[SIGCIS-Members] Joel Mokyr: Nobel Prize in Economics

[Allan Olley]

Paul,

I searched Tech and Culture on JSTOR for Joel Mokyr and found one entry for the annual meetings (at least some of which are chronicled in T&C).

At the 2002 meeting in Toronto (which is actually the 1st SHOT annual meeting I "attended" although I only went to a few sessions (maybe 1 definitely went to the History of Canadian History of Technology), I was a new Master's student at UofT and volunteered helping manning the tables.

I only find Mokyr as a commentator and contributor to panels the relevant session would seem to be this one that you (Paul) chaired and was on computing:

Works in Progress I
Chair: Paul Ceruzzi, National Air and Space Museum
Commentator: Joel Mokyr, Northwestern University
Papers: "Mainframes, Micros, and Masculinity: The Paradox of Women in
Computing in the United States and the United Kingdom," Janet Abbate,
University of Maryland; "Typology of a Topos: Mapping the Utopian Dis
course Surrounding the Internet," Merav Katz, Bar-Ilan University; "A
Concise History of the Wheelchair under the British State," Brian Woods,
University of York; "Virtual Immobility," Ulrich Wengenroth, Technische
Universitat Munchen

He also contributed to the opening plenary where I see at least one other familiar name from SIGCIS:

Opening Plenary: Rethinking Technology in the Aftermath of September 11th
Organizers: Miriam Levin, Case Western Reserve University, and Rosalind
Williams, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Moderator: Thomas Hughes, University of Pennsylvania
Participants: Michael Adas, Rutgers University; David Hounshell, Carnegie
Mellon University; Miriam R. Levin; Joel Mokyr, Northwestern University;
Hameed Toor, Quaid-i-Azam University, Pakistan; Rosalind Williams

All this is from:
The Toronto Meeting, 17-20 October 2002
<https://www.jstor.org/journal/techcult>
<https://www.jstor.org/journal/techcult>Technology and Culture<https://www.jstor.org/journal/techcult>
, Vol. 44, No. 1 (Jan., 2003), pp. 130-141 (12 pages)

Hope this is of interest, looking at the meeting information reminded me of various people and things.

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Subject: [SIGCIS-Members] Joel Mokyr: Nobel Prize in Economics

You probably saw the announcement that Joel Mokyr, of Northwestern Univ., won the Nobel Prize in economics.  In the citation, the Nobel Ccommittee recognized his study of the history of technology to support his views. In the early days of SHOT, I recall Mokyr attending at least one, perhaps several, sessions at the annual meetings, where he gave papers or chaired a session. I don't recall details, but the fact that I attended his sessions implies that he was discussing issues related to the history of computing. Note that "computing" in those days meant mainframes and punched cards. Perhaps some of you can help me out if you have an archive of previous SHOT meetings.
Best,
Paul Ceruzzi
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