[SIGCIS-Members] Free panel tomorrow (Tue, June 2, 1pm ET): "Analog — The Infinity Between 0 and 1"

[IT History Society]

Dear colleagues,

Greetings from the IT History Society, and apologies for the short notice.
Tomorrow, *Tuesday, June 2, at 1:00 pm ET,* we're hosting a free public
Zoom panel that may interest many on this list.


*"Analog: The Infinity Between 0 and 1"*
Before computing was digital, it was continuous. Between any two digital
values lies an uncountable infinity. For most of computing's history, that
continuous space was where computers actually lived: slide rules,
mechanical integrators, differential analyzers that didn't count but
flowed. Then digital won, and analog all but vanished from the mainstream —
only to resurface today in neuromorphic chips, AI accelerators, and edge
devices doing things digital silicon struggles with.

We've brought together four people who have spent careers in that world:

   - *George Dyson* — historian, author of "Turing's Cathedral" and
   "Analogia"
   - *David Alan Grier* — author of "When Computers Were Human"; former
   Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Annals of the History of Computing
   - *Peggy Aldrich Kidwell* — Smithsonian's National Museum of American
   History; an authority on slide rules and early calculating instruments
   - *Bernd Ulmann* — anabrid / "The Analog Thing" — who will demonstrate
   vintage analog computing hardware live, running real-time simulations and
   calculations during the session

Open to all; free registration. Even if you can't join live, you can
register for access to the proceedings:

https://bit.ly/iths-analog-2026

With thanks,

Aaron Sylvan
Board Chair
IT History Society
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