Thomas Haigh

Thomas Haigh is a Professor and Chair of the History Department at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee where he also runs a retrocomputing laboratory. After studying computer science at Manchester University, he won a Fulbright award to study in the USA where he earned a PhD in the history and sociology of science from the University of Pennsylvania. He is the lead author of A New History of Modern Computing (2021) and ENIAC in Action (2016), both published by MIT Press. Haigh’s publications have won prizes from the Business History Conference and the Society for the History of Technology. Haigh works with ACM, as director of its Turing Award History Project, and with the IEEE Computer Society as Chair of its history committee. His latest book, The Brand That Wouldn’t Die: A History of Artificial Intelligence is forthcoming with MIT Press.