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Drawing on rare archival documents, photographs, and oral histories, Thomas J. Misa’s groundbreaking history shows how Minnesota recognized and embraced the coming information age through its leading-edge companies, its workforce, and its prominent institutions. Digital State reveals the inner workings of the birth of the digital age in Minnesota and what we can learn from this era of sustained innovation.
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Introduction: Minnesota Goes High-Tech
1. Philadelphia Story: Wartime Origins of Minnesota Computing
2. St. Paul Startup: Engineering Research Associates Builds a Pioneering Computer
3. Corporate Computing: Univac Creates a High-Tech Minnesota Industry
4. Innovation Machine: Control Data’s Supercomputers, Services, and Social Vision
5. First Computer: Honeywell, Partnerships, and the Politics of Patents
6. Big Blue: Manufacturing and Innovation at IBM Rochester
7. Industrial Dynamics: Minnesota Embraces the Information Economy
8. High-Technology Innovation: Medical Devices and Beyond
Thomas J. Misa is Engineering Research Associates Land Grant Chair of the History of Technology in the Program for History of Science and Technology and professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, as well as director of the Charles Babbage Institute, at the University of Minnesota. He has written or edited nine books, including Gender Codes: Why Women Are Leaving Computing and Leonardo to the Internet: Technology and Culture from the Renaissance to the Present.
