[SIGCIS-Members] 2010 Workshop - preliminary schedule posted

[Thomas Haigh]

Hello SIGCIS members,

 

We have now posted the current schedule for the 2010 workshop at
www.sigcis.org/workshop10 along with a few other pieces of useful
information. One of these is that registration for SHOT itself is required
for the workshop, and the deadline for regular registration there is
September 10.

 

Paul Edwards has now chosen a title for his keynote speech:  "Friction:
Rethinking Speed, Power, and Possiblity in the History of Information
Infrastructures.” He’s also agreed to run the dissertations in progress
session for us.

 

We still need a chair and commentator for one of the sessions and a
commentator for another one – preferably people who are not already on the
workshop program. 

 

The abstracts are also online. If you want to make any further changes to
your abstracts let Jeff Tang know – secretary at sigcis.org. 

 

Another reminder: For those in the sessions based on precirculated material
(the roundtable discussions, the works in progress session, and the
dissertations in progress sessions) please remember that you need to send
Jeff your full text PDF files so that he can add them to the website. The
sooner the better for this, but the deadline is September 15.

 

I’m pasting the current version below, but we expect to make further updates
so please always rely on the web version rather than what you see below. 

 

Tom

 

Materiality & Immateriality in the History of Computing

Sunday October 3, 2010, Hotel Murano, Tacoma, Washington

 


 

Stream A (room TBA)

Stream B (Room TBA)


9:00-10:30

Opening Plenary:

*	Introduction to the Workshop and its Theme by Thomas Haigh,
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
*	Keynote Address: "Friction: Rethinking Speed, Power, and Possiblity
in the History of Information Infrastructures" by Paul Edwards, University
of Michigan


10:30-10:45

Coffee break


10:45-12:00

Roundtable: Computers, Information and Society in the Classroom

*	Andrew Russell, Stevens Institute of Technology (chair & organizer)
*	Nathan Ensmenger, University of Pennsylvania
*	Eden Medina, Indiana University, Bloomington (withdrawn --
replacement TBA)

(Short presentations to introduce pre circulated documents, followed by
general discussion)

Roundtable: Science Fiction & the History of Computing

*	David L. Ferro, Weber State University (chair & organizer)
*	Janet Abbate, Virgina Tech
*	Eric G. Swedin, Weber State University
*	Thomas Haigh, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

(Short presentations to introduce pre circulated documents, followed by
general discussion)


12:00-1:30

Lunch break (group lunch option TBA)


1:30-3:30

Dissertations In Progress
Chair/Commentator: Paul Edwards, University of Michigan

*	“ <http://www.sigcis.org/dp1> The Akademgorodok Computing Center
(1958-1990)” Ksenia Tatachenko, Princeton University.
*	“ <http://www.sigcis.org/dp2> Digital Equipment's Rise and Fall,
Could it Have Been Avoided?” Dave Goodwin, Birkbeck College London.
*	“ <http://www.sigcis.org/dp3> A History and Ethnography of the Cocoa
Software Community.” Hansen Hsu, Cornell University.
*	“ <http://www.sigcis.org/dp4> Connecting Minds in a Multimedia
Episteme: The Academic Supercomputer Centers and the Construction an
Advanced Cognitive Infrastructure for the U.S. Research Community:
1983-1993” Kevin Walsh, University of California, San Diego.

(Short presentations to introduce pre circulated dissertation proposals, to
be discussed in turn by workshop participants)

Traditional Papers: Teaching & Showing
Chair: Olga Pantelidou, University of Athens
Commentator: TBA

*	“ <http://www.sigcis.org/t4> The PLATO Computer-Based Education
System: Teacher's Tool or Teacher?” Christopher MacDonald, Princeton
University.
*	“ <http://www.sigcis.org/t6> Car Navigation Systems – A History of
Associative Clusters.” Tristan Thielmann, University of Siegen.
*	“ <http://www.sigcis.org/t7> A Material History of Bits.”
Jean-François Blanchette, UCLA.
*	“ <http://www.sigcis.org/t9> Museums and the Material Culture of
Video Games.” Petrina Foti, Smithsonian NMAH.

(4x20 minute presentations followed by a 10-15 minute comment and general
discussion)


3:30-4:00

Coffee break


4:00-6:00

Works in Progress
Chair/Commentator: TBA

*	“ <http://www.sigcis.org/wp1> Multi-sided markets and on-line
distribution of working papers: A brief history of NEP, 1993-2005.” Bernardo
Batiz-Lazo, University of Leicester and Thomas Krichel (Long Island
University & Novosibirsk State University, Russia).
*	“ <http://www.sigcis.org/wp2> Making Computers Logical: Edmund
Berkeley’s promotion of logical machines.” Mai Sugimoto, Kyoto University.
*	“ <http://www.sigcis.org/wp4> Investing in interactive skills – a
reinterpretation of the Swedish internet boom and bust, 1994–2004.” Gustav
Sjöblom, Chalmers University of Technology .
*	“ <http://www.sigcis.org/wp5> Meta Filter: Coming to Agreement with
Interactive Computer Technology.” Sharon Irish, UIUC.

(Short presentations to introduce pre circulated papers, to be discussed in
turn by workshop participants)

Traditional Papers: Place & Space
Chair: Ann Johnson, University of South Carolina.
Commentator: Peter Meyer, Bureau of Labor Statistics.

*	“ <http://www.sigcis.org/t2> The Material History of Digital
Electronics: The Development of Silicon Manufacturing Technology at
Fairchild Semiconductor.” David C. Brock, Chemical Heritage Foundation &
Christophe Lecuyer, University of California.
*	“ <http://www.sigcis.org/t5> ’The World Looks to Britain’:
Technology Transfer, Heterogeneous Engineering, and British Computing
Companies’ Attempt to Capture the Indian Market, 1955-1965.” Maria Hicks,
Duke University.
*	“ <http://www.sigcis.org/t8> Wat' Forever: Computing Education at
the University of Waterloo.” Scott M. Campbell, University of Waterloo.
*	“ <http://www.sigcis.org/t10> Materiality, modernity and space: The
British banks and their computer centres, 1961–1963.” Ian Martin, Open
University & University of Manchester.

(4x20 minute presentations followed by a 10-15 minute comment and general
discussion)

 

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