Petri Paju, Ph.D.
Researcher
Dep. of Cultural History,
In Finnish
Publications (English & Finnish) / Contact information, see bottom
Research
Since
spring 2007, I am involved in a new European Science Foundation coordinated research programme
"Inventing Europe". Research on my part is funded by the
News
I am having trouble updating the
publications page. Of the two versions (both behind the one link above), the
one starting with my Phd dissertation has more links
working.
In the summer 2010, several articles of mine were published. One of them was an
international joint article in the journal Comparative
Technology Transfer and Society. Another one told about the Finnish Society
for the History of Technology (for the first time in English). See the
publications page, link above.
See here for History of Nordic Computing 3, HiNC3 conference in
In November 2009, I added an erratum and an index to my information page on the PhD
dissertation.
In September 2009, the HiNC2 conference book History of Nordic Computing 2
is published! See my publications for details and a link.
My recent publication in English is available on the Publications page:
Petri Paju:
"National Projects and International Users:
It is part of a special issue on
international history of computing.
If you are interested in history of
information technology, see SHOT's Special Interest Group Computers,
Information, and Society
or SIGCIS. I am a Vice chair,
SIGCIS also has excellent resource pages and there is more to
come.
Since 2009, I serve as President in the Finnish Society for the History of
Technology. The society publishes a journal called Tekniikan Waiheita, or the Finnish quarterly for the history of
technology. It has articles and news in Finnish, Swedish and sometimes in
English.
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PhD Defence in 2008
I defended my doctoral dissertation succesfully on
24th of May 2008. See my Publications page on that and find a link to an
electronic version (PDF file) of the book. On pages 522--530 you can find an
English abstract of the text.
The History of Nordic Computing 2, HiNC2 conference
was successfully held in sunny
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Old news:
In 2006, I co-organised sessions in two international conferences: with Prof. Jaakko Suominen in Innovation Pressure
conference,
On
international co-operation, see below. I am active in the Scandinavian and
European networks although dissertation writing takes the majority of my
working time.
Early in year 2005, Springer published the
proceedings of the
Very Old News
See the photos from the 2003 Scandinavian
conference in
history of computing...
Since 1999, I am a Ph.D. candidate in
National
co-operation
Since the
start of year 2002, I am a researcher in research project "Information
Technology in
I was a
member of The Finnish Post-Graduate School in Science and Technology Studies,
or TITEKO in Finnish, in 2002--2008.
European,
and Scandinavian co-operation
Additionally,
I participate in the European Science Foundation-sponsored network “Tensions of Europe: Technology in the Making of 20th Century Europe”.
The IT-subtheme of Tensions of Europe had a first meeting in
P. Paju: "A
Failure Revisited: The First Computer Construction Project and the Establishing
of a
An important Scandinavian meeting was: The
First Conference on History of Nordic Computing. I was also a member in the Program Committee to this
event.
By the way, now there are also pictures on
the page above! See also the photos I took there. Well, they are not the best of pictures, but you
might get some impression of what was going on...
Petri Paju
Mailing address:
Department of Cultural History,
20014
Phone:
work +358 2 333 5712
Email: petpaju (
at ) utu.fi