[SIGCIS-Members] Our "Automation by Design..." Special Issue of IEEE Annals is out!

[Jeffrey Yost]

Dear Colleagues,

Wanted to share the news that our special issue of *IEEE Annals of the
History of Computing* entitled "Automation by Design: Politics, Culture,
and Landscape in an Age of Machines That Learn" came out yesterday!

It is now available on IEEE Xplore and soon will be on MUSE too. Colette
Perold and my historiographically-contextualizing article "Introduction to
Automation by Design" is open access as are a few of the articles (IEEE
Digital Library, link below as a UMN z link, and many libraries subscribe
to IEEE library & or MUSE where there is complete access). Special thanks
to Honghong Tinn, who joined Colette, me, and Con on our 2023 CBI Symposium
of the same name. It was an interdisciplinary event (History, STS,
Sociology, Media Studies...) and this issue represents select
historical-oriented articles. Articles and authors are listed below.

It was so wonderful to partner with tremendously gifted colleagues/friends
Colette and Con on this issue and an honor for us to work with such an
incredibly talented group of article authors writing cutting edge
scholarship on the history of automation/"artificial intelligence"!!

Many thanks to *IEEE Annals* EiC Troy Astarte for helpful guidance
throughout!

Happy holidays to everyone!

https://z.umn.edu/AutomationbyDesign

Best, Jeff
Articles
Introduction to Automation by Design
Colette Perold and Jeffrey R. Yost
6-10
Digital Construction Comes to the Pacific Northwest: Timber and the
Landscapes of Automation
Megan Wiessner
11 - 23

Machinery of Ethnic Cleansing: Punched Card Machines and the 1920 Greek
Population Census
Christos Karampatsos;
Polyxeni Malisova
24 - 37

Autocoding at Work: COBOL and the Specification of the American Office
David E. Dunning
38 - 49

Governing Collaboration: Data and Work Relationships in U.K. Software for
Building Design, 1970–1980
Eliza Pertigkiozoglou
50 - 62

The Legality of Logistics: On Techno-Orientalism and Geopolitics in
Semiconductor Production
Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal
63 - 77

Computing Racial Order
Jason Ludwig
79-83
**   *   *   *   *   **
*Jeffrey Yost, Ph.D. *
*Director, Charles Babbage Institute for Computing, Information & Culture*
*Research Professor, History of Sci., Tech., Med., University of Minnesota*

*Just Code: Power, Inequality and the Political Economy of IT (Johns
Hopkins U. Press out in Nov. 2025 co-edited w/ Gerardo Con Diaz)
<https://press.jhu.edu/books/title/12804/just-code> *
*Making IT Work: A History of the Computer Services Industry (MIT Press)
<https://amzn.to/3gqe4R6>*
*Studies in Computing and Culture book series, Johns Hopkins U. Press
<https://www.press.jhu.edu/books/series/studies-computing-and-culture>
*Co-Editor
(w/ Con Diaz)
*PI, NSF-funded CBI project "Mining a Useable Past: Perspectives,
Paradoxes, and Possibilities with Security and Privacy."*
*Blockchain & Society* <https://www.blockchainandsociety.com>* (crit. inq.
essays & resources)* (Founder/Leader)

*Interfaces: Essays and Reviews in Computing and Culture
<https://cse.umn.edu/cbi/interfaces> *Co-Editor-in-Chief (w/ Amanda Wick)
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