William Aspray

Noted IT historian and professor of computer sciences, 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. Aspray wrote 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.

His work focused 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.