Paul N. Edwards is professor in the interdisciplinary School of Information and the Department of History at the University of Michigan. His research focuses on the history, politics, and culture of information technologies and infrastructures. Paul is the author of A Vast Machine: Computer Models, Climate Data, and the Politics of Global Warming (MIT Press, 2010) and co-editor of Changing the Atmosphere: Expert Knowledge and Environmental Governance (MIT Press, 2001), as well as contributing to other books and numerous articles. Before joining the University of Michigan, he taught at Stanford University and Cornell University. He has held visiting positions at Sciences Po, Paris; Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands; the University of Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa; and the University of Melbourne, Australia. He has been a Carnegie Scholar and a Guggenheim Fellow. Paul’s current research concerns the history and future of knowledge infrastructures, as well as further work on the history of climate science and other large-scale information infrastructures.