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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Hello all,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">I hope this isn’t repetitive to too many sigcis members.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Best,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Petri<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoAutoSig"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">CFP from
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">Arthur Tatnall
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoAutoSig"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""><a href="mailto:[mailto:Arthur.Tatnall@vu.edu.au]">[mailto:Arthur.Tatnall@vu.edu.au]</a>, as
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Chair, IFIP WG9.7 - History of Computing</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">
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</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<h1 align="center" style="text-align:center"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:22.0pt;line-height:115%">Making the History of Computing Relevant<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
<h2 align="center" style="text-align:center"><span lang="EN-AU">IFIP WG9.7 and Computer Conservation Society<o:p></o:p></span></h2>
<h2 align="center" style="margin-top:0cm;text-align:center"><span lang="EN-AU">History of Computing Conference<o:p></o:p></span></h2>
<h2 align="center" style="margin-top:0cm;text-align:center"><span lang="EN-AU">Science Museum, 17<sup>th</sup> – 18<sup>th</sup> June 2013<o:p></o:p></span></h2>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Displaying and examining the remains of old mainframe and mini computers is of considerable interest to those who were involved in building or using them. For many other people, however, displays or descriptions of this
technology are of little relevance and of little interest. For a start they have trouble appreciating where we have come from in electronic digital computing over the last 70 years when they understand (or care) little about details of the configurations of
these machines and how they differ from modern computers. So what if a Ferranti Mk 1
</span><span lang="EN">stored 20-bit word as a single line of dots on a </span><span lang="EN-US">Williams Tube, with its
</span><span lang="EN">eight tubes, each storing one a page of 64 words? This information needs to be turned into a form that people today can understand and appreciate.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The aim of this conference is to discuss what needs to be done to make the history of computing relevant and interesting to the general public today. Would shifting the emphasis from the technology itself to how it was
used make a difference? What about stories about the designers and builders of these computers? Would the use of replicas and simulations make this history more interesting? The conference aims to consider some of these issues.</span><span lang="EN-AU"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">It is hoped that the conference will be of interest to academic historians of computing, museum curators involved in displaying the history of computing, members of IFIP Working Group 9.7 (History of Computing), members
of the British Computer Conservation Society, and others with a concern to make this history more relevant to people of today.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN">Possible topics for discussion include (but are not restricted to):<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:35.7pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:-17.85pt;line-height:normal;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<![if !supportLists]><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">Relating details of the uses of early (or more recent) computers, and what difference they made to business, industry, education, government and people’s lives<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:35.7pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:-17.85pt;line-height:normal;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<![if !supportLists]><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">Sharing stories about the inventors and builders of these computers<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:35.7pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:-17.85pt;line-height:normal;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<![if !supportLists]><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">Using simulations and replicas to illustrate the history of computing.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:35.7pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:-17.85pt;line-height:normal;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<![if !supportLists]><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">How distinct national perspectives embody different histories of computing and communities of practice
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:35.7pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:-17.85pt;line-height:normal;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<![if !supportLists]><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">Displays of computing history as representing narrative or technical histories of computing<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:35.7pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:-17.85pt;line-height:normal;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<![if !supportLists]><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">How museums around the world are handling the issue of better presenting the history of computing as well as conserving it<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:35.7pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:-17.85pt;line-height:normal;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">The importance of education in making history of computing relevant<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">It is our intention to publish presentations and papers in the form of a book to be published by Springer, and possibly in a history of computing journal. If, however, you do not feel like writing a paper your contribution
will still be very welcome.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Pre/post conference activities will include an excursion to Bletchley Park.</span><span lang="EN-US">
</span><span lang="EN"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span lang="EN">Papers and expressions of interest in participation are requested by 1<sup>st</sup> February 2013.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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