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David
Mindell, Ph.D.
Francis and David Dibner Associate Professor of the
History of Engineering and Manufacturing; Associate
Professor of Engineering Systems, MIT
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David
Mindell, Frances and David Dibner Associate Professor of
the History of Engineering and Manufacturing (STS), MacVicar
Fellow, Associate Professor of Engineering Systems
Professor
Mindell received his B.S. (Electrical Engineering, 1988)
and his B.A. (Literature, 1988) from Yale University and
his Ph.D. from MIT (History of Technology, 1996). He was
a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellow and a fellow
at the Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology.
Professor
Mindell is an adjunct researcher at the Institute for Exploration
in Mystic, CT, and a visiting scientist at the Deep Submergence
Laboratory of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
His research interests include technology policy (historical
and current), the history of automation in the military,
the history of electronics and computing, and deep-sea archaeology.
Professor
Mindell heads MIT's "DeepArch" research group
in Deep Sea archaeology. He is the author of War, Technology
and Experience Aboard the USS Monitor (2000), and Between
Human and Machine: Feedback, Control, and Computing before
Cybernetics (2002). He is currently developing acoustic
navigation and profiling technologies for high precision
robotic mapping of underwater sites. He is also working
on a book on the history of systems engineering, guidance,
and computing the Apollo program in the 1960s.
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