Research Channel I
August 09, 2006 #media
The History of Communications in America
The Franklin Institute offers an electronic presentation of its Case Files, a collection of primary source documents that exists as an unknown repository of the history of science and technology. The University of Pennsylvania’s Department of History and Sociology of Science hosted a Symposium to discuss the historical, scientific, and educational merit of the Case Files, which date from the 1820s, as a modern day resource for undergraduate, graduate, and professional scholars, as well as K-12 students.
Radio Odyssey - WBEZ Chicago
May 10, 2005 #media
As rapidly as computer technology has changed, so have our hopes for – and fears about – its potential. How do we imagine the place of computers in our lives?
Historians of science and technology Nathan Ensmenger and Paul Edwards join Chicago Public Radio’s Gretchen Helfrich for the discussion. Ensmenger writes and researches on the history of software, artificial intelligence, and the information age. Edwards is author of The World in a Machine: Computer Models, Data Networks, and Global Atmospheric Politics.
Open Source's Lessons for Historians
November 21, 2004 #publications
Nathan Ensmenger, “Open Source’s Lessons for Historians,” IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 26:4 (2004), 103-104.
Toward a Social History of Computing
November 21, 2004 #publications
Nathan Ensmenger, “Power to the people: toward a social history of computing,” IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 26:1(2004), 95-96.
Letting the Computer Boys Take Over
April 18, 2003 #publications
Nathan Ensmenger. Letting the ‘computer boys’ take over: Technology and the politics of organizational transformation. International Review of Social History, 48(S11):153-180, 2003.
Software as Labor Process
May 10, 2002 #publications
In April 2000, the International Conference on the History of Computing hosted a special conference on the history of software. The goal was to set an agenda for future scholarship in the history of information processing. The conference was held at the largest history of computing museum in the world, the Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum in Paderborn, Germany. This paper was one of the five papers commissioned for the conference. It has since been published in in Mapping the History of Computing: Software Issues, U. Hashagen, R. Keil-Slawik, A. Norberg, eds. (New York: Springer-Verlag, 2002).