Taking stock of technology

Wednesday, June 19, 2013 - 08:31 in Mathematics & Economics

At the recent Harvard IT Summit, Anne Margulies, vice president and University chief information officer, mentioned how Harvard had been at the forefront of information technology since its inception, even to the point of naming the burgeoning field. Quoting from a then-futuristic piece titled "Management in the 1980s" in a 1958 issue of the Harvard Business Review, Margulies noted that the article declared, "We shall call it 'information technology.'"

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