2015 Badash Memorial Lecture

November 15, 2014 #media

I am pleased and honored to have been invited to give the 2015 Lawrence Badash Memorial Lecture in the History of Science at the University of California Santa Barbara. I will be speaking on my recent work on the environmental history of computing. The title of the talk is The Materiality of the Virtual: A Global Environmental History of Computing from Babbage to Bitcoin. If you happen to be in Santa Barbara on January 21, 2015, please join me there!

Nathan Ensmenger is an Associate Professor in the Luddy School of Informatics, Computing and Engineering at Indiana University, where he also recently served as the Chair of the Informatics department.

He specializes in the social and labor history of computing, gender and computing, and the relationship between computing and the environment.

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2015 Badash Memorial Lecture

Professor Nathan Ensmenger