Thesis ID: CBB839611150

Computer Science on Campus: Technology, (Inter)Disciplinarity, and the Transformation of the American University (2022)

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This dissertation explores how computer science became a discipline in the United States and how this process of discipline formation and institutionalization shaped the content and culture of computer science. Like other fields of knowledge, computer science in the United States emerged out of established disciplines; however, unlike many other scientific or engineering fields, computer science developed simultaneously out of multiple other disciplines and multiple different interdisciplinary arrangements. This dissertation explores how each of these disciplines in specific university contexts contributed to the construction of the character of computer science and the definition of the identity of the computer scientist and how different interdisciplinary relationships provided opportunities for the development of distinct visions of computer science. Drawing on archival research from university and department records as well as the papers of university administrators, computer scientists, mathematicians, electrical engineers, and others, this work reveals how the processes of discipline formation shaped everything from the intellectual foundation and internal culture of computer science to the modern American university’s institutional structure and approach to interdisciplinary knowledge-making.

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Authors & Contributors
Tattersdill, Will
Rubio-Varas, Maria del Mar
Christine Virginia Wood
Meyer, Jan-Henrik
Markku Lehtonen
Woodward, James F.
Concepts
Universities and colleges
Interdisciplinary approach to knowledge
Discipline formation
Engineering
Technology and society
Psychology
Time Periods
20th century, late
21st century
20th century
Places
United States
France
Europe
United Kingdom
North America
Germany
Institutions
Harvey Mudd College
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT
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