William B. Pickett
William B. Pickett is professor of history at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. He earned his doctorate at Indiana University and has been a Fulbright professor in Japan. He is editor of Technology at the Turning Point  (1978), and in 2004 was co-chair of an international conference on the Internet and society, "The World Wide Web at Ten: The Dream and the Reality," which took place at Rose-Hulman. He has taught a course on the history of the commercial Web, and co-taught another on the history of computing. He is author of Homer E. Capehart: A Senator's Life (Indiana Historical Society, 1990), Dwight David Eisenhower and American Power (Harlan Davidson, Inc., 1995), To Be the Best: Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, 1974-1999 (Rose-Hulman, 1999), and Eisenhower Decides to Run: Presidential Politics and Cold War Strategy (Ivan R. Dee, 2000). His commentary on the 50th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima was aired by the Voice of America. C-SPAN televised his lecture at the Eisenhower Library on the writing of Eisenhower Decides to Run. He was an invited speaker at the George F. Kennan Centennial Conference at Princeton University (February, 2004) and edited the monograph: George F. Kennan and the Origins of Eisenhower's New Look: An Oral History of Project Solarium (Princeton University, 2004). Mr. Pickett is past president of the Indiana Association of Historians, and Chairman of the Indiana Council for History Education..