Hello, all,
This talk on Monday (7 May) at Harvard might be especially interesting for STS
folks... come one, come all --
best,
Dave
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Subject: Jon Agar at the HPSWG, May 7
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Next week, the History of Physical Sciences Working Group presents:
Jon Agar (Visiting Associate Professor of the History of Science)
"What's a computer?"
Monday, May 7
12-2pm
Science Center 469
A description of the talk is below. Lunch will be provided. Please RSVP
to Will Thomas at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Please feel free to circulate this announcement to interested parties.
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Drawing from my 2003 book, The Government Machine, I'll talk about histories of
the computer
from different historiographical perspectives, and ask, more generally, what the
scope of
history of technology can and should be?
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David Kaiser [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Associate Professor
Program in Science, Technology, and Society
and Lecturer, Department of Physics
Building E51-185
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
Tel. 617 452-3173. Fax. 617 258-8118
http://web.mit.edu/dikaiser/www
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