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<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Dear Colleagues, </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">IFIP’s Working Group 9.7 is pleased to announce two updates: we have formed our Program Committee and Springer-Nature has accepted our proposal to publish a proceedings volume of selected, edited papers. Although the CoVID-19 coronavirus travel restrictions are daunting, our plan is to meet at the South China University of Technology (SCUT) in Guangzhou, China, from 4 to 8 December 2020 unless further developments require an adjustment. Our biannual meeting will be dedicated to the histories of computing in Asia.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">As previously announced, the Program Committee is willing to review extended abstracts from anyone who wishes feedback before submitting a draft paper. For information on how to submit your abstract for an optional review, fill out the form on our website (<a href="http://ifipwg97.org/workshops/hca2020/" class="">http://ifipwg97.org/workshops/hca2020/</a>). If you do not wish to submit an abstract, you may still submit a draft paper before June 1.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Please feel forward to anyone who might be interested, and let me know if you have any questions. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Chris Leslie </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><font size="1" class="">Christopher Leslie, Ph.D.<br class="">Lecturer, School of Foreign Languages, South China University of Technology <br class="">Chair, IFIP Working Group 9.7 - History of Computing </font></div></div><div class=""><font size="1" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font size="1" class="">*********</font></div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><p class="" style="font-size: 14px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.65em; color: rgb(66, 66, 66); font-family: 'Open Sans', Arial, sans-serif;">HCA 2020: Second Call for Papers </p><div class=""><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; line-height: 36px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(53, 53, 53); font-family: Raleway, sans-serif; text-transform: uppercase;" class=""><font size="5" class="">HISTORIES OF COMPUTING IN ASIA</font></span></p><h4 style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 2rem 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; font-family: Raleway, sans-serif; font-weight: lighter; color: rgb(53, 53, 53); text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; line-height: 1.4; text-transform: uppercase;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">SOUTH CHINA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">GUANGZHOU • DECEMBER 2020</span></h4><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Our proposed workshop will bring together international and Chinese academic researchers, public historians, and industry professionals who are interested in the history of computing. </span><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">The Program Committee now welcomes the submission of extended abstracts from those researchers who would like comments on their projects before submitting a full paper. </span></div><h4 style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 2rem 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; font-family: Raleway, sans-serif; font-weight: lighter; color: rgb(53, 53, 53); text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; line-height: 1.4; text-transform: uppercase;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">THEMES</span></h4><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">The theme of conference will be histories of computing in Asia, with a particular emphasis on contextualizing China’s success in computing. The program committee will consider any paper in line with this theme, but we are particularly interested in topics such as: </span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><ol type="A" style="font-family: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1rem 1.4rem; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.6; list-style-position: outside;" class=""><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;" class="">China, Asia, and Beyond</strong>. The rapid rise of Chinese computing:</span><ol style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.6; list-style-position: outside; font-family: inherit;" class=""><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">electronic computing and the three phases of Chinese manufacturing: introduction, digestion, re-innovation</span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">computing innovations by Chinese professionals, both within the PRC and by overseas Chinese in other countries</span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">antecedents to business models like the sharing economy, e-payments, and online shopping that led to success for Alibaba, Tencent, and others</span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">computing in the Asian republics of the former USSR (such as Kazakhstan)</span></li></ol></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;" class="">Internationalism</strong>. Frameworks that foster multinational cooperation and innovation:</span><ol style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.6; list-style-position: outside; font-family: inherit;" class=""><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">computing on the silk road, and along the modern belt and road</span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">standards, protocols, and diplomacy </span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">machine translation, global English, and language plurality</span></li></ol></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;" class="">Science and Technology Studies</strong>. History and philosophy of technology, from east to west:</span><ol style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.6; list-style-position: outside; font-family: inherit;" class=""><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">theoretical and ideological responses to computing</span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">case studies of equitable technological development</span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">insights from feminist, masculinity, and gender studies</span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">linguistic analysis in the history of computing, computing’s contributions to linguistics </span></li></ol></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;" class="">Pedagogy</strong>. Teaching the history of computing in or about Asia to:</span><ol style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.6; list-style-position: outside; font-family: inherit;" class=""><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">engineering students</span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">business, humanities, and social science students</span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">high school students</span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">employees or the general public </span></li></ol></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;" class="">Public History and Imagination</strong>. Remembering and presenting histories of computing:</span><ol style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.6; list-style-position: outside; font-family: inherit;" class=""><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">images of computing in literature, film, and television</span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">computing in/with/for the arts and humanities</span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">preserving and presenting the history of computing inside and outside of Asia</span></li></ol></li></ol><h4 style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 2rem 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; font-family: Raleway, sans-serif; font-weight: lighter; color: rgb(53, 53, 53); text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; line-height: 1.4; text-transform: uppercase;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">REVIEW PROCESS</span></h4><div class="">Academic and amateur historians, computing and informatics professionals, archivists, and museum curators are welcome to submit papers for this workshop. Following our typical practice, we will ask for full papers for anonymous peer review by our Program Committee. Accepted papers must be revised according to the comments of the peer reviewers. In order to provide for a lively discussion at the workshop, we will distribute draft papers to participants in advance. After the workshop, authors will have the chance to incorporate feedback from the audience before preparing their final versions. These will be considered for inclusion in the volume of edited, selected papers, which will be published by Springer-Nature in the IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology series. The official language of the workshop and the printed proceedings is English.</div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px; color: rgb(53, 53, 53); font-family: Raleway, sans-serif; text-transform: uppercase;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px; color: rgb(53, 53, 53); font-family: Raleway, sans-serif; text-transform: uppercase;" class="">IMPORTANT DATES</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px; color: rgb(53, 53, 53); font-family: Raleway, sans-serif; text-transform: uppercase;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><font face="Roboto, sans-serif" class=""><ul style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><li class="">Before 31 March 2020: Optional submission of extended abstracts (500–1500 words and bibliography) for review by the Program Committee</li><li class="">1 May to 1 June 2020: Draft papers accepted for consideration by the Program Committee</li><li class="">1 September 2020: Comments from Program Committee, decisions, and invitations sent to authors</li><li class="">4 November 2020: Collection of papers, revised based on reviewer comments and using Springer template, for distribution to workshop participants</li><li class="">4 December 2020: Participants arrive in Guangzhou, China</li><li class="">13 January 2021: Revised papers due for consideration in proceedings volume, which will be published by Springer in the IFIP AICT series.</li></ul><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">For instructions on how to submit your extended abstract or draft paper, please fill out the form at <a href="http://ifipwg97.org/workshops/hca2020/" class="">http://ifipwg97.org/workshops/hca2020/</a><br class=""><br class="">Enquires in advance of your submission may be addressed to the chair of the working group, Christopher Leslie, at <<a href="mailto:chrisleslienyc@hotmail.com" class="">chrisleslienyc@hotmail.com</a>>.</span></div></font></div><div class=""><font face="Roboto, sans-serif" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></font></div></div></div></body></html>