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Please find enclosed the CFP for the <b>international conference</b><b>"Unix
in Europe: between innovation, diffusion and heritage"</b> that
will take place in Cnam (Paris, France), October, 19th, 2017. <br>
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We are pleased to announce two keynote participations: <br>
- Laurent Bloch (cyberstrategy researcher at the French Institute
of Strategic analysis)<span style="color:rgb(69,69,69);font-family:Georgia,"DejaVu Serif",Norasi,serif;font-size:17.92px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;display:inline!important;float:none"><span class="m_851772780518626543m_-2250148140693208401Apple-converted-space"></span><br>
</span>- Thomas Haigh (associate professor in History at the
University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, School of Information studies)<br>
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A one-page abstract (maximum 500 words) with a short biography is
expected for June 30th 2017.<br>
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The Cfp is also available at :<br>
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Best regards,<br>
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The organization comitee : Isabelle Astic, Raphaël
Fournier-S'niehotta,<br>
Pierre-Eric Mounier-Kuhn, Camille Paloque-Berges, Loïc Petitgirard<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center" align="center"><b><span lang="EN-US">Call for
contributions<span></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center" align="center"><b><span lang="EN-US">International
symposium <span></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center" align="center"><b><span lang="EN-US">Unix in Europe:
between innovation, diffusion and
heritage<span></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center" align="center"><b><i><span>Conservatoire
National des Arts et Métiers,
Paris, France – October 19 2017<span></span></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span><span> </span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US">Communications
and discussions will be held in
French or English.</span></p>
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</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">Rationale</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US"><span></span></span></b><span lang="EN-US">The
Unix system was born in the 1970s at
the crossroads between two
interacting worlds: industry (the
Bell Labs at AT&T) and academia
(the University of Berkeley computer
science network). Its fast adoption
throughout computer research and
engineering networks across the
world signaled the future success of
the new system, fostering software
experiments within its open,
multi-user and multi-tasking system
running on mini-computers – and
later compatible with a larger part
of computer hardware. In the
European context, how was this
American innovation propagated,
adopted and adapted? Why was Unix of
so much interest in this context,
then and now? A solid culture of
Unix users might also explain this
success, as well as subsequent
processes of appropriation and
inheritance, due to the long and
complex history of Unix versioning.
The memory of Unix users is vivid
indeed, fed by early accounts within
the computer world (Salus, 1994) as
well as preservation initiatives
(Toomey, 2010). Moreover, the Unix
system is a crucial reference in the
history of computing, in particular
in the field of free and open source
software (Kelty, 2008), computer
networks (Paloque-Berges, 2017), as
well as in programming language
philosophy (Mélès, 2013).<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US"><br>
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US">In
order to explore the variety of
these interrogations, this symposium
encourages contributions from
historians as well as philosophers,
social science researchers, and
heritage professionals interested in
the history of computer open systems
and software with a focus on Unix or
who have a wider perspective. It
will also welcome protagonists and
witnesses of Unix culture and
carriers of its memory. We wish to
discuss and shed light on several
aspects of the development of Unix
in Europe (including in comparison
or relation with the rest of the
world) along three main lines:
historical and sociological,
philosophical and epistemological,
and heritage- and
preservation-oriented.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US"><br>
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">1/ Historical and
sociological perspectives<span></span></span></b></p>
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</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US">Historically,
the Unix system is linked to the
promotion and development in
research on open systems and
computer networks. How does this fit
in the context of industrial,
scientific and technological
policies defined at the national and
European level? The history of Unix
thus reaches at least three levels
of interrogations: 1/ the forms,
places and practices of innovation
around Unix in R&D labs and
computing centers in companies,
schools and universities; 2/
planning, promoting and negotiating
open systems (norms and standards)
from the perspective of science
and/or politics; 3/ international
geopolitical relations, whether
economical or geopolitical and even
geostrategic (for example between
Unix users, with users of other
computer equipment or other hardware
and software companies, the role of
embargos in the shipping of
mini-computers, of code, and
military uses of Unix).<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US"><br>
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US">In
parallel, how has the world of
computer research welcomed,
encouraged, negotiated and
propagated uses and innovations
related to Unix systems? This begs
the question of how Unix-related
research and development was
legitimized - or played a part in
the legitimization of computer
science experimentalism in the
scientific field and beyond. We
would also like to highlight
practices of resistance, the failure
to acknowledge, ignorance of or even
the limits of the Unix system, its
software tools and hardware
environment (beginning with the
famous PDP and Vax machines from
Digital Equipment where the first
Unix versions were implemented).
With a focus on occupational
computer uses, we call for analysis
which aims to explore and clarify: <span></span></span></p>
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the role of developers, users, and
user associations – from the point
of view of pioneers as well as
helpers, maintainers and other
witnesses of the implementation of
Unix; <span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US">-
the context, process, and people who
determined its propagation,
appropriation, and development over
time; <span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US">-
the meaning of concepts of Unix
philosophy and ethics such as
“openness” and “autonomy”, from a
social, political or economic point
of view.<span></span></span></p>
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</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><b><span lang="EN-US">2.
Philosophical and epistemological
perspectives<span></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US">We
will foster research and reflection
at the crossroad of the theoretical
foundations of computer systems and
engineering pragmatism, between the
philosophy of computer systems and
Unixian practices.<span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US">Protagonists
in the conception and diffusion of
Unix often claim to have a ‘Unix
philosophy’ . But beyond statement
of principle, what was the real
influence of this idea on the
technical choices underlying the
system’s developments? What are the
ethical, moral, and philosophical
motivations – alongside the social,
political or economic dimensions
discussed earlier – underpinning the
adoption of Unix or pretending to
extend it (for instance in relation
to the notions of sharing,
modularity or freedom)? How is the
idea of ‘openness’ attached to Unix
practices and heritage (free
software, open source) conceived?
What are the theoretical
developments to be drawn from it
(for instance with the idea of open
software)?<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US">The
logical and mathematical foundations
of Unix should be readdressed. Do
the fundamental concepts of Unix
have an ontological or metaphysical
significance beyond the sole
research aim of technical
efficiency? What role do aesthetics
play in the formulation of general
principles and technical choices?
How can we analyze programming
languages such as C and its
successors, scripts, software, and
generally speaking, the
proliferating source codes of Unix?
How do we consider the system, the
software environment, as well as the
hardware in which Unix is
implemented and executed?<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US">Such
philosophical questions also cover
the modalities of the transmission
of Unix, extending to the
investigation of the respective
roles of theory and practice in the
teaching of the system, the teaching
of knowledge and tools underlying
the system or supporting the system.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><b><span lang="EN-US">3.
Unix heritage and ‘heritagization’<span></span></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US">France
is now the home to multiple
initiatives taking place to build
and preserve a material and
immaterial heritage of computer
science and technology – such as
‘Software Heritage’ at INRIA, a
global software archive in progress.
The Museum of Arts et Métiers gave
impetus to the MINF initiative
(‘Pour un Musée de l’informatique et
du numérique’) and coordinates the
‘Patstec Mission’ dealing with
contemporary scientific and
technological heritage preservation,
including computer science. At an
international scale and with a
grassroots perspective carried by
the community of Unix users, the
TUHS (The Unix Heritage Society)
demonstrates the current interest in
the specific heritage linked to
Unix. We encourage reflections on
this heritage and its specific
features:<span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US">-
What is the place of Unix in the
construction of computer science
heritage? Is it possible to map Unix
systems and their heritage, from the
standpoint of machines, languages
and software? What has already been
collected? What corpus, data bases,
and/or platforms with a patrimonial
mission are concerned with Unix and
to what purpose?<span></span></span></p>
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How are the questions of training,
constitution and diffusion of a Unix
culture incorporated in the effort
to collect heritage? How do we
evaluate and put forward the
importance of immaterial heritage
attached to Unix, considering the
effects of community and memory in
its history and for the writing of
its history?<span></span></span></p>
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What are the practices and
modalities advocated by the unixian
heritage itself? What has been its
influence on the field of computer
engineering and research as well as
diverse fields such as:
popularization of science and
technology, ‘hacker’ movements and
many ‘maker’ practices today
(Lallement, 2016)?<span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span lang="EN-US">Schedules<span></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US">Please
send a one-page abstract (maximum
500 words) with a short biography by
June 30, 2017 to: </span><a href="mailto:camille.paloque-berges@lecnam.net" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US">camille.paloque-berges@cnam.fr</span></a><span lang="EN-US"> and
</span><a href="mailto:loic.petitgirard@cnam.fr" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US">loic.petitgirard@cnam.fr</span></a><span lang="EN-US">.
Accepted contributions and speakers
will be notified by July 15, 2017. <span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span lang="EN-US">Organizing committee<span></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span>Isabelle
Astic (Musée des arts et métiers)<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span>Raphaël
Fournier-S’niehotta (Cédric, Cnam)<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US">Pierre-Eric
Mounier-Kuhn (CRM, Paris 1)<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US">Camille
Paloque-Berges (HT2S, Cnam)<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US">Loïc
Petitgirard (HT2S, Cnam)<span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span>Scientific
committee <span></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span>François
Anceau (UMPC-LIP6)<b><span></span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span>Pierre Cubaud
(Cédric, Cnam)<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span>Liesbeth de
Mol (STL, Lille 3)<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span>Claudine
Fontanon (CAK, EHESS)<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span>Gérald
Kembellec (DICEN, Cnam)<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span>Baptiste
Mélès (Archives Henri Poincaré,
CNRS)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span>Pierre
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<span><span></span></span><span lang="EN-US">Giuseppe
Primiero (Middlesex University)<span></span></span>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US">Lionel
Tabourier (LIP6, Paris 6)<b><span></span></b></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span lang="EN-US">Institutional
partners and support: <span></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US">-
Project « Hist.Pat.info.Cnam »,
HT2S, Cnam – Research program
supported by the Excellence
laboratory History and Anthropology
of Knoweldge, Technics and Beliefs
(HASTEC), and in partnership with
the laboratories CEDRIC (Cnam),
DICEN (Cnam), and the Center
Alexandre Koyré (EHESS).<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span>- « Histoire
de l’informatique » (« History of
computing » seminar) seminar -
(Musée des arts et métiers, CRM,
Paris 1, UMPC-LIP6)<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span>- « Source
code » seminar - (CNRS, Cnam,
Université Paris 6).<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US">With
support from the DHST/DLMPST for the
History and Philosophy of Computing
(HAPOC)</span><span lang="EN-US">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span lang="EN-US">Bibliography <span></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 24.1pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman",serif" lang="EN-US">Kelty, Christopher M.
2008. <i>Two Bits: The Cultural
Significance of Free Software</i>.
</span><span>Durham: Duke
University Press Books.<span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 24.1pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman",serif">Lallement,
Michel. 2016. <i>L’âge du faire, </i>Seuil.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 24.1pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman",serif">Mélès,
Baptiste. 2003. « Unix selon l’ordre
des raisons : la philosophie de la
pratique informatique ». </span><i><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman",serif" lang="EN-US">Philosophia Scientiæ</span></i><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman",serif" lang="EN-US"> 17 (3): 181‑98.<span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 24.1pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman",serif" lang="EN-US">Salus, Peter H. 1994. <i>A
quarter century of UNIX</i>.
Addison-Wesley. Reading.<span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 24.1pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman",serif" lang="EN-US">Toomey, Warren. 2010.
« First Edition Unix: Its Creation
and Restoration ». <i>IEEE Annals
of the History of Computing</i> 32
(3): 74‑82.<span></span></span></p>
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