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	Aspray, William     Options: All Media Types Journals Proceedings Div Books Whole Books Other Date Reviewed Title Author Publisher Published Date Descending Ascending Date Reviewed     1 - 5 of 12 reviews       Computing and the National Science Foundation, 1950 - 2016: building a foundation for modern computing Freeman P., Adrion W., Aspray W., ACM, New York, NY, 2019. 1270 pp.  Type: Book The National Science Foundation (NSF) is foundational to modern computing, and this organizational history incorporates oral histories and NSF documents to describe how NSF programs began and grew to become the primary funding agency o...... Feb 20 2020     From urban legends to political fact-checking: online scrutiny in America, 1990-2015 Aspray W., Cortada J., Springer International Publishing, New York, NY, 2019. 146 pp.  Type: Book (978-3-030229-51-1) In this fascinating five-chapter book, the authors discuss the history of online scrutiny in the US from 1990 to 2015. They review some basic frameworks of online communication; examine the role of online platforms such as Usenet and t...... Jan 21 2020     Everyday information: the evolution of information seeking in America Aspray W., Hayes B., The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2011. 359 pp.  Type: Book The chapters in this collection of essays cover a wide range of areas, but focus distinctly on the US experience. The book places information gathering at the heart of human experience, and describes how ordinary people as diverse as a...... Aug 16 2011     Women and information technology: research on underrepresentation Cohoon J., Aspray W., The MIT Press, 2006. 512 pp.  Type: Book (9780262033459) Women are underrepresented in the computing fields. This excellent book examines research into this problem. This is less of a compliment than you might at first think, however....... Nov 20 2006     Was Early Entry a Competitive Advantage? US Universities That Entered Computing in the 1940s Aspray W. IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 22(3): 42-87, 2000.  Type: Article “Was early entry a competitive advantage in academic computing?” is the question asked by Aspray. His base group consists of five universities that initiated computing programs in the 1940s: MIT, Harvard, the Univer...... Jun 1 2000     Display 510152550100 per column
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