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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Hello SIGCIS members,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Here’s your chance to get on the program for the main SHOT meeting, November 3-6 in Cleveland.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>We need a volunteer to chair the session below. Email me if you are interested. Ideally we’d give to slot to someone who is not already coming to the meeting to broaden participation, but SHOT allows people to chair who are already speaking in another session.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>To get it correctly into the printed booklet I need a name by the end of Monday – I just remembered the need for this when I received a reminder from Jane Carlson. Meeting details here: <a href="http://www.historyoftechnology.org/annual_meeting.html">http://www.historyoftechnology.org/annual_meeting.html</a>. Early bird SHOT registration finishes Oct 1 and must be made by fax or mail: <a href="http://www.historyoftechnology.org/pdf/2011_registration_form.pdf">http://www.historyoftechnology.org/pdf/2011_registration_form.pdf</a>. If you come to SHOT you can also come to our wonderful SIGCIS workshop the next day: <a href="http://www.sigcis.org/workshop11">http://www.sigcis.org/workshop11</a>. <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><b><span style='font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>Saturday, 5 November</span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>8:30 AM – 10:00 AM</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>Coded Narratives: Memory, Practice and Community in the History of Software</span></i></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Sponsored by the SIG on Computers, Information, and Society<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Organizer: <b><span style='color:black'>Thomas Haigh</span></b><span style='color:black'> (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee)</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.25in;text-indent:-1.25in'><span style='color:black'>Chair: <b><span style='background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow'>CHAIR NEEDED</span></b></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Commentator: <b>Thomas Haigh</b> (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee)</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><i><span style='color:black'> </span></i></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='color:black'>Irina Nikiforova</span></b><span style='color:black'> (Georgia Institute of Technology)</span><b> [<span style='color:black'>Robinson Prize Candidate]</span></b><span style='color:black'>: ACM and Turing Prize Scientists: Defining the Art and Science of Computing, 1947-2008</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='color:black'>Hansen Hsu</span></b><span style='color:black'> (Cornell University)</span><b> [<span style='color:black'>Robinson Prize Candidate]</span></b><span style='color:black'>: NeXT History and Cocoa Community Memory</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='color:black'>Joline Zepcevski</span></b><span style='color:black'> (University of Minnesota)</span><b> [<span style='color:black'>Robinson Prize Candidate]</span></b><span style='color:black'>: Complexity, Verification and the Rise of Object Oriented Programming</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>