Teaching the History of Innovation: A History Institute for Teachers

Innovation and Invention: The Computer as a Case History

Rocco Martino, Chairman & CEO, CyberFone Technologies, Inc., and Senior Fellow, FPRI

Dennis Shasha, Professor of Computer Science, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University

This presentation was given at the “Teaching the History of Innovation” conference, a History Institute for Teachers, held October 18-19, 2008.

Core funding for these programs has been contributed by The Annenberg Foundation. For specific weekends, additional funding has been contributed by FPRI Trustees W. W. Keen Butcher, Bruce H. Hooper, and John M. Templeton, Jr., and by the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation. Support for our programming on Teaching the History of Innovation is provided by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.