William Aspray
Biographic Data
| ID | 982527 |
|---|---|
| NAME | William Aspray |
| GIVEN NAMES | William |
| FAMILY NAME | Aspray |
| SIGNATURE | ASPRAY W |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Texas at Austin |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
“My Word Is My Bond”: A Primer for Information Scholars on Accountability and Misinformation
This article surveys several academic literatures that discuss accountability with the intention of introducing these literatures to information scholars who may want to bring them into their arsenal as they address the role of misinformation in the world. I begin with a definition of accountability and several closely related correlates and discuss what key Western philosophers have had to say about the concept. I discuss accountability in profe…
Making and Debunking Myths about the Old West: A Case Study of Misinformation for Information Scholars
This article, which draws from an extensive historical, literary, and cultural study of the Old West, identifies the main creators and debunkers of myths about the West in order to provide a case study to information scholars about misinformation. Myth creators include novels, dime westerns, magazines, films, television shows, painting, sculpture, photography, music, and the tourist industry. Myth debunkers include academic historians, profession…
Information History: Searching for Identity / The History of Information Science and Other Traditional Information Domains: Models for Future Research
This article provides guides to scholars of libraries, archives, museums, conservation, and information science about how to enhance the richness of the work on the history of their field. It does so by drawing on several literatures as models of scholarship for them: the history of information technology, social informatics, and business and economic history of technology. The article discusses the boundaries of information history and identifie…
Rethinking the Call for a US National Data Center in the 1960s: Privacy, Social Science Research, and Data Fragmentation Viewed from the Perspective of Contemporary Archival Theory
This article reconsiders from current archival perspectives the debate surrounding the failed proposal for a national data center in the 1960s. Whereas most accounts of the 1960s effort to construct a national data center in the United States focus on privacy issues, this account focuses more broadly on contextualizing the concerns of the social science community regarding the fragmented state of data archives and on explaining why that moment in…
For Fun and Profit: A History of the Free and Open Source Software Revolution
Information science at CU Boulder
opinion Free Access Share on Information science at CU Boulder Authors: Casey Fiesler View Profile , William Aspray View Profile , Lecia Barker View Profile , Jed Brubaker View Profile , Laura Devendorf View Profile , Brian Keegan View Profile , Leysia Palen View Profile , Michael Paul View Profile , Danielle Szafir View Profile , Ricarose Roque View Profile , Rick Robinson View Profile , Amy Voida View Profile , Stephen Voida View Profile Author…
Women and Underrepresented Minorities in Computing: A Historical and Social Study
A Perspective on the Larger World: Newspaper Coverage of National and International Events in Three Small US Cities, 1870–1920
This article explores one of the principal channels through which residents of a small US city became knowledgeable about the world beyond their community— the newspaper. This exploratory study examines and compares newspaper coverage in three small cities in the United States—one from the South (Galveston, Texas), one from the Western Expansion (Boise, Idaho), and one from the more established East Coast (Fitchburg, Massachusetts). This study ex…
The Many Histories of Information
This article discusses the historiography of information. It argues that information history is represented by (at least) six well-defined subdisciplines (archival history, book and publishing history, communication history, computing history, information science history, and library history), each in agreement about its own methods and core literature, but which it shares with none of the other five. The article identifies books that could be re…
On Cars and Food: Reflections on Sources for the Historical Study of Everyday Information Behavior
IT Offshoring and American Labor
This article presents an overview of the offshoring of information technology (IT), especially software and IT-enabled services, and its impacts on American labor. Topics include the history of offshoring politics in the United States, differences in attitudes between politicians and economists in their attitudes about the severity of the offshoring "problem," national differences in types of offshoring providers, technological and other drivers …
Diversifying computing
The Computing Research Association (CRA) is an educational non-profit organization headquartered in Washington, DC. Its mission is to promote research and advanced education in computing. It members include computing research-oriented academic departments and government and industrial laboratories in the United States and Canada. Many of the major computing professional societies are affiliates of CRA and support CRA's activities. CRA supports pr…
Engineers as Executives: An International Perspective
The history of computing within the history of information technology
Telecommunications, radiodiffusion et informatique sont trois domaines qui sont traites separement. Depuis la fin des annees 1980, une telle delimitation est devenue tellement mince en techniques de l'information qu'il est desormais utile de leur reserver une historiographie commune
Inside the Business Enterprise: Historical Perspectives on the Use of Information ed. by Peter Temin
TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Book Reviews 707 but also to expose the hidden operations of gender in the writing of history. It is this feminist task that will call forth a “new history” of American labor. Ardis Cameron Dr. Cameron is associate professor of American and New England studies at the University of Southern Maine. Inside the Business Enterprise: Historical Perspectives on the Use ofInforma tion. Edited by Peter Temin. Chicago: University of…
Inside the Business Enterprise: Historical Perspectives on the Use of Information
John von Neumann and the Origins of Modern Computing
Science, Computers, and People: From the Tree of Mathematics . Stanislaw Ulam , Mark C. Reynolds , Gian-Carlo Rota
Zermelo's Axiom of Choice: Its Origins, Development, and Influence . Gregory H. Moore
History of Binary and Other Nondecimal Numeration
Alan Turing: The Enigma. Andrew Hodges
Literature and Institutions in the History of Computing
Early British Computers: The Story of Vintage Computers and the People Who Built Them . Simon Lavington Project Whirlwind: The History of a Pioneer Computer . Kent C. Redmond , Thomas M. Smith
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Early British Computers: The Story of Vintage Computers and the People Who Built Them . Simon Lavington Project Whirlwind: The History of a Pioneer Computer . Kent C. Redmond , Thomas M. Smith
Zermelo's Axiom of Choice: Its Origins, Development, and Influence . Gregory H. Moore
History of Binary and Other Nondecimal Numeration
Alan Turing: The Enigma. Andrew Hodges
Literature and Institutions in the History of Computing
Science, Computers, and People: From the Tree of Mathematics . Stanislaw Ulam , Mark C. Reynolds , Gian-Carlo Rota
John von Neumann and the Origins of Modern Computing
Inside the Business Enterprise: Historical Perspectives on the Use of Information ed. by Peter Temin
TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Book Reviews 707 but also to expose the hidden operations of gender in the writing of history. It is this feminist task that will call forth a “new history” of American labor. Ardis Cameron Dr. Cameron is associate professor of American and New England studies at the University of Southern Maine. Inside the Business Enterprise: Historical Perspectives on the Use ofInforma tion. Edited by Peter Temin. Chicago: University of…
Inside the Business Enterprise: Historical Perspectives on the Use of Information
The history of computing within the history of information technology
Telecommunications, radiodiffusion et informatique sont trois domaines qui sont traites separement. Depuis la fin des annees 1980, une telle delimitation est devenue tellement mince en techniques de l'information qu'il est desormais utile de leur reserver une historiographie commune
Engineers as Executives: An International Perspective
Diversifying computing
The Computing Research Association (CRA) is an educational non-profit organization headquartered in Washington, DC. Its mission is to promote research and advanced education in computing. It members include computing research-oriented academic departments and government and industrial laboratories in the United States and Canada. Many of the major computing professional societies are affiliates of CRA and support CRA's activities. CRA supports pr…
IT Offshoring and American Labor
This article presents an overview of the offshoring of information technology (IT), especially software and IT-enabled services, and its impacts on American labor. Topics include the history of offshoring politics in the United States, differences in attitudes between politicians and economists in their attitudes about the severity of the offshoring "problem," national differences in types of offshoring providers, technological and other drivers …
On Cars and Food: Reflections on Sources for the Historical Study of Everyday Information Behavior
A Perspective on the Larger World: Newspaper Coverage of National and International Events in Three Small US Cities, 1870–1920
This article explores one of the principal channels through which residents of a small US city became knowledgeable about the world beyond their community— the newspaper. This exploratory study examines and compares newspaper coverage in three small cities in the United States—one from the South (Galveston, Texas), one from the Western Expansion (Boise, Idaho), and one from the more established East Coast (Fitchburg, Massachusetts). This study ex…
The Many Histories of Information
This article discusses the historiography of information. It argues that information history is represented by (at least) six well-defined subdisciplines (archival history, book and publishing history, communication history, computing history, information science history, and library history), each in agreement about its own methods and core literature, but which it shares with none of the other five. The article identifies books that could be re…
Women and Underrepresented Minorities in Computing: A Historical and Social Study
For Fun and Profit: A History of the Free and Open Source Software Revolution
Information science at CU Boulder
opinion Free Access Share on Information science at CU Boulder Authors: Casey Fiesler View Profile , William Aspray View Profile , Lecia Barker View Profile , Jed Brubaker View Profile , Laura Devendorf View Profile , Brian Keegan View Profile , Leysia Palen View Profile , Michael Paul View Profile , Danielle Szafir View Profile , Ricarose Roque View Profile , Rick Robinson View Profile , Amy Voida View Profile , Stephen Voida View Profile Author…
Rethinking the Call for a US National Data Center in the 1960s: Privacy, Social Science Research, and Data Fragmentation Viewed from the Perspective of Contemporary Archival Theory
This article reconsiders from current archival perspectives the debate surrounding the failed proposal for a national data center in the 1960s. Whereas most accounts of the 1960s effort to construct a national data center in the United States focus on privacy issues, this account focuses more broadly on contextualizing the concerns of the social science community regarding the fragmented state of data archives and on explaining why that moment in…
Information History: Searching for Identity / The History of Information Science and Other Traditional Information Domains: Models for Future Research
This article provides guides to scholars of libraries, archives, museums, conservation, and information science about how to enhance the richness of the work on the history of their field. It does so by drawing on several literatures as models of scholarship for them: the history of information technology, social informatics, and business and economic history of technology. The article discusses the boundaries of information history and identifie…
Making and Debunking Myths about the Old West: A Case Study of Misinformation for Information Scholars
This article, which draws from an extensive historical, literary, and cultural study of the Old West, identifies the main creators and debunkers of myths about the West in order to provide a case study to information scholars about misinformation. Myth creators include novels, dime westerns, magazines, films, television shows, painting, sculpture, photography, music, and the tourist industry. Myth debunkers include academic historians, profession…
“My Word Is My Bond”: A Primer for Information Scholars on Accountability and Misinformation
This article surveys several academic literatures that discuss accountability with the intention of introducing these literatures to information scholars who may want to bring them into their arsenal as they address the role of misinformation in the world. I begin with a definition of accountability and several closely related correlates and discuss what key Western philosophers have had to say about the concept. I discuss accountability in profe…
Computer Science (15 works) · Political science (10 works) · History (9 works) · Engineering (7 works) · Library science (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Business (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Archaeology (5 works) · History of computing (5 works)