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FULL TIME FACULTY: WILLIAM ASPRAY
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William Aspray

Bill and Lewis Suit Professor of Information Technologies
512-471-3877
Room: UTA 5.432
http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/%7Ebill/

Degrees:
Dr. Aspray holds a B.A. in philosophy and mathematics and M.A. in mathematics from Wesleyan University, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in history of science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Bio:
Dr. Aspray has served in senior management positions with the Charles Babbage Institute, Computing Research Association, and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. He has also held faculty positions at Harvard, Indiana, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, Rutgers, and Williams. He has written or edited some 20 books and 70 articles in the areas of history, policy, and social study of information and information technologies and related topics. Current work is on the history of information in everyday life in America, the informatics of diabetes, Internet and new media studies, and the history of privacy in America.

Year Semester Course
2010 Fall INF 386 History of Information and Society
2010 Spring INF 391D.9 Introduction to Doctoral Research and Theory II
2010 Spring INF 397 Research in Information Studies
2009 Fall INF 386 History of Information and Society
2009 Spring INF 382C Understanding and Serving Users
2008 Fall INF 386 History of Information and Society