@misc{bassett_2018, title={From head shops to whole foods: The rise and fall of activist entrepreneurs}, volume={105}, number={1}, journal={Journal of American History (Bloomington, Ind.)}, author={Bassett, R.}, year={2018}, pages={220–221} }
 @article{the birth of an it powerhouse_2016, journal={MIT Technology Review}, year={2016}, month={Sep} }
 @book{the technological indian_2016, journal={Harvard University Press}, year={2016} }
 @article{from technological india to technological indian_2015, journal={Technology and South Asia}, year={2015} }
 @article{bassett_2012, title={Nucleus and Nation: Scientists, International Networks, and Power in India}, volume={103}, ISSN={["0021-1753"]}, DOI={10.1086/667511}, abstractNote={Previous articleNext article No AccessBook ReviewsRobert S. Anderson. Nucleus and Nation: Scientists, International Networks, and Power in India. xxvi + 683 pp., illus., index. Chicago/London: University of Chicago Press, 2010. $60 (cloth).Ross BassettRoss Bassett Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmailPrint SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Isis Volume 103, Number 2June 2012 Publication of the History of Science Society Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/667511 Views: 24Total views on this site © 2012 by The History of Science Society. All rights reserved.PDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.}, number={2}, journal={ISIS}, author={Bassett, Ross}, year={2012}, month={Jun}, pages={424–425} }
 @article{bassett_2009, title={Aligning India in the Cold War Era: Indian Technical Elites, the Indian Institute of Technology at Kanpur, and Computing in India and the United States}, volume={50}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/tech.0.0354}, DOI={10.1353/tech.0.0354}, abstractNote={In July 1963, a chartered DC-7 landed at a military airbase in Kanpur, India, a large but unremarkable city on the Ganges River, in a region often considered backward by Indians. The plane held an International Business Machines (IBM) 1620 computer, commonly used in American universities, which was destined for the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) at Kanpur, an institution supported by a nine-university American consortium. At the institute, a group of young Indian men muscled the machine into place (fig. 1). There to greet the computer was Harry Huskey, one of the foremost figures in U.S. computing. Huskey, who had consulted on the pioneer computer ENIAC, worked with Alan Turing in England, and served as president of the American computing professional society, was a professor of electrical engineering and head of the computer center at the University of California, Berkeley. Shortly after he and two computer experts from Princeton University had the computer up and running, they began an informal course for twenty-five specially selected IIT Kanpur first-year students, who, after completing their normal class work, would stay long into the night programming the computer (fig. 2).1}, number={4}, journal={Technology and Culture}, author={Bassett, Ross}, year={2009}, pages={783–810} }
 @article{bassett_2009, title={Internet alley: High technology in Tysons Corner, 1945-2005}, volume={50}, DOI={10.1353/tech.0.0248}, abstractNote={Reviewed by: Internet Alley: High Technology in Tysons Corner, 1945–2005 Ross Bassett (bio) Internet Alley: High Technology in Tysons Corner, 1945–2005. By Paul E. Ceruzzi. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2008. Pp. xi+242. $30. The success of Silicon Valley as a technology region has encouraged boosters from other areas to claim some special distinction for their area or deliberately try to create an analogous high-tech region. Oregon has the “Silicon Forest,” while New York City has “Silicon Alley,” and so on. These regions or putative regions provide outstanding opportunities for historical analysis and Paul Ceruzzi has picked up the challenge of telling the history of Virginia suburbs lying to the southwest of Washington, D.C., covering both the military-contracting firms located in Tysons Corner and the nearby but originally unrelated computing networking firms located in the area that came to be known as Internet Alley. Ceruzzi’s work combines the history of technology with the history of suburbanization, with his book showing the interplay between the history of the technology companies and the history of real estate and infrastructure development. While one might think that the rise of the national security state after World War II would make it inevitable that defense-related businesses would develop in the vicinity of the Pentagon, Ceruzzi does an excellent job of showing the contingent events that shaped the timing, location, and nature of the firms that appeared in northern Virginia. Geographically most important were the specific decisions siting the Pentagon, the Capital Beltway, and Dulles Airport. Ceruzzi identifies Vannevar Bush as the godfather of Tysons Corner, through his institution of a system of “federalism by contract” wherein a large portion of defense research money went to private organizations. Tysons Corner organizations developed as a way to provide expertise to the Pentagon while still allowing for private-sector salaries. The archetypical Tysons Corner firm had a cryptic name such as BDM, CACI, or PRC, was little-known to outsiders, and produced analyses for the Pentagon but made no hardware. Ceruzzi’s title is in some ways misleading, for only one chapter deals with the cluster of computer-networking firms near Dulles Airport called “Internet Alley.” This cluster was less dependent on the Pentagon, and its location was a function of a variety of factors, such as the Information Processing [End Page 483] Techniques Office of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency location in Rosslyn, as well as MCI’s headquarters in the D.C. area (which served as a base for MCI’s legal battles with AT&T). One wishes that this chapter were longer and more detailed. A major theme of the book, both implicit and explicit, lies in comparisons between the region and Silicon Valley, and one’s attention is drawn most to the differences. While recent scholarship has highlighted the importance of the military in the development of Silicon Valley, it was even more important in Tysons Corner. Silicon Valley developed in such a way that it ultimately lessened its dependence on the military over time. From Ceruzzi’s account, Tysons Corner and Internet Alley appear to have developed far less in the ancillary fields, such as venture capital and other entrepreneurial services, that have enabled Silicon Valley to move from technology to technology. The D.C. area’s technological renewal after the collapse of the dot-com bubble was based largely on the renaissance of the national security state after 9/11. Internet Alley seems aimed largely at a local nonacademic audience. Ceruzzi writes in a conversational style, and some of the detail will be best appreciated by people familiar with the area. A fascinating sub theme is how Maryland and Virginia developed in different ways, with Maryland expanding earlier, and being more often the site of government-controlled labs, while later-developing Virginia became the home of private contractors. Still, Ceruzzi tells his story with reference to a wide range of scholarship on suburban development and military technology. And historians of technology can both learn from his scholarship and emulate a model narrative of the history of technology in a broad context. Ross Bassett Dr. Bassett teaches the history of technology at North Carolina State...}, number={2}, journal={Technology and Culture}, author={Bassett, Ross}, year={2009}, pages={483–484} }
 @article{bassett_2009, title={MIT-Trained Swadeshis: MIT and Indian Nationalism, 1880-1947}, volume={24}, ISSN={["0369-7827"]}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/605976}, DOI={10.1086/605976}, abstractNote={During the colonial period, roughly one hundred degrees were awarded by MIT to Indians. However their importance to India and to the historical understanding of India is disproportionate to their numbers. These men—and they were all men—often from elite families, formed a technological elite in the last days of colonial India. Their careers show a technological nationalism in India—several men came from families associated with Gandhi—and represent an important foreshadowing of the period after independence.}, journal={OSIRIS}, author={Bassett, Ross}, year={2009}, pages={212–230} }
 @article{bassett_2007, title={From counterculture to cyberculture: Stewart brand, the whole earth network, and the rise of digital utopianism}, volume={94}, ISSN={["0021-8723"]}, DOI={10.2307/25095082}, abstractNote={Journal Article From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism. By Fred Turner. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. x, 327 pp. $29.00, ISBN 978-0-226-81741-5.) Get access Ross Knox Bassett Ross Knox Bassett North Carolina State UniversityRaleigh, North Carolina Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 94, Issue 2, September 2007, Pages 629–630, https://doi.org/10.2307/25095082 Published: 01 September 2007}, number={2}, journal={JOURNAL OF AMERICAN HISTORY}, author={Bassett, Ross Knox}, year={2007}, month={Sep}, pages={629–630} }
 @misc{the mysteries of the trade: christophe lécuyer's "making silicon valley"._2007, journal={Technology and Culture}, year={2007} }
 @misc{bassett_2007, title={The mysteries of the trade - Christophe Lecuyer's making Silicon Valley}, volume={48}, ISSN={["0040-165X"]}, DOI={10.1353/tech.2007.0054}, abstractNote={Reviewed by: The Mysteries of the Trade:Christophe Lécuyer’s Making Silicon Valley Ross Bassett (bio) It is a minor scandal that Silicon Valley, the world's preeminent technology region and the subject of a great deal of work by journalists and scholars, has only now received its first book-length treatment by a historian of technology: Christophe Lécuyer's Making Silicon Valley: Innovation and the Growth of High Tech, 1930–1970 (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2005, x+393, $40). One can attribute this delay to a variety of factors: historians' caution at examining still highly active terrain, where changes in the present might dramatically change how the past is interpreted; a Gresham's law phenomenon, where superficial and breathless work by journalists discourages more serious study; and the sheer difficulty of finding the archival sources historians are most comfortable with. Lécuyer's outstanding work puts technology at the center of Silicon Valley and shows the special contributions that academically trained historians of technology can make to understanding this region's development. Lécuyer works to a sensible topical and temporal definition of Silicon Valley: the tube and semiconductor companies on the San Francisco Peninsula between 1930 and 1970. He largely ignores the systems companies, such as the iconic Hewlett-Packard or IBM, as well as aerospace firms. By ending his study in the early 1970s—the formation of Apple serves as the endpoint—Lécuyer avoids the explosion of Silicon Valley firms during the latter 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s. The challenge for Lécuyer is to convince us that he has found in those years the heart of Silicon Valley. He shows how on the San Francisco Peninsula, an area with a small but significant technical infrastructure, radio enthusiasts and microwave engineers developed companies that effectively competed with larger East Coast firms, provided the military with significant quantities of complex tubes, and employed [End Page 401] thousands of technicians and workers. Then, starting with the arrival of William Shockley in 1956, the author chronicles the development of the silicon semiconductor industry, first by Fairchild—formed by defectors from Shockley—then the dozens of firms formed by Fairchild defectors. Lécuyer employs a very light theoretical touch. One finds him more interested in nailing down specifics than in building broad theoretical frameworks. He finds Alfred Marshall's idea of an industrial manufacturing district the most helpful way of looking at Silicon Valley. Although he never cites it, Lécuyer's book could be seen to be an exposition of Marshall's statement: The mysteries of the trade become no mysteries; but are as it were in the air, and children learn many of them unconsciously. Good work is rightly appreciated, inventions and improvements in machinery, in processes and the general organization of the business have their merits promptly discussed: if one man starts a new idea, it is taken up by others and combined with suggestions of their own; and thus it becomes the source of further new ideas.1 Reader's of Lécuyer's work who are familiar with other scholarship on Silicon Valley will be most interested in its relation to AnnaLee Saxenian's highly influential Regional Advantage: Culture and Competition in Silicon Valley and Route 128 (1994). Lécuyer himself is coy here, saying he "partly concurs" (p. 4) with Saxenian's argument about Silicon Valley's character being based on disaggregated firms. While Saxenian's work is long on generalization and short on history, Lécuyer's is just the opposite, but overall Lécuyer tends to confirm Saxenian. Lécuyer accords technology a more central role in his narrative, showing in great detail the distinctive technologies developed in Silicon Valley. In Lécuyer's telling, Silicon Valley is built on the technical virtuosity of people like Charlie Litton, who developed innovative tubes and tube-making equipment, and the eight founders of Fairchild, who developed innovative silicon transistors, the planar process, and the integrated circuit. Lécuyer shows how this knowledge, widely diffused throughout Silicon Valley in a culture of cooperation, then led to a series of further innovations. But his Silicon Valley is never just about technology: he details a number...}, number={2}, journal={TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE}, author={Bassett, Ross}, year={2007}, month={Apr}, pages={401–403} }
 @article{bassett_2004, title={Between human and machine: Feedback, control, and computing before cybernetics.}, volume={109}, ISSN={["0002-8762"]}, DOI={10.1086/530246}, number={1}, journal={AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW}, author={Bassett, R}, year={2004}, month={Feb}, pages={220–220} }
 @article{bassett_2004, title={Microchip: An idea, its genesis, and the revolution it created}, volume={26}, DOI={10.1109/mahc.2004.1278857}, abstractNote={tion units and analog gun directors. Mindell also shows why continuous representations of the world in analog computers fit in MIT’s prewar engineering culture better than digital methods, and he explains the reasons why the NDRC decided not to fund the ENIAC project but enthusiastically supported George Stibitz’s work at Bell Labs on digital relay computers. Between Human and Machine is essential reading for any student of 20th century computing, control, and communications. It sets an agenda for further research into the role of computer modeling and simulation, the interdependence of design and manufacturing, the development of user interfaces and functions of the human operator, and the evolution of computer representations of the world. Combining sharp analysis with a readable and engaging account, this book will interest a range of readers, from undergraduates to accomplished scholars. Slava Gerovitch Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology slava@mit.edu}, number={1}, journal={IEEE Annals of the History of Computing}, author={Bassett, Ross}, year={2004}, pages={73–74} }
 @article{bassett_2004, title={T. F.  Peterson. Nightwork: A History of Hacks and Pranks at MIT. Foreword by, Jane  Pickering. xi + 178 pp., illus. Cambridge, Mass./London: MIT Press in association with the MIT Museum, 2003. $19.95 (paper).}, volume={95}, ISSN={0021-1753 1545-6994}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/432356}, DOI={10.1086/432356}, abstractNote={Previous articleNext article No AccessBook ReviewsT. F. Peterson. Nightwork: A History of Hacks and Pranks at MIT. Foreword by, Jane Pickering. xi + 178 pp., illus. Cambridge, Mass./London: MIT Press in association with the MIT Museum, 2003. $19.95 (paper).Ross BassettRoss Bassett Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmailPrint SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Isis Volume 95, Number 4December 2004 Publication of the History of Science Society Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/432356 Views: 18Total views on this site PDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.}, number={4}, journal={Isis}, publisher={University of Chicago Press}, author={Bassett, Ross}, year={2004}, month={Dec}, pages={749–750} }
 @article{bassett_2003, title={MIT and the rise of entrepreneurial science.}, volume={94}, ISSN={["0021-1753"]}, DOI={10.1086/386488}, abstractNote={Previous articleNext article No AccessBook ReviewHenry Etzkowitz. MIT and the Rise of Entrepreneurial Science. (Studies in Global Competition.) ix+173 pp., tables, index. London/New York: Routledge, 2002. $95 (cloth).Ross Bassett Ross Bassett Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Isis Volume 94, Number 4December 2003 Publication of the History of Science Society Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/386488 Views: 24Total views on this site PDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.}, number={4}, journal={ISIS}, author={Bassett, R}, year={2003}, month={Dec}, pages={768–769} }
 @book{to the digital age research labs, start-up companies, and the rise of mos technology_2002, journal={Johns Hopkins University Press}, year={2002} }
 @book{bassett_2002, title={To the digital age: Research labs, start-up companies, and the rise of MOS technology}, ISBN={0801868092}, publisher={Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press}, author={Bassett, R. K.}, year={2002} }
 @inbook{bassett_2000, place={Amsterdam}, title={When is a Microprocessor Not a Mircroprocessor:  The Industrial Construction of a Semiconductor Innovation}, booktitle={Exposing Electronics}, publisher={Harwood Academic}, author={Bassett, Ross}, editor={Finn, BarneyEditor}, year={2000} }
 @article{bassett_1999, title={Electronic genie: The tangled history of silicon}, volume={21}, ISSN={["1058-6180"]}, DOI={10.1109/mahc.1999.801538}, abstractNote={The Reviews Department includes reviews of publications, films, audio and video tapes, and exhibits relating to the history of computing. Full-length studies of technical, economic, business, and institutional aspects or other works of interest to Annals readers are briefly noted, with appropriate biblio-graphic information. Colleagues are encouraged to recommend works they wish to review and to suggest titles to the Reviews Editor. Electronic Genie: The Tangled History of Silicon is a history of silicon science and technology written by two members of the silicon community, and as such it has associated strengths (authoritative knowledge of the technical material) and weaknesses (lack of attention to nontechnical context). Furthermore, the authors have made the book a kaleidoscopic history of silicon over a 200-year period, providing brief glimpses of a number of facets, but requiring those wishing a sustained examination of any one of them to look elsewhere. Electronic Genie is largely based on secondary material and the published technical literature, occasionally supplemented by par-ticipants' recollections. In the book's 20 chapters (some as short as one page of text) and often widely divergent subsections, the authors put the history of silicon within a broad technical context, making connections that range from Maxwell equations to molecular biology. The most thoroughly developed link is between the propagation of electromagnetic radiation (from Hertz through radar) and the use of silicon as a detector of such radiation. Seven chapters deal with the history of radar, including chapters on radar work in Germany, France, the Soviet Union, and Japan. Here the authors make a major contribution, using their extensive connections in the field to put together material that is not readily available elsewhere. This broad context is not matched when considering factors that are not strictly technical. Dozens of scientists and engineers enter the story, introduced only by their surname and first initial (we even meet F. Seitz, the coauthor of the book). In many cases, we are often not even told their disciplines, and we get no idea of how their backgrounds or institutional affiliations may have shaped their work. Seitz and Einspruch try to avoid writing anything that might cast a member of the community in an unfavorable light. But with so much written about the history of semiconductor technology, the authors' attempt at discretion ends up bordering on the ridiculous. In discussing Fairchild Semiconductor after the departure of Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore, Seitz and …}, number={4}, journal={IEEE ANNALS OF THE HISTORY OF COMPUTING}, author={Bassett, R}, year={1999}, pages={81–82} }
 @misc{bassett_1999, title={Endless frontier: Vannevar Bush, engineer of the American century.}, volume={40}, number={3}, journal={Technology and Culture}, author={Bassett, R.}, year={1999}, pages={685–686} }
 @article{new technology, new people, new organizations:  the rise of the mos transistor, 1945-1975_1998, journal={Business and Economic History}, year={1998} }
 @phdthesis{bassett_1998, title={New Technology, New People, New Organizations: The Rise of the MOS Transistor, 1945-1975}, school={Ph.D.)--Princeton University}, author={Bassett, Ross Knox}, year={1998} }