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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Hello everyone,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Any more takers for this? So far
we have five people definitely interested. One common thread between three of
the ideas is a focus on users and applications. There’s also an interest
in politics and institutions, and in computing and (inter)national identity. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>One or two more papers could
give us two strong panels. But the deadline is looming, so please give me an
initial statement of interest today if you think you might join us.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Tom<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Thomas Haigh
[mailto:thaigh@computer.org] <br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, February 28, 2008 2:52 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> 'members@sigcis.org'<br>
<b>Cc:</b> 'soft-eu@science.uva.nl'; 'gard.paulsen@bi.no'<br>
<b>Subject:</b> SIGCIS Panels and Grad Student travel awards for SHOT 2008<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Hello everyone,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>This email is a request for people who are interested in
participating in SIGCIS sponsored panels at the annual meeting to get in touch
with me. The deadline is March 14, which means I need to hear from you within
the next few days with an initial expression of interest. SHOT does not need
full papers, but I would need an abstract and one page resume by March 9. The
normal SHOT format is for three or four talks of 20-25 minutes each followed by
a commentator and questions. I can’t promise that all ideas can be fitted
neatly into one of our panel proposals. However if I can’t accommodate
whatever you are interested in within a panel then you still have the option of
submitting your abstract as an individual paper.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>What I’ve done for each of the past three conferences
is to circulate a call like this and receive a short summary from interested
people of the work they’d like to present. Then I look for connections
among the ideas and group them into one or more thematically coherent panel proposals.
I work with the authors to strengthen their abstracts and to tweak them to
better fit the panel. This has worked well in the past. Last year we submitted
three panels, all of which were accepted. For the previous year we had two
panels, both accepted. Once we see how things are shaping up we may use the
list again to appeal for additional papers on specific topics or for chairs or
commentators.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>You’ve already seen a couple of reminders of the
upcoming SHOT 2008 meeting from other people. Lisbon, October 10-14. Lots of
information including maps, hotels, travel, etc. is now online at <a
href="http://www.shotlisbon2008.com/meeting.htm">http://www.shotlisbon2008.com/meeting.htm</a>.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>The call for papers is at <a
href="http://shotnews.net/?p=401">http://shotnews.net/?p=401</a>. It mentions
looking for papers on how the history of technology might be written in the
future, so this may lead to a panel of historiographical papers about the
future of the history of computing. However other ideas are also welcome. It
also appeals for papers “from those new to SHOT regardless of
discipline.”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>If you are a graduate student there is an additional reason
to join one of our panels. At the last meeting we raised enough money with our
collection and book auction to fund two graduate student travel awards of $300
each to support the cost of attending the meeting. Any student presenting in a
SIGCIS sponsored panel will be eligible for consideration for one of these
awards.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>It promises to be a great meeting, and I hope to see many of
you there in Lisbon. At the last SHOT meeting we had far more history of
computing panels than ever before – so let’s try to set another
record this year.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Tom Haigh<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>www.tomandmaria.com/tom<o:p></o:p></p>
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