Education:
Ph.D., University of Washington
Expertise:
Globalization and international standardization, scientific institutions, history of science
Background:
David Alan Grier received his B.A. in Mathematics from Middlebury College and his Ph.D. in Statistical Computation at the University of Washington in Seattle. He has published extensively on the development of computation and the institutions that support computation in publications ranging from the American Mathematical Monthly to The Washington Post. He has been the Joseph Henry Lecturer at the Washington Philosophical Society. He is currently a member of the IEEE Computer Society Publication Board and the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Annals of the History of Computing (http://www.computer.org/annals/). His most recent book, When Computers Were Human, was published by Princeton University Press in spring 2005.
Courses Taught:
IAff 190 Industrialization and Globalization
IAff 290 Science Policy
IAff 308 Advanced Quantitative Analysis
Last update: 10/24/2007
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