Cold War Computing: Balkan Cyberia

Name: Cold War Computing: Balkan Cyberia
Start: 2025-09-18T19:00:00-07:00
Location: 1401 N Shoreline Blvd, Mountain View, CA, United States, California 94043

Schedule

Thu, 18 Sep, 2025 at 07:00 pm

UTC-07:00

Location

1401 N Shoreline Blvd, Mountain View, CA, United States, California 94043 | Mountain View, CA

Behind the Iron Curtain during the Cold War, Bulgaria was a remarkable hub of innovation in electronics and computing. In an age defined by Silicon Valley and Western narratives of progress, historian Victor Petrov upends assumptions about computing in the Eastern bloc to tell a high-stakes tale of secret espionage networks, utopian visions of a cybernetic future, and remarkable technocratic reform.
Join us for a fascinating presentation and book talk by the author of Balkan Cyberia, a CHM Book Prize winner.