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

Sun Dec 28 02:06:12 PST 2025

Dear friends and colleagues, 

Thanks a lot, Troy, for this very promising table of content, which certainly makes us all eager to read those papers. 
Including me, although I am momentarily travelling in a more distant past – glad and relieved to have finished my manuscript on the beginnings of the calculating machine industry: " Calculatrices, entrepreneurs et marchés. 1820-1920 ", to be published by this Spring. 

Please note my new @dress: [ mailto:PierreMounierKuhn at protonmail.com | PierreMounierKuhn at protonmail.com ] 

Wishing you all a very happy, productive and exciting New Year, 
Pierre 

Pierre Mounier-Kuhn 
CNRS, Sorbonne Université & CentraleSupélec 
https://cnrs.academia.edu/PierreMounierKuhn 
https://hal.science/search/index?q=Pierre+Mounier-Kuhn 
[ https://rdv-histoire.com/recherche?global_search=mounier-kuhn | https://rdv-histoire.com/recherche?global_search=mounier-kuhn ] 

De: "Troy Astarte via Members" <members at lists.sigcis.org> 
À: "Jeffrey Yost" <yostx003 at umn.edu> 
Cc: "sigcis" <members at sigcis.org> 
Envoyé: Samedi 27 Décembre 2025 17:01:46 
Objet: Re: [SIGCIS-Members] Our "Automation by Design..." Special Issue of IEEE Annals is out! 

Dear all, 

Jeff, many thanks for announcing this for me! Its publication while I was at a conference/on leave delayed my own announcement. I’ll forgo an additional email, but will give the full ToC here. 

You can find the issue on the [ https://www.computer.org/csdl/magazine/an/2025/04 | Computer Society Digital Library ] or [ https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/mostRecentIssue.jsp?punumber=85 | IEEE Xplore ] according to your preference/subscription. Here is the table of contents: 

Guest Editors’ Introduction 
[ https://www.computer.org/csdl/magazine/an/2025/04/11304148/2cygClfVW8w | Introduction to Automation by Design ] 
by [ https://www.computer.org/csdl/search/default?type=author&givenName=Colette&surname=Perold | Colette Perold ] , [ https://www.computer.org/csdl/search/default?type=author&givenName=Jeffrey%20R.&surname=Yost | Jeffrey
 R. Yost ] 

Theme Articles: Automation by Design 
[ https://www.computer.org/csdl/magazine/an/2025/04/11031182/27sQG5Y18u4 | Digital Construction Comes to the Pacific Northwest: Timber and the Landscapes of Automation ] 
by [ https://www.computer.org/csdl/search/default?type=author&givenName=Megan&surname=Wiessner | Megan Wiessner ] 

[ https://www.computer.org/csdl/magazine/an/2025/04/11208589/2aYh0oUQOZi | Machinery of Ethnic Cleansing: Punched Card Machines and the 1920 Greek Population Census ] 
by [ https://www.computer.org/csdl/search/default?type=author&givenName=Christos&surname=Karampatsos | Christos Karampatsos ] , [ https://www.computer.org/csdl/search/default?type=author&givenName=Polyxeni&surname=Malisova | Polyxeni
 Malisova ] 

[ https://www.computer.org/csdl/magazine/an/2025/04/10938681/25n2yWIBtYI | Autocoding at Work: COBOL and the Specification of the American Office ] 
by [ https://www.computer.org/csdl/search/default?type=author&givenName=David%20E.&surname=Dunning | David E. Dunning ] 

[ https://www.computer.org/csdl/magazine/an/2025/04/11029403/27qQcf3RL6E | Governing Collaboration: Data and Work Relationships in U.K. Software for Building Design, 1970–1980 ] 
by [ https://www.computer.org/csdl/search/default?type=author&givenName=Eliza&surname=Pertigkiozoglou | Eliza Pertigkiozoglou ] 

[ https://www.computer.org/csdl/magazine/an/2025/04/10964384/25UAaLnTI88 | The Legality of Logistics: On Techno-Orientalism and Geopolitics in Semiconductor Production ] 
by [ https://www.computer.org/csdl/search/default?type=author&givenName=Ranjodh%20Singh&surname=Dhaliwal | Ranjodh Singh
 Dhaliwal ] 

Theme Think Piece 
[ https://www.computer.org/csdl/magazine/an/2025/04/11304157/2cygCLOhoyI | Computing Racial Order ] 
by [ https://www.computer.org/csdl/search/default?type=author&givenName=Jason&surname=Ludwig | Jason
 Ludwig ] 

Department: Anecdotes 
[ https://www.computer.org/csdl/magazine/an/2025/04/11304160/2cygBlQCgta | Konrad Zuse and Operation Paperclip ] 
by [ https://www.computer.org/csdl/search/default?type=author&givenName=Ra%FAl&surname=Rojas | Raúl Rojas ] 

[ https://www.computer.org/csdl/magazine/an/2025/04/11304149/2cygBMGhfPi | A Simulated Differential Analyzer ] 
by [ https://www.computer.org/csdl/search/default?type=author&givenName=Richard&surname=Pawson | Richard Pawson ] 

Department: Events and Sightings 
[ https://www.computer.org/csdl/magazine/an/2025/04/11304150/2cygBSWAvLy | “The Computer in Motion”: Symposium Report From the 27th International Congress of History of Science and Technology (ICHST) ] 
by [ https://www.computer.org/csdl/search/default?type=author&givenName=Ksenia&surname=Tatarchenko | Ksenia Tatarchenko ] , [ https://www.computer.org/csdl/search/default?type=author&givenName=Barbara&surname=Hof | Barbara
 Hof ] , [ https://www.computer.org/csdl/search/default?type=author&givenName=Arianna&surname=Borrelli | Arianna Borrelli ] 

Best, 

Dr. Troy Kaighin Astarte (they/them / nhw) 

I often dictate messages due to motor disability; please forgive any oddities resulting. 

Senior Lecturer, Computer Science / Uwch Darlithydd, Cyfrifiadureg 
Swansea University / Prifysgol Abertawe 
Editor-in-Chief / Prif Olygydd, IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 

[ https://troyastarte.com/ | troyastarte.com ] 

For students: my drop in hours are [ https://fse-intranet.swan.ac.uk/intranet/staff_officehours?selected_staff_id=203842 | on the Intranet ] (office CoFo 407) 
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Zoom office: [ https://swanseauniversity.zoom.us/my/t.k.astarte | https://swanseauniversity.zoom.us/my/t.k.astarte ] 

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On 19 Dec 2025, at 18:26, Jeffrey Yost via Members <members at lists.sigcis.org> wrote: 

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Many thanks to David Hemmendinger for a correction. Given there is only 2008 to 2022 content on MUSE for IEEE Annals now, there seems to be a few years delay, but it is available now at IEEE Xplore. David also pointed out that it is available on the IEEE Annals main page too as of today. (it was on Xplore a day earlier, yesterday). That CSDL IEEE Annals' URL is: [ http://computer.org/annals | computer.org/annals ] 

Best, Jeff 

Jeffrey Yost, Ph.D. 
Director, Charles Babbage Institute for Computing, Information & Culture 
Research Professor, History of Sci., Tech., Med., University of Minnesota 
[ https://press.jhu.edu/books/title/12804/just-code | 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://amzn.to/3gqe4R6 | Making IT Work: A History of the Computer Services Industry (MIT Press) ] 
[ https://www.press.jhu.edu/books/series/studies-computing-and-culture | Studies in Computing and Culture book series, Johns Hopkins U. Press ] Co-Editor (w/ Con Diaz) 
PI, NSF-funded CBI project "Mining a Useable Past: Perspectives, Paradoxes, and Possibilities with Security and Privacy." 
[ https://www.blockchainandsociety.com/ | Blockchain & Society ] (crit. inq. essays & resources) (Founder/Leader) 

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

On Fri, Dec 19, 2025 at 10:45 AM Jeffrey Yost < [ mailto:yostx003 at umn.edu | yostx003 at umn.edu ] > wrote: 

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

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

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