LAINE NOONEY GIVES A TALK ENTITLED, "Prehistories of Personal
Computing." PLEASE JOIN US IN ROOM 410 ON APRIL 10TH, FROM 2 - 3 P.M.
FOR A TALK BY LAINE NOONEY.
TITLE: PREHISTORIES OF PERSONAL COMPUTING
SUMMARY: While we may think of "personal computing" as a self-evident
technological development, this talk offers an abbreviated history of
20th century computing focused on providing context for how the
technological reality, economic form, and cultural category of
personal computing emerged. Covering developments in data processing
and interaction, miniaturization, concepts of computer ownership, and
profit motives, this talk analyzes historical shifts of the 1960s and
70s to understand how they contributed to personal computing's
conditions of possibility.
BIO: Laine Nooney is an Assistant Professor of Media and Information
Industries in the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication at
New York University, where she specializes in the history of American
personal computing and computer gaming. She’s been featured in
popular venues such as The Atlantic, The Internet History Podcast, The
Next Billion Seconds, NPR, and Gizmodo, and has spoken about the past,
present, and future of the game industry at forums like Indiecade,
GDC, and the WEF. She is a founding editor of ROMchip, the first open
access, scholarly journal of video game history, and organizes the
leading annual conference for historians of computing as part of her
work with the Special Interest Group in Computing, Information, and
Society (SIGCIS).
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