Prof. Christopher C. Bissell

Department of Computing and Communications

Faculty of Mathematics, Computing and Technology

The Open University, UK

Email: [email protected]

Research fields

History and philosophy of technology

History of telecommunications

History of automatic control

Mathematical modelling

Qualifications

1993 Ph.D., The Open University, UK

1974 B.A., Cambridge University, UK

Publications (Selected)

1. Bissell, Christopher; Williams, Theodore J. and Hasegawa, Yukio (2023). Historical Perspective of Automation. In: Nof, Shimon Y. ed. Springer Handbook of Automation. Springer Handbooks (SHB). Springer, Cham, pp. 39–59.
2. Bissell, Christopher (2017). The Information Turn in Modelling People and Society: early German Work. IEEE Technology and Society pp. 80–87.
3. Bissell, Christopher (2017). A new approach to the introductory teaching of Computing and IT at the Open University UK. In: Proceedings of the HEAd’17. 3rd International Conference on Higher Education Advances (Domenech i Soria, Josep; Cinta Vincent Vela, Maria; de la Poza, Elena and Blazquez, Desamparados eds.), Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València, València, pp. 101–108.
4. Bissell, Christopher (2017). Piobaireachd [Pibroch]: the classical music of the Great Highland Bagpipe.
5. Bissell, Chris (2017). Getting technical. The Linguist, 56(2) pp. 20–21.
6. Bissell, Christopher (2017). The anglocentric tendency in the history of information engineering. Translation Journal, 20(2)
7. Bissell, Christopher and Boukli, Avi (2017). How the last man to see Sylvia Plath alive was punished for his quiet homosexuality.
8. Bissell, Christopher (2017). Convergence of the history and sociology of technology from the mid 1980s. In: Interdisciplinary Futures: Open the Social Sciences 20 Years Later, 19-20 Jan 2017, Lisbon, Portugal.
9. Bissell, Chris (2016). The Information Turn in Modelling People and Society: Early German Work. In: Images of Europe: Past, Present and Future (Espina, Yolanda ed.), Universidade Católica Editora, Porto, pp. 53–60.
10. Bissell, Christopher (2016). The Celtic Languages in the Age of Globalisation. In: Images of Europe: Past, Present and Future, Universidade Católica Editora, Porto, pp. 719–728.
11. Bissell, Christopher (2016). Karl Küpfmüller. In: Maloberti, Franco and Davies, Anthony C eds. A Short History of Circuits and Systems. IEEE, pp. 267–268.
12. Bissell, Christopher (2016). Ernst Adolf Guillemin. In: Malaberti, Franco and Davies, Anthony C eds. A Short History of Circuits and Systems. IEEE, pp. 269–70.
13. Bissell, Christopher (2016). Compression, convergence and conviviality: the contribution of new technologies to developments in radio from the 1980s. In: ICOHTEC2016, 26-30 Jul 2016, Porto, Portugal.
14. Ramage, Magnus and Bissell, Christopher (2015). Cyberneticists at war and peace: wrestling with ethical dilemmas of information. In: The Difference That Makes a Difference (DTMD 2015), 5 Jun 2015, Vienna University of Technology, Austria.
15. Bissell, Christopher (2015). Electronics and Information Engineering: a new approach to modelling 1890 - 1950. In: Pisano, Raffaele ed. A Bridge between Conceptual Frameworks: Sciences, Society and Technology Studies. History of Mechanism and Machine Science (27). Dordrecht: Springer, pp. 1–14.

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