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Publications

 

Cybernetic Socialism (book manuscript in preparation).

"Big Blue in the Bottomless Pit: The Early Years of IBM Chile," IEEE Annals of the History of Computing (forthcoming, December 2008).

"Secret Plan Cybersyn," in Conspire. Edited by Stephen Kovats and Thoman Munz. Frankfurt, Germany: Revolver Press, 2008.

"Designing Freedom, Regulating a Nation: Socialist Cybernetics in Allende's Chile," Journal of Latin American Studies 38 (2006): 571-606. Winner of the 2007 IEEE Life Member's Prize in Electrical History.

"Ballet Slippers," in Evocative Objects: Things We Think With. Edited by Sherry Turkle. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 2007.

"Computers," in Encyclopedia of U.S. Labor and Working Class History. Edited by Eric Arnesen. New York: Routledge, 2007.

"Computer Memory, Collective Memory: Recovering History Through Chilean Computing," IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 27 (2005): 102-104.

"Democratic Socialism, Cybernetic Socialism," in Making Things Public: Atmospheres of Democracy. Edited by Bruno Latour, Peter Weibel. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2005.

"Beyond the Ballot Box: Computer Science Education and Social Responsibility," Inroads - The SIGCSE Bulletin 36 (2004): 7-10.

Eden Medina and David Mindell, "Engineering and Computer Science in Action: The Structure of Engineering Revolutions," in Using History to Teach Computer Science and Related Disciplines, Edited by Atsushi Akera and William Aspray. Washington, D.C.: Computer Research Associaton, 2004.

"Freedom in Code: The Birth of the Chilean Free Software Movement," ReVista Harvard Review of Latin America 3 (2004): 23-24.


Press

"Les médias disparus: Cybersyn, réseau social," Écrans, August 15, 2008.

"IU's Eden Medina earns electrical history award for research on Chile’s technology use," IU News Room, October 31, 2007.

"The Objects of Our Desire: Sherry Turkle Explores People's Deep Ties to Everyday Things," The Washington Post, August 23, 2007.

"Doce científicos revisan la época de Augusto Pinochet," El Mercurio, December 12, 2006.

Cybersyn Documentary, Or_am, July 2006.

"Chile's Switched-on Socialism Pioneered Networking in Early '70s," Indiana University News and Media, October 24, 2005.

On the Media, National Public Radio, September 12, 2003.

"Eden Miller: El proyecto Synco: ¿Utopía cibernetica o treinta anos adelantado a su época?" Sociedad y Conocimiento, December 2003.

"Santiago Dreaming," The Guardian, September 2003.

"Proyecto Synco: El Sueño Cibernético de Allende," The Clinic, July 2003.

 

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