Interdisciplinary Research Group 1 Publications

Brock, David. (2011). The Uncertain Future of Moore’s Law - The Rise of 3-D Transistors and What it Means for Technology in the 21st Century. Science Progress, 1-5.

Brock, David. (forthcoming). Alternate Materialities of Microcircuitry. IEEE Annals of the History of Computing.

Brock, David. (in preparation). "James Von Ehr." Oral History Interview.

Brock, David. (in preparation). "Nadrian Seeman." Oral history interview.

Brock, David. (in preparation). "Thomas Everhart." Oral history interview.

Brock, David., & Lécuyer, Christophe. (under review). Silicon gate MOS technology – the mainstay of microfabrication in the semiconductor industry since the 1970s. Technology and Culture.

Brock, David, & Choi, Hyungsub. (in preparation). Semiconductor Technology Roadmapping: Origins, Functions, and Exemplary Status.

Choi, Hyungsub. (2008). Maddin, Robert Oral History Interview. Philadelphia, PA: Chemical Heritage Foundation.

Choi, Hyungsub. (2008). Setting an Agenda for the Social Studies of Nanotechnology [white paper] Symposium on the Social Studies of Nanotechnology. Wharton School.

Choi, Hyungsub. (2015). Emerging opportunities: nanoelectronics and engineering research in a South Korean university. History and Technology, 1-20. doi: 10.1080/07341512.2015.1008961

Choi, Hyungsub, Kaplan, Sarah, Mody, Cyrus, Roberts, Jody. (2007). Setting an Agenda for the Social Studies of Nanotechnology. Chemical Heritage Foundation Gore Innovation Case Studies Program / William and Phyllis Mack Center for Technological Innovation, Philadelphia: Wharton School. https://issuu.com/chemheritage/docs/nanosymposiumreport2007

Choi, Hyungsub, & Mody, Cyrus C. M. (2009). The Long History of Molecular Electronics: Microelectronics Origins of Nanotechnology. Social Studies of Science, 39(1), 11-50.

Choi, Hyungsub, & Otani, Takushi. (2012). Failure to Launch: Tarui Yasuo, the Quadrupole Transistor, and the Meanings of the IC in Postwar Japan. IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, 34(1), 48-59. doi: 10.1109/MAHC.2011.86

Choi, Hyungsub, & Shields, Brittany. (2015). A Place for Materials Science: Laboratory Buildings and Interdisciplinary Research at the University of Pennsylvania. Minerva, 53(1), 21-42. doi: 10.1007/s11024-015-9265-6

Choi, Hyungsub. (in preparation). Solid State Electronics. In H. Slotten (Ed.), The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Scientific, Medical, and Technological History. New York: Oxford University Press.

Eardley-Pryor, & McCray, P. (in preparation). Regulating Innovation via Analogy: The Case of nanotechnology.

Eardley-Pryor, R. (in preparation). From Promise to Peril to Policy: An Environmental History of U.S. Nanotechnology Policy, 1992-2005.

Eisler, Matthew N. (2010). Nanotechnology in Manufacturing. In D. H. Guston (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Nanoscience and Society (pp. 548-551). London: Sage.

Eisler, Matthew N. (2010). Department of Energy (DOE). In D. H. Guston (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Nanoscience and Society (pp. 153-154). London: Sage.

Eisler, Matthew N. (2010). Occupational Safety and Health Enforcement. In D. H. Guston (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Nanoscience and Society (pp. 610-612). London: Sage.

Eisler, Matthew N. (2010). Science Policy. In D. H. Guston (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Nanoscience and Society (pp. 702-704). London: Sage.

Eisler, Matthew N. (2010). Self-Assembly. In D. H. Guston (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Nanoscience and Society (pp. 709-710). London: Sage.

Eisler, Matthew N. (2010). Spintronics. In D. H. Guston (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Nanoscience and Society (pp. 735-736). London: Sage.

Eisler, Matthew N. (2011). Energy Innovation at Nanoscale: Case Study of an Emergent Industry. Science Progress, 1-6.

Eisler, Matthew N. (2012). Science that Pays for Itself: Nanotechnology and the Discourse of Science Policy Reform. In B. H. Harthorn & J. Mohr (Eds.), The Social Life of Nanotechnology (pp. 19-36). New York: Routledge.

Eisler, Matthew N. (2012). Perspective: Where Nano Came From. In S. H. Priest (Ed.), Nanotechnology and the Public: Risk Perception and Risk Communication (pp. 9-32). Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press.

Eisler, Matthew N. (2013). "The Ennobling Unity of Science and Technology": Materials Sciences and Engineering, the Department of Energy, and the Nanotechnology Enigma. Minerva. doi: 10.1007/s11024-013-9224-z

Eisler, Matthew N. (forthcoming). Overpotential: Fuel Cells, Futurism, and the Making of a Power Panacea Piscataway, NJ: Rutgers University Press.

Eisler, M. N. (under review). Boundaries of Science Policy Communication: Nanotechnology and the Discourse of Revolutionary Applied Science. Minerva.

Howe, Cymene, Lockrem, Jessica, Appel, Hannah, Hackett, Edward, Boyer, Dominic, Hall, Randal, Schneider-Mayerson, Matthew, Pope, Albert, Gupta, Akhil, Rodwell, Elizabeth, Ballestero, Andrea, Durbin, Trevor, el-Dahdah, Fares, Long, Elizabeth, & Mody, Cyrus. (2015). Paradoxical Infrastructures: Ruins, Retrofit, and Risk. Science, Technology & Human Values, 41(3), 547-565. doi: 10.1177/0162243915620017

Kaiser, David, & McCray, Patrick (Eds.). (2016). Groovy Science: Knowledge, Innovation, and American Counterculture. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Kaplan, Sarah, Milde, Jonathan, & Cowan, Ruth. (2016). Symbiont Practices in Boundary Spanning: Bridging the Cognitive and Political Divides in Interdisciplinary  Research. Academy of Management Journal. doi: 10.5465/amj.2015.0809

Kaplan, Sarah., Milde, Jonathan, & Cowan, Ruth. (under review). Interdisciplinarity in practice.

Kelly, Kevin, & Mody, Cyrus. (2015). The booms and busts of molecular electronics. Spectrum, IEEE, 52(10), 52-60. doi: 10.1109/MSPEC.2015.7274196

Kelly, Kevin., & Mody, Cyrus. (submitted). Molecular Electronics: Catching up with Its Promise? IEEE Spectrum.

Lécuyer, Christophe, & Choi, Hyungsub. (forthcoming). How Did Semiconductor Firms Manage Technological Uncertainty? La Revue d'Histoire Moderne at Contemporaine.

McCray, Patrick. (2014). The Technologists' Siren Song. The Chronicle Review.

McCray, Patrick. (2014). How Astronomers Digitized The Sky. Technology and Culture, 55(4), 908-944. doi: 10.1353/tech.2014.0102

McCray, Patrick. (forthcoming). Gravity and Geese. Leonardo.

McCray, Patrick, Riley, Donna, & Cech, Erin. (forthcoming). Girt: Yearning, Personhood, and the Ontologies of American Engineering Education. In S. Fifield & W. Letts (Eds.), STEM of Desire. Dordrecht: Sense Publishers.

McCray, W. Patrick. (2005). Will Small Be Beautiful? Making Policies for Our Nanotech Future. History and Technology, 21(2), 177-203.

McCray, W. Patrick. (2007). MBE deserves a place in the history books. Nature Nanotechnology, 2(5), 259-261.

McCray, W. Patrick. (2008). It’s Just Like That, Except Different. The Power of Analogy In Describing Nanotechnology. Science Progress.

McCray, W. Patrick. (2009). From lab to iPod: A Story of Discovery and Commercialization in the Post-Cold War Era. Technology and Culture, 50(1), 58-81.

McCray, W. Patrick (2009). How Spintronics Went from the Lab to the iPod. Nature Nanotechnology, 4(1), 1-3.

McCray, W. Patrick. (2010). Unintended Consequences: What Ten Years of the National Nanotechnology Initiative Can Teach Us About Federal R&D.  Retrieved from http://www.scienceprogress.org/2010/03/unintended-consequences/

McCray, W. Patrick. (2012). From L-5 to X-Prize. In P. J. Westwick & W. Deverell (Eds.), Blue Sky Metropolis: Aerospace and Southern California (pp. 171-193). Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.

McCray, W. Patrick. (2012). California Dreamin': Visioneering the Technological Future. In V. Janssen (Ed.), Minds and Matters: Technology in California and the West (pp. 347-378). Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.

McCray, W. Patrick. (2012). When Space Travel and Nanotechnology Met at the Fountains of Paradise. In B. H. Harthorn & J. W. Mohr (Eds.), The Social Life of Nanotechnology (pp. 37-51). New York: Routledge.

McCray, W. Patrick. (2012). "A pioneer in space and on Earth," editorial.  Retrieved from http://www.cnn.com/2012/06/10/opinion/mccray-elon-musk/index.html

McCray, W. Patrick. (2012, November 26). "We May Not Have Flying Cars Yet, But Visioneers are Inventing a New Future," opinion piece. Forbes.com.

McCray, W. Patrick. (2013). The Visioneers: How a Group of Elite Scientists Pursued Space Colonies, Nanotechnologies, and a Limitless Future, Histories of Our Technological Future: How Space Colonies, Nanotechnology, and Transhumanism Challenged the Idea of Limits. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

McCray, W. Patrick, Mody, Cyrus C. M., & Roberts, Jody. (2007). Letter to the Editor Regarding Nanoethics The New Atlantis (Vol. 17).

McCray, W. Patrick. (in preparation). Re-Wiring Art. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

McCray, W. Patrick. (in preparation). Work, Skill and Technology. In D. Walkowitz (Ed.), A Cultural History of Work in the Modern Age (Vol. 6). London: Bloomsbury Press.

McCray, W. P. (in preparation). Timothy Leary's Transhumanist SMI2LE. In D. Kaiser (Ed.), Groovy Science: The Counter-Cultures and Scientific Life, 1955-1975.

Mody, Cyrus. (2005). MacDiarmid, Alan G. Oral History Interview. Philadelphia, PA: Chemical Heritage Foundation.

Mody, Cyrus. (2005). Smith, Henry I. Oral History Interview. Philadelphia, PA: Chemical Heritage Foundation.

Mody, Cyrus. (2006). Corporations, Universities, and Instrumental Communities: Commercializing Probe Microscopy, 1981–1996. Technology and Culture, 47(1), 38-40.

Mody, Cyrus. (2006). Nanotechnology and the Modern University. Practicing Anthropology, 47(1), 56-80.

Mody, Cyrus. (2006). Heeger, Alan J. Oral History Interview. Philadelphia, PA: Chemical Heritage Foundation.

Mody, Cyrus. (2006). Williams, R. Stanley Oral History Interview. Philadelphia, PA: Chemical Heritage Foundation.

Mody, Cyrus. (2007). Some Thoughts on Why History Matters in Understanding the Social Issues of Nanotechnology and Other Converging Technologies. Nanoethics.

Mody, Cyrus. (2007). Hansma, Paul K. Oral History Interview. Chemical Heritage Foundation: Chemical Heritage Foundation.

Mody, Cyrus. (2007). Murday, James S. Oral History Interview. Philadelphia, PA: Chemical Heritage Foundation.

Mody, Cyrus. (2008). The Larger World of Nano. Physics Today, 61(10), 38-44.

Mody, Cyrus. (2008). How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, the Nuclear Reactor, the Computer, Ham Radio, and Recombinant DNA. Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences, 38(3), 451-461.

Mody, Cyrus. (2008). Scientific Training and the Creation of Scientific Knowledge. In E. J. Hackett, O. Amsterdamska, M. Lynch & J. Wajcman (Eds.), Handbook of Science and Technology Studies (3rd ed., pp. 377-402). Cambridge Mass.: MIT Press.

Mody, Cyrus. (2009). Instruments of Commerce and Knowledge: Probe Microscopy, 1980-2000. In R. Freeman & D. Goroff (Eds.), Science and Engineering Careers in the United States: An Analysis of Markets and Employment (pp. 291-319). Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Mody, Cyrus. (2009). Introduction [special issue on the history of nanotechnology]. Perspectives on Science, 17(2), 111-122.

Mody, Cyrus. (2010). Institutions as Stepping-Stones: Rick Smalley and the Commercialization of Nanotubes Studies in Materials Innovation, Chemical Heritage Foundation (pp. 1-26).

Mody, Cyrus. (2010). Microscopy, Scanning Tunneling. In D. Guston (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Nanoscience and Society (pp. 424-425). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Mody, Cyrus. (2010). Microscopy, Scanning Probe. In D. H. Guston (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Nanoscience and Society (pp. 423-424). London: Sage.

Mody, Cyrus. (2010). Microscopy, Optical. In D. H. Guston (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Nanoscience and Society (pp. 421-422). London: Sage.

Mody, Cyrus. (2010). Interdisciplinary Research Centers. In D. H. Guston (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Nanoscience and Society (pp. 348-350). London: Sage.

Mody, Cyrus. (2010). International Council on Nanotechnology. In D. H. Guston (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Nanoscience and Society (pp. 351-353). London: Sage.

Mody, Cyrus. (2010). IBM. In D. H. Guston (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Nanoscience and Society (pp. 325-328). London: Sage.

Mody, Cyrus. (2010). Microscopies, Exotic. In D. H. Guston (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Nanoscience and Society (pp. 419-421). London: Sage.

Mody, Cyrus. (2010). Microscopy, Electron (Including TEM and SEM). In D. H. Guston (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Nanoscience and Society (pp. 417-419). London: Sage.

Mody, Cyrus. (2010). Center for Biological and Environmental Nanotechnology. In D. H. Guston (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Nanoscience and Society (pp. 76-78). London: Sage.

Mody, Cyrus. (2010). Chronology of Nanoscience. In D. H. Guston (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Nanoscience and Society (pp. xxxiii-xliii). London: Sage Publications.

Mody, Cyrus. (2010). Microscopy, Atomic Force. In D. H. Guston (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Nanoscience and Society (pp. 416-417). London: Sage Publications.

Mody, Cyrus. (2010). National Institute of Standards and Technology (U.S.). In D. H. Guston (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Nanoscience and Society (pp. 580-581). London: Sage.

Mody, Cyrus. (2010). Integrated Circuits: Material, Social, Spatial. Volume [Journal of the Columbia Laboratory for Architectural Broadcasting], 24(Counterculture).

Mody, Cyrus. (2011). Climbing the Hill: Seeing (and Not Seeing) Epochal Breaks from Multiple Vantage Points. In A. Nordmann, H. Radder & G. Schiemann (Eds.), Science Transformed?: Debating Claims of an Epochal Break (pp. 54-65). Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press.

Mody, Cyrus. (2011). Instrumental Community: Probe Microscopy and the Path to Nanotechnology. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Mody, Cyrus. (2011). Review of Nanoethics: Big Ethical Issues with Small Technology by Dónal P. O’Mathúna. Technology and Culture, 52, 49-51.

Mody, Cyrus. (2012). Conferences and the Emergence of Nanoscience. In B. H. Harthorn & J. Mohr (Eds.), The Social Life of Nanotechnology. London: Routledge.

Mody, Cyrus. (2012). Conversions: Sound and Sight, Military and Civilian. In T. Pinch & K. Bijsterveld (Eds.), Oxford Handbook of Sound Studies (pp. 224-248). New York: Oxford University Press.

Mody, Cyrus. (2013). Limits Be Damned: Review of How a Group of Elite Scientists  Pursued Space Colonies, Nanotechnologies, and a Limitless Future. Nature, 493, 24-25.

Mody, Cyrus. (2013). Santa Barbara, Physics, and the Long 1970s. Physics Today, 66(9), 31-37.

Mody, Cyrus. (2014). University in a Garage: Instrumentation and Innovation from UC Santa Barbara. In M. Kenney, D. Mowery & M. Walshok (Eds.), The Role of the University of California in Building Regional Economies through Knowledge Creation and Transfer (pp. 153-179). Stanford: Stanford University Press.

Mody, Cyrus. (2014). Nanotechnology. In H. Slotten (Ed.), The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Scientific, Medical, and Technological History. New York: Oxford University Press.

Mody, Cyrus. (2014). Essential Tensioins and Representational Strategies. In M. Lynch, S. Woolgar, J. Vertesi & C. Coopmans (Eds.), Representation in Scientific Practices Revisited (pp. 223-248). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Mody, Cyrus. (2015). Responsible Innovation at the Dawn of the Post-Industrial Society, Washington, DC.

Mody, Cyrus. (forthcoming). The Long Arm of Moore's Law: Microelectronics and American Science. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Mody, Cyrus. (forthcoming). Discussion Forum on Scientific Practice. Science Education.

Mody, Cyrus. (2016). Responsible Innovation: The 1970s, Today, and the Implications for Equitable Growth. Paper presented at the Report for the Washington Center for Equitable Growth., Washington, DC.

Mody, Cyrus. (2015). What Kind of Thing Is Moore's Law? IEEE Spectrum (online forum).

Mody, Cyrus. (2016). Professional Science. In B. Lightman (Ed.), Blackwell Companion to the History of Science (pp. 164-178). Malden, MA: Blackwell.

Mody, Cyrus. (forthcoming). Fabricating an Organizational Field for Research: US Academic Microfabrication Facilities in the 1970s and 1980s. In T. Heinze & R. Münch (Eds.), Intellectual and Organizational Innovation in Science: Historical and Sociological Perspectives. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

Mody, Cyrus. (2016). An Electro-Historical Focus with Real Interdisciplinary Appeal: Interdisciplinarity at Vietnam-Era Stanford. In S. Frickel, B. Prainsack & M. Albert (Eds.), Investigating Interdisciplinary Research: Theory and Practice across Disciplines. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press.

Mody, Cyrus. (2016). Santa Barbara Physicists in the Vietnam Era. In D. Kasier & W. P. McCray (Eds.), Groovy Science: Knowledge, Innovation, and American Counterculture (pp. 70-106). Chicago: University of Chiago Press.

Mody, Cyrus. (forthcoming). Moore's Law. In A. Shew & J. C. Pitt (Eds.), Routledge Companion to the Philosophy of Technology. London: Routledge.

Mody, Cyrus. (under review). "Burnt By the Sun: Jack Kilby, TI, and the '70s Solar Boom".

Mody, Cyrus. (under review). Exemplary Cases and Accounting for Research. In C. Newfield & D. Boudreaux (Eds.), Can Rich Countries Still Innovate? Towards a New Model of International Innovation.

Mody, Cyrus. (under review). Review of Gravity’s Ghost: Scientific Discovery in the Twenty-First Century, by Harry Collins. Contemporary Sociology.

Mody, Cyrus. (under review). Review of Makers of the Microchip: A Documentary History of Fairchild Semiconductor by Christophe Lécuyer and David C. Brock Isis.

Mody, Cyrus. (under review). Review of Science-Mart: Privatizing American Science by Philip Mirowski Journal of American History.

Mody, Cyrus. (Under Review). What Do Scientists and Engineers Do All Day? On the Structure of Scientific Normalcy,". In A. Bokulich & W. Devlin (Eds.), Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions: 50 Years On: Springer.

Mody, Cyrus. (submitted). Academic Centers and/as Industrial Consortia: US Microelectronics Research 1976-2016. Management & Organizational History.

Mody, Cyrus, & Choi, Hyungsub. (2013). From Material Science to Nanotechnology: Institutions, Communities, and Disciplines at Cornell University, 1960-2000. Historical Studies in Natural Sciences, 43(2), 121-161.

Mody, Cyrus, & Lynch, Michael. (2010). Test Objects and Other Epistemic Things: A History of a Nanoscale Object British Journal for the History of Science 43(3), 423-458.

Mody, Cyrus, & McCray, W. Patrick. (2009). Big Whig History and Nano Narratives: Effective Innovation Policy Needs the Historical Dimension.  Retrieved from http://www.scienceprogress.org/2009/04/big-whig-history-and-nano-narratives/

Mody, Cyrus, & Nelson, Andrew J. (2013). ‘A Towering Virtue of Necessity’: Computer Music at Vietnam-Era Stanford. Osiris, 28, 254-277.

Mody, Cyrus. (2015). Scientific Practice and Science Education. Science Education, 99(6), 1026-1032. doi: 10.1002/sce.21190

Mody, Cyrus. (2014). STARS: Scanning Probe Microscopy [Scanning Our Past]. Proceedings of the IEEE, 102(7), 1107-1112. doi: 10.1109/JPROC.2014.2326811

Mody, Cyrus. (2014). Probe Microscopy: A Transdisciplinary and Transatlantic Instrumental Community. Bunsen-Magazin, 16(5), 214-219.

Shah, Sonali K., & Mody, Cyrus. (2014). Creating a Context for Entrepreneurship: Examining How Users' Technological and Organizational Innovations Set the Stage for Entrepreneurial Activity. In B. Frischmann, M. Madison & K. Strandburg (Eds.), Commons in the Cultural Environment (pp. 313-339). New York: Oxford University Press.

Shah, Sonali. K., & Mody, Cyrus. (under review). How Do Users Develop and Diffuse Their Innovations?  Resources, new Social Structures, and Scaffolding. Organization Science.

Shah, Sonali. K., & Mody, Cyrus. (under review). Innovation, Social Structure, and the Creation of New Industries. Academy of Management Journal.

Slaton, Amy, Riley, Donna, & Cech, Erin. (forthcoming). Grit: Yearning, Personhood, and the Ontologies of American Engineering Education. In S. Fifield & W. Letts (Eds.), STEM of Desire. Dordrecht, NL: Sense Publishers.

Slaton, Amy. (Under Review). Nano Workforce.

Slaton, Amy, Mary F. (Under Review). Promise Her Anything: Education for Work in the U.S. ‘Nanoeconomy’. International Journal of Engineering.

Tyrrell, Brian. (2015). "Bred for the Race: Thoroughbred Breeding and Racial Science, 1900-1940". Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences, 45(4), 549-576.

Tyrrell, Brian. (in preparation). “From Theoretical Biology to ‘Where’s the Biology?’ A History of DNA.”

Tyrrell, Brian. (in preparation). “Molecular Beam Epitaxy.” in Tools in Materials Research, C. Mody & J. Martin (Eds.).