I’m pleased to announce that Dr Jane Gregory has been appointed as Visiting Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Communication and Systems. Jane will be associated with SIRG.
Jane has a distinguished record in the field of science and technology studies (STS), and was most recently a member of the STS department at University College London.
I’ve had a paper accepted for a panel organised by Tim Boon, Chief Curator of the UK Science Museum, for the 3 Societies Conference in Philadelphia in July (www.hssonline.org/Meeting/3_Society.html).
The paper is ‘Joe Trenaman’s Investigation of BBC Listeners’ Understanding of Science’ and is based on a talk I gave at SIRG a couple of months ago.
Allan
Have a look at http://www.springer.com/engineering/robotics/book/978-3-642-25208-2 for details of the book I recently co-edited with Chris Dillon, erstwhile of this parish
Chris
I’ve been invited to give a keynote at http://www.ndes2012.org/ and also to contribute an introductory article to a special issue of Automatisierungstechnik http://www.oldenbourg-link.com/loi/auto … a typical German Festschrift issue to commemorate 100 years from the birth of Winfried Oppelt – someone I wrote about recently in Kybernetes http://oro.open.ac.uk/21350/.
The March meeting of SIRG will be on Wednesday 28 March at 2.00 p.m. in the David Gorham Library, Venables Building (room N1015). All welcome.
Elizabeth Bruton (Leeds University) will give a presentation based on her research. Elizabeth has provided the following abstract.
In contrast to the standard historical narrative of wireless history, this presentation explores the institutional support for, and shaping of, wireless communications in Britain in the late nineteenth and early twentieth-century. Using three case studies – the Post Office, the Institution of Electrical Engineers, and the Admiralty – the presentation looks at these institutions’ differing influences on the technologies and regulations of wireless communications during this formative period in its history. Finally the presentation examines how these innovations laid the foundation for the later successes of wireless communications and broadcast radio.