Island Tinkerers: A talk with Prof Honghong Tinn
HSTM Asst. Professor and CBI Affiliated Historian Honghong Tinn will be presenting a talk on her most recent book, Island Tinkerers: Innovation and Transformation in the Making of Taiwan's Computing Industry. In it Tinn discusses the history of how hobbyists and enthusiasts in Taiwan, which included engineers, technologists, computer users, and engineers-turned-entrepreneurs, helped transform the country.
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Honghong Tinn is a historian of information technology and received her Ph.D. in Science & Technology Studies from Cornell University. Her research interests are in the areas of the history of electronic digital computing, Cold War, econometrics, and science, technology, and medicine in East Asia. Her work on these topics has appeared in Technology and Culture, Osiris, IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, and East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal.
She was on the Executive Council of the Society for the History of Technology (2017-2019), chaired the Society's Internationalization Committee (2013-2014) and the International Small Grants Committee (2017-2019), and is an elected member of the nominating committee (2023-2025). She is currently an advisory editor for Engineering Studies and on the editorial board of East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal.