[SIGCIS-Members] CACM Column on "Inventor of Email" affair

[Thomas Haigh]

Hello SIGCIS people,

 

I've been writing a series of entries for the Historical Reflections column
that appears quarterly in Communications of the ACM. The most recent just
appeared online, and will be out in print soon.

 

In "Seven Lessons from Bad History: Journalists, Historians, and the
Invention of Email" I tried to step back from the twists and turns of the
"Inventor of Email" affair to explore what it tells us about the place of
high technology history in the Internet age.  Read it at
www.tomandmaria.com/tom/Writing/CACM-SevenLessons.pdf, or for those with ACM
Digital Library access at http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2330676. The
column may also bring some attention to SIGCIS and to the importance of
history of computing community as a guardian of the historical record.

 

For anyone who does have an interest in the specifics of the saga I have
extended my analysis of Shiva Ayyadurai's case to deal with his latest
claims. Go to http://www.sigcis.org/ayyadurai and scroll down for the new
stuff.

 

If you have an interesting paper published or a talk coming up relevant to
the history of computing (or, should you be hopelessly modest, if a
colleague you respect does) then please do send an email to
members at sigcis.org to share it with the community.

 

Best wishes,

 

Tom

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