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FW: Business History Conference Proposal Deadline Extended/October 10, 2009
by Thomas Haigh 01 Oct '09

01 Oct '09

I send a previous announcement on this conference, http://sigcis.org/pipermail/members/2009-September/000229.html. Note that the deadline has been extended. I did not hear any interest in organizing a SIGCIS panel, but it is still not too late. Tom From: Carol Lockman [mailto:clockman@Hagley.org] Sent: Monday, September 28, 2009 1:12 PM To: Carol Lockman Subject: BHC Proposal Deadline Extended/October 10, 2009 PROPOSAL DEADLINE EXTENDED UNTIL OCTOBER 10 FOR THE Business History Conference Annual Meeting in Athens, Georgia, 25-27 March 2010, "The Business History of Everything" The deadline for receipt of all paper, panel and dissertation competition proposals now is 10 October 2009. The call for papers may be seen at <http://www.thebhc.org/annmeet/call2010.html> www.thebhc.org/annmeet/call2010.html. Please send all proposals to BHC2010(a)Hagley.org. Carol Ressler Lockman BHC Hagley Center PO Box 3630 Wilmington DE 19807 Email: clockman(a)hagley.org Phone: 302-658-2400, x243

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Fwd: [ATY] Alan Turing Year news
by Brian Randell 01 Oct '09

01 Oct '09

Hi: Apologies if you all already know about the Alan Turing Year mailing list, and for any duplicate postings, but I thought I'd forward this message just in case. cheers Brian Randell ----- >Many thanks to you all for signing up to the Alan Turing Year mailing list. > >_________________ > >Just to reassure you, and anyone else you recommend to join the >list, here is how we mean to use it: > >1) We will not share this list with anyone else! > >2) We will be very glad to distribute your news and information >relevant to Turing, the 2012 centenary, or other Turing-related >issues and events. > >3) Emailings will be very simple, and not too frequent - we will try >not to trigger your spam filters or overfill your inbox. As far as >possible we will point to places on the web for full information and >nicer presentations of news. The Alan Turing Year Webpage will be >updated regulary: > >http://www.turingcentenary.eu/ > >You can find there a list of useful links, including a "Turing >resource" page for those thinking of organising events. > >4) 2012 is going to be a fantastic year of Turing celebrations, and >for that we want ATY list-members to add to the buzz, and actual >organisation of activities leading up to the centenary. Let us know >if you need help, or want us to publicise your activities. > >Please do add the attached Alan Turing Year logo to your webpage. If >you want to link it to the ATY homepage, you could just copy this >into your html file: > ><A HREF="http://www.turingcentenary.eu/"><IMG >SRC="http://www.amsta.leeds.ac.uk/~pmt6sbc/images/ATY.logo.126x100.jpg" >Height="100" Width="126" >vspace=2 border=1 hspace=2 alt="ATYlogo" align="right"></A> > >_________________ > >Today's great news is that Bletchley Park, where Turing did >groundbreaking cryptographic work anticipating early computer >development, may finally be getting the funding it needs - it's in >much of the UK press today, see: > >http://www.bletchleypark.org.uk/news/docview.rhtm/592098 > >The Bletchley Park press release quotes Stephen Fry very rightly >talking about this, and the "Prime Minister's apology on behalf of >the nation to Alan Turing last month", as just first steps in >getting proper acknowledgement for Turing and his historical role. > >Of course, the build-up to the Alan Turing Year fits in beautifully >with such developments. The growth in awareness of and public >support for all things Turing-related can bring tremendous benefits >- scientific, educational, cultural, social ... A three-year window >of opportunity! > >All best wishes > >Barry Cooper >for the Turing Centenary Advisory Committee (TCAC) > >__________________________________________________________________________ > ALAN TURING YEAR http://www.turingcentenary.eu >_________________ > Prof S Barry Cooper Tel: UK: (0113) 343 5165, Int: +44 113 343 5165 > School of Mathematics Fax: UK: (0113) 343 5090, Int: +44 113 3435090 > University of Leeds Email: pmt6sbc(a)leeds.ac.uk, Mobile: 07590602104 > Leeds LS2 9JT Home tel: (0113) 278 2586, Int: +44 113 2782586 > U.K. WWW: http://www.amsta.leeds.ac.uk/~pmt6sbc >__________________________________________________________________________ > > >Content-Type: IMAGE/JPEG; NAME=ATY.logo.126x100.jpg >Content-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.64.0909291346020.4824@amsta> >Content-Description: >Content-Disposition: ATTACHMENT; FILENAME=ATY.logo.126x100.jpg > -- School of Computing Science, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU, UK EMAIL = Brian.Randell(a)ncl.ac.uk PHONE = +44 191 222 7923 FAX = +44 191 222 8232 URL = http://www.cs.ncl.ac.uk/people/brian.randell

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