<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>Make sure that you get a selfie or group photo by the <a href="https://ethw.org/Milestones:Special_Citation_Heinz_Nixdorf_Museum,_1996">IEEE Special Citation bronze plaque</a> at the Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum.</div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">_________________________<br>Brian A. Berg / <a href="mailto:bberg@StanfordAlumni.org" target="_blank">bberg@StanfordAlumni.org</a><br>Berg Software Design - <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/brianaberg/" target="_blank">LinkedIn Profile</a><br>180 Lithia Way, Suite 201, Ashland, OR 97520 USA<br>14500 Big Basin Way, Suite J, Saratoga, CA 95070 USA</div><div dir="ltr">Phone: 408.568.2505<br><span style="font-size:small">Consulting: Flash Memory/USB/Storage/Patents</span></div><div dir="ltr"><div><a href="https://www.ieee.org/about/history-center/history-committee.html" target="_blank">IEEE History Committee</a> Member<br></div><div><a href="https://ieee-region6.org/about-us/region-6-officers/" target="_blank">IEEE Region 6</a> History/Milestones Chair</div><div><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">Curator: <a href="http://www.SiliconValleyMilestones.com" target="_blank">www.SiliconValleyMilestones.com</a></span><br><div>IEEE <a href="http://www.ieee.org/scv/" target="_blank">SCV Section</a> Past Chair / <a href="http://www.CaliforniaConsultants.org" target="_blank">IEEE-CNSV</a> Board Director</div></div><div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:small">Co-Organizer: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ieee_ieee-activity-7221529803944771586-HB7S/" target="_blank">Celebrating 50 Years of the Internet</a></span></div><div><img width="200" height="77" src="https://ci3.googleusercontent.com/mail-sig/AIorK4yUUjaO1uoplVhFWdbq2t4rYXWcrv5QudccSE739nEIh6JsaQ-FIMAlI9jXwLVy7V7awIIX73U"><br></div><div>_________________________</div><div><p style="color:rgb(34,34,34);margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none">Brian Berg</p><p style="color:rgb(34,34,34);margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none">FMS Technical Chair</p><p style="color:rgb(34,34,34);margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none">brian.berg@FutureMemoryStorage.com</p><p style="color:rgb(34,34,34);margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none"><a href="http://www.FutureMemoryStorage.com" target="_blank">www.FutureMemoryStorage.com</a></p><p style="color:rgb(34,34,34);margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none"><img width="420" height="77" src="https://ci3.googleusercontent.com/mail-sig/AIorK4xRF_GALjcvIcF-E_p18dNR0eUeO6Hb2JZg_n-hn9un9ONOUBvAmubbdqX3auq6WIjNZAYttvqBiyOB"></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Oct 17, 2025 at 3:37 AM Martin Schmitt via Members <<a href="mailto:members@lists.sigcis.org">members@lists.sigcis.org</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>Dear SIGCIS,<div><br></div><div>I hope everyone of you returned home safely from Luxembourg last week. It was awesome to see so many of you there at SHOT. So many good panels on the history of computing! </div><div><br></div><div>Who still hasn’t enough (and is able to understand German), I just wanted to invite you to a conference on „Computer in Germany. New perspectives in History of Computing and Computer Archeology“. ("Computer in Deutschland“) The conference takes place on the of the 100th anniversary of Heinz Nixdorf in Paderborn, Germany, on November 7th-8th. I’m co-organizing the conference with my colleague Stefan Höltgen with the support of the Historical Institute Paderborn, the German Society for Computer Science (GI) and the Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum, on of the largest computer museums in the world. Conference language is German, the conference is free. </div><div>Please find attached the program and the poster.</div><div><div>
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