[SIGCIS-Members] 2019 highlights from the Charles Babbage Institute

[Jeffrey Yost]

 Dear Friends,


These are exciting times at the Charles Babbage Institute (CBI), and we would like to share with you a few highlights from 2019: 
	- The completion of multi-institutional project—a documentary on the history of computing in Minnesota. 
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Watch Solid State documentary .
	- CBI and the University Libraries launched the annual Samek Lecture in Information Science and Culture, with an inaugural lecture by leading IT scholar Bill Aspray.
	- The addition of Colorado’s Bill Aspray, and MIT’s Jennifer Light, as CBI Senior Research Fellows, as well as HSTM’s hiring of Assistant Professor Honghong Tinn, who also serves as an affiliated historian at CBI. 
	- Archivist Amanda Wick and I co-led a highly successful Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group (SIG) Heritage/History Workshop, educating computer scientists from around the world interested in archiving and oral history. We expect that 2020 will be another exceptional year. On May 8-9, I will be partnering with standout past CBI Tomash Fellow UC-Davis’ Gerardo Con Diaz on CBI’s upcoming symposium “Just Code: Power, Inequality, and the Global Political Economy of IT,” at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities campus. 
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Register for the "Just Code" symposium .


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Best wishes,

Jeff


Jeffrey R. Yost, Ph.D.

CBI Director and Research Professor

History of Science, Technology, and Medicine


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