Corinna Schlombs is Associate Professor of History at Rochester Institute of Technology. Her research and teaching interest are in the history of technology and business, with a focus on information and communication technologies. She is the author of Productivity Machines: German Appropriations of American Technologies from Mass Production to Computer Automation (MIT Press, 2019). Her current project is a history of data entry, labor identity and equality for which she has received funding from the National Science Foundation, the Charles Babbage Institute, and the Linda Hall Library among others.