Bernadette Longo is an Associate Professor in the Department of Humanities at New Jersey Institute of Technology. She is also the author of the books Edmund Berkeley and the Social Responsibility of Computer Professionals (2015), Spurious Coin: Science, Management, and a History of Technical Writing (2000), and the IEEE Guide to Writing in the Engineering and Technical Fields (2017). Among her other publications, she is co-editor of Critical Power Tools: Technical Communication and Cultural Studies (2006) and Transnational Research in Technical Communication: Realities and Reflections (forthcoming). Dr. Longo is a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and serves on the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) History Committee.

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 From Hot War to Cold Peace

Chapter 3 Who Will Control Atomic Power

Chapter 4 Sharing Information (or Not) for Computer Development

Chapter 5 Defining Relationships among Computers, People, and Information

Chapter 6 Technology Development Strains Standardization of Human Communication

Chapter 7 Defining Terms and Establishing Priorities

Chapter 8 Establishing the Field of Computer Science