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Full-time Faculty
David Alan Grier
Associate Professor of International Science and Technology Policy and International Affairs
1957 E Street, NW Suite 403
Washington, D.C. 20052
Phone: (202) 994-7380
Fax: (202) 994-1639
E-mail: grier@gwu.edu
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 currently writes the column "The Known World" for IEEE Computer and served for four years as 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. His next, Too Soon to Tell, will be published in early 2009 by John Wiley.
Courses Taught:
IAff 190 Industrialization and Globalization
IAff 241 Int'l Science & Technology Policy Cornerstone
IAff 258 Science Policy
IAff 308 Advanced Quantitative Analysis
Last update: 1/7/2010