W. Patrick McCray

W. Patrick McCray is a professor of history at UC Santa Barbara and the author of five books on the history of modern science and technology including Making Art Work: How Cold War Engineers and Artists Forged a New Creative Culture which appeared in 2020. McCray is an elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Silicon Valley’s Hidden Voices

W. Patrick McCray lauds two new books for showing how Silicon Valley’s success and image are based on obscuring certain people....

W. PATRICK MCCRAY

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Foggy Notions

W. Patrick McCray on “Rational Fog” by historian M. Susan Lindee. It addresses how “scientific knowledge and military applications meet, maraud, and maim.”...