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History of science and technology, espeically meteorology and information infrastructures.

• Affiliation(s)

  • School of Information
  • Director, Science, Technology & Society Program

• Fields of Study

  • The history, politics, and cultural aspects of computers
  • Information infrastructures, and global climate science

• About

  Selected Publications:
  
  A Vast Machine: Computer Models, Climate Data, and the Politics of Global Warming (MIT Press, 2010).

  Clark Miller and Paul N. Edwards, eds., Changing the Atmosphere: Expert Knowledge and Environmental Governance (MIT Press, 2001)

  Peter J. Taylor, Saul E. Halfon, and Paul N. Edwards, eds., Changing Life: Genomes, Ecologies, Bodies, Commodities (University of Minnesota Press, 1997)

  The Closed World: Computers and the Politics of Discourse in Cold War America (MIT Press, 1996)

  Teaching

  • History of Computers and the Internet
  http://pne.people.si.umich.edu/PDF/379syll.pdf 

  • Systems, Networks, and Webs: History & Theory of Infrastructure
  http://pne.people.si.umich.edu/PDF/541syll.pdf 

  • Knowledge/Power/Practice in Science, Technology & Medicine
  http://pne.people.si.umich.edu/PDF/719syll.pdf

• Education

  • Ph.D. University of California at Santa Cruz, 1988