Recent Publications:
“’Time of Troubles’ for the Special Laboratories”, forthcoming in David Kaiser (ed.) MIT: Moments of Decision (MIT Press, 2010). “‘A Different Kind of Beauty’: Scientific and Architectural Style in I.M. Pei’s Mesa Laboratory and Louis Kahn’s Salk Institute” Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences) 38:1 (Spring 2008) 173-221. “Toledo’s Perfect Glass Box” Timeline 25 (April-June 2008) 32-47. “Exporting MIT: Science, Technology and Nation Building in India and MIT”, (with Robert Kargon) Osiris 21(2006) 110-130. “Blue Collar Science: Bringing the Transistor to Life in the Lehigh Valley” Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences 32:1 2001, pp. 71-115. “Regional Disadvantage: Replicating Silicon Valley in New York’s Capital Region” Technology and Culture 42:2 (April 2001) 236-264. “’Industrial Versailles’: Eero Saarinen’s Corporate Campuses for GM, IBM, and AT&T” (with Scott Knowles) Isis 92:1 (March 2001) 1-33. Heart of Glass: Corporate Architecture and Urban Renewal (University of Toledo Press). The Architects of Modern Science (University of Pittsburgh Press) The Cold War and American Science: The Military-Industrial-Academic Complex at MIT and Stanford (Columbia University Press, 1993), paperback, 1994 Boss Kettering: Wizard of General Motors (Columbia University Press, 1983), paperback, 1984 “Blue Collar Science: Bringing the Transistor to Life in the Lehigh Valley,” Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences, 71-113. “Regional Disadvantage: Replicating Silicon Valley in New York’s Capital Region,” Technology and Culture (April 2001): 236-264. (with Scott Knowles) “‘Industrial Versailles’: Eero Saarinen’s Corporate Campuses for GM, IBM, and AT&T,” Isis (March, 2001):1-33. (with Dong-Won Kim) “Winning Markets or Winning Nobel Prizes: KAIST and the Challenges of Late Industrialization,” Osiris (1998): 154-185. (with Robert Kargon) “The Obsolescent University? Reconfiguring Higher Education for Regional Advantage,” in Karen R. Merrill (ed.) The Modern Worlds of Business and Industry, (Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies, Brepolis Press, 1998): 121-140. (with Robert Kargon) “Selling Silicon Valley: Frederick Terman’s Model for Regional Advantage,” Business History Review (Winter 1996): 435-472. Current Research: Manufacturing a Nation: The Places and People That Build America (with Scott Knowles) and Blue Collar Science: Putting the D Back in R&D (with John Heitmann). With luck, one will actually turn into a book one of these days! | 
