Mon, 22 Feb 2010
Managing your digital persona
Academic careers are based on reputation, and for younger scholars at least part of that reputation is based on your online persona. But online personas are notoriously difficult to manage --- unlike other forms of self-presentation, your online presence is only partially under your control.
On Monday, February 22, I will be speaking at the Graduate Student Center on the topic of managing your digital persona. Free lunch!
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Wed, 05 Aug 2009
Engineering a Professional Identity
This week I will be attending the IEEE Conference on the History of Technical Societies. This is part of a larger celebration of the IEEE's 125th Anniversary. I gave a talk entitled "Engineering a Professional Identity: The Place of Professional Societies in the History of Computing."
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Wed, 24 Jun 2009
Bigfoot!
My friend and fellow former grad student Josh Buhs has a new book out called Bigfoot: The Life and Times of a Legend. So far it has gotten great reviews, and in places books on the history of science are rarely ever covered, including the Washington Post, Mail Tribune, Telegraph, NPR, and New York Times.
Josh and I spent many hours working on our dissertations together, often alone in the office because we both arrived early. His turned out to be an exemplary dissertation, and was later published as The Fire Ant Wars
Nature, Science, and Public Policy in Twentieth-Century America.
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Fri, 05 Jun 2009
Information Technology, Organizations, and Work Processes
This week I will be in Copenhagen to comment on papers for a conference on information technology and work processes. An excellent program of papers on everything from software development practices to the history of computing in the banking industry. The full program can be found here.
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Tue, 04 Sep 2007
Beauty and the Geek
One of our recent graduates is on television! Will was actually a CS major, but he minored in our
No doubt Will will do us all proud in his appearance Beauty and the Geek this fall.
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Mon, 16 Jul 2007
The view from my window
A few years ago, in the middle of a snowstorm, a peacock showed up on our side porch. He has been living in our backyard ever since. When I work outside on my laptop, he displays for me for hours at a time. My kids gave him a first name, but that seemed to familiar for such a formal guy, so now we just call him Mr. Peacock.
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