Past & Present: Mapping the Cold War Terrain of Science & Technology & the New World of Post-Cold War Science & Technology , Santa Fe, New Mexico, September

Hounshell教授正在召集一个由自然科学家、决策者、历史学家、社会和行为科学家参加的研讨会，以确定冷战对科学和技术影响的各个方面。在了解了冷战如何塑造了科学技术的发展和制度之后，与会者将转向为后冷战时代制定现实的科学技术政策。该讲习班将在拉斯阿拉莫斯附近的圣菲研究所举行，该研究所是第一颗原子弹的研发地点，也是冷战时期的主要机构之一。讲习班将于1994年9月19日至20日举行。冷战改变了美国和苏联的科学技术进程。对知识的追求成为确保国家安全的一种手段。政府资助科技的政策和生产新知识的方法发生了巨大的变化。国家安全机构如雨后春笋般涌现，并产生了操纵知识的新机构。随着苏联和东欧集团的解体，许多制度、结构、思维模式、习惯、文化和心态的存在理由也随之瓦解。随着我们进入后冷战时期的标普政策，全面了解这些模式的发展是至关重要的，以便最有效地用适应新形势的政策来取代它们。本次研讨会将为这些新政策的制定提供背景。

Professor Hounshell is convening a workshop of natural scientists, policy makers, historians, social and behavioral scientists to establish the dimensions of the impact of the Cold War on science and technology. With an understanding of how the Cold War shaped the development and institutions of science and technology, the participants will then turn to formulation of realistic science and technology policies for the post-Cold War era. This workshop will be held at the Santa Fe Institute near to Las Alamos, the site where the first atomic bomb was developed and one of the premier Cold War institutions. The workshop will be held from September 19-20, 1994. The Cold War altered the course of science and technology (S&T) in both the United States and the Soviet Union. The pursuit of knowledge became an instrument for ensuring national security. Government policies for funding S&T shifted dramatically as did the methods of producing new knowledge. National security establishments burgeoned and brought into being new institutions for the manipulation of knowledge. With the collapse of the Soviet Union and the Eastern Bloc, the rationale for the existence of many of the institutions, structures, patterns of thought, habits, culture and mentalities collapsed as well. As we move to a post-Cold War S&T policy, a full understanding of the development of these patterns is essential in order most effectively to replace them with policies to meet the new situation. This workshop will provide the background for the construction of these new policies.