Thomas Misa

@tjmisa8

Historian of technology and culture. President 2019-20 . Keen on new ideas for MIT Press + ACM Books

San Juan Islands, WA
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    Nov 28

    Looking forward to launching "Dominance of the Digital (1990-2016)" at in Lisbon. Leonardo to the Internet (2004) concluded with global culture; (2011) with systemic risk in energy, info, shipping.

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    18 hours ago

    The Maintainers is excited to announce that the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation will be supporting some of its activities. Our project will focus on connecting scholarly research and practical applications. Please read more here:

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    Dec 2

    Here's the thing about the History Major--the number could be shrinking but that does not minimize the impact of history education (even a single class) across the curriculum. The world doesn't need more historians, it needs more non-historians with historical literacy.

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  4. Dec 1

    (3) Flatirons Lectures (with great takes on data, infrastructures, women, standards, innovation, analog computing, and more) are being edited into a book by Bill Aspray

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  5. Dec 1

    (2) See YouTube lectures --> Bowker , , Greenstein , Kline , Yates , Alberts , Light AND on Dec 5

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  6. Dec 1

    (1) Honored to join 2018 Flatirons Lectures on History of Computing, Information, and Society at with luminaries Geoffrey Bowker, Shane Greenstein, Ron Kline, JoAnne Yates, Gerard Alberts, Jen Light, Greg Downey: talks on YouTube (see next)

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  7. Dec 1

    Professor says she's terminating Michigan State as her employer after it ignored her harassment complaints

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  8. Nov 29

    As an economist, is less worried about Trump than his colleagues in the history department via

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  9. Nov 29

    Delving into Osiris on "Science and Capitalism: Entangled Histories" . Splendid historiographic essay by Hal Cook (_Matters of Exchange_) that tests material + idealistic strains within echo of

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    Nov 28

    I've written a lot recently (see: my book). This was the hardest thing to write, and perhaps the most important. Please read it, share it, and stand with me.

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  11. Nov 26

    Two whopper waves in 2016 hit car with POV video at 1:08 and 1:16

    Heavy weather today in Salish Sea. But see this "huge wave" hitting ferry in 2016
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  12. Nov 26

    Heavy weather today in Salish Sea. But see this "huge wave" hitting ferry in 2016

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    running 30 min. behind schedule due to inclement weather. Delays the 240p departure from & the 415p from . Track actual departures & est. arrival times on
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    Nov 20

    It's been a rough couple of months for the computing community. R.I.P. George, you'll be missed.

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  14. Nov 20

    Dead whale with 13 pounds of plastic in its stomach — 115 plastic cups, four plastic bottles, 25 plastic bags, 2 flip-flops, a nylon sack and more

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  15. Nov 17

    ⚡️ A Twitter Moment assembling the threads on “US military's role in transistor development”

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  16. Nov 17

    See companion (view from in STL) at

    (1) My musings on and now from STL is companion to What SHOT activities, themes, sessions relate to HOS? See inc tours Missouri Botanical Garden + St Louis architecture inc
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  17. Nov 17

    (5) + at : ... "Controlling Information on/with Paper"; Self-Determination + Collective Action in African American Expert Communities; Materializing Sight: Psychology + Technologies of Vision; Cost of Engineering to Society: Risk + Failure

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  18. Nov 17

    (4) + at : ..."Tech Advance as Generator of Sci Progress?"; Skills + Science in early Indus Rev; Cyborg Politics in Cold War; Modeling Human Mind in US Cybernetics + AI; science-technology gateways in DNA, Sequoia fossils, South African citrus ...

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  19. Nov 17

    (3) + at : SESSIONS with HOS resonances... Environmental Humanities roundtable; Nuclear Europeans (hot topic ?); grad student Flashtalks (like ); African Infrastructure + Local Knowledge; Industrial Design + Semiotics in Computing

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  20. Nov 17

    (3) + at : SIGs inc Prometheans on engineering education with breakfast + half-day Sunday workshop (); with lunch + *10th* annual ; EDITH + WITH did 2-hr lightning Sun session. See

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