Charles Babbage Institute for Computing, Information & Culture, History of Science, Technology, & Medicine, University of Minnesota, Principal, Enterprise History, LLC (business history consultancy)
Business and Culture, History of Science and Technology, History of Capitalism, History of Entrepreneurship
Jeffrey R. Yost is Director, Charles Babbage Institute for Computing, Information, and Culture and Research Professor, HSTM, Univ. of Minnesota. He has published nine books, including Just Code: Power, Inequality, and the Political Economy of IT (Routledge, 2025; co-eds. w. G. Con Diaz); Making IT Work: A History of the Computer Services Industry (MIT Press, 2017); Computer: A History of the Information Machine (co-authored w 5 others), and FastLane: Managing Science in the Internet World (Johns Hopkins U. Press, 2016; w Tom Misa). He is a past EiC of IEEE Annals of the History of Computing and has co-edits a book series, Studies in Computing and Culture, for Johns Hopkins U. Press.
Yost is also the founder and principal of Enterprise History, a business and organizational history consultancy specializing in researching and writing books, booklets, articles, and conducting oral histories for clients. On contracts or grants his business and tech history work has been supported by NSF, DOE, Sloan, IBM, IEEE, ACM, Unisys, UMN Computer Science, and others.
