<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>Dear Colleagues,</div><div><br></div><div>Hope everyone is doing well!</div><div><br></div><div>Please excuse any duplication as some/many on the SIGCIS list are also on ours at CBI. Here is the Summer 2021 <i>CBI Bits & Bytes</i> (a twice a  year e-pub) with news of events, our fellows, developments at the CBI Archives, overview on the past year at CBI (my Dir. Desk), and a wonderful article by CBI Senior Research Fellow Bill Aspray on the early history of the history of computing (inspired by an oral history series he is kindly conducting for CBI that significantly advances early IT historical understandings, people, and institutions, and the historiography of computing)!</div><div><br></div><div>Best, Jeff</div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Jul 13, 2021 at 9:52 AM Charles Babbage Institute <<a href="mailto:cbi@umn.edu">cbi@umn.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><u></u>

    
        
        
        
        
        
        

    
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                        <span style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Reflecting on the past academic year at CBI, work settings changed, but dedicated service to local and global stakeholders, events, publications, oral history projects, collection development, editing, and outreach propelled our mission—advancing interdisciplinary computing/software studies and infrastructure—stronger than ever! <a href="https://umn.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ac86934aa6cefdac2c4dcaa2e&id=b6174de43a&e=7e9b315345" style="color:rgb(0,124,137);font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">Read more.</a> </span></span></span>
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                        <span style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">We are delighted to announce that Zachary Loeb is the incoming 2021-2022 Erwin and Adelle Tomash Fellow. His dissertation will be a social and technical examination of the “much-maligned” Year 2000 (Y2K) crisis. </span><a href="https://umn.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ac86934aa6cefdac2c4dcaa2e&id=5fffb47e36&e=7e9b315345" style="color:rgb(0,124,137);font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Read more.</span></a></span></span>
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