I have taught a graduate course on the history of the information and communications industry for 20 years. The course shows students how the world has moved from primitive communication to the integrated multi-media situation we are in today. Concentration is on the fields of journalism, telecommunications, broadcasting, and computing. Emphasis is placed on the leaders of the areas and the political and cultural surroundings that encouraged or discouraged growth of the industry. It is true that technology is a driving force of this industry, but it has been the individual people (characters) impelled by discovery, acceptance and marketability of that technology who have taken the next step to improve communication.
The Journalism field started with Gutenberg and early added Ben Franklin, later it got a little yellow with Hearst and Pulitzer. I think Henry Luce started the business of media integration, but Rupert Murdoch certainly keeps it going. The first practical use of electricity was found by Samuel Morse and his telegraph. Bell invented the telephone, or was it Meucci? Theodore Vail invented the Bell System. Broadcasting started with Marconis invention, or was it Teslas? David Sarnoff and William Paley made the medium practical and characters like Edwin R. Morrow, Walter Cronkite and even Oprah Winfrey gave it credibility. Certainly Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace had something to do with the start of computers, but later scientists Vannevar bush and Jon von Neumann added the electronics. Then UNIVAC convinced Thomas Watson Junior that IBM better start making them. Jobs and Wozniac started the personal computer business, but Bill Gates created the software to make them run. Tim Berners-Lee hooked those computers to a network and then Amazon, e Bay, and Google found a way to make money using the result. This book is the story of these people and companies.
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Professor Bellaver has over forty years of experience in telecommunications and information processing. He has been at Ball State University for twenty years in The Center for Information and Communications Sciences. He teaches courses in the history of the information and communications industry, human factors in design, knowledge management and strategic planning. He was the originator and editor of the CICS Journal. Other than publishing the 1st Edition of this book, he co-edited a book called Knowledge Management Strategy and Technology. He provided input to the 2nd and 3rd Editions of Designing the User Interface, by Dr. Ben Shneiderman.
Immediately prior to Ball State he was at AT&T Headquarters where he was the Director for System Engineering. He was responsible for planning the analysis of all systems leading to the establishment of the computer systems architecture and helped establish the Data Stewardship program. In two tours in the Michigan Bell Company his responsibilities were in billing and Comptroller results, advanced communications studies, and planning for the IT function at the corporate level. He was a rate case witness and spent some time in Business Research. He spent six years at the Bell Telephone Laboratories responsible for various technical and human factors usability studies.
Professor Bellaver has been Director for Public Relations for the International Symposia on Telecommunications History. He has been named a Faculty Fellow by AT&T and the Indiana Campus Compact. He was a Vice President of the Usability Professional Association and has received the Ball State Outstanding Advisor Award.
Bellaver is a graduate of Purdue University, attended Rutgers and Wayne State Universities taking graduate economics courses, and has an MBA from Michigan State. He holds the Certification for Human Participant Protections Education for Research Teams sponsored by the National Institutes of Health.
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