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Ronald R. Kline
Sue G. and Harry E. Bovay, Jr. Professor in History and Ethics of Engineering Emeritus and Graduate School Professor
Morrill Hall, Room 323C
394 Rhodes Hall
rrk1@cornell.edu
607-255-4307
Educational Background
- Ph.D., History of Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- M.A., History of Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- B.S., Electrical Engineering, Kansas State University
Website(s)
Departments/Programs
- American Studies Program
- Science and Technology Studies
Graduate Fields
- History
- Peace Studies and Peace Science
- Science and Technology Studies
Courses
Fall 2020
Publications
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Kline, Ronald. “Mathematical Models of Technological and Social Complexity,” in Technology and Mathematics: Philosophical and Historical Investigations, edited by Sven Ove Hansson (Berlin: Springer International, 2018), pp. 285-304.
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Lieberman, Jennifer L. and Ronald R. Kline, “Dream of an Unfettered Electrical Future: Nikola Tesla, the Electrical Utopian Novel, and an Alternative American Sociotechnical Imaginary,” Configurations, 25, no. 1 (Winter 2017): 1-27.
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The Cybernetics Moment, Or Why We Call Our Age the Information Age. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015.
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"Cybernetics, Automata Studies, and the Dartmouth Conference on Artificial Intelligence," IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, 33, no. 4 (Oct-Dec 2011), pp. 5-16.
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"Engineering Case Studies: Bridging Micro and Macro Ethics," IEEE Technology and Society Magazine, 29, no. 4 (Winter 2010): 16-19.
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"Where are the Cyborgs in Cybernetics?" Social Studies of Science, 33 (June 2009): 331-362.