Hello everyone,
This email is a request for people who are interested in participating in
SIGCIS sponsored panels at the annual meeting to get in touch with me. The
deadline is March 14, which means I need to hear from you within the next
few days with an initial expression of interest. SHOT does not need full
papers, but I would need an abstract and one page resume by March 9. The
normal SHOT format is for three or four talks of 20-25 minutes each followed
by a commentator and questions. I can't promise that all ideas can be fitted
neatly into one of our panel proposals. However if I can't accommodate
whatever you are interested in within a panel then you still have the option
of submitting your abstract as an individual paper.
What I've done for each of the past three conferences is to circulate a call
like this and receive a short summary from interested people of the work
they'd like to present. Then I look for connections among the ideas and
group them into one or more thematically coherent panel proposals. I work
with the authors to strengthen their abstracts and to tweak them to better
fit the panel. This has worked well in the past. Last year we submitted
three panels, all of which were accepted. For the previous year we had two
panels, both accepted. Once we see how things are shaping up we may use the
list again to appeal for additional papers on specific topics or for chairs
or commentators.
You've already seen a couple of reminders of the upcoming SHOT 2008 meeting
from other people. Lisbon, October 10-14. Lots of information including
maps, hotels, travel, etc. is now online at
http://www.shotlisbon2008.com/meeting.htm.
The call for papers is at http://shotnews.net/?p=401. It mentions looking
for papers on how the history of technology might be written in the future,
so this may lead to a panel of historiographical papers about the future of
the history of computing. However other ideas are also welcome. It also
appeals for papers "from those new to SHOT regardless of discipline."
If you are a graduate student there is an additional reason to join one of
our panels. At the last meeting we raised enough money with our collection
and book auction to fund two graduate student travel awards of $300 each to
support the cost of attending the meeting. Any student presenting in a
SIGCIS sponsored panel will be eligible for consideration for one of these
awards.
It promises to be a great meeting, and I hope to see many of you there in
Lisbon. At the last SHOT meeting we had far more history of computing panels
than ever before - so let's try to set another record this year.
Tom Haigh
www.tomandmaria.com/tom
Dear all,
With apologies for crossposting
With best wishes,
Sandra Mols
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Subject: 50 años del cómputo en México.
En 2008 se llevarán a cabo distintas actividades para conmemorar los 50 años
del Computo en México, organizadas por la Dirección General de Computo
Académico de la UNAM.
Para obtener mayor información es posible consultar la
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Hello everyone,
SHOT registration time is rolling around -- rather earlier than usual this
year. Must be the Germanic efficiency of the organizers. Registration is
online for the first time this year.
http://www.shotlisbon2008.com/registration.htm Advance registration, prior
to June 30, is 130 Euros. Still painful when converted to dollars but is
only half the rate 4S is demanding this year.
When I tried to register everything worked fine up to the payment stage, and
I received a registration ID. Then it gave a Java language error when
attempting to process my credit card.
The SIG lunches are working a little differently from usual. They will not
be run by the conference hotel, but will show up on the program as a
preference. We'll be going to a nearby restaurant, which the local
arrangements people will reserve for us. Payment will be made at the time of
the lunch, not with the registration fees.
Time assignments have not been made for the lunches. There will be only two
meeting times for SIGs -- both at lunch. The time assignments will be made
by the organizers at some future date, but it looks like we will need to
register without knowing what they are. I have asked the organizers to avoid
scheduling us at the same time as the Mercurians (the communications SIG)
because of the considerable overlap of members. As a second priority I asked
not to be scheduled against the Prometheans and Atsushi Akera's engineering
effort.
What I suggest doing is registering for whichever SIGs take your fancy. If
because of a clash you can't attend our lunch after all then just email and
let us know. We'll also have a less formal dinner one evening, so all is not
lost if you miss the lunch.
With the SOFT-EU project meeting being held just before SHOT I'm hoping for
a good turnout of historians of computing. We should be launching a number
of exciting initiatives at this year's event.
Best wishes,
Tom Haigh
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From: shot(a)em.uni-frankfurt.de [mailto:shot@em.uni-frankfurt.de]
Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2008 11:23 AM
To: shot(a)em.uni-frankfurt.de
Subject: shot meeting: registration deadline june 30th
Dear Shot participants,
I just want to remind you that the early registration deadline for the
Shot-meeting is June 30th.
http://www.shotlisbon2008.com/registration.htm
If you are a organizer of a session, please send this information to
your panelist!
Best regards
Martina Heßler
Dear all,
The organizers of this workshop asked that I help get the word out. They welcome submissions and appreciate any help you could provide forwarding the call for papers.
Best wishes,
Eden
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From: Raul Carnota [mailto:rcarnota@fibertel.com.ar]
Sent: Monday, June 09, 2008 9:11 AM
To: Medina, Eden
Subject: Call for papers
Call for papers
A Workshop on
HISTORY of INFORMATICS in Latin America and the Caribbean
will take place at the
INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON KNOWLEDGE, SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURES
Interdisciplinary Knowledge Exchange looking forward to Latin America and the Caribbean future
http://www.internacionaldelconocimiento.org<http://www.internacionaldelconocimiento.org/>
to be held at the University of Santiago in Chile (Institute of Advanced Studies) from October 29th to November 2nd, 2008. A workshop (#66) on this subject has been organized at the Congress. The call for papers for this workshop is attached at the end of this document.
Program Committee:
Jorge Aguirre - Universidad Nacional de Río Cuarto, Argentina
Rafael Lins - Universidade Estadual de Pernambuco, Brasil
Pablo Jacovkis - Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina
Authors should send their abstracts to the e-mail address indicated below before June 30th, 2008. Abstracts must be presented in RTF format and written in 12 p-times new roman characters and they can not exceed 250 words. The workshop number (66) as well as the authors' name, e-mail address and Institution must be included in the abstract. Acceptance of the abstracts will be communicated to authors before July 31st, 2008. The full lenght of accepted papers must not exceed 3500 words and must be submitted before September 30th, 2008. Spanish and Portuguese are the official languages of the Congress.
Publication in Journal IEEE Annals of History of Computing
Papers selected by the workshop organizers will be sent to the editor board of IEEE Annals of History of Computing after their translation to English for their possible publication in the Journal.
Important dates for authors to remember
Abstracts must be e-mailed before June 30th, 2008.
Acceptance of the abstracts shall be communicated to authors before July 31st, 2008.
Full-lenght text of accepted papers must be submitted before September 30th, 2008.
For Submittals and/or doubts or questions: historiainformatica(a)yahoo.com<mailto:historiainformatica@yahoo.com>
Call for Papers Workshop # 66: History of Informatics in Latin American and the Caribbean
The appearance of the computers at the end of the 1940's, their computing power exponential growth, the impressive decrease of their size and their cost, the birth of computer science as an independent discipline, the intertwining between computing and telecommunications, the incorporation of computers to all kind of devices and appliances, the Internet development and the "informatization" of society, constitute the most important technologic revolution of the last 60 years. The history of Informatics in Latin America and the Caribbean, though (from the technological point of view) a reflection of advances and developments in the Northern Hemisphere, shows also a large list of enriching experiences and original fruitful projects as well as the negative influence of nonautonomous policies. It shows improvements and backward motions, as well as periods of contagious enthusiasm and of deep discouragement. Besides, the vertiginous technological development in Informatics turns relatively new devices and techniques into old fashioned ones very fast, and the problems that this situation creates in Latin America and the Caribbean are sometimes different - and more serious - than the ones it causes in USA and Europe.
The purpose of this workshop is to facilitate an integral and careful debate on the most important aspects of the History of Informatics in Latin America and the Caribbean, emphasizing their social importance.
The main topics of the workshop are:
The beginning of computer science and computer activities in Latin America and the Caribbean as well as their relation to mathematics and electronics.
The processes through which computers became inserted in academia, government and production.
The development of the computer studies in Universities and other educational institutions.
The development of research in informatics. Groups and research institutions and their production.
The history of quality standards in the academia and industry in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Regional and international collaboration and cooperation in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Influence of existence and absence of government policies in the region for the development of informatics.
Creation of academic nets and their influence.
Important projects and personalities associated to development of informatics.
Existence and absence of scientific, technological and industrial structures in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Preservation of the ideas and actions of the protagonists of the computer activities.
Maintenance of artifacts and the intellectual record related to informatics.
