Paul N. Edwards focuses the research on the mutual shaping of cognitive infrastructures and planetary transformation. Paul N. Edwards is the director of the Program in Science, Technology & Science (STS) and Senior Research Scholar at the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University, as well as Professor of Information and History at the University of Michigan. Edwards’s book A Vast Machine: Computer Models, Climate Data, and the Politics of Global Warming (MIT Press, 2010), a history of the meteorological information infrastructure, received the Computer Museum History Prize from the Society for the History of Technology, the Louis J. Battan Award from the American Meteorological Society, and other prizes. His research focuses on the history, politics, and culture of knowledge and information infrastructures. He focuses especially on environmental security (e.g. climate change, Anthropocene risks, and nuclear winter).