- Atsushi Akera
Atsushi Akera is an assistant
professor and anhistorian of technology in the Science and Technology Department atRensselaer Polytechnic Institute .Background
In June of 1986, Akera received his BA at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, and STS (Science, Technology, and Society). He received his MA (August 1994) and his Ph.D (August 1998) at theUniversity of Pennsylvania in the field of History and Sociology of Science.During the summer of 1994, Akera was an instructor in the Dept. of Electrical Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania. From 1994 up until 1999, he taught at the College of General Studies at the same university. Afterwards, he became a lecturer in the Department of Science and Technology Studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. In 2002, Akera became assistant professor of the STS department at Rensselaer.
Akera's primary research is oriented on the social and institutional history of the
Cold War . He is also interested in the cultural construction of technological images, as well as the history of consumerism.Published works
*1996 - Atsushi, Akera and Marcus, Mitchell. "Exploring the architecture of an early machine: the historical relevance of the ENIAC machine architecture". IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 18:1, pp. 17-24.
*2001 - Akera, Atsushi. "Voluntarism and the fruits of collaboration: The IBM user's group Share". Technology and Culture 42/4: pp. 710-736.
*2002 - Akera, Atsushi. "IBM's Early Adaptation to Cold War Marketabouts: Cuthbert Hurd and His Applied Science Field Men". Business History Review 76: pp. 767-802 (aboutCuthbert Hurd )
*2002 - Akera, Atsushi and Nebeker, Frederik (eds.). "From 0 to 1: An Authoritative History of Computing". Oxford University Press. (ISBN 0-19-514025-7).
*2006 - Akera, Atsushi. "Calculating a Natural World: Scientists, Engineers, and Computers during the Rise of U.S. Cold War Research". (ISBN 0-262-01231-6).External links
* [http://www.rpi.edu/~akeraa/Akera_biography.html Science and Technology Studies: Atsushi Akera]
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