<html xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2004/12/omml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40">
<head>
<meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=us-ascii">
<meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 12 (filtered medium)">
<style>
<!--
/* Font Definitions */
@font-face
{font-family:"Cambria Math";
panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4;}
@font-face
{font-family:Calibri;
panose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4;}
/* Style Definitions */
p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal
{margin:0in;
margin-bottom:.0001pt;
font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";}
a:link, span.MsoHyperlink
{mso-style-priority:99;
color:blue;
text-decoration:underline;}
a:visited, span.MsoHyperlinkFollowed
{mso-style-priority:99;
color:purple;
text-decoration:underline;}
span.EmailStyle17
{mso-style-type:personal-compose;
font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:windowtext;}
.MsoChpDefault
{mso-style-type:export-only;}
@page Section1
{size:8.5in 11.0in;
margin:1.0in 1.0in 1.0in 1.0in;}
div.Section1
{page:Section1;}
-->
</style>
<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
<o:shapedefaults v:ext="edit" spidmax="1026" />
</xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
<o:shapelayout v:ext="edit">
<o:idmap v:ext="edit" data="1" />
</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]-->
</head>
<body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple>
<div class=Section1>
<p class=MsoNormal>Hello everyone,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Preparations are coming along nicely for the SIGCIS
workshop, held all day on the Sunday of the SHOT meeting. SHOT registration is
now live, at <a
href="http://www.historyoftechnology.org/pittsburgh/pittsburgh_registration.html">http://www.historyoftechnology.org/pittsburgh/pittsburgh_registration.html</a>.
The deadline for regular registration in September 15. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>The SIG pizza lunch meeting, which you should register for
with the main SHOT registration at modest additional cost (just $5 for grad
students thanks to a subsidy from SIG funds) is NOT THE SAME as the workshop.
There will be no charge for workshop registration but we will have a web
registration system up soon just for the workshop so we will know how many cups
of coffee to order, people’s meal preferences (meals at your own cost),
how many for dinner, etc.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>When you register, please try to stay for the whole of Sunday,
as we will have sessions up to 5:45pm and then a dinner in the evening for
those able to stay overnight (or leave really late).<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Joe November, the program chair, has been keeping things
updated on the draft program at <a
href="http://www.sigcis.org/files/SIGCIS%202009%20Workshop%20Preliminary%20Schedule%20--%2008-04-2009.pdf">http://www.sigcis.org/files/SIGCIS%202009%20Workshop%20Preliminary%20Schedule%20--%2008-04-2009.pdf</a>.
Joe tells me that we still need chairs and commentator volunteers, as
noted below.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>We will give preference to people who are not already on the
workshop program as speakers. We want to bring as many SIGCIS members onto the
workshop program as possible. This includes those who are already taking part
as presenters, commentators or chairs in the main SHOT meeting.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>If you are interested please send your names and preferences
to <a href="mailto:november@mailbox.sc.edu">november@mailbox.sc.edu</a>. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Here’s what we still need for the traditional sessions.
Total one chair, three commentators. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>A commentator for<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>Traditional
Paper Session 2: The Computings of Management<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Lars
Heide</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>, <i>Copenhagen Business School</i>,
“Punched Cards in German Management of Resources<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>in
the Second World War”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>David
Anderson</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>, <i>University of Portsmouth</i>,
“The Corridors of Power: Patrick Blackett and the<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Political
Context of Early British Computing”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Jonathan
Aylen</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>, <i>Manchester Institute of
Innovation Research, University of Manchester</i>,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>“’You’ve
got to roll with it’: radical adoption of computers and changes to
managerial routines<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>at
Llanwern steelworks, South Wales”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Chair: Janet Delve</span></b><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>, <i>School of Creative Technologies, University of
Portsmouth<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>A chair and a commentator for<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>Traditional
Paper Session 3: Political Institutions in the Histories of Computings<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Andrew
Mamo</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>, “Computing Societies:
Communications Technologies and Social Science in the<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Cambridge
Project”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Stephen
Patnode</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>, <i>Temple University</i>, “The
Impact of Computers on Corporate Paternalism in<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>the
Post-war United States”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>David
Nofre</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>, <i>Informatics Institute,
University of Amsterdam</i>, “The Dutch politics of computing<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>and the limits of
international cooperation, 1945-1965”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>A commentator for<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>Traditional
Paper Session 4: Computings as They Rose and Fell<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Dave
Goodwin</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>, <i>Birkbeck College,
University of London</i>, “Digital Equipment Corporation: The<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>mistakes
that led to its downfall”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Larry
Owens</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>, <i>University of Massachusetts
Amherst</i>, “Walking Around Computerville: The PC<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>and
the Encyclopedia of Computer Science, 1976-1983”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Chair: David Hemmendinger</span></b><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>, <i>Computer Science Department, Union College<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Best wishes,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Tom Haigh<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
</div>
</body>
</html>