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Para participar se necesita inscripción previa con el Dr. Guillermo Guajardo Soto coordinador del evento al e-mail: guillermo.guajardo@servidor.unam.mx

* EDEN MEDINA es Profesora del Departamento de Informática y del Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies de la Universidad de Indiana, en Bloomington IN, Estados Unidos de América. Recibió el Ph.D. in the History and Social Study of Science and Technology, por el Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005.

Sus temas de interés son la historia de la tecnología, los estudios de ciencia e historia, la tecnología de la informática en el mundo en desarrollo y la historia moderna de América Latina. Para sus investigaciones ha recibido apoyos del Social Science Research Council and the American Council for Learned Societies, National Science Foundation, Charles Babbage Institute y del Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology.

Entre sus publicaciones destacan:

• Revolutionary Computing: Technology, Politics, and the Chilean Road to Socialism (book manuscript in preparation).
• "Designing Freedom, Regulating a Nation: Socialist Cybernetics in Allende's Chile," Journal of Latin American Studies 38 (2006): 571-606.
• "Computer Memory, Collective Memory: Recovering History Through Chilean Computing," IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 27 (2005): 102-104.
• "Democratic Socialism, Cybernetic Socialism," in Making Things Public: Atmospheres of Democracy. Edited by Bruno Latour, Peter Weibel. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2005.
• Eden Medina and David Mindell, "Engineering and Computer Science in Action: The Structure of Engineering Revolutions," in Using History to Teach Computer Science and Related Disciplines. Edited by Atsushi Akera and William Aspray. Washington, D.C.: Computer Research Associaton, 2004.
• "Freedom in Code: The Birth of the Chilean Free Software Movement," ReVista Harvard Review of Latin America 3 (2004): 23-24.