frontiers magazine features a review of my recent work on the Internet and American commerce. The article is written by B.... more

Open Source Teaching #media

The Open Source Teaching Project represents an attempt to use Web 2.0 technologies and social networking to “create freely interactive media platforms which integrate academic and social content focused on... more

Lectronic Lovin #media

This past year my cyberculture seminar happened to meet on Valentine’s day, and so we did a special session on online dating. One of the things to come out of... more

The Mechanical Body: Building Humans, Challenging Humanity #media

This Tuesday, March 4, I will be giving a talk called “Cyborgs, Artificial Intelligences, and Meat Machines: Computers and the Reinvention of the Body” at Drexel University as part of... more

Top-Secret Rosies #media

I just finished filming a segment for a documentary by local film-maker LeAnn Erikson. I was just one of the talking-head historians. The real heroes of the film are the... more

The Research Channel II #media

Case Files in the History of Computing This is the second in a series of symposium hosted by the Franklin Institute and the History & Sociology of Science department celebrating... more

University of Wisconsin #media

On February 20th, 2007, Dr. Ensmenger will be giving a talk at the University of Wisconsin entitled “Neither Luddites nor Sages: Physicians and Professors as Reluctant Users of the Internet.”... more

Society for the History of Technology Annual Conference 2006 #media

This paper was based on some research that I am currently developing on the history of decision technologies. From the paper: “It is also clear that no-one quite knows what... more