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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>The organizers of this workshop asked that
I help get the word out.  They welcome submissions and appreciate any help you
could provide forwarding the call for papers.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'> Raul Carnota
[mailto:rcarnota@fibertel.com.ar] <br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Monday, June 09, 2008 9:11
AM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> Medina, Eden<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Call for papers</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>

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12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>

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<p align=center style='mso-margin-top-alt:5.0pt;margin-right:6.0pt;margin-bottom:
6.0pt;margin-left:6.0pt;text-align:center'><b><font size=4
face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:13.5pt;font-weight:
bold'>Call for papers </span></font></b><font size=2 face=Arial><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

<p align=center style='mso-margin-top-alt:5.0pt;margin-right:6.0pt;margin-bottom:
6.0pt;margin-left:6.0pt;text-align:center'><b><font size=4
face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:13.5pt;font-weight:
bold'>A Workshop on</span></font></b><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

<p align=center style='mso-margin-top-alt:5.0pt;margin-right:6.0pt;margin-bottom:
6.0pt;margin-left:6.0pt;text-align:center'><b><font size=4
face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:13.5pt;font-weight:
bold'>HISTORY of INFORMATICS in Latin America and the <st1:place w:st="on">Caribbean</st1:place></span></font></b><font
size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

<p align=center style='mso-margin-top-alt:5.0pt;margin-right:6.0pt;margin-bottom:
6.0pt;margin-left:6.0pt;text-align:center'><font size=3 face="Arial Unicode MS"><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial Unicode MS"'>will take
place at the<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

<p align=center style='mso-margin-top-alt:5.0pt;margin-right:6.0pt;margin-bottom:
6.0pt;margin-left:6.0pt;text-align:center'><b><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:
bold'>INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON KNOWLEDGE, SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURES
 <br>
</span></font></b><i><span lang=EN-GB style='font-style:italic'>Interdisciplinary
Knowledge Exchange looking forward to Latin America and the <st1:place w:st="on">Caribbean</st1:place>
future <br>
</span></i><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
Arial'><a href="http://www.internacionaldelconocimiento.org/" target="_blank"><font
size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman"'>http://www.internacionaldelconocimiento.org</span></font></a></span></font><font
face="Arial Unicode MS"><span style='font-family:"Arial Unicode MS"'> <span
lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></span></font></p>

<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:5.0pt;margin-right:6.0pt;margin-bottom:6.0pt;
margin-left:6.0pt'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:12.0pt'>to be held at the <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType>
of <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Santiago</st1:PlaceName> in <st1:country-region
w:st="on">Chile</st1:country-region> (<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType
 w:st="on">Institute</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Advanced
  Studies</st1:PlaceName></st1:place>) from October 29th to November 2nd, 2008.
A workshop (#66) on this subject has been organized at the Congress. The call
for papers for this workshop is attached at the end of this document.  <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:5.0pt;margin-right:6.0pt;margin-bottom:6.0pt;
margin-left:6.0pt'><b><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold'>Program Committee:</span></font></b><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:5.95pt;margin-bottom:0in;
margin-left:5.95pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt'>Jorge Aguirre - Universidad Nacional de Río
Cuarto, <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Argentina</st1:place></st1:country-region><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:5.95pt;margin-bottom:0in;
margin-left:5.95pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt'>Rafael Lins - Universidade  Estadual
de Pernambuco, Brasil<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:5.95pt;margin-bottom:0in;
margin-left:5.95pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt'>Pablo Jacovkis - Universidad de Buenos
Aires, <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Argentina</st1:place></st1:country-region> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:5.0pt;margin-right:6.0pt;margin-bottom:6.0pt;
margin-left:6.0pt'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Authors should send their abstracts to the e-mail
address indicated below before June 30<sup>th</sup>, 2008. Abstracts must be
presented in <i><span style='font-style:italic'>RTF</span></i> format and
written in <i><span style='font-style:italic'>12 p-times</span></i> <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>new roman</span></i> characters and they can not
exceed 250 words. The workshop number (66) as well as the authors' name, e-mail
address and Institution must be included in the abstract. Acceptance of the
abstracts will be communicated to authors before July 31<sup>st</sup>, 2008.
The full lenght of accepted papers must not exceed 3500 words and must be
submitted before September 30<sup>th</sup>, 2008. Spanish and Portuguese are
the official languages of the Congress.  </span></font><font face=Arial><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:5.0pt;margin-right:6.0pt;margin-bottom:6.0pt;
margin-left:6.0pt'><b><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold'>Publication in <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>Journal IEEE Annals of History of Computing</span></i></span></font></b><font
face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:5.0pt;margin-right:6.0pt;margin-bottom:6.0pt;
margin-left:6.0pt'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Papers selected by the workshop organizers will be
sent to the editor board of <i><span style='font-style:italic'>IEEE Annals of
History of Computing</span></i> after their translation to English for their
possible publication in the Journal.</span></font><font face="Arial Unicode MS"><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Arial Unicode MS"'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:5.95pt;margin-bottom:0in;
margin-left:5.95pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><br>
</span></font><b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-weight:bold'>Important dates for
authors to remember <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:5.95pt;margin-bottom:0in;
margin-left:5.95pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>

<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:5.95pt;margin-bottom:0in;
margin-left:5.95pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt'>Abstracts must be e-mailed before June
30th, 2008.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:5.95pt;margin-bottom:0in;
margin-left:5.95pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt'>Acceptance of the abstracts shall be
communicated to authors before July 31st, 2008.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:5.95pt;margin-bottom:0in;
margin-left:5.95pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt'>Full-lenght text of accepted papers must be
submitted before September 30<sup>th</sup>, 2008.</span></font><font
face="Arial Unicode MS"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Arial Unicode MS"'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:5.95pt;margin-bottom:0in;
margin-left:5.95pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold'>For Submittals and/or
doubts or questions: </span></font></b><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><a
href="mailto:historiainformatica@yahoo.com" target="_blank"><i><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
"Times New Roman";font-style:italic'>historiainformatica</span></font></i><font
size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman"'>@<i><span style='font-style:italic'>yahoo.com</span></i></span></font></a></span></font><font
face="Arial Unicode MS"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Arial Unicode MS"'> <br>
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<h3 align=center style='mso-margin-top-alt:5.0pt;margin-right:6.0pt;margin-bottom:
5.0pt;margin-left:6.0pt;text-align:center'><b><font size=4
face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:13.5pt'>Call for
Papers Workshop # 66: History of Informatics in Latin American and the <st1:place
w:st="on">Caribbean</st1:place></span></font></b><font face=Arial><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></font></h3>

<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:6.0pt;margin-bottom:
0in;margin-left:6.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt'>The appearance of the computers at the end
of the 1940's, their computing power exponential growth, the impressive
decrease of their size and their cost, the birth of computer science as an
independent discipline, the intertwining between computing and
telecommunications, the incorporation of computers to all kind of devices and
appliances, the Internet development and the "informatization" of
society, constitute the most important technologic revolution of the last 60
years. The history of Informatics in Latin America and the Caribbean, though
(from the technological point of view) a reflection of advances and
developments in the Northern Hemisphere, shows also a large list of enriching
experiences and original fruitful projects as well as the negative influence of
nonautonomous policies. It shows improvements and backward motions, as well as
periods of contagious enthusiasm and of deep discouragement. Besides, the
vertiginous technological development in Informatics turns relatively new
devices and techniques into old fashioned ones very fast, and the problems that
this situation creates in Latin America and the Caribbean are sometimes
different - and more serious - than the ones it causes in <st1:country-region
w:st="on">USA</st1:country-region> and <st1:place w:st="on">Europe</st1:place>. 
<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:6.0pt;margin-bottom:0in;
margin-left:6.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt'>The purpose of this workshop is to
facilitate an integral and careful debate on the most important aspects of the
History of Informatics in Latin America and the <st1:place w:st="on">Caribbean</st1:place>,
emphasizing their social importance.  </span></font><font face=Arial><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:6.0pt;margin-bottom:0in;
margin-left:6.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt'>The main topics of the workshop are: </span></font><font
face="Arial Unicode MS"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Arial Unicode MS"'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:6.0pt;margin-bottom:0in;
margin-left:6.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt'>The beginning of computer science and
computer activities in Latin America and the <st1:place w:st="on">Caribbean</st1:place>
as well as their relation to mathematics and electronics.</span></font><font
face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:6.0pt;margin-bottom:0in;
margin-left:6.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt'>The processes through which computers
became inserted in academia, government and production.</span></font><font
face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:6.0pt;margin-bottom:0in;
margin-left:6.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt'>The development of the computer studies in
Universities and other educational institutions. </span></font><font
face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:6.0pt;margin-bottom:0in;
margin-left:6.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt'>The development of research in informatics.
Groups and research institutions and their production.</span></font><font
face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:6.0pt;margin-bottom:
0in;margin-left:6.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt'>The history of quality standards in the
academia and industry in Latin America and the <st1:place w:st="on">Caribbean</st1:place>. 
<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

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margin-left:6.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt'>Regional and international collaboration
and cooperation in Latin America and the <st1:place w:st="on">Caribbean</st1:place>.</span></font><font
face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:6.0pt;margin-bottom:0in;
margin-left:6.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt'>Influence of existence and absence of
government policies in the region for the development of informatics.</span></font><font
face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:6.0pt;margin-bottom:0in;
margin-left:6.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt'>Creation of academic nets and their
influence.</span></font><font face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:
Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:6.0pt;margin-bottom:0in;
margin-left:6.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt'>Important projects and personalities
associated to development of informatics.</span></font><font face=Arial><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:6.0pt;margin-bottom:0in;
margin-left:6.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt'>Existence and absence of scientific,
technological and industrial structures in Latin America and the <st1:place
w:st="on">Caribbean</st1:place>.</span></font><font face=Arial><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

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margin-left:6.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt'>Preservation of the ideas and actions of
the protagonists of the computer activities.</span></font><font face=Arial><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:6.0pt;margin-bottom:0in;
margin-left:6.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt'>Maintenance of artifacts and the
intellectual record related to informatics.</span></font><font face=Arial><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

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lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

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