[SIGCIS-Members] Cold War Computing

[Dag Spicer]

Hey Everyone!

Just a heads up: Coming up on September 18, the Computer History Museum is hosting the wonderful Professor Victor Petrov who will speak about cold war computing based on his 2024 CHM-SIGCIS Book Award winning book, “Balkan Cyberia.”

See here: https://email.computerhistory.org/cold-war-computing?

Summary:
Amid the geopolitical bifurcation of the Cold War Bulgaria emerged as an unexpected epicenter of electronics and computing innovation within the socialist world. Long overshadowed by Silicon Valley–centered narratives of technological progress this history challenges the dominant West-centric framework that has shaped both popular memory and much of the historiography of computing.

Drawing on recently declassified archives and transnational perspectives historian Victor Petrov reframes the story of Bulgaria’s computing sector as one of high-stakes espionage socialist visions of cybernetic modernity and ambitious technocratic reform.

In doing so he situates Bulgaria not as a passive recipient of imported models but as an active inventive participant in the global technological order of the late twentieth century.

Lecture is hybrid: online and in-person. Reserve your ticket now.

Hope to see you there!

Dag
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Dag Spicer
Senior Curator
Computer History Museum
Editorial Board, IEEE Annals of the History of Computing
ACM History Committee
1401 N. Shoreline Blvd.
Mountain View CA  94043

“History is a vast early warning system.”
— Norman Cousins, American journalist (1915-1990).

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