Adrienne van den Bogaard is Assistant Professor at the History of Technology Department at the Delft University of Technology. She graduated as a mathematical engineer at the same university in 1991, and got her Ph.D in 1998 at the University of Amsterdam, published as Configuring the Economy. The Emergence of a Macro-econometric Modelling Practice in the Netherlands, 1920-1955. This book is about the history of quantification in economics in the policy-context. After her Ph.D. she got a research position at the Twente University in the project “History of Technology in the Netherlands in the Twentieth Century.” In that project she did research on Schiphol airport, urban technology, and on a long term perspective on the history of technology in the Netherlands, focussing on the relation between planning on locations and expertise, quantification and technology. Since the 1st of September 2002, she has been leading a project on the history of Information Technology in the Netherlands in the twentieth century. Her own research is about the emergence of corporate software in government and business.