Recent Publications:
The Cold War and American Science: The Military-Industrial-Academic Complex at MIT and Stanford (Columbia University Press, 1993), paperback, 1994 Boss Kettering: Wizard of General Motors (Columbia University Press, 1983), paperback, 1984 “Blue Collar Science: Bringing the Transistor to Life in the Lehigh Valley,” Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences, 71-113. “Regional Disadvantage: Replicating Silicon Valley in New York’s Capital Region,” Technology and Culture (April 2001): 236-264. (with Scott Knowles) “‘Industrial Versailles’: Eero Saarinen’s Corporate Campuses for GM, IBM, and AT&T,” Isis (March, 2001):1-33. (with Dong-Won Kim) “Winning Markets or Winning Nobel Prizes: KAIST and the Challenges of Late Industrialization,” Osiris (1998): 154-185. (with Robert Kargon) “The Obsolescent University? Reconfiguring Higher Education for Regional Advantage,” in Karen R. Merrill (ed.) The Modern Worlds of Business and Industry, (Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies, Brepolis Press, 1998): 121-140. (with Robert Kargon) “Selling Silicon Valley: Frederick Terman’s Model for Regional Advantage,” Business History Review (Winter 1996): 435-472. Current Research: Manufacturing a Nation: The Places and People That Build America (with Scott Knowles) and Blue Collar Science: Putting the D Back in R&D (with John Heitmann). With luck, one will actually turn into a book one of these days! |