Publication News & Notes

Chicago Law Review

February 20, 2012     #publications

In the most recent edition of the Chicago Law Review, two former University of Pennsylvania colleagues and I published a long (20,000 word) review/response to Timothy Wu’s recent book, The Master Switch. At the heart of the review is... <more>

Gender Codes

September 09, 2010     #publications

thecomputerboys.com

A new anthology exploring the history and sociology of women in computing that developed out of the Charles Babbage Institute conference is now available from Wiley. My contribution is a chapter called “Making Programming... <more>

The Computer Boys Take Over!

August 21, 2010     #publications

The “computer revolution” of the mid-20th century is widely considered to be one of the defining moments of contemporary history. And yet very little is known about its principal revolutionaries, the computer programmers, systems... <more>

Resistance is Futile

May 10, 2007     #publications

Nathan Ensmenger, “Resistance is Futile? Reluctant and Selective Users of the Internet” in P. Ceruzzi and W. Aspray, The Commercialization of the Internet and Its Impact on American Business (MIT Press, forthcoming)

Download the pdf of the draft version... <more>

Software as Labor Process

May 10, 2002     #publications

thecomputerboys.com

In April 2000, the International Conference on the History of Computing hosted a special conference on the history of software. The goal was to set an agenda for future scholarship in the history of information processing.... <more>