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Fifteen Years Later: Whither Restructuring in the American Electric Utility System? Article

December 1st, 2013 by: Richard Hirsh

Fifteen Years Later: Whither Restructuring in the American Electric Utility System?

A postscript to  Power Loss:  The Origins of Deregulation and  Restructuring in the American Electric Utility System Technology’s Stories vol. 1, no.1 doi: 10.15763/JOU.TS.2013.12.1.01 PDF: Hirsh_Fifteen Years Later The process of restructuring the American electric utility system has not been kind to its advocates. Begun about fifteen years ago, the opening of markets and increased…

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December 1st, 2013 by: Sharon Irish

Hierarchies in the Circuitry: Women, Information Technology and Scholarship (WITS) at Illinois

Technology’s Stories vol. 1, no. 1: doi: 10.15763/JOU.TS.2013.12.1.02 PDF: Irish_Hierarchies Starting in 1988, Jenny Barrett was a systems programmer at a research lab for computer-based education at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). She noted that many aspects of “multiuser computing were actually developed at the lab such as email, forums, message boards, online testing,…

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