William Aspray

Rudy Professor of Informatics

Indiana University, Bloomington

Professor Aspray received a BA (philosophy, mathematics) and MA (mathematics) from Wesleyan in 1973, and a PhD (history of science) from Wisconsin in 1980. He joined IU in 2002 and became Rudy Professor in 2004.

Professor Aspray conducts historical, political, and social studies of information technology. He has written on such wide-ranging topics as information technology worker policy, globalization and offshoring of software and services, under-representation of women and minorities, Internet policy and history, the emergence and evolution of computer science as an academic discipline, and health informatics. He is the co-author of a best-selling history of the computer.

Professor Aspray has previously taught at Harvard, Penn, Williams, and several other universities. He was executive director of Computing Research Association and has held several other senior management positions in research institutions. He is actively involved in national and international computing professional societies and in the National Center for Women and Information Technology.

Office: (812) 856-1087; Fax: (812) 856-4764; E-mail: waspray@indiana.edu
WWW: http://www.informatics.indiana.edu/people/profiles.asp?u=waspray