Dr. Zachary Loeb featured in national media on 25th anniversary of Y2K
Assistant Professor Zachary Loeb was recently featured in several news media on the 25th anniversary of Y2K. As an expert in Y2K, Dr. Loeb was quoted in The Guardian and in The New York Times, and was interviewed on CBC-Montreal’s program Daybreak and on NPR’s All Things Considered. He also authored a piece for Time Magazine’s “Made by History” highlighting computing risks in light of the new movie, ‘Y2K.’
A historian of technology, disasters, and technological disasters, Dr. Loeb is currently working on a book project on the year 2000 computing crisis, better known simply as Y2K, tentatively titled “Almost Midnight: Y2K and the Race to Save the World as We Have Come to Know It.” Learn more about Dr. Zachary Loeb: https://cla.purdue.edu/directory/profiles/zachary-loeb.html