[SIGCIS-Members] CCS Thursday May 20th - Doron Swade on Historiography of the History of Computing

Thu May 6 01:24:10 PDT 2021

Dear Brian and Brian

All CCS meeting are recorded (E&OE!) and are made available within a day or so on the CCS YouTube channel. Our lectures are also free to view and open to all

My university recently changed my mailbox address so although for the past couple of weeks I am still receiving SIGCIS listserver messages I can't send to it. I must fix the problem.

Good wishes

Roger

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From: Brian Randell <brian.randell at newcastle.ac.uk> 
Sent: 06 May 2021 08:36
To: Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter at gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [SIGCIS-Members] CCS Thursday May 20th - Doron Swade on Historiography of the History of Computing

Hi Brian 

I'm not sure - but a google search on "are ccs lectures recorded" produced a somewhat positive answer.

Cheers 

Brian

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> On 5 May 2021, at 21:13, Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hi Brian,
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> Thanks for the notification. Will there be a recording for those of us 
> in strange time zones like UTC+12?
> 
> Kind regards
>   Brian Carpenter
> 
>> On 06-May-21 01:35, Brian Randell wrote:
>> Hi:
>> 
>> This has just been posted by the Computer Conservation Society:
>> 
>> Dear Fellow CCS Members
>> 
>> The May meeting of the Computer Conservation Society is on Thursday 20th May via Zoom. This is the final meeting of the 2020/21 programme. The lecture will begin at 2.30PM with the Zoom session opening at 2.15PM.
>> 
>> Our speaker is the CCS Chairman Dr Doron Swade is our speaker and his title is Historiography of the History of Computing.
>> Doron has written: A task of history is to provide a coherent account for the profusion of past events — contingent occurrences, breakthroughs, markets, users, human motivations, agency, change and consequence. Histories use narratives that allow us to marshal otherwise unmanageable levels of detail. I describe the three major narratives that have emerged so far and show how at least one was constructed in a way that is now misleading. A solution is offered. I also look to artefactual history — the history of products and artefacts of technology, and a crisis in material culture — the “collapse of categories”
> that occurred in the wake of revolutions in solid-state physics. This 
> all sounds rather abstract and conceptual. Not so. The material is 
> rooted in the specific episodes, machines and devices of computing of which history seeks to make sense. Historiography is concerned with how history is written. This is my excuse for the pretentious title.
>> 
>> About the speaker - Doron Swade is an engineer, historian and museum professional. He was Curator of Computing for many years at the Science Museum, London and later Assistant Director & Head of Collections. He has studied physics, mathematics, electrical engineering, control engineering, philosophy of science, man-machine studies, and history at various universities. He has published four books (one co-authored) and many scholarly and popular articles on history of computing, curatorship, and museology.
> He was responsible for founding the Computer Conservation Society in 
> 1989 and is its current chairman. He is an Honorary Fellow of the British Computer Society and of Royal Holloway University of London. He was awarded an MBE in 2009 for services to the history of computing.
>> 
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>> Details of the 2021/22 season will soon be available. We are 
>> currently planning that our future meetings starting in September 
>> will be hybrid – offering both attendance in the BCS London meeting 
>> rooms and also remote participation in real time as well as providing 
>> the usual recorded
> version on the CCS YouTube channel. This is proving ambitious and will depend on the BCS meeting room having the necessary equipment and internet connections.
>> 
>> Our meetings are free to attend and open to all. Please tell anyone 
>> who
> may be interested about this event.
>> 
>> We have recently been asked to draw to your attention the UK based Archives of IT.
>> 
>> Good wishes
>> 
>> Roger Johnson
>> CCS London Programme Secretary
>> 
>> Cheers
>> 
>> Brian Randell
>> 
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