Wednesday, April 21, 1999
Erasmus Institute for Philosophy and Economics
Erasmus University, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
8:30- 9:00 Reception
9:00- 9:45 Andrew Pickering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign--
World War II as a Discontinuity in the Social and Cyborg Sciences
9:45-10:30 Mary Morgan, University of Amsterdam and London School of Economics--
Ideology and Tool-Based Economics in the Post-War Years
10:30-11:00 Break
11:00-11:45 Albert Jolink, Erasmus University Rotterdam--
The Travelling Salesman Returns from the War: Tjalling Koopmans and Linear Programming
11:45-12:30 Francisco Louca, Technical University of Lisbon--
Prometheus Tired of War: Econometricians' Debates on the Role of Planning and Economic Policies
12:30-13:30 Lunch
13:30-14:15 Esther-Mirjam Sent, University of Notre Dame--
Military/Artificial Intelligence: Military Science Policy and Herbert A. Simon
14:15-15:30 Judy Klein, Mary Baldwin College--
Gun Laying and Economic Policy: Post War Applications to the Theory of Error-Actuated Automatic Control Systems
15:30-16:00 Break
16:00-16:45 Robert Leonard, University of Quebec at Montreal--
Controlling Bodies, Freeing Minds: John Williams, Architect of RAND Research
16:45-17:30 Philip Mirowski, University of Notre Dame--
RAND/OR: How Operations Research Put the Rigor in the Mortis
17:30-18:00 Concluding discussion
19:00 Dinner