I am Curator for History of Science & Technology Collections and Film & Media Collections in the Stanford University Libraries. You can find me in the Humanities Research Group in Green Library, the Department known for the Lane Reading Room and a wonderful group of colleagues.

Here is my curriculum vitae.

You can find more information about the History of Science & Technology Collections and Film & Media Collections on the Stanford University Libraries' website.

Since 2000, I have headed a project funded by the Stanford Humanities Laboratory: "How They Got Game: The History and Culture of Interactive Simulations and Videogames." Among the results of this project are courses such as History of Computer Game Design or The Consumer as Creator in Contemporary Media. Since 2004, I have been honored to co-direct SHL with Profs. Jeffrey Schnapp (French & Italian) and Michael Shanks (Classics).

Since the beginning of 2008, I have been leading as co-Principal Investigator the Stanford group in a new project funded by the U.S. Library of Congress called "Preserving Virtual Worlds." We are working with the University of Illinois, University of Maryland, Rochester Institute of Technology, Linden Lab, the Internet Archive, and others on this exciting project.

Student papers from this course (nearly 200 from the first four years) are now available through a project website . Accomplishments of the project thus far include two significant museum exhibits that took place in 2003 and 2004, featuring installations from the worlds of computer games, art and military simulation; the Machinima Archive , a digital archival repository for this new game-based medium; the 73 Easting archives at Stanford University, which documents the most important military simulation of the 1990s; and numerous panels, conferences, and publications. Currently, the project is in the second year of a three-year project with HPS Simulations to develop historical conflict simulations using HPS' new Point of Attack 2 game, funded by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research.

For some twenty years, I was editor of the "Current Bibliography in the History of Technology" of the Society for the History of Technology. This bibliography is one of the components of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine database available through the Libraries' database page.