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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Hello,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>We’re
almost ready to put our 2010 workshop program up on the website. Thanks to all
who submitted, and apologies to those we had to turn away. (Oct 3, held on the
Sunday of the SHOT conference in Tacoma, Washington. See <a
href="http://www.sigcis.org/workshop10">www.sigcis.org/workshop10</a>.) Also
thanks to Jeff Tang whose done most of the work so far. He’s on holiday
with his family this week, so I’m putting out this call myself to
minimize the amount of time he spends slumped over his laptop.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>We need
volunteers for chairs and commentators. If we receive a surplus of interest we’ll
prioritize offers from people not already presenting at the workshop. I’m
summarizing our needs below – you can volunteer in general or for
specific panels. We need a total of about six people.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Here’s
what we need you for:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'> “Place
and Space”</span></b><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>
(a traditional panel of individually submitted paper addressing the workshop
theme of Materiality and Immateriality). We need a chair and a commentator.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:.75in;text-indent:-.5in;
mso-list:l0 level1 lfo8'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><span
style='mso-list:Ignore'>•<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>The
Material History of Digital Electronics: The Development of Silicon
Manufacturing Technology at Fairchild Semiconductor (Brock & Lecuyer)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:.75in;text-indent:-.5in;
mso-list:l0 level1 lfo8'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><span
style='mso-list:Ignore'>•<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>“The
World Looks to Britain”: Technology Transfer, Heterogeneous Engineering,
and British Computing Companies’ Attempt to Capture the Indian Market,
1955-1965 (Hicks)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:.75in;text-indent:-.5in;
mso-list:l0 level1 lfo8'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><span
style='mso-list:Ignore'>•<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Wat'
Forever: Computing Education at the University of Waterloo (Campbell)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:.75in;text-indent:-.5in;
mso-list:l0 level1 lfo8'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><span
style='mso-list:Ignore'>•<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Materiality,
modernity and space: The British banks and their computer centres,
1961–1963 (Martin)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'> “Teaching
& Showing”</span></b><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>
(a traditional panel of individually submitted paper addressing the workshop
theme of Materiality and Immateriality). We need a chair and a commentator.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:.75in;text-indent:-.5in;
mso-list:l7 level1 lfo6'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><span
style='mso-list:Ignore'>•<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>The
PLATO Computer-Based Education System: Teacher's Tool or Teacher? (MacDonald)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:.75in;text-indent:-.5in;
mso-list:l7 level1 lfo6'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><span
style='mso-list:Ignore'>•<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Car
Navigation Systems – A History of Associative Clusters (Thielmann)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:.75in;text-indent:-.5in;
mso-list:l7 level1 lfo6'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><span
style='mso-list:Ignore'>•<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>A
Material History of Bits (Blanchette)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:.75in;text-indent:-.5in;
mso-list:l7 level1 lfo6'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><span
style='mso-list:Ignore'>•<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Museums
and the Material Culture of Video Games (Foti)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Dissertations
in progress session</span></b><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>.
This will be based on precirculated dissertation proposals with very brief introductions.
We need a chair and a commentator. It’s possible that the roles could be
combined, so that the job will be to give brief comments and then steer
subsequent discussion to maximize its usefulness to the dissertators.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:.75in;text-indent:-.5in;
mso-list:l3 level1 lfo9'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><span
style='mso-list:Ignore'>•<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>The
Akademgorodok Computing Center (1958-1990) (Tatachenko, Princeton)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:.75in;text-indent:-.5in;
mso-list:l3 level1 lfo9'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><span
style='mso-list:Ignore'>•<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Digital
Equipment's Rise and Fall, Could it Have Been Avoided? (Godwin, Birkbeck
College London)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:.75in;text-indent:-.5in;
mso-list:l3 level1 lfo9'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><span
style='mso-list:Ignore'>•<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>A
History and Ethnography of the Cocoa Software Community (Hsu, Cornell)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:.75in;text-indent:-.5in;
mso-list:l3 level1 lfo9'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><span
style='mso-list:Ignore'>•<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Connecting
Minds in a Multimedia Episteme: The Academic Supercomputer Centers and
the Construction an Advanced Cognitive Infrastructure for the U.S. Research
Community: 1983-1993 (Walsh, UCSD)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Works
in progress session</span></b><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>,
again with precirculated papers.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:.75in;text-indent:-.5in;
mso-list:l5 level1 lfo10'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><span
style='mso-list:Ignore'>•<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>On-line
distribution of working papers through NEP: A Brief Business History
(Batiz-Lazo, University of Leicester)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:.75in;text-indent:-.5in;
mso-list:l5 level1 lfo10'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><span
style='mso-list:Ignore'>•<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Making
Computers Logical: Edmund Berkeley’s promotion of logical machines (Sugimoto,
Kyoto University)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:.75in;text-indent:-.5in;
mso-list:l5 level1 lfo10'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><span
style='mso-list:Ignore'>•<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Investing
in interactive skills – a reinterpretation of the Swedish internet boom
and bust, 1994–2004 (Sjöblom, Chalmers University of Technology )<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:.75in;text-indent:-.5in;
mso-list:l5 level1 lfo10'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><span
style='mso-list:Ignore'>•<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Meta
Filter: Coming to Agreement with Interactive Computer Technology (Irish, UIUC)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Let me
know today or tomorrow if you are interested. (To further whet your appetite,
in addition to the above we have Paul Edwards as keynote, and two roundtables
on computers in science fiction and teaching the history of computing). Details
on the main SHOT meeting are at <a
href="http://www.historyoftechnology.org/annual_meeting.html">http://www.historyoftechnology.org/annual_meeting.html</a>.
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Tom<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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