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Program in Science,
Technology, and Society
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David A Mindell
Professor Mindell received his B.S. (Electrical Engineering, 1988)
and his B.A. (Literature, 1988) from Yale University and his Ph.D.
from MIT (History of Technology, 1996). He was a National Science
Foundation Graduate Fellow and a fellow at the Dibner Institute for
the History of Science and Technology. Before coming to MIT he
worked as a staff engineer in the Deep Submergence Laboratory of
the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, where he is currently a
visiting investigator. Professor Mindell is an adjunct researcher
at the Institute for Exploration in Mystic, CT, and a visiting
scientist at the Deep Submergence Laboratory of the Woods Hole
Oceanographic Institution.
His research interests include technology policy (historical and
current), the history of automation in the military, the history of
electronics and computing, and deep-sea archaeology. Professor
Mindell heads MIT's "DeepArch" research group in Deep Sea
archaeology. He is the author of War, Technology and Experience
Aboard the USS Monitor (2000), and Between Human and Machine:
Feedback, Control, and Computing before Cybernetics (2002).
Activities:
Deep Arch
David Mindell continued his research on technology, archaeology,
and the deep sea with a grant from the National Oceanographic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). http://web.mit.edu/deeparch/
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