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Computerizing Natural History Collections (2013)

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Natural history Collections Computers and computing Science and technology, relationships Computer users Biology Technology 20th century United States Museum of Vertebrate Zoology (University of California, Berkeley)

Computers are ubiquitous in the life sciences and are associated with many of the practical and conceptual changes that characterize biology's twentieth-century transformation. Yet comparatively little has been written about how scientists use computers. Despite this relative lack of scholarly attention, the claim that computers revolutionized the life sciences by making the impossible possible is widespread, and relatively unchallenged. How did the introduction of computers into research programs shape scientific practice? The Museum of Vertebrate Zoology (MVZ) at the University of California, Berkeley provides a tractable way into this under-examined question because it is possible to follow the computerization of data in the context of long-term research programs.

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Description On how computers transformed the study of the life sciences in the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology at the University of California, Berkeley.

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Authors & Contributors
Sunderland, Mary Evelyn
Patterson, Zabet
Ginevra Sanvitale
Julia Gül Erdogan
Stephanie Aleen Dick
R. A. Nelsen
Journals
IEEE Annals of the History of Computing
Technikgeschichte: Beiträge zur Geschichte der Technik und Industrie
Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte
Technology and Culture
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences
Publishers
Iowa State University
The MIT Press
Springer
Ohio University Press
MIT Press
Harvard University
Concepts
Computers and computing
Technology
Computer users
Biology
Science and technology, relationships
Natural history
People
Hodgkin, Alan Lloyd
Huxley, Andrew Fielding
Miller, Alden Holmes
Grinnell, Joseph
Time Periods
20th century
20th century, late
Places
United States
Germany
Great Britain
Australia
California (U.S.)
Institutions
Museum of Vertebrate Zoology (University of California, Berkeley)
University of California, Berkeley
United States Navy
National Institute of Health (U.S.)
Bell Telephone Laboratories
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