William Aspray

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William Aspray (* 1952 ) is an American historian of science who is particularly concerned with the history of computer science . He is a professor of information technology at the University of Texas at Austin .

Aspray graduated from Wesleyan University with a bachelor's degree in mathematics and philosophy and philosophy of science from the University of Wisconsin – Madison with a master's degree and PhD in 1980 on John von Neumann , Alan Turing and the origins of computers. He previously studied with Michael S. Mahoney and Thomas S. Kuhn at Princeton University and Kenneth O. May at the University of Toronto . After completing his doctorate, he taught mathematics for two years at Williams College and one year of history of science at Harvard University before serving six years as assistant director of the Charles Babbage Institute for the History of Information Processing at the University of Minnesota . In 1989 he became head of the IEEE History Center, where he expanded the oral history program and established connections to England, Germany (Deutsches Museum) and Japan, and in 1996 became Executive Director of the Computing Research Association (CRA). He then went to Indiana University as a professor and was then professor at the University of Texas.

Aspray deals with the history of the computer, especially with John von Neumann, and with the impact of the computer and the Internet on society.

Among other things, he published many articles in the Annals of the History of Computing.

Fonts

  • John von Neumann and the origins of modern computing, MIT Press 1990
  • with Martin Campbell-Kelly, Nathan Ensmenger, Jeffrey R. Yost: Computer. A history of the information machine. Boulder, Westview Press, 1996, 3rd edition, 2014
  • Food in the internet age, Springer 2013
  • Engineers as executives: an international perspective, IEEE Press 1995
  • Editor with Paul E. Ceruzzi: The Internet and American Business, MIT Press 2008
  • Published in: Computing before computers, Iowa State University Press 1990
  • Editor with Megan Winget: Digital media: technological and social challenges of the interactive world, Scarecrow Press 2011
  • Editor with Andrew Goldstein: Facets: new perspectives on the history of semiconductors, IEEE 1997
  • Editor with Barbara Hayes: Everyday information: the evolution of information seeking in America, MIT Press 2011
  • Editor with Barbara Hayes: Health Informatics: a Patient-Centered Approach to Diabetes, MIT Press 2010
  • Published by: Chasing Moore's law: information technology policy in the United States, Raleigh, North Carolina, SciTechPub 2004
  • Editor with Philip Kitcher: History and Philosophy of Modern Mathematics, University of Minnesota Press 1988
  • Editor with Philip Doty: Privacy in America: interdisciplinary perspectives, Scarecrow Press 2011
  • Editor with Arthur Burks: Papers of John von Neumann on computing and computer theory, MIT Press 1987
  • Editor with Joanne Cohoon: Women and Information Technology: Research on Underrepresentation, MIT Press 2006

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Aspray: From Mathematical Constructivity to Computer Science: Alan Turing, John Von Neumann, and the Origins of Computer Science in Mathematical Logic 1980