Dissertation Research: "The State Machine: Politics, Ideology and Computation in Chile, 1964-1973"

这个科学和技术论文改进奖，“国家机器：政治，意识形态和计算在智利，1964年至1973年”调查如何社会，经济和政治进程塑造了计算机技术在发展中国家的采用，以及这些技术如何促进国家的进步，现代化或社会主义意识形态。 NSF的资金将支持两次前往智利的研究之旅，访问各政府机构的档案馆、采访参与者的家庭和办公室、工程专业协会、大学图书馆、SONDA和智利国家图书馆。第二次访问将专门用于IBM智利的控股。该项目建立了现代拉丁美洲历史和技术史的学科之间的重要桥梁，该领域传统上专注于美国和欧洲，忽视了发展中国家。 此外，该项目的跨学科性质将计算机科学，电气工程，政治科学和商业历史的主题结合起来。 它承诺通过记录美国计算机公司在拉丁美洲的国际扩张以及信息技术在其他文化背景下的创造性和创新性使用来丰富我们对计算机历史的理解。迄今为止，该项目的成果已协助智利政府向中学生讲授科学和技术史的一项举措。 预计这种工作关系将继续下去。 技术史是拉丁美洲的一个新兴领域，通过与世界其他地区的学者进行对话和合作而进一步发展。 与智利学术界成员的合作是该项目的重要组成部分，因为它促进了技术研究方法的转让，并使PI和Co-PI能够将发展中国家的担忧纳入教学和出版物中。 从这个项目的研究将导致不仅在论文，而且在西班牙语和英语发表的学术文章，以及在美国和拉丁美洲的演示文稿。

This Science and Technology Dissertation Improvement Award, "The State Machine: Politics, Ideology, and Computation in Chile, 1964-1973" investigates how social, economic, and political processes shaped the adoption of computer technology in the developing world and how these technologies furthered state ideologies of progress, modernity, or socialism. NSF funds will support two research trips to Chile to the archives of various government agencies, homes and offices of interview participants, engineering professional societies, university libraries, SONDA, and the Chilean National Library. The second trip will be devoted to holdings of IBM Chile. This project builds an important bridge between the disciplines of modern Latin American history and the history of technology, a field that has traditionally focused on the U.S. and Europe and overlooked the developing world. Moreover, the interdisciplinary nature of the project unites themes from computer science, electrical engineering, political science, and business history. It promises to enrich our understanding of computer history by documenting the international expansion of U.S. computer companies into Latin America and the creative and innovative uses of information technology in other cultural contexts. To date, results from this project have assisted a Chilean government initiative to teach the history of science and technology to secondary school students. This working relationship is expected to continue. The history of technology is a nascent field in Latin America, furthered by conversations and collaborations with scholars in other parts of the world. Collaborative work with members of the Chilean academic community constitutes a vital part of this project as it facilitates the transfer of methods for studying technology and enables the PI and Co-PI to incorporate developing world concerns in both teaching and publications. Research from this project will result not only in a dissertation, but also in scholarly articles published in Spanish and English, as well as presentations in both the United States and Latin America.