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<p class=MsoNormal>Hello SIGCIS members,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>We have now posted the current schedule for the 2010
workshop at <a href="http://www.sigcis.org/workshop10">www.sigcis.org/workshop10</a>
along with a few other pieces of useful information. One of these is that
registration for SHOT itself is required for the workshop, and the deadline for
regular registration there is September 10.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Paul Edwards has now chosen a title for his keynote speech: "Friction:
Rethinking Speed, Power, and Possiblity in the History of Information
Infrastructures.” He’s also agreed to run the dissertations in
progress session for us.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>We still need a chair and commentator for one of the
sessions and a commentator for another one – preferably people who are
not already on the workshop program. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>The abstracts are also online. If you want to make any
further changes to your abstracts let Jeff Tang know – <a
href="mailto:secretary@sigcis.org">secretary@sigcis.org</a>. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Another reminder: For those in the sessions based on
precirculated material (the roundtable discussions, the works in progress
session, and the dissertations in progress sessions) please remember that you
need to send Jeff your full text PDF files so that he can add them to the website.
The sooner the better for this, but the deadline is September 15.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>I’m pasting the current version below, but we expect
to make further updates so please always rely on the web version rather than
what you see below. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Tom<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center;
line-height:15.6pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Materiality
& Immateriality in the History of Computing<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:15.6pt'><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Sunday October 3, 2010, Hotel Murano,
Tacoma, Washington<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:15.6pt'><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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padding:6.0pt 12.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt'>
<p class=MsoNormal><b> </b><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<td width=264 style='width:198.1pt;border-top:inset 1.0pt;border-left:none;
border-bottom:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;border-right:inset 1.0pt;padding:6.0pt 12.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt'>
<p class=MsoNormal><b>Stream A (room TBA)</b><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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border-bottom:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;border-right:inset 1.0pt;padding:6.0pt 12.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt'>
<p class=MsoNormal><b>Stream B (Room TBA)</b><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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border-right:inset 1.0pt;padding:6.0pt 12.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt'>
<p class=MsoNormal><b>9:00-10:30</b><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
</td>
<td colspan=2 valign=top style='padding:6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt'>
<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;
margin-left:0in'><strong>Opening Plenary:</strong><o:p></o:p></p>
<ul type=disc>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:
auto;mso-list:l4 level1 lfo1'>Introduction to the Workshop and its Theme
by Thomas Haigh, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:
auto;mso-list:l4 level1 lfo1'>Keynote Address: "Friction:
Rethinking Speed, Power, and Possiblity in the History of Information
Infrastructures" by Paul Edwards, University of Michigan<span
style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></li>
</ul>
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border-right:inset 1.0pt;padding:6.0pt 12.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt'>
<p class=MsoNormal><b>10:30-10:45</b><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
</td>
<td colspan=2 style='padding:6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt'>
<p class=MsoNormal>Coffee break<span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
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border-right:inset 1.0pt;padding:6.0pt 12.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt'>
<p class=MsoNormal><b>10:45-12:00</b><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
</td>
<td valign=top style='padding:6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt'>
<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;
margin-left:0in'><strong>Roundtable: Computers, Information and Society in
the Classroom</strong><o:p></o:p></p>
<ul type=disc>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:
auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'>Andrew Russell, Stevens Institute of
Technology (chair & organizer)<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:
auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'>Nathan Ensmenger, University of
Pennsylvania<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:
auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'>Eden Medina, Indiana University,
Bloomington (withdrawn -- replacement TBA)<o:p></o:p></li>
</ul>
<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;
margin-left:0in'>(Short presentations to introduce pre circulated documents,
followed by general discussion)<o:p></o:p></p>
</td>
<td valign=top style='padding:6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt'>
<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;
margin-left:0in'><strong>Roundtable: Science Fiction & the History of
Computing</strong><o:p></o:p></p>
<ul type=disc>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:
auto;mso-list:l6 level1 lfo3'>David L. Ferro, Weber State University
(chair & organizer)<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:
auto;mso-list:l6 level1 lfo3'>Janet Abbate, Virgina Tech<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:
auto;mso-list:l6 level1 lfo3'>Eric G. Swedin, Weber State University<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:
auto;mso-list:l6 level1 lfo3'>Thomas Haigh, University of
Wisconsin-Milwaukee<o:p></o:p></li>
</ul>
<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;
margin-left:0in'>(Short presentations to introduce pre circulated documents,
followed by general discussion)<o:p></o:p></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style='border-top:none;border-left:inset 1.0pt;border-bottom:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;
border-right:inset 1.0pt;padding:6.0pt 12.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt'>
<p class=MsoNormal><b>12:00-1:30</b><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
</td>
<td colspan=2 style='padding:6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt'>
<p class=MsoNormal>Lunch break (group lunch option TBA)<span
style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style='border-top:none;border-left:inset 1.0pt;border-bottom:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;
border-right:inset 1.0pt;padding:6.0pt 12.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt'>
<p class=MsoNormal><b>1:30-3:30</b><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
</td>
<td valign=top style='padding:6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt'>
<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;
margin-left:0in'><strong>Dissertations In Progress</strong><br>
Chair/Commentator: Paul Edwards, University of Michigan<o:p></o:p></p>
<ul type=disc>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:
auto;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo4'>“<a href="http://www.sigcis.org/dp1"><b><span
style='color:#665566'>The Akademgorodok Computing Center (1958-1990)</span></b></a>”
Ksenia Tatachenko, Princeton University.<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:
auto;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo4'>“<a href="http://www.sigcis.org/dp2"><b><span
style='color:#665566'>Digital Equipment's Rise and Fall, Could it Have
Been Avoided?</span></b></a>” Dave Goodwin, Birkbeck College
London.<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:
auto;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo4'>“<a href="http://www.sigcis.org/dp3"><b><span
style='color:#665566'>A History and Ethnography of the Cocoa Software
Community</span></b></a>.” Hansen Hsu, Cornell University.<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:
auto;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo4'>“<a href="http://www.sigcis.org/dp4"><b><span
style='color:#665566'>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</span></b></a>”
Kevin Walsh, University of California, San Diego.<o:p></o:p></li>
</ul>
<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;
margin-left:0in'>(Short presentations to introduce pre circulated
dissertation proposals, to be discussed in turn by workshop participants)<o:p></o:p></p>
</td>
<td valign=top style='padding:6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt'>
<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;
margin-left:0in'><strong>Traditional Papers: Teaching & Showing</strong><br>
Chair: Olga Pantelidou, University of Athens<br>
Commentator: TBA<o:p></o:p></p>
<ul type=disc>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:
auto;mso-list:l5 level1 lfo5'>“<a href="http://www.sigcis.org/t4"><b><span
style='color:#665566'>The PLATO Computer-Based Education System:
Teacher's Tool or Teacher?</span></b></a>” Christopher MacDonald,
Princeton University.<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:
auto;mso-list:l5 level1 lfo5'>“<a href="http://www.sigcis.org/t6"><b><span
style='color:#665566'>Car Navigation Systems – A History of
Associative Clusters.</span></b></a>” Tristan Thielmann,
University of Siegen.<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:
auto;mso-list:l5 level1 lfo5'>“<a href="http://www.sigcis.org/t7"><b><span
style='color:#665566'>A Material History of Bits.</span></b></a>”
Jean-François Blanchette, UCLA.<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:
auto;mso-list:l5 level1 lfo5'>“<a href="http://www.sigcis.org/t9"><b><span
style='color:#665566'>Museums and the Material Culture of Video Games.</span></b></a>”
Petrina Foti, Smithsonian NMAH.<o:p></o:p></li>
</ul>
<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;
margin-left:0in'>(4x20 minute presentations followed by a 10-15 minute
comment and general discussion)<o:p></o:p></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style='border-top:none;border-left:inset 1.0pt;border-bottom:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;
border-right:inset 1.0pt;padding:6.0pt 12.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt'>
<p class=MsoNormal><b>3:30-4:00</b><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
</td>
<td colspan=2 style='padding:6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt'>
<p class=MsoNormal>Coffee break<span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style='border-top:none;border-left:inset 1.0pt;border-bottom:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;
border-right:inset 1.0pt;padding:6.0pt 12.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt'>
<p class=MsoNormal><b>4:00-6:00</b><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
</td>
<td valign=top style='padding:6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt'>
<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;
margin-left:0in'><strong>Works in Progress</strong><br>
Chair/Commentator: TBA<o:p></o:p></p>
<ul type=disc>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:
auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo6'>“<a href="http://www.sigcis.org/wp1"><b><span
style='color:#665566'>Multi-sided markets and on-line distribution of
working papers: A brief history of NEP, 1993-2005.</span></b></a>”
Bernardo Batiz-Lazo, University of Leicester and Thomas Krichel (Long
Island University & Novosibirsk State University, Russia).<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:
auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo6'>“<a href="http://www.sigcis.org/wp2"><b><span
style='color:#665566'>Making Computers Logical: Edmund Berkeley’s
promotion of logical machines.</span></b></a>” Mai Sugimoto, Kyoto
University.<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:
auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo6'>“<a href="http://www.sigcis.org/wp4"><b><span
style='color:#665566'>Investing in interactive skills – a
reinterpretation of the Swedish internet boom and bust, 1994–2004.</span></b></a>”
Gustav Sjöblom, Chalmers University of Technology .<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:
auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo6'>“<a href="http://www.sigcis.org/wp5"><b><span
style='color:#665566'>Meta Filter: Coming to Agreement with Interactive
Computer Technology.</span></b></a>” Sharon Irish, UIUC.<o:p></o:p></li>
</ul>
<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;
margin-left:0in'>(Short presentations to introduce pre circulated papers, to
be discussed in turn by workshop participants)<o:p></o:p></p>
</td>
<td valign=top style='padding:6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt'>
<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;
margin-left:0in'><strong>Traditional Papers: Place & Space</strong><br>
Chair: Ann Johnson, University of South Carolina.<br>
Commentator: Peter Meyer, Bureau of Labor Statistics.<o:p></o:p></p>
<ul type=disc>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:
auto;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo7'>“<a href="http://www.sigcis.org/t2"><b><span
style='color:#665566'>The Material History of Digital Electronics: The
Development of Silicon Manufacturing Technology at Fairchild
Semiconductor.</span></b></a>” David C. Brock, Chemical Heritage
Foundation & Christophe Lecuyer, University of California.<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:
auto;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo7'>“<a href="http://www.sigcis.org/t5"><b><span
style='color:#665566'>’The World Looks to Britain’:
Technology Transfer, Heterogeneous Engineering, and British Computing
Companies’ Attempt to Capture the Indian Market, 1955-1965.</span></b></a>”
Maria Hicks, Duke University.<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:
auto;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo7'>“<a href="http://www.sigcis.org/t8"><b><span
style='color:#665566'>Wat' Forever: Computing Education at the
University of Waterloo.</span></b></a>” Scott M. Campbell,
University of Waterloo.<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:
auto;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo7'>“<a href="http://www.sigcis.org/t10"><b><span
style='color:#665566'>Materiality, modernity and space: The British
banks and their computer centres, 1961–1963.</span></b></a>”
Ian Martin, Open University & University of Manchester.<o:p></o:p></li>
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margin-left:0in'>(4x20 minute presentations followed by a 10-15 minute
comment and general discussion)<o:p></o:p></p>
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