<div dir="ltr"><div>Many thanks to David Hemmendinger for a correction. Given there is only 2008 to 2022 content on MUSE for <i>IEEE Annals</i> now, there seems to be a few years delay, but it is available now at IEEE Xplore. David also pointed out that it is available on the <i>IEEE Annals</i> main page too as of today. (it was on Xplore a day earlier, yesterday). That CSDL <i>IEEE Annals'</i> URL is: <a href="http://computer.org/annals" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">computer.org/annals</a> </div><div><br></div><div>Best, Jeff</div><div><br></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><b>Jeffrey Yost, Ph.D. </b></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><b>Director, Charles Babbage Institute for Computing, Information & Culture</b></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><b>Research Professor, History of Sci., Tech., Med., University of Minnesota</b><b></b></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><b> </b></div></div></div><div dir="ltr"><div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><b style="color:rgb(56,118,29)"><a href="https://press.jhu.edu/books/title/12804/just-code" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank"><i>Just Code: Power, Inequality and the Political Economy of IT</i> (Johns Hopkins U. Press out in Nov. 2025 co-edited w/ Gerardo Con Diaz)</a> </b></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><b style="color:rgb(32,33,36)"><a href="https://amzn.to/3gqe4R6" target="_blank"><font color="#cc0000"><i>Making IT Work: A History of the Computer Services Industry</i> (MIT Press)</font></a></b><b style="color:rgb(56,118,29)"></b></div><div><b><font color="#cc0000"><a href="https://www.press.jhu.edu/books/series/studies-computing-and-culture" target="_blank">Studies in Computing and Culture book series, Johns Hopkins U. Press</a> </font></b><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">Co-Editor (w/ Con Diaz)</span></div><div><font color="#222222"><b>PI, NSF-funded CBI project "Mining a Useable Past: Perspectives, Paradoxes, and Possibilities with Security and Privacy."</b></font></div><div><a href="https://www.blockchainandsociety.com" target="_blank"><font color="#38761d"><b>Blockchain & Society</b></font></a><font color="#38761d"><b> (crit. inq. essays & resources)</b></font> (Founder/Leader)</div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><a href="https://cse.umn.edu/cbi/interfaces" target="_blank"><font color="#000000">Interfaces: Essays and Reviews in Computing and Culture</font></a> </i></b><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">Co-Editor-in-Chief (w/ Amanda Wick)</span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><br></p></div></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Dec 19, 2025 at 10:45 AM Jeffrey Yost <<a href="mailto:yostx003@umn.edu">yostx003@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"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div>Dear Colleagues,</div><div><br></div><div>Wanted to share the news that our special issue of <i>IEEE Annals of the History of Computing</i> entitled "Automation by Design: Politics, Culture, and Landscape in an Age of Machines That Learn" came out yesterday!</div><div><br></div><div>It is now available on IEEE Xplore and soon will be on MUSE too. Colette Perold and my historiographically-contextualizing article "Introduction to Automation by Design" is open access as are a few of the articles (IEEE Digital Library, link below as a UMN z link, and many libraries subscribe to IEEE library & or MUSE where there is complete access). Special thanks to Honghong Tinn, who joined Colette, me, and Con on our 2023 CBI Symposium of the same name. It was an interdisciplinary event (History, STS, Sociology, Media Studies...) and this issue represents select historical-oriented articles. Articles and authors are listed below.</div><div><br></div><div>It was so wonderful to partner with tremendously gifted colleagues/friends Colette and Con on this issue and an honor for us to work with such an incredibly talented group of article authors writing cutting edge scholarship on the history of automation/"artificial intelligence"!!</div><div><br></div><div>Many thanks to <i>IEEE Annals</i> EiC Troy Astarte for helpful guidance throughout!</div><div><br></div><div>Happy holidays to everyone!</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://z.umn.edu/AutomationbyDesign" target="_blank">https://z.umn.edu/AutomationbyDesign</a></div><div><br></div><div>Best, Jeff</div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;border-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.9);border-style:none;border-width:0px;font-size:16px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;font-family:-apple-system,system-ui,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,"Helvetica Neue","Fira Sans",Ubuntu,Oxygen,"Oxygen Sans",Cantarell,"Droid Sans","Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol","Lucida Grande",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:rgba(0,0,0,0.9)"><div style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 1.6rem;padding:0px;border-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.9);border-style:none;border-width:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:none 0% 0%/auto repeat scroll padding-box border-box rgba(0,0,0,0);outline:none;max-width:928px;max-height:none;overflow:hidden;line-height:2rem"><div dir="ltr" style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;border-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.9);border-style:none;border-width:0px;font-size:1.4rem;vertical-align:baseline;background:none 0% 0%/auto repeat scroll padding-box border-box rgba(0,0,0,0);line-height:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;border-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.9);border-style:none;border-width:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background:none 0% 0%/auto repeat scroll padding-box border-box rgba(0,0,0,0);outline:rgba(0,0,0,0.9) none 0px;word-break:break-word;line-height:inherit"><span dir="ltr" style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;border-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.9);border-style:none;border-width:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:none 0% 0%/auto repeat scroll padding-box border-box rgba(0,0,0,0);outline:rgba(0,0,0,0.9) none 0px;line-height:inherit">Articles<span style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;border-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.9);border-style:none;border-width:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:none 0% 0%/auto repeat scroll padding-box border-box rgba(0,0,0,0);outline:rgba(0,0,0,0.9) none 0px;line-height:inherit"><br style="box-sizing:inherit;line-height:inherit"></span>Introduction to Automation by Design<span style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;border-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.9);border-style:none;border-width:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:none 0% 0%/auto repeat scroll padding-box border-box rgba(0,0,0,0);outline:rgba(0,0,0,0.9) none 0px;line-height:inherit"><br style="box-sizing:inherit;line-height:inherit"></span>Colette Perold and Jeffrey R. Yost<span style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;border-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.9);border-style:none;border-width:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:none 0% 0%/auto repeat scroll padding-box border-box rgba(0,0,0,0);outline:rgba(0,0,0,0.9) none 0px;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:inherit"> </span><span style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;border-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.9);border-style:none;border-width:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:none 0% 0%/auto repeat scroll padding-box border-box rgba(0,0,0,0);outline:rgba(0,0,0,0.9) none 0px;line-height:inherit"><br style="box-sizing:inherit;line-height:inherit"></span><span style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;border-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.9);border-style:none;border-width:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:none 0% 0%/auto repeat scroll padding-box border-box rgba(0,0,0,0);outline:rgba(0,0,0,0.9) none 0px;line-height:inherit">6-10<br style="box-sizing:inherit;line-height:inherit"></span>Digital Construction Comes to the Pacific Northwest: Timber and the Landscapes of Automation<span style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;border-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.9);border-style:none;border-width:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:none 0% 0%/auto repeat scroll padding-box border-box rgba(0,0,0,0);outline:rgba(0,0,0,0.9) none 0px;line-height:inherit"><br style="box-sizing:inherit;line-height:inherit"></span>Megan Wiessner<span style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;border-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.9);border-style:none;border-width:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:none 0% 0%/auto repeat scroll padding-box border-box rgba(0,0,0,0);outline:rgba(0,0,0,0.9) none 0px;line-height:inherit"><br style="box-sizing:inherit;line-height:inherit"></span>11 - 23<span style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;border-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.9);border-style:none;border-width:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:none 0% 0%/auto repeat scroll padding-box border-box rgba(0,0,0,0);outline:rgba(0,0,0,0.9) none 0px;line-height:inherit"><br style="box-sizing:inherit;line-height:inherit"></span><span style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;border-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.9);border-style:none;border-width:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:none 0% 0%/auto repeat scroll padding-box border-box rgba(0,0,0,0);outline:rgba(0,0,0,0.9) none 0px;line-height:inherit"><br style="box-sizing:inherit;line-height:inherit"></span>Machinery of Ethnic Cleansing: Punched Card Machines and the 1920 Greek Population Census<span style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;border-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.9);border-style:none;border-width:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:none 0% 0%/auto repeat scroll padding-box border-box rgba(0,0,0,0);outline:rgba(0,0,0,0.9) none 0px;line-height:inherit"><br style="box-sizing:inherit;line-height:inherit"></span>Christos Karampatsos;<span style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;border-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.9);border-style:none;border-width:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:none 0% 0%/auto repeat scroll padding-box border-box rgba(0,0,0,0);outline:rgba(0,0,0,0.9) none 0px;line-height:inherit"><br style="box-sizing:inherit;line-height:inherit"></span>Polyxeni Malisova<span style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;border-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.9);border-style:none;border-width:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:none 0% 0%/auto repeat scroll padding-box border-box rgba(0,0,0,0);outline:rgba(0,0,0,0.9) none 0px;line-height:inherit"><br style="box-sizing:inherit;line-height:inherit"></span>24 - 37<span style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;border-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.9);border-style:none;border-width:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:none 0% 0%/auto repeat scroll padding-box border-box rgba(0,0,0,0);outline:rgba(0,0,0,0.9) none 0px;line-height:inherit"><br style="box-sizing:inherit;line-height:inherit"></span><span style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;border-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.9);border-style:none;border-width:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:none 0% 0%/auto repeat scroll padding-box border-box rgba(0,0,0,0);outline:rgba(0,0,0,0.9) none 0px;line-height:inherit"><br style="box-sizing:inherit;line-height:inherit"></span>Autocoding at Work: COBOL and the Specification of the American Office<span style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;border-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.9);border-style:none;border-width:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:none 0% 0%/auto repeat scroll padding-box border-box rgba(0,0,0,0);outline:rgba(0,0,0,0.9) none 0px;line-height:inherit"><br style="box-sizing:inherit;line-height:inherit"></span>David E. Dunning<span style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;border-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.9);border-style:none;border-width:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:none 0% 0%/auto repeat scroll padding-box border-box rgba(0,0,0,0);outline:rgba(0,0,0,0.9) none 0px;line-height:inherit"><br style="box-sizing:inherit;line-height:inherit"></span>38 - 49<span style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;border-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.9);border-style:none;border-width:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:none 0% 0%/auto repeat scroll padding-box border-box rgba(0,0,0,0);outline:rgba(0,0,0,0.9) none 0px;line-height:inherit"><br style="box-sizing:inherit;line-height:inherit"></span><span style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;border-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.9);border-style:none;border-width:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:none 0% 0%/auto repeat scroll padding-box border-box rgba(0,0,0,0);outline:rgba(0,0,0,0.9) none 0px;line-height:inherit"><br style="box-sizing:inherit;line-height:inherit"></span>Governing Collaboration: Data and Work Relationships in U.K. Software for Building Design, 1970–1980<span style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;border-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.9);border-style:none;border-width:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:none 0% 0%/auto repeat scroll padding-box border-box rgba(0,0,0,0);outline:rgba(0,0,0,0.9) none 0px;line-height:inherit"><br style="box-sizing:inherit;line-height:inherit"></span>Eliza Pertigkiozoglou<span style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;border-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.9);border-style:none;border-width:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:none 0% 0%/auto repeat scroll padding-box border-box rgba(0,0,0,0);outline:rgba(0,0,0,0.9) none 0px;line-height:inherit"><br style="box-sizing:inherit;line-height:inherit"></span>50 - 62<span style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;border-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.9);border-style:none;border-width:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:none 0% 0%/auto repeat scroll padding-box border-box rgba(0,0,0,0);outline:rgba(0,0,0,0.9) none 0px;line-height:inherit"><br style="box-sizing:inherit;line-height:inherit"></span><span style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;border-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.9);border-style:none;border-width:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:none 0% 0%/auto repeat scroll padding-box border-box rgba(0,0,0,0);outline:rgba(0,0,0,0.9) none 0px;line-height:inherit"><br style="box-sizing:inherit;line-height:inherit"></span>The Legality of Logistics: On Techno-Orientalism and Geopolitics in Semiconductor Production<span style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;border-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.9);border-style:none;border-width:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:none 0% 0%/auto repeat scroll padding-box border-box rgba(0,0,0,0);outline:rgba(0,0,0,0.9) none 0px;line-height:inherit"><br style="box-sizing:inherit;line-height:inherit"></span>Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal<span style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;border-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.9);border-style:none;border-width:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:none 0% 0%/auto repeat scroll padding-box border-box rgba(0,0,0,0);outline:rgba(0,0,0,0.9) none 0px;line-height:inherit"><br style="box-sizing:inherit;line-height:inherit"></span>63 - 77<span style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;border-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.9);border-style:none;border-width:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:none 0% 0%/auto repeat scroll padding-box border-box rgba(0,0,0,0);outline:rgba(0,0,0,0.9) none 0px;line-height:inherit"><br style="box-sizing:inherit;line-height:inherit"></span><span style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;border-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.9);border-style:none;border-width:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:none 0% 0%/auto repeat scroll padding-box border-box rgba(0,0,0,0);outline:rgba(0,0,0,0.9) none 0px;line-height:inherit"><br style="box-sizing:inherit;line-height:inherit"></span>Computing Racial Order<span style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;border-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.9);border-style:none;border-width:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:none 0% 0%/auto repeat scroll padding-box border-box rgba(0,0,0,0);outline:rgba(0,0,0,0.9) none 0px;line-height:inherit"><br style="box-sizing:inherit;line-height:inherit"></span>Jason Ludwig</span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;border-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.9);border-style:none;border-width:0px;font-size:1.4rem;vertical-align:baseline;background:none 0% 0%/auto repeat scroll padding-box border-box rgba(0,0,0,0);line-height:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;border-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.9);border-style:none;border-width:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background:none 0% 0%/auto repeat scroll padding-box border-box rgba(0,0,0,0);outline:rgba(0,0,0,0.9) none 0px;word-break:break-word;line-height:inherit"><span dir="ltr" style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;border-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.9);border-style:none;border-width:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:none 0% 0%/auto repeat scroll padding-box border-box rgba(0,0,0,0);outline:rgba(0,0,0,0.9) none 0px;line-height:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;border-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.9);border-style:none;border-width:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:none 0% 0%/auto repeat scroll padding-box border-box rgba(0,0,0,0);outline:rgba(0,0,0,0.9) none 0px;line-height:inherit">79-83</span></span></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><b><font color="#222222">* * * * * *</font></b></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><b>Jeffrey Yost, Ph.D. </b></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><b>Director, Charles Babbage Institute for Computing, Information & Culture</b></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><b>Research Professor, History of Sci., Tech., Med., University of Minnesota</b><b></b></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><b> </b></div></div></div><div dir="ltr"><div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><b style="color:rgb(56,118,29)"><a href="https://press.jhu.edu/books/title/12804/just-code" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank"><i>Just Code: Power, Inequality and the Political Economy of IT</i> (Johns Hopkins U. Press out in Nov. 2025 co-edited w/ Gerardo Con Diaz)</a> </b></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><b style="color:rgb(32,33,36)"><a href="https://amzn.to/3gqe4R6" target="_blank"><font color="#cc0000"><i>Making IT Work: A History of the Computer Services Industry</i> (MIT Press)</font></a></b><b style="color:rgb(56,118,29)"></b></div><div><b><font color="#cc0000"><a href="https://www.press.jhu.edu/books/series/studies-computing-and-culture" target="_blank">Studies in Computing and Culture book series, Johns Hopkins U. Press</a> </font></b><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">Co-Editor (w/ Con Diaz)</span></div><div><font color="#222222"><b>PI, NSF-funded CBI project "Mining a Useable Past: Perspectives, Paradoxes, and Possibilities with Security and Privacy."</b></font></div><div><a href="https://www.blockchainandsociety.com" target="_blank"><font color="#38761d"><b>Blockchain & Society</b></font></a><font color="#38761d"><b> (crit. inq. essays & resources)</b></font> (Founder/Leader)</div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><a href="https://cse.umn.edu/cbi/interfaces" target="_blank"><font color="#000000">Interfaces: Essays and Reviews in Computing and Culture</font></a> </i></b><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">Co-Editor-in-Chief (w/ Amanda Wick)</span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><br></p></div></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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