Sam Franz

Sam Franz is a PhD candidate in the Department of the History and Sociology of Science at the University of Pennsylvania, where he is finishing his dissertation on twentieth century computing education and capitalism in the United States. He holds the Tomash Fellowship in the History of Information Technology, and recently held fellowships from the Association of Computing Machinery and the Consortium for the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine. Sam's current project is a history of computing education in the second half of the twentieth century, focusing on the way that computing education typified new economic emphasis on the production of scientific knowledge. At the MPIWG, he is a member of the Department "Knowledge Systems and Collective Life." Sam is currently the editor for the History of Science Society Newsletter and organizer of the "Materialist Approaches to the History of Knowledge" workshop and working group.