Henry Lowood lowood@stanford.edu
Phone: 650-723-4602
Green Library 321C: Office Hours: M11-12; W2.30-4
I am Curator for History of Science & Technology Collections and for Germanic Collections in the Stanford University Libraries. I am also co-director of the Stanford Humanities Laboratory with Michael Shanks and Jeffrey Schnapp.
Here is my curriculum vitae: http://www.stanford.edu/~lowood/vita.htm
You can find more information about the History of Science & Technology Collections and Germanic Collections on the Stanford University Libraries' website.
I am PI on a project funded by the Stanford Humanities Laboratory: "How They Got Game: The History and Culture of Interactive Simulations and Videogames." One of the results of this project is a course on the History of Computer Game Design that I taught for the fifth time in Winter Quarter, 2005, and this IHUM class is also an outgrowth of the collaborations that have grown out of this project.
This project has to a great extent been made by students. 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 links to all these projects, please see my personal website: http://www.stanford.edu/~lowood.
