[SIGCIS-Members] Chinese Characters Are Futuristic and the Alphabet Is Old News - The Atlantic

[M. Hicks]

And it's probably also worth re-pointing-out that Tom will be one of our keynotes this year (along with Kavita Philip) at the special meeting of SIGCIS being held in March at the Computer History Museum.

See here for more info: http://meetings.sigcis.org/

Additional invited speakers include Safiya Noble (UCLA), Mitali Thakor (Northwestern), and Sreela Sarkar (Santa Clara U).

If you'd like to present at the meeting proposals are due Dec 30th.

Best,

Marie

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On Nov 17, 2016, at 10:52 AM, David Golumbia <dgolumbia at gmail.com> wrote:

I agree, and note that this builds on such as this amazing essay that (I presume) previews his forthcoming book on the topic, which goes into a lot more detail than the Atlantic piece:

"The Moveable Typewriter: How Chinese Typists Developed Predictive Text during the Height of Maoism" 
https://history.stanford.edu/publications/moveable-typewriter-how-chinese-typists-developed-predictive-text-during-height-maoism

David

> On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 10:46 AM, M. Hicks <mhicks1 at iit.edu> wrote:
> Way to go, Tom!
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> Thanks for sharing, Sarah.
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> Best,
> 
> Marie 
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> Programmed Inequality: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing
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> On Nov 17, 2016, at 10:21 AM, Sarah T. Roberts <sarah.roberts at ucla.edu> wrote:
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> Of potential interest to many. I always appreciate work that decenters the myth of Western (American, typically) primacy in tech. 
> 
> http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/11/chinese-computers/504851/
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