This page contains papers that I have presented at various conferences over the years, as well as a Power Point presentation here and there. I have provided full-text copies for download.

Papers

“Loosing the Blogs of War: The Advent of Milblogging in the Post-9/11 U.S. Military,” Presented at the Association of Internet Researchers annual conference, Vancouver, B.C., October 17-20, 2007.
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“Upon Peering into the ‘Closed World’ and Finding it Messy: Science, Technology and the Military Reform Movement, 1976-1986,” Presented at the Society for the Social Studies of Science annual conference, Vancouver, B.C., November 1-5, 2006.
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“Chaos, Complexity, and Networks: The Intellectual Foundations of U.S. Military Transformation,” Presented at Science and Technology in Context: An Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Washington, D.C., April 23-25, 2004.
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“At the Crossroads of National Security and Agriculture: Assessing the Threat of Chemical and Biological Warfare Against Crops and Livestock,” Presented at the Heartland Conference, California State University, Stanislaus, June 2000.
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“Aum Shinrikyo and the 1995 Tokyo Subway Attack in Historical Perspective,” Presented at the Phi Alpha Theta History Honor Society Regional Conference, California State University, Sacramento, March 2000.
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Presentations

Presentation slides for “Upon Peering into the ‘Closed World’ and Finding it Messy,” Society for the Social Studies of Science annual conference, Vancouver, B.C., November 1-5, 2006.
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“Info@war.mil: Nonlinear Science, Informatics, and Transformations of U.S. Military Thought in the Post Vietnam Era,” dissertation proposal defense presentation, Department of Science and Technology Studies, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Sage 5203, 21 April 2006. Download

“Info@war.mil: War and Military Affairs in the Information Age,” guest lecture for the course, “Information in History and Society” (Dr. Kate Boyer, instructor), 29 November 2004.
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