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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Hello everyone,</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Like many of you I will soon be on my way to Manchester to take part in the gigantic iCHSTM congress (which includes ICOTECH</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">, the international history of technology meeting, and an array of other events.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> Below</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">are parts of a</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> reposted message</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> sent to the list a few months ago</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">by</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> our own James Sumner, who seems to be shouldering a very large part of the organizational burden for the meeting</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">. I've reshuffled the events into order, and removed one that has been cancelled but there are probabl</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">y various changes since then so my advice is to check details here against the main program,</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> </SPAN><A HREF="http://www.ichstm2013.com/programme/"><SPAN LANG="en-us"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Calibri">http://www.ichstm2013.com/programme/</FONT></U></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">, for anything you particularly care about.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> Look particularly at the line</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">"Computing, information, comms" on the chart here:</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> </SPAN><A HREF="http://www.ichstm2013.com/programme/timetable.html"><SPAN LANG="en-us"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Calibri">http://www.ichstm2013.com/programme/timetable.html</FONT></U></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> </SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">From the list below we should have probably the biggest concentration of SIGCIS members ever gathered outside our own events at SHOT.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> I'm going to be there for the whole week, and expect that this will give a chance to spend happy times with many of you inside and outside the official events.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri"></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">It also happens that July 24 is my birthday. Given this, and the fact that I lived in Manchester for four years</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> as a student</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> and</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">retain a great fondness for the place, I'm thinking that the evening of July 24 would be a particularly appropriate date on which to assemble anyone who is interested for an informal tour of historic pubs</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> and elegant bars</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> around the city center</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">. Reply to this message if you are</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">interested and I'll create a small email group to plan the specifics</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> (July 24 seems to be between the main SIGCIS related events so if you are interested but</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">won't be that day reply anyway and perhaps we will move it).</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Extracts from James' message:</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">SIGCIS has a symposium (group of themed sessions) at the Congress, organised by Bernardo Batiz-Lazo, Miguel Garcia-Sancho and myself, and a lot of familiar SIGCIS faces will be presenting both within this symposium and elsewhere</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">….</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">The theme of the SIGCIS symposium is "Data at work".</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">...</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">By my reckoning, there are at least 40 obviously SIGCIS-relevant papers on the programme, most of which appear on a dedicated "Computing, information, comms" track to avoid clashes: see the timetable at <</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><A HREF="http://www.ichstm2013.com/programme/timetable.html"><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">http://www.ichstm2013.com/programme/timetable.html</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">>. Some wider connections to themes relevant to some researchers on this list are covered in the "Systems, data, automation, computation" section at <</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><A HREF="http://www.ichstm2013.com/programme/guide/m/discipline.html#a3"><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">http://www.ichstm2013.com/programme/guide/m/discipline.html#a3</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">>.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Below (with apologies for likelihood of mangled text on some systems) I have cut and pasted listings of several core relevant symposia. I would emphasise, however, that there is a *lot* of interesting material on the wider programme, in fields ranging from military communications to systems biology to the use of digital techniques in teaching history.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">And there are highly relevant papers in broader sessions about other themes. Two that leapt out at me are Per Lundin in S078 on oral history, and Dick van Lente in T193 on STM in the public sphere. There are almost certainly others: let me know what I've missed!</FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">My reformatting and arrangement in chronological order of the relevant session information (</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">which, to repeat the disclaimed, may now be out of date):</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><B><FONT FACE="Calibri">S086-B. Biology, agriculture and medicine Mon 22 July, early afternoon</FONT></B></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><B><FONT FACE="Calibri">Chair: to be announced</FONT></B></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Miguel GARCIA-SANCHO | University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom Writing the history of ‘computers’ and ‘data’ through their interactions with biomedical research: from the genetic code to DNA sequencing</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">(1950s-1980s)</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Joseph NOVEMBER | University of South Carolina, United States The Cochrane Collaboration, beyond Cochrane</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Hallam STEVENS | Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Generating value: the Ensembl database and the dynamics of data</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Sabina LEONELLI | University of Exeter, United Kingdom Putting data to work in plant science, 1990-2012</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><B><FONT FACE="Calibri">S086-C. Making coding cultures</FONT></B></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><B><FONT FACE="Calibri">Mon 22 July, late afternoon</FONT></B></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Chair: James SUMNER | University of Manchester, United Kingdom</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Liesbeth DE MOL | Ghent University, Belgium From the machine’s eye? ENIAC and its different users</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Thomas HAIGH | University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, United States Rethinking the stored-program concept</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">David NOFRE | Independent scholar, Netherlands The promises and problems of a universal programming language:</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">reconciling scientific inquiry and technological stability in the ALGOL project, 1960-1965</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Tilly BLYTH | Science Museum, London, United Kingdom De-coding public service: the production and consumption of cultural values in the BBC microcomputer</FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><B><FONT FACE="Calibri">P125. Enforced specialization in computing technology: debugging the history of cooperation and competition in COMECON countries</FONT></B></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><B><FONT FACE="Calibri">Tue 23 July, early morning until early morning</FONT></B></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Chair: Thomas HAIGH | University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, United States</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Pierre BOUILLON | École spéciale militaire de Saint-Cyr, France A paradoxical Franco-Romanian cooperation in computers, both supported and circumscribed by the Cold War</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Slawomir LOTYSZ | University of Zielona Gora, Poland Plaiting a whip of sand: ups and downs of optical fiber technology in</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">pre-1989 Poland</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Petri PAJU | University of Turku, Finland Finlandized computing or business as usual? Computer trade between Finland and the Soviet bloc in the 1970s</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Frank DITTMANN | Deutsches Museum, Germany The development of network technology in COMECON countries</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><B><FONT FACE="Calibri">S005-A. Approaching machines and mathematics Fri 26 July, early morning</FONT></B></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Chair: Maarten BULLYNCK | Université Paris 8, France</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Anthony MOORE | Academy of Media Arts, Cologne, France Music machines and aural arithmetic</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Peggy Aldrich KIDWELL | Smithsonian Institution, United States Mathematical recreations and machines</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Doron SWADE | Independent scholar, United Kingdom Mathematics and machines: from calculation to computing</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Gerard ALBERTS | University of Amsterdam, Netherlands Mathematics as a machine</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><B><FONT FACE="Calibri">S005-B. Numerical mathematics and analog computing Fri 26 July, late morning</FONT></B></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Chair: Marie-José DURAND-RICHARD | Laboratoire SPHERE-UMR 7219, France</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Johannes LENHARD | University of Bielefeld, Germany Mathematics, machines, design: Carl Runge and the contested status of numerical mathematics</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Helena DURNOVA | Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic Václav Láska (1862-1943) and Václav Hruška (1888-1954): machines and practices in calculation in interwar Czechoslovakia</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Ulf HASHAGEN | Deutsches Museum, Germany Analog computing as a failed modernization program in the military-industrial-academic complex of the Third Reich</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Loïc PETITGIRARD | Conservatoire national des arts et métiers, France Analog computing and the mathematics of dynamical systems: ‘theoretical dynamics’ at the Centre de Recherche en Physique, Marseille, France,</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">1948-1964</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><B><FONT FACE="Calibri">S005-C. Mathematics through the machine's eye: the advent of digital computing Fri 26 July, early afternoon</FONT></B></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Chair: Liesbeth DE MOL | Ghent University, Belgium</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Marie-José DURAND-RICHARD | Laboratoire SPHERE-UMR 7219, France Douglas R Hartree (1897-1958): from the differential analyzer to digital computers</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Allan OLLEY | Independent scholar, Canada A task that exceeded the technology: early applications of the computer to the lunar three-body problem</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Maarten BULLYNCK | Université Paris 8, France Computing primes with the help of machinery (1929-1949)</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Mark PRIESTLEY | University College London, United Kingdom From computing plan to computer program: Monte Carlo and the ‘miracle of the ENIAC’</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><B><FONT FACE="Calibri">S005-D. Programming mathematics on digital computers Fri 26 July, late afternoon</FONT></B></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Chair: Liesbeth DE MOL | Ghent University, Belgium</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Claude LOBRY | INRIA-MODEMIC, France</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">De la «mise en equation» à la «mise en programme»</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Wolfgang BRAND | University of Stuttgart, Germany Getting in shape, form-finding in architecture: the force-density method as a bridge between mathematics and machine</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Edgar DAYLIGHT | Independent Scholar, Belgium Edsger W. Dijkstra in the 1980s: proving theorems by programming an ideal, non-existing, machine</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Commentary: Renate TOBIES | Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Germany</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><B><FONT FACE="Calibri">T202-A. Information technology</FONT></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><B><FONT FACE="Calibri"></FONT></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><B> <FONT FACE="Calibri">Sat 27 July, early morning</FONT></B></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Chair: to be announced</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Marcelo VIANNA | Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul - PUCRS, Brazil Para além dos clones – a formação do campo da Informática no Brasil nos anos 1980 através de três casos de fabricantes de microcomputadores (1980-1988).</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Beyond clones: the building up of the Brazilian information technology field in the 1980s through three cases of personal computer manufacturers, 1980-1988</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Aracele TORRES | University of São Paulo, Brazil Os estudos do software e a compreensão da sociedade contemporânea: o caso do movimento software livre Software studies and the understanding of contemporary society: the free software movement case</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">BAO Ou | Institution of Science Technology & Society, School of Social Sciences, Tsinghua University, China</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="MS Gothic">翻</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="MingLiU">译工作在中国计算机起步中的作用（</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">1953-1967</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="MS Gothic">）</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">The role of translation in China’s starting development of the computer,</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">1953-1967</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Scott CAMPBELL | University of Waterloo, Canada Computation centres, configured users and early computer technology in Canada</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Best wishes,</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
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