[Sci-tech-public] Fwd: Jon Agar at the HPSWG, May 7

[David Kaiser]

Hello, all,

This talk on Monday (7 May) at Harvard might be especially interesting for STS
folks... come one, come all --

best,
Dave

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Next week, the History of Physical Sciences Working Group presents:

Jon Agar (Visiting Associate Professor of the History of Science)

"What's a computer?"

Monday, May 7
12-2pm
Science Center 469

A description of the talk is below.  Lunch will be provided. Please RSVP
to Will Thomas at thomas at fas.harvard.edu.

Please feel free to circulate this announcement to interested parties.

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Drawing from my 2003 book, The Government Machine, I'll talk about histories of
the computer
from different historiographical perspectives, and ask, more generally, what the
scope of
history of technology can and should be?

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