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Thomas Haigh EducationUniversity of Pennsylvania: History and Sociology of Science Ph.D. May 2003 M.A. August 1997.
Dissertation: “Technology, Information and Power: Specialization: The
Social Study of Business Organizations (Mauro Guillen, Wharton) Manchester University (UK): Department of Computer Science Systems Integration – dual degree program - Sept 1991 to July 1995 M.Eng. awarded with Distinction, B.Sc. 1st Class Honors (Top 5% of class) Academic Positions & TeachingU. of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Assistant Professor, School of Information Studies, Fall 2004 onward
The Haigh Group Consultant, Fall 2003 onward
Kiev Mohyla Academy, Ukraine Visiting Researcher, Informatics Faculty, Jan-July 2007
Indiana University, Bloomington Visiting Assistant Professor, Informatics School, Fall 2003
Colby College Visiting Instructor/Visiting
Researcher
Drexel University Adjunct, College of Information Science & Technology
University of Pennsylvania Adjunct, History & Sociology of Science
BookInformation's Acolytes: Experts, Systems and Technologies in Corporate Administration 1917-2000. Under preparation for the Johns Hopkins University Press series Studies in Industry and Society. Completion expected 2010. Research Articles in Journals and Books(with Bernardo Bátiz-Lazo) "Engineering Change in Mexico: The Adoption of Computer Technology at ICA (1965-1971)," under preparation for IEEE Annals of the History of Computing. "Technology's Other Storytellers: Science Fiction as History of Technology" under preparation for Canticle for the Machine: Interdisciplinary Essays on Science Fiction and Computers, ed. David Ferro & Eric Swedlin, 2011. "The History of Information Technology," Annual Review of Information Science and Technology 45, forthcoming 2011. "Computing the American Way," IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 32:2 (April-June 2010):8-20. "Masculinity and the Machine Man: Gender in the History of Data Processing," in Gendered Codes: Why Women are Leaving Computing ed. Thomas J. Misa, IEEE Computer Society Press, 2010:51-72. (with Tim Bergin) "The Commercialization of Data Base Management Software 1969-83," IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 31:4 (Oct-Dec 2009):26-41 (online). "How Data Got its Base: Information Storage Software in the 1950s and 60s," IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 31:4 (Oct-Dec 2009):6-25 (online). "Protocols for Profit: Web and E-mail Technologies as Product and Infrastructure" in The Internet and American Business, edited by William Aspray and Paul Ceruzzi, MIT Press, 2008: 105-158 (online). "The Web's Missing Links: Search Engines and Portals" in The Internet and American Business, edited by William Aspray and Paul Ceruzzi, MIT Press, 2008:159-200 (online). "Ein wahrer Eimer voller Fakten" (German translation of "A Veritable Bucket of Facts:' Origins of the Data Base Management System") in «Nach Feierabend - Zürcher Jahrbuch für Wissensgeschichte» (Zurich Yearbook in the History of Knowledge) 3 (2007): 57-98. "Sources for ACM History: What, Where, Why" (with Elizabeth Kaplan and Carrie Seib), Communications of the ACM 50:5 (May 2007):36-41. (online) "Remembering the Office of the Future: Word Processing and Office Automation before the Personal Computer," IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 28:4 (October-December 2006):6-31. (online "'A Veritable Bucket of Facts:' Origins of the Data Base Management System," ACM SIGMOD Record 35:2 (June 2006). (online) "ADAPSO, Regulated Competition, and Professional Services: 1976-1986" IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 27:2 (April-June 2005): 89-93. (online) "ADAPSO, Timesharing Firms and Software Companies, 1968-1975," IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 27:1 (January-March 2005): 67-73. (online) “The History of Computing: An Introduction for the Computer Scientist” in Using History to Teach Computer Science and Related Disciplines ed. Atsushi Akera & William Aspray (Washington, D.C.: Computing Research Association, 2004):5-26. (online) “Key Resources in the History of Computing” in Using History to Teach Computer Science and Related Disciplines ed. Atsushi Akera & William Aspray (Washington, D.C.: Computing Research Association, 2004):279-294. (updated online version) “A Veritable Bucket of Facts: Origins of the Database Management System” in The History and Heritage of Scientific and Technological Information Systems: Proceedings of the 2002 Conference eds. W. Boyd Rayward & Mary Ellen Bowden (New Jersey: Information Today, 2004):73-78. (online) "ADAPSO and the Service Bureau Industry, 1961-1968," IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 26:1 (January-March 2004): 78-85. (online) “Software in the 1960s as Concept, Service, and Product” IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 24:1 (January-March 2002): 5-13. (online) "The Chromium Plated Tabulator: Institutionalizing an Electronic Revolution, 1954-1958" IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 23:4 (October-December 2001): 75-104. (online) “Inventing Information Systems: The Systems Men and the Computer” Business History Review 75:1 (Spring 2001): 15-61. (online) “Research Interactions Between University and Industry in Computer Science in the United States and United Kingdom”, 1995 technical report UMCS-95-8-1, University of Manchester (UK) Department of Computer Science. (online) Biographies"Charles W. Bachman: Data Base Software Pioneer," under preparation for IEEE Annals of the History of Computing. "Jack Dongarra: Supercomputing Expert and Mathematical Software Specialist" IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 30:2 (April-May 2008), 74-81 (online). "Cleve Moler: Mathematical Software Pioneer and Creator of Matlab" IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 30:1 (January-March 2008), 87-91 (online). "Biography: Lawrence Schoenberg" IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 27:2 (April-June 2005), 92-94. (online) "Biography: Lawrence A. (Larry) Welke," IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 26:4 (October-December 2004): 85-91. (online) "Biography: Richard L. (Rick) Crandall," IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 26:4 (October-December 2004): 79-85. (online) "Biography: Bernard (Bernie) Goldstein," IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 26:1 (January-March 2004): 85-90. (online) "Biography: Frank Lautenberg," IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 26:1 (January-March 2004): 90-93. (online) “Obituary: I. Bernard Cohen,” IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 25:4 (Oct-Dec 2003): 89-92. (online) “Obituary: Rob Kling,” IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 25:3 (Jul-Sep 2003): 92-94. (online) “Biography: Per Brinch Hansen,” IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 25:1 (January-March 2003):80-83 (with JAN Lee). (online) Published Oral History InterviewsDavid Hsaio. Oral history interview by Thomas Haigh, 12-13 June 2009, Mountain View, CA. Association for Computing Machinery, New York (forthcoming pending review by interviewee). Frank Belvin. Oral history interview by Thomas Haigh, 4 June 2009, Mountain View, CA. Computer History Museum, Mountain View (transcription in progress). John Phillips. Oral history interview by Thomas Haigh, 4 June 2008, Mountain View, CA. Computer History Museum, Mountain View. (forthcoming) C.J. Date, Oral history interview by Thomas Haigh, 13 June 2007, Mountain View, CA. Computer History Museum, Mountain View. (online) G.W. "Pete" Stewart. Oral history interview by Thomas Haigh, May 5 & 6 2006, Washington, D.C. Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Philadelphia, PA. (forthcoming) Robert L. Patrick. Oral history interview by Thomas Haigh, 16 February 2006, Mountain View, CA. Computer History Museum, Mountain View. (online) Walter M. Carlson, ACM Oral History Interview #3. Oral history interview by Thomas Haigh, November 26 & 27 2005, Los Gatos, CA. Association for Computing Machinery Press, New York (online at ACM) (online). Gene Golub. Oral history interview by Thomas Haigh, October 21 & 22 2005, Stanford, CA. Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Philadelphia, PA (online at SIAM). C. William Gear. Oral history interview by Thomas Haigh, September 17 & 18 2005, Princeton, NJ.Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Philadelphia, PA (online at SIAM). Iain S. Duff. Oral history interview by Thomas Haigh, August 31-September 1 2005, Oxford, UK. Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Philadelphia, PA (online at SIAM). William Kahan. Oral history interview by Thomas Haigh, 5-8 August 2005, Berkeley, CA. Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Philadelphia, PA. (forthcoming pending review by interviewee). I. Edward Block. Oral history interview by Thomas Haigh, 26-27 July 2005, Philadelphia, PA. Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Philadelphia, PA. (forthcoming pending review by interviewee). Paul Swarztrauber. Oral history interview by Thomas Haigh, 16-17 July 2005, Boulder, CO. Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Philadelphia, PA (online at SIAM). Al Eisman. Oral history interview by Thomas Haigh, 6-7 July 2005, Bellevue, WA. Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Philadelphia, PA (online at SIAM). Phyllis Fox. Oral history interview by Thomas Haigh, 7-8 June 2005, Short Hills, NJ. Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Philadelphia, PA (online at SIAM). Bill Buzbee. Oral history interview by Thomas Haigh, 8-9 April 2005, Westminster, CO. Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Philadelphia, PA (online at SIAM). Gaston Gonnet OH TBA. Oral history interview by Thomas Haigh, 16-18 March 2005, Zurich, Swizterland. Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Philadelphia, PA (online at SIAM). Alan J. Hindmarsh. Oral history interview by Thomas Haigh, 5-6 January 2005, Livermore, CA. Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis (CBI OH # pending) (online at SIAM). Peter Harris, Oral history interview by Thomas Haigh, 19 November 2004, Mountain View, CA. Computer History Museum, Mountain View. (online) Charles L. Lawson. Oral history interview by Thomas Haigh, 6-7 November 2004, San Clemente, CA. Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Philadelphia, PA (online at SIAM). Charles Bachman, ACM Oral History Interview #2. Oral history interview by Thomas Haigh, 25-26 September 2004, Tucson, AZ. Association for Computing Press, New York (online at ACM) (online). Charles W. Johnson. Oral history interview by Thomas Haigh, 25 August 2004, Racine, WI. Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Philadelphia, PA (online at SIAM). W.J. Cody. Oral history interview by Thomas Haigh, 3-4 August 2004, Glen Ellyn, IL. Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Philadelphia, PA (online at SIAM). Augustin Dubrulle. Oral history interview by Thomas Haigh, 30-31 July 2004, Arroyo Grande, CA. Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Philadelphia, PA (online at SIAM). Jim Pool. Oral history interview by Thomas Haigh, 14-15 July 2004, Pasadena, CA. Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Philadelphia, PA. (forthcoming pending review by interviewee). Brian Ford. Oral history interview by Thomas Haigh, 29-30 June 2004, Oxford, UK. Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Philadelphia, PA (online at SIAM). Thomas J. Aird. Oral history interview by Thomas Haigh, 3-4 June 2004, Reno, NV. Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Philadelphia, PA (online at SIAM). Oscar Schacter, OH 389. Oral history interview by Thomas Haigh, 7 May 2004, Needham, MA. Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis (online). Dan Fylstra. Oral history interview by Thomas Haigh, 7 May 2004, Needham, MA. Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis (CBI OH # pending review by interviewee). Jerome Dreyer. Oral history interview by Thomas Haigh, 1 May 2004, Pittsburgh, PA. Computer History Museum, Mountain View (online). Jack Dongarra. Oral history interview by Thomas Haigh, 26-28 April 2004, Knoxville & Oak Ridge, TN. Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Philadelphia, PA (online at SIAM). John R. Rice. Oral history interview by Thomas Haigh, 24-25 March 2004, West Lafayette, IN. Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Philadelphia, PA (online at SIAM). Joseph Traub. Oral history interview by Thomas Haigh, 19-20 March 2004, New York, NY. Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Philadelphia, PA (online at SIAM). Cleve Moler. Oral history interview by Thomas Haigh, 8-9 March 2004, Santa Barbara, CA. Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Philadelphia, PA (online at SIAM). Lawrence Welke, OH 335. Oral history interview by Thomas Haigh, 3 May 2002, Washington, DC. Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis (online). Joseph A. Piscopo, OH 342. Oral history interview by Thomas Haigh, 3 May 2002, Washington, D.C. Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis (online). Review Essays and Book ReviewsReview of "Emanuel Goldberg and His Knowledge Machine: Information, Invention, and Political Forces" by Michael Buckland, forthcoming in Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. Review of "The Mechanical Mind in History" ed. Philip Husbands, Owen Holland, Michael Wheeler forthcoming in The Information Society. Review of "From Counter Culture to Cyberculture" by Fred Turner, forthcoming in Isis 2009. Review essay on "Structuring the Information Age: Life Insurance and Technology in the Twentieth Century" by JoAnne Yates, EH-Net, 2007 (online). Review of "Computers and Commerce: A Study of Technology and Management at Eckert-Mauchly Computer Company, Engineering Research Associates, and Remington Rand, 1946-1957" by Arthur Norberg, Business History Review, Winter 2006. (online) Review of "The Second Information Revolution" by Gerald W. Brock, Business History Review 78:2 (Summer 2004):316-318. (online) Review of “From 0 to 1: An Authoritative History of Modern Computing”, edited by Atsushi Akera and Frederik Nebeker (Oxford University Press, 2002), Technology and Culture 44:4 (October 2003):841-842. (online) Review of "Between Human and Machine: Feedback, Control, and Computing before Cybernetics," by David A Mindell, Business History Review 77:3 (Autumn 2003):358-360. (online) Review of "Anytime, Anywhere: Entrepreneurship and the Creation of a Wireless World," by Louis Galambos and Eric John Abrahamson, Business History Review 77:1 (Spring 2003). (online) Review Essay, “Multicians.Org and the History of Operating Systems”, Iterations: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Software History 1 (2002). (online) Other Publications"Mahoney Fund," IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 31:3 (Jul-Sept 2009):80. "SHOT@50: Lisbon Meeting" (Report on SHOT 2008 meeting), IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 31:1 (January-March 2009):63-64. "Software for Europe: Workshops" (Report on SOFT-E6U Grenoble 2008 meeting), IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 30:3 (July-September 2008):75-76. "Fifty Years of the History of Technology" (Report on SHOT 2007 meeting), IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 30:2 (April-June 2008). Report on Amsterdam Computer History Colloquium, SIAM News, January 2006. “Reports on workshop discussion” for “Software as Economic Activity” and “Software as Science”, in Mapping the History of Computing: Software Issues, U. Hashagen, R. Keil-Slawik, A. Norberg, eds. (New York: Springer-Verlag), 2002: 61-62 & 223-224. Competitively Reviewed Conference Presentations"'Crisis, What Crisis?' Reconsidering the Software Crisis of the 1960s and the Origins of Software Engineering,’ Final ESF Eurocores Program Inventing Europe, Sofia, Bulgaria, June 2010. (with Bernardo Batiz Lazo) “Engineering Change in Mexico: The Adoption of Computer Technology at ICA (1965-1971),” Second Latin American Economic History Congress (CLADHE-II), Mexico City, February 2010. "Challengers and Opportunities in Information History," Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, Vancouver, November 2009. (slides) "Opening the Beige Box: Materiality and the Evolution of the IBM PC, 1981-1995," Annual Meeting of the Society for the History of Technology, Pittsburgh, October 2009. (slides) "Computing the American Way," at “Appropriating America, Making Europe,” Inventing Europe Eurocores European Science Foundation Workshop, Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences and Arts, Amsterdam, January 2009. (draft paper) (slides) "Masculinities in the Histories of Computing(s)," History|Gender|Computing, Charles Babbage Institute, Minneapolis, June 2008. (draft paper) "Open Source Software at 50: Its Corporate and Mathematical Origins," Annual Meeting of the Society for the History of Technology, Washington DC, October 2007. (slides) "Knowing Numbers: How Numerical Software Libraries Changed Scientific Practice, 1954-1975," Annual Meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science, Montreal, October 2007. (slides) "The Web's Missing Links: The Search Engine & Portal Industry," Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Philadelphia, August 2007. "Missing Links: The Development of the Search Engine & Portal Industry," British Society for the History of Science, Manchester, July 2007. (slides) "Missing Links: The Search Engine & Portal Industry," at Business History Conference, Cleveland, May/June 2007. (slides) “Making the Computer Personal: Reconstructing Domesticity for the Information Age” at Gumanitarni Problemy Stanovlennia Suchasnoho Fakhivczia (8th International Conference for the Professionalization and Modernization of the Humanities and Social Sciences), March 22-23, 2007, Kyiv, Ukraine. "Learning on a Jet Plane: Distributed Problem Solving and Knowledge Sharing in a Virtual Community of Frequent Fliers," at the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science & Technology, Austin, November 2006. (abstract) (slides) "The Corporate Origins of Open Source," at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science, Vancouver, November 2006. (session abstract) (slides) "Crippled by its Own Strengths: The Software Infrastructure of the Commercializing Internet," at the Annual Meeting of the Society for the History of Technology, Las Vegas, October 2006. (session proposal) (abstract) (slides) "SHARE and the Origins of Open Source Software, 1954-1972," at the Annual Symposium of the International Committee for the History of Technology, Leicester, UK, August 2006. (abstract) (slides) "An Industry of Enthusiasts: Users Make the Computer Personal, 1975-1981." Business History Conference, Minneapolis, May 2005. (abstract) (slides) “Making the Computer Personal: Reconstructing Domesticity for the Information Age” at Annual Meeting of the Society for the History of Technology, Amsterdam, October 2004. (abstract) (slides) “Technology versus Technocracy in the Progressive Office in the United States, 1917-1931" at Business History Conference, Le Creusot (France), June 2004. (abstract) (slides) “A Veritable Bucket of Facts: Origins of the Database Management System” at Second Conference on the History and Heritage of Scientific and Technical Information Systems (ASIS&T/Chemical Heritage Foundation), Philadelphia, November 2002. (abstract) (slides) “Lost In Translation: Total Systems from War Room to Board Room, 1954-1968” at Annual Meeting of the Society for the History of Technology, Toronto, October 2002. (abstract), (text), (slides) “Information is the Fix, Now What Was the Problem?” at The Technological Fix, Hagley Museum and Library conference, Delaware, October 2002. (abstract), (text), (slides) “A Veritable Bucket of Facts: Origins of the Database Management System” at Preliminary Workshop on the History and Heritage of Scientific and Technical Information Systems (ASIST/Chemical Heritage Foundation), Philadelphia, June 2001. (abstract) “Corporate War-Rooms: The Computer and ‘Total Systems’ in Business, 1959-1968” at Cold War Science, Technology and Medicine: Global Perspectives, University of Pennsylvania, November 2000. (abstract) (slides) “From Machine Man to Information Manager: Class Formation and Group Mobility in Corporate Computing, 1953-1964”, at 22nd North American Labor History Conference, Detroit, October 2000. (abstract), (text) (slides) "Inventing Managerial Information: The Systems Men and the Computer, 1957-1967" at Society for the History of Technology (SHOT) annual meeting, Munich, August 2000. (abstract) (slides) "Failure as a Cultural Resource: Early Computer Systems for Corporate Management" at the Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference on Failure, Harvard University, May 2000. (abstract) Dissertation in Progress Presentation at Business History Conference, Palo Alto, March 2000. (dissertation proposal)
"The Taylored Office: Technology, Power and
Expertise in Systematic Office Management" Invited Presentations"The Historian for Hire: Conducting a Career Oral History Series in a Technical Area," University of Siegen, Germany, June 2010. "Opening the Beige Box: Materiality and the Evolution of the IBM PC, 1981-1995", Helmut Kreuzer lecture series, University of Siegen, Germany, June 2010. “The Web’s Missing Links” presented in the Science, Technology and Society cluster symposium series at the National University of Singapore, Jan 2010. “The Web’s Missing Links,” Yonsei University, Seoul, Jan 2010. “Status Anxiety Among the High Fliers: An Online Ethnography of a Frequent Flier Community” presented at the Money, Markets and Consumption workshop series, University of Chicago, December 2009. (with Maria Haigh) “The Goodby Petrovka Plan: The Moral Economy of File Sharing in Post-Soviet Society,” presented at the Free Culture Research Workshop, Harvard Law School, October 2009. (working paper online) "Knowing Information: The Social History of Information in American Business," Center for 21st Century Studies, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, September 2009. (slides) Keynote Speaker, "The Historian for Hire: Conducting a Career Oral History Series in a Technical Area," Summer School: Oral History and Technological Memory: Challenges in Studying European Pasts, University of Turku, Finland, August 2009. (slides) Keynote Panel Speaker, Online Marketing Summit, Brookfield, Wisconsin, July 2008. Panel Discussant, Collaborative Online Communication, Milwaukee World Trade Association, April 2008. "Making the Computer Personal: Reconstructing Domesticity in the Information Age," History Department Symposium Series, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, February 2008. "How the Computer Became Information Technology: Constructing Information in Corporate America," Center for Information Policy Research Symposium Series, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, February 2008.
"The Software Crisis Reconsidered," at the SOFT-EU Workshop on ALGOL, IBM and
Software Crisis, "The Secret History of Open Source Software Practices: Their Corporate and Scientific Origins, 1954-1980", GSLIS Research Forum, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, November 2007. (audio)(slides) "Tools and Issues in Software History," at the Software for Europe Project Inaugural Workshop, Prague & Hejnice, September 2007. (slides) "The Web's Missing Links: Search Engines and Portals," at Monday Lunch Symposium, Computer Science Department, ETH, Zurich, May 2007. (slides) "How the Computer Became Information Technology: Constructing Information in Corporate America," School of Management, Leicester University, May 2007. (slides) "How the Computer Became Information Technology: Constructing Information in Corporate America," Symposium in the Humanities Computing Group series, Faculty of Technology, Portsmouth University (UK), May 2007. "The Web's Missing Links: Search Engines and Portals," at Institut für Geschichte, ETH, Zurich, May 2007. "Free as in Science: The Forgotten Mathematical Origins of Open Source Software," at Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic, May 2007. "How the Computer Became Information Technology: Constructing Information in Corporate America," Deutsches Museum, Munich, April 2007. “Making the Computer Personal: Reconstructing Domesticity for the Information Age” guest lecture for American Studies, National Aeronautical University, Kiev, March, 2007. “Making the Computer Personal: Reconstructing Domesticity for the Information Age” at Informatics School Doctoral Symposium Series, UKMA, Kiev, March, 2007. "The Software Infrastructure of the Commercializing Internet," at Workshop on the History of the Internet and its Impacts, Munich, July 2006. (slides) "Blue Collars, White Shirts: The Conflicted Identity of 1950s Punched Card Men" at Computers in Use: Historical and Social Perspectives, Manchester, UK, July 2006. “Making the Computer Personal: Reconstructing Domesticity for the Information Age” at Japan Association for Science, Technology and Society Symposium Series, Tokyo University, January, 2006. (slides) "Free as in Science: The Forgotten Mathematical Origins of Open Source Software," Colloquium History of Computing: Software, CWI, Amsterdam, June 2005 (public keynote lecture) (slides) “A Veritable Bucket of Facts: Origins of the Database Management System”, School of Information Studies Symposium Series, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, November 2003. "The Disunity of Computing: Pan-Computing Professionalism and the Tensions of Science and Trade," Informatics School Symposium Series, Indiana University Bloomington, December 2003. (abstract) (slides) “The Newly Minted Ph.D.: Opportunities and Constraints,” Doctoral Student Professional Workshop Series, School of Library and Information Studies, Indiana University, Bloomington, October 2003. “A Veritable Bucket of Facts: Origins of the Database Management System”, School of Library and Information Science, Emporia State University, Kansas, March 2003. “New Technologies, Old Problems: Historical Amnesia and Enterprise Computing,” Informatics School Symposium Series, Indiana University, December 2002. (abstract) (slides) “The Disunity of Computing: Misplaced Holism and Professional Identity:1958-1972,” University of Pennsylvania, November 2002. (slides) “Why Users Matter: Software Development & Soviet Architecture,” Computer Science Symposium Series, Colby College, April 2002. “Between Science and Trade: Pan-Computing Professionalism, 1958-1972,” STS Symposium Series, Colby College, March 2002. (abstract) “Tools and Methods in the History of Computing” and “Corporate Considerations”, Computing Research Association Workshop on Using History to Teach Computer Science, Amherst College, August 2001. (slides) "Timeless Theory vs. Changing Users: Reconsidering Database Education,” College of Information Science and Technology Symposium Series, Drexel University, March 2001. (slides) “Adoption as Innovation: Corporate Computing and the Productivity Paradox,” STS Symposium Series, Colby College, Jan 2001. Conference Sessions Organized and Workshop ParticipationSession Organizer, "New Directions in Information History," Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, Vancouver, November 2009. (session proposal) Session Organizer, "Political Institutions in the History of Computing," SIGCIS Workshop on "Mike Mahoney and the Histories of Computing(s)" at the Annual Meeting of the Society for the History of Technology, Pittsburgh, October 2009. Session Organizer, "Materiality Meets Practice," Annual Meeting of the Society for the History of Technology, Pittsburgh, October 2009. (session proposal) Session Organizer, "Paths Not Taken and Paths Retraced in the History of Information Technology," Annual Meeting of the Society for the History of Technology, Pittsburgh, October 2009. (session proposal) Invited Participant, workshop on "Innovation, Organizations and Society," University of Chicago (joint between U of Chicago Booth School of Business and Northwestern School of Communication). October 2009. Resident Instructor, Summer School: Oral History and Technological Memory: Challenges in Studying European Pasts, University of Turku, Finland, August 2009. Session Organizer and Commentator, "Looms, Chips, Users and Code: The Business of Computing," Annual Meeting of the Society for the History of Technology, Lisbon, October 2008. (session proposal) Session Organizer and Chair, "Symbolic Internationalism: Computing, Users, and (Trans)national Agendas," Annual Meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science, Rotterdam, August 2008. (session proposal) Invited workshop participant, Minicomputer Software Meeting, Computer History Museum, Mountain View, CA, June 2008. Discussant, Session on "Information Technology and Organizational Change," Business History Conference, Sacramento, April 2008. Session Organizer, "Knowing with Computers: How Software and Systems Encapsulate Expertise," Annual Meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science, Montreal, November 2007. (session proposal) Session Organizer & Commentator, "50 Years of Computing Historiography," Annual Meeting of the Society for the History of Technology, Washington DC, October 2007. (session proposal) Session Organizer, "50 Years of Computer Use -- Continuity Amid Change," Annual Meeting of the Society for the History of Technology, Washington DC, October 2007. (session proposal) Session Organizer, "Networks of Knowing -- Technology Transfer & Open Source Invention," Annual Meeting of the Society for the History of Technology, Washington DC, October 2007. (session proposal) Invited Participant & Associate Partner, "Software for Europe Project Inaugural Workshop," Prague & Hejnice, September 2007. Invited workshop participant, Relational Database History Meeting, Computer History Museum, Mountain View, CA, June 2007. (with David Kirsch) Session Organizer, "Industry Emergence: Institutional Entrepreneurship and the Commercialization of the Internet, 1993-2004," Business History Conference, Cleveland, May/June 2007. (session proposal) Session Organizer, "The Secret History of Open Source," Annual Meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science, Vancouver, November 2006. (session proposal) Session Organizer, "State Ideology and Computerized Modernity, 1950-1970," Annual Meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science, Vancouver, November 2006. (session proposal) Session Organizer & Chair, "The Commercialized Internet and its Users in the 1990s," Annual Meeting of the Society for the History of Technology. (session proposal) Session chair, "Communications 1," International Committee for the History of Technology Symposium, Leicester, UK, August 2006. Invited workshop participant, Professional Services Genealogy Meeting, Computer History Museum, Mountain View, CA, February 2006. Session organizer and commentator, "User and Usability in Personal Computing -- International Perspectives," Annual Meeting of the Society for the History of Technology, Minneapolis, November 2005. (session proposal) "Senior foreign colleague" at small three day workshop devoted largely to discussion of my work, Amsterdam University, June 2005. Session organizer, "Adoption as Innovation -- User Roles in the Creation of Technological Industries," Business History Conference, Minneapolis, May 2005. (session proposal) Historical moderator for session on "Financial and Management Software" at PC Software: The First Decade, Mountain View, CA, November 2004. Session organizer, “The Electronic Eighties: Domesticating, Gendering, and Consuming, 1975-1990,” Annual Meeting of the Society for the History of Technology, Amsterdam, October 2004. (session proposal) Historical moderator for sessions on “Spreadsheets: Lotus 1-2-3” and “Technical Issues: Customer Support, Documentation, and Training,” PC Software: The First Decade, Needham MA, May 2004. Invited workshop participant, Using History to Improve Computer Science Education, Computing Research Association, Boston, May 2004. Invited workshop participant, Using History to Improve Computer Science Education, Computing Research Association, Chicago, April 2004. Committee member and presenter, Presidential Ad Hoc Committee on ACM History, New York, January 2004. Invited participant & presenter, Strategic Planning Meeting on the History of Software, Palo Alto, May 2003. Moderator, “Relations with Big 8 Accounting Firms”, ADAPSO Reunion Conference, Washington D.C., May 2002. Published in ADAPSO Reunion Transcript, ed. Luanne Johnson (iBusiness Press, 2003): 209-235. Rapporteur, International Conference on the History of Computing, Paderborn (Germany), April 2000 Awards, Fellowships & Contract ResearchCenter for 21st Century Studies Fellow, University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee. Course buyout for 1:1 teaching load, academic year 2008/9. UWM School of Information Studies Internal Research Grant ("SIRG") (2007), $6,000. Historical Consultant to ACM SIGMOD (2004), $5,000 & to Association for Computing Machinery (2005), $4,500. Historical Consultant to Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (2003-6), approximately $65,000 in travel expenses and transcription support for oral histories in addition to consulting fees. Software History Center Research Fellowship (2003), $21,000. IEEE Life Member Fellowship in Electrical History (2000-01), one year stipend of $15,000. Penn SAS Dissertation Fellowship (1999-00), one year stipend and fees (approx $20,000). Tomash Fellowship in the History of Information Processing (Charles Babbage Institute, 1999-00), $12,000. William Penn Fellowship (1995-99), four year non-service stipend and fees (circa $135,000). Kennedy Scholarship for study at Harvard/MIT. Travel, fees, stipend (circa $35,000). Declined. Fulbright Award for post-graduate study in the US (1995-96), $12,000. Royal Academy of Engineering grants to pursue thesis research in the United States (1994) and United Kingdom (1994-95). Total $2,200. Degree sponsorship for M.Eng/B.Sc. from ICL UK, Ltd. Stipend for three years and two internships. Total approx $12,000. External grants for travel to: First Conference on the History and Heritage of Scientific and Technical Information Systems in Pittsburgh (1999); Business History Conference in Palo Alto (2000); Society for the History of Technology in Munich (2000); International Conference on the History of Computing in Paderborn, Germany (2000); Workshop on the Use of Computer Science to Improve Undergraduate Education in Amherst (2001) and follow-ups in Chicago (2004) and Needham (2004); Second Conference on the History and Heritage of Scientific and Technical Information Systems in Philadelphia (2002); Conference on The Technological Fix in Wilmington, Delaware (2002); Annals of the History of Computing Board Meetings in Washington, D.C. (2002 and 2003), in Mountain View, California (2004), in Minneapolis, Minnesota (2005), in San Diego, California (2007), and in Minneapolis (2008); ADAPSO Reunion Conference in Washington, D.C. (2003); two weeks research at the Charles Babbage Institute (2003); Meeting of the Presidential Ad-Hoc Committee on ACM History in New York, (2004) and ACM History Committee in New York (2005); Moore's Law at 50 Conference in Philadelphia, (2005); Colloquium History of Computing: Software in Amsterdam, (2005); Professional Services History Meeting in Mountain View, California, (2006); ETH History of Technology Symposium in Zurich (2007); Portsmouth University Computing in the Humanities Symposium in Portsmouth (2007); Leicester University Management School Symposium in Leicester (2007); Relational Database History Meeting in Mountain View, California (2007); ETH Computer Science Symposium in Zurich, (2007); "Tools and Issues in Software History," at the Software for Europe Project Inaugural Workshop, Prague & Hejnice (2007); GSLIS Symposium Series at University of Illinois--Urbana Champaign; SOFT-EU Workshop on ALGOL, IBM and Software Crisis, The state of Historiography in Transnational Interpretations in Grenoble & St Pierre de Chartreuse (2008); Minicomputer Software History Workshop, Mountain View, California (2008); History|Gender|Computing, Charles Babbage Institute, Minneapolis (2008); Inventing Europe Project Meeting, Lisbon (2008); ESF workshop Appropriating American, Inventing Europe,"Amsterdam (2009) Computer History Museum Processing Services History Meetings, California (2009), ESF Summer School: Oral History and Technological Memory: Challenges in Studying European Pasts, Turku (2009); University of Chicago Money, Markets & Consumption Workshop Series (Chicago); Media in Action Conference & Oral History Workshop, Siegen (2010); Final ESF EUROCORES Program Inventing Europe Meeting, Sofia (2010). Total approx $38,500. Other Professional ActivitiesChair, Special Interest Group on Computers, Information and Society, Society of the History of Technology, 2005-present. Past Chair, Special Interest Group on History and Foundations of Information Science, American Society for Information Science & Technology, 2007-8. Chair 2007-8. Secretary, American Society for Information Science & Technology, Wisconsin Chapter, 2005-7. Chair Elect 2007-9. Committee Member: Ad Hoc Presidential Committee on ACM History, 2004. ACM History Committee, 2005. Charles Babbage Foundation Collaboration Group, 2005-6, IT History Society Historical Advisory Committee 2007-Present. Editorial Board Member: IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 2002-present. Editor of Biographies department, 2002-present. Proposal Reviewer: National Science Foundation STS Program, European Science Foundation, UK Economic & Social Research Council. Manuscript Reviewer: Communications of the ACM. Technology and Culture. Business History Review. The Internet Encyclopedia. Iterations. IEEE Annals of the History of Computing. Journal of the American Society for Information Science & Technology. Harvard University Press. Member: Society for the History of Technology, Business History Conference, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), IEEE Computer Society, American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T). APPENDIX: Technical BackgroundDuring the summer months of my graduate studies I worked as a computer consultant. Wharton Computing and IT: Consultant - various Projects May 1998 - 2001 2000: FORTUNE recruiting system: Designed, implemented web based system to allow on-campus recruiters to view resumes and cover letters submitted online, select students for interview. (ColdFusion 4.5, PL/SQL, Oracle, IIS). 1999: WISP Datamart: Conceived, designed, created denormalized, 24/7 Oracle datamart storing student data from Penn data warehouse. Used by Wharton web applications and reporting systems. (PL/SQL, Oracle) 1998: FAST Project Produced detailed functional specifications for all three modules of large web based syllabus content creation/delivery application. Designed and implemented database architecture, stored procedures, Oracle/Access integration. Coordinated five-person team. (PL/SQL, Oracle, Access 97, VBA, COM, Java Servlets) Wharton Executive MBA: Consultant - WEMBASE database May 1999 - Sept 1999 Project leader. Performed extensive analysis, designed new client/server database application to store student, sponsor, event attendance and enrollment information for WEMBA program. Integrated with online admission, enrollment systems. Performed core implementation, supervised WEMBA staff. (Access 2000/SQL Server, VBA, COM, Word 200, ADO, Access Data Project) Wharton Real Estate Center: MIS Consultant Developer June 1996 - 2001 Took major departmental project, WREMIS, from feasibility study through two substantial enhancement cycles. Structured, user-centered methodology & prototyping produced powerful, intuitive and effective system. Trained and supported end-users. Supported server. (Access 95/97/2000, VBA, COM, Word 95/200, DAO, NT Server 3.51 & 4.0, ODBC, Oracle) ICL UK Ltd: Sponsorship Placements Summer 1993, Summer 1994 Package included 3 year stipend and two internships. Service and consultancy division. Primrose Computers Ltd: Year in Industry Placement Sept. 1990 - July 1991 Planned, designed, wrote and laid out complete User Guide and technical documentation for range of PCs. End product praised in 'PC Magazine' review. Very extensive PC skills developed. Computer Skills:
Database Development:
Access 95/97/2000, Oracle, SQL Server 7.0, Internet Development: ColdFusion 4.5, JavaScript, HTML, Microsoft IIS, PHP Operating Systems: DOS, Windows 3.X, 9X, NT 3.51/4.0, 2000. NT Server 3.5/4.0, Unix. Languages: VB & VBA, Pascal and Prolog as expert. Some C, 68000, SML, LISP. Hardware: Expert in PC hardware. Extensive technical documentation, desktop publishing, graphics, presentation and editing skills. |
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