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<p><span class="HwtZe" lang="en"><span class="jCAhz ChMk0b C1N51c"><span
class="ryNqvb">This may interest to those working on Zuse,
although you may already know the source.</span></span></span> Years
ago, while doing research on the figure of H. H. Goldstine, I
found a report in the Herman H. Goldstine Collection at Hampshire
College of the interrogation of Zuse's business partner Gerhard
Overhoff. The report is dated 8 November 1946 and the Overhoff's
interrogation was carried out by the Air Interrogation Unit of
the Air Division Headquarters United States Forces in Austria. The
report is four pages long and includes, among other things, a
brief description of Overhoff's career at Henschel A.G., a
description of Zuse's machines and their applications during war
time, a brief history of "Zuse Apparatebau", as well as a
comparison with US machines at that time (ENIAC, etc.) -all based
on Overhoff's own testimony.</p>
<p>Best, </p>
<p>David Nofre</p>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Op 30-12-2025 om 21:23 schreef Brian E
Carpenter via Members:<br>
</div>
<blockquote type="cite"
cite="mid:860b2f67-c674-4e13-99f6-d745d6c24bff@gmail.com">I really
wish I had known about all this on June 17, 1992, when I had lunch
with Zuse in the CERN cafeteria. I had the chance to ask him any
question I wanted. He was at CERN to give a seminar, but for some
exraordinary reason nobody had organised a lunch for him --
normally at CERN invited seminar speakers were given a nice lunch
with carefully selected attendees. So I took him to the cafeteria,
where we lined up like everybody else. The main question I had for
him was about when he learned of Turing's work, and he told me
that he had no knowledge of "On Computable Numbers" before 1948.
He also said something to the effect that he knew of Shannon's
work before then (but that seems odd, given that Shannon's famous
papers were dated 1948/49).
<br>
<br>
My brief notes from that day indicate that I couldn't understand
his seminar.
<br>
<br>
Regards/Ngā mihi
<br>
Brian Carpenter
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On 31-Dec-25 05:22, herbert.bruderer--- via Members wrote:
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<blockquote type="cite">In 1949, the German computer pioneer
Konrad Zuse and his closest colleagues considered fleeing to
Switzerland with their families. This is evident from a request
dated October 20, 1949, which the president of the Swiss Federal
School Board, Hans Palmann, sent to the relevant border
authorities. In this letter, which was only recently discovered
in the archive of the ETH Library in Zurich, he asked the
authorities at the Swiss-German border not to turn Zuse and his
colleagues back.
<br>
For more details see
<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://doi.org/10.3929/ethz-a-010001424">https://doi.org/10.3929/ethz-a-010001424</a>
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="https://doi.org/10.3929/ethz-a-010001424"><https://doi.org/10.3929/ethz-a-010001424></a>
<br>
Warum wollte Konrad Zuse 1949 in die Schweiz fliehen?
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="https://www.research-collection.ethz.ch/entities/publication/5da6f225-32b6-4890-9bff-0f0ab3cbaec6"><https://www.research-collection.ethz.ch/entities/publication/5da6f225-32b6-4890-9bff-0f0ab3cbaec6></a><br>
and
<br>
Bruderer, Herbert: Milestones in Analog and Digital Computing,
Springer Nature Switzerland AG, Cham, 3^rd edition 2020, 2
volumes, 2113 pages, 715 illustrations, 151 tables, translated
from the German by Dr John McMinn,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-40974-6">https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-40974-6</a>
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-40974-6"><https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-40974-6></a>
<br>
Best,
<br>
Herbert
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<blockquote type="cite">Ceruzzi, Paul via Members
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:members@lists.sigcis.org"><members@lists.sigcis.org></a> hat am 30.12.2025 16:30 CET
geschrieben:
<br>
Congratulations on an excellent issue of the /IEEE Annals/. I
especially enjoyed the piece by Raúl Rojas
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="https://www.computer.org/csdl/search/default?type=author&givenName=Ra%FAl&surname=Rojas"><https://www.computer.org/csdl/search/default?type=author&givenName=Ra%FAl&surname=Rojas></a>,
about Konrad Zuse and Operation Paperclip. It clarified a lot
of questions I had about Zuse's postwar activities. One of
the reports retrieved from the Archives mentioned concern that
the US Army had about Zuse's plant being located so close to
the East German border. More than that: Zuse's residence, in
the town of Huenfeld, was very close not only to the border,
but to the "Fulda Gap": the low plain that the US and NATO
thought would be a route of a Soviet invasion to the west. It
has been called "the hottest place in the Cold War." I can't
find the documents, but I had read evidence that the Army made
plans to secure Zuse in the event of an invasion across the
Gap.
<br>
Here's the Wikipedia entry about the modest
museum/installation commemorating the Gap:
<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observation_Post_Alpha">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observation_Post_Alpha</a>
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observation_Post_Alpha"><https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observation_Post_Alpha></a>
<br>
Best,
<br>
Paul Ceruzzi
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*Subject:* Re: [SIGCIS-Members] Our "Automation by Design..."
Special Issue of IEEE Annals is out!
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*External Email - Exercise Caution*
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Many thanks Troy!! Colette, Con and I are so grateful for your
amazing work and guidance in helping to make this issue happen
and to making it shine!!
<br>
I posted on social platforms on the articles that we as guest
editors worked directly with, and quickly cut and pasted from
that to the SIGCIS listserv before heading out to visit family
in the Pacific NW for the holidays. Tremendous thanks to all
who contributed content appearing in the issue--I so enjoyed
and appreciate these wonderful department articles and the
issue in its entirity!!
<br>
Happy upcoming New Year's Eve/Day to all!
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Best, Jeff
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of Minnesota*
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On Sat, Dec 27, 2025, 8:01 AM Troy Astarte
<<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:t.k.astarte@swansea.ac.uk">t.k.astarte@swansea.ac.uk</a>
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Dear all,
<br>
Jeff, many thanks for announcing this for me! Its
publication while I was at a conference/on leave delayed my
own announcement. I’ll forgo an additional email, but will
give the full ToC here.
<br>
You can find the issue on the Computer Society Digital
Library
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="https://www.computer.org/csdl/magazine/an/2025/04"><https://www.computer.org/csdl/magazine/an/2025/04></a> or
IEEE Xplore
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/mostRecentIssue.jsp?punumber=85"><https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/mostRecentIssue.jsp?punumber=85></a> according
to your preference/subscription. Here is the table of
contents:
<br>
Guest Editors’ Introduction
<br>
Introduction to Automation by Design
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="https://www.computer.org/csdl/magazine/an/2025/04/11304148/2cygClfVW8w"><https://www.computer.org/csdl/magazine/an/2025/04/11304148/2cygClfVW8w></a><br>
by Colette Perold
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="https://www.computer.org/csdl/search/default?type=author&givenName=Colette&surname=Perold"><https://www.computer.org/csdl/search/default?type=author&givenName=Colette&surname=Perold></a>,
Jeffrey R. Yost
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="https://www.computer.org/csdl/search/default?type=author&givenName=Jeffrey%20R.&surname=Yost"><https://www.computer.org/csdl/search/default?type=author&givenName=Jeffrey%20R.&surname=Yost></a><br>
Theme Articles: Automation by Design
<br>
Digital Construction Comes to the Pacific Northwest:
Timber and the Landscapes of Automation
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="https://www.computer.org/csdl/magazine/an/2025/04/11031182/27sQG5Y18u4"><https://www.computer.org/csdl/magazine/an/2025/04/11031182/27sQG5Y18u4></a><br>
by Megan Wiessner
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="https://www.computer.org/csdl/search/default?type=author&givenName=Megan&surname=Wiessner"><https://www.computer.org/csdl/search/default?type=author&givenName=Megan&surname=Wiessner></a><br>
<br>
Machinery of Ethnic Cleansing: Punched Card Machines and
the 1920 Greek Population Census
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="https://www.computer.org/csdl/magazine/an/2025/04/11208589/2aYh0oUQOZi"><https://www.computer.org/csdl/magazine/an/2025/04/11208589/2aYh0oUQOZi></a><br>
by Christos Karampatsos
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="https://www.computer.org/csdl/search/default?type=author&givenName=Christos&surname=Karampatsos"><https://www.computer.org/csdl/search/default?type=author&givenName=Christos&surname=Karampatsos></a>,
Polyxeni Malisova
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="https://www.computer.org/csdl/search/default?type=author&givenName=Polyxeni&surname=Malisova"><https://www.computer.org/csdl/search/default?type=author&givenName=Polyxeni&surname=Malisova></a><br>
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Autocoding at Work: COBOL and the Specification of the
American Office
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="https://www.computer.org/csdl/magazine/an/2025/04/10938681/25n2yWIBtYI"><https://www.computer.org/csdl/magazine/an/2025/04/10938681/25n2yWIBtYI></a><br>
by David E. Dunning
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="https://www.computer.org/csdl/search/default?type=author&givenName=David%20E.&surname=Dunning"><https://www.computer.org/csdl/search/default?type=author&givenName=David%20E.&surname=Dunning></a><br>
<br>
Governing Collaboration: Data and Work Relationships in
U.K. Software for Building Design, 1970–1980
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="https://www.computer.org/csdl/magazine/an/2025/04/11029403/27qQcf3RL6E"><https://www.computer.org/csdl/magazine/an/2025/04/11029403/27qQcf3RL6E></a><br>
by Eliza Pertigkiozoglou
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="https://www.computer.org/csdl/search/default?type=author&givenName=Eliza&surname=Pertigkiozoglou"><https://www.computer.org/csdl/search/default?type=author&givenName=Eliza&surname=Pertigkiozoglou></a><br>
The Legality of Logistics: On Techno-Orientalism and
Geopolitics in Semiconductor Production
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="https://www.computer.org/csdl/magazine/an/2025/04/10964384/25UAaLnTI88"><https://www.computer.org/csdl/magazine/an/2025/04/10964384/25UAaLnTI88></a><br>
by Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="https://www.computer.org/csdl/search/default?type=author&givenName=Ranjodh%20Singh&surname=Dhaliwal"><https://www.computer.org/csdl/search/default?type=author&givenName=Ranjodh%20Singh&surname=Dhaliwal></a><br>
Theme Think Piece
<br>
Computing Racial Order
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="https://www.computer.org/csdl/magazine/an/2025/04/11304157/2cygCLOhoyI"><https://www.computer.org/csdl/magazine/an/2025/04/11304157/2cygCLOhoyI></a><br>
by Jason Ludwig
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="https://www.computer.org/csdl/search/default?type=author&givenName=Jason&surname=Ludwig"><https://www.computer.org/csdl/search/default?type=author&givenName=Jason&surname=Ludwig></a><br>
Department: Anecdotes
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Konrad Zuse and Operation Paperclip
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="https://www.computer.org/csdl/magazine/an/2025/04/11304160/2cygBlQCgta"><https://www.computer.org/csdl/magazine/an/2025/04/11304160/2cygBlQCgta></a><br>
by Raúl Rojas
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="https://www.computer.org/csdl/search/default?type=author&givenName=Ra%FAl&surname=Rojas"><https://www.computer.org/csdl/search/default?type=author&givenName=Ra%FAl&surname=Rojas></a><br>
A Simulated Differential Analyzer
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="https://www.computer.org/csdl/magazine/an/2025/04/11304149/2cygBMGhfPi"><https://www.computer.org/csdl/magazine/an/2025/04/11304149/2cygBMGhfPi></a><br>
by Richard Pawson
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="https://www.computer.org/csdl/search/default?type=author&givenName=Richard&surname=Pawson"><https://www.computer.org/csdl/search/default?type=author&givenName=Richard&surname=Pawson></a><br>
Department: Events and Sightings
<br>
“The Computer in Motion”: Symposium Report From the 27th
International Congress of History of Science and Technology
(ICHST)
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="https://www.computer.org/csdl/magazine/an/2025/04/11304150/2cygBSWAvLy"><https://www.computer.org/csdl/magazine/an/2025/04/11304150/2cygBSWAvLy></a><br>
by Ksenia Tatarchenko
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="https://www.computer.org/csdl/search/default?type=author&givenName=Ksenia&surname=Tatarchenko"><https://www.computer.org/csdl/search/default?type=author&givenName=Ksenia&surname=Tatarchenko></a>,
Barbara Hof
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Arianna Borrelli
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Best,
<br>
<br>
Dr. Troy Kaighin Astarte (they/them / nhw)
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forgive any oddities resulting.
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<blockquote type="cite"> On 19 Dec 2025, at 18:26, Jeffrey
Yost via Members <<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:members@lists.sigcis.org">members@lists.sigcis.org</a>
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University. Do not click links or open attachments unless
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*RHYBUDD:* Daeth yr e-bost hwn o'r tu allan i Brifysgol
Abertawe. Peidiwch â chlicio ar atodiadau neu agor atodiadau
oni bai eich bod chi'n adnabod yr anfonwr a'ch bod yn gwybod
bod y cynnwys yn ddiogel.
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<br>
Many thanks to David Hemmendinger for a correction.
Given there is only 2008 to 2022 content on MUSE for /IEEE
Annals/ 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 /IEEE Annals/ main page too as of today.
(it was on Xplore a day earlier, yesterday). That CSDL
/IEEE Annals'/ URL is: computer.org/annals
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Best, Jeff
<br>
*Jeffrey Yost, Ph.D. *
<br>
*Director, Charles Babbage Institute for Computing,
Information & Culture*
<br>
*Research Professor, History of Sci., Tech., Med.,
University of Minnesota*
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**
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*/Just Code: Power, Inequality and the Political Economy
of IT/ (Johns Hopkins U. Press out in Nov. 2025 co-edited w/
Gerardo Con Diaz)
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="https://press.jhu.edu/books/title/12804/just-code"><https://press.jhu.edu/books/title/12804/just-code></a> *
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*/Making IT Work: A History of the Computer Services
Industry/ (MIT Press) <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="https://amzn.to/3gqe4R6"><https://amzn.to/3gqe4R6></a>*
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*Studies in Computing and Culture book series, Johns
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*Co-Editor (w/ Con Diaz)
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*PI, NSF-funded CBI project "Mining a Useable Past:
Perspectives, Paradoxes, and Possibilities with Security and
Privacy."*
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On Fri, Dec 19, 2025 at 10:45 AM Jeffrey Yost
<<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:yostx003@umn.edu">yostx003@umn.edu</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:yostx003@umn.edu"><mailto:yostx003@umn.edu></a>>
wrote:
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Dear Colleagues,
<br>
Wanted to share the news that our special issue of
/IEEE Annals of the History of Computing/ entitled
"Automation by Design: Politics, Culture, and Landscape in
an Age of Machines That Learn" came out yesterday!
<br>
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.
<br>
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"!!
<br>
Many thanks to /IEEE Annals/ EiC Troy Astarte for
helpful guidance throughout!
<br>
Happy holidays to everyone!
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Best, Jeff
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Articles
<br>
Introduction to Automation by Design
<br>
Colette Perold and Jeffrey R. Yost
<br>
6-10
<br>
Digital Construction Comes to the Pacific Northwest:
Timber and the Landscapes of Automation
<br>
Megan Wiessner
<br>
11 - 23
<br>
<br>
Machinery of Ethnic Cleansing: Punched Card Machines
and the 1920 Greek Population Census
<br>
Christos Karampatsos;
<br>
Polyxeni Malisova
<br>
24 - 37
<br>
<br>
Autocoding at Work: COBOL and the Specification of
the American Office
<br>
David E. Dunning
<br>
38 - 49
<br>
<br>
Governing Collaboration: Data and Work Relationships
in U.K. Software for Building Design, 1970–1980
<br>
Eliza Pertigkiozoglou
<br>
50 - 62
<br>
<br>
The Legality of Logistics: On Techno-Orientalism and
Geopolitics in Semiconductor Production
<br>
Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal
<br>
63 - 77
<br>
<br>
Computing Racial Order
<br>
Jason Ludwig
<br>
79-83
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** * * * * **
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*Jeffrey Yost, Ph.D. *
<br>
*Director, Charles Babbage Institute for Computing,
Information & Culture*
<br>
*Research Professor, History of Sci., Tech., Med.,
University of Minnesota*
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**
<br>
*/Just Code: Power, Inequality and the Political
Economy of IT/ (Johns Hopkins U. Press out in Nov. 2025
co-edited w/ Gerardo Con Diaz)
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="https://press.jhu.edu/books/title/12804/just-code"><https://press.jhu.edu/books/title/12804/just-code></a> *
<br>
*/Making IT Work: A History of the Computer Services
Industry/ (MIT Press) <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="https://amzn.to/3gqe4R6"><https://amzn.to/3gqe4R6></a>*
<br>
*Studies in Computing and Culture book series, Johns
Hopkins U. Press
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="https://www.press.jhu.edu/books/series/studies-computing-and-culture"><https://www.press.jhu.edu/books/series/studies-computing-and-culture></a>
*Co-Editor (w/ Con Diaz)
<br>
*PI, NSF-funded CBI project "Mining a Useable Past:
Perspectives, Paradoxes, and Possibilities with Security and
Privacy."*
<br>
*Blockchain & Society*
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="https://www.blockchainandsociety.com/"><https://www.blockchainandsociety.com/></a>* (crit. inq.
essays & resources)* (Founder/Leader)
<br>
<br>
*/Interfaces: Essays and Reviews in Computing and
Culture <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="https://cse.umn.edu/cbi/interfaces"><https://cse.umn.edu/cbi/interfaces></a>
/*Co-Editor-in-Chief (w/ Amanda Wick)
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