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  • Eden Medina's book Cybernetic Revolutionaries: Technology and Politics in Allende's Chile has been released by MIT Press (2011). You can order the book from Amazon.com. The book documents the history of Project Cybersyn (or Proyecto Synco in Spanish).
  • Professor Medina was named a 2012 Fulbright Senior Specialist in the area of Engineering Education. She will be helping to design a social informatics curriculum for the Computer Science Department at the University of Chile beginning March 2012.
  • Professor Medina was awarded a 2011 Outstanding Junior Faculty Award from Indiana University, Bloomington. The award recognizes "the achievements of junior faculty who have devoted considerable time to the teaching and service missions of the University as well as developing a nationally recognized research program" and who "show promise of achieving great distinction as scholars or artists."

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Eden Medina is an Assistant Professor of Informatics and an Adjunct Assistant Professor of History at Indiana University, Bloomington. Her research bridges the history of technology and the history of Latin America and asks how studies of technology can enrich our understanding of broader historical processes. Her most recent work uses computer history in Chile to study the connection between political innovation and technological innovation. Medina received her Ph.D. in 2005 from MIT in the History and Social Study of Science and Technology. She also holds a degree in Electrical Engineering and a Certificate in Women’s Studies from Princeton University.

 

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