December 2010 - Members - lists.sigcis.org

2010: SIGCIS's Year in Review
by Thomas Haigh 03 Nov '11

03 Nov '11

Dear SIGCIS members, I hope this end of year message finds you all well and in a relaxed holiday mood. SIGCIS has had another good year, reaching new heights on every measurable aspect of our activities. The number of members reached a new high (over 250), the number and quality of contributions to the email list was greater than ever before, we raised more money at our annual lunch with our book auctions and small than ever before ($1,486) and gave out more travel grants (www.sigcis.org/travelaward) to participants than ever before ($2,400). Our second annual workshop received more submissions than the first, and more people attended. The Mahoney Fund (www.sigcis.org/mahoney) holds its highest balance to date (over $8,000) after its best year of donations so far (at least $2,850). So does our operating account (around $3,500). For the most part, then, it was a year of consolidation and incremental growth. If something can be done annually for several years then it becomes a tradition, and perhaps the most crucial stumbling block is doing something twice. SIGCIS made the second Computer History Museum award (http://www.sigcis.org/chmprize) to Atsushi Akera for his book Computing a Natural World. The second SIGCIS Workshop, http://www.sigcis.org/workshop10, was a great success. See the full report at http://www.sigcis.org/node/13. We are already planning for next year's. SHOT's 2011 meeting is collocated with the IEEE Annals of the History of Computing editorial board meeting, as well as with several scholarly societies, and so we anticipate a particularly good turnout among the field's best known scholars. Despite our focus on institutional sustainability the SIGCIS team did launch several new projects. These fit with our philosophy of looking for simple, easy and low cost ways to strengthen the international scholarly community in history of computing. This year's breakout hit was the syllabus repository (http://www.sigcis.org/syllabi) It now holds around forty syllabi showcasing a broad range of approaches to teaching in the area. (Here's a new year resolution: if you have a new syllabus and are willing to share it please send a copy now to secretary(a)sigcis.org) Our team of international vice presidents added new resource guides for the history of computing in Britain (http://www.sigcis.org/britain) and Japan (http://www.sigcis.org/japan) We also added a new edition of Anne Fitzpatrick's Pioneers of Soviet Computing to the Member Contributions area (http://www.sigcis.org/contributions) Next year we will be looking for new ways to strengthen this part of the website. Another new initiative is currently unfolding. Behind the scenes we updated the site this year to use a current release of Drupal, fixing some glitches that had accumulated over the years. Our platform includes blogging and comment capabilities, and we have been experimenting with the best way to use it. Chris McDonald of Princeton and Marie Hicks of Duke have recently joined the SIGCIS executive committee (http://www.sigcis.org/node/6) and have taken special responsibility for this. Dag Spicer will also be blogging to keep us up to date with events at the Computer History Museum. You can see the latest from them at http://www.sigcis.org/blog. All SIGCIS members can login to post comments. If you would like your own blog on the site them please contact us. In the future we will be experimenting with ways to use blogs, wikis, and the email list together - for example by asking a question by email and then having answers accumulate on a blog page. Another good new year resolution: check your entry in our member directory at http://www.sigcis.org/members and make any updates needed by logging in at http://www.sigcis.org/user. Thanks to all of you who have contributed to SIGCIS over the past year, whether as email posters, organizers, donors, syllabus providers, bidders in the book auction, workshop attendees, or readers of our website and messages. If you have ideas on how to make 2011 another record breaking year for the SIG, or would like to get involved as a volunteer, then please get in touch. Happy holidays, Tom Haigh, SIGCIS chair www.tomandmaria.com/tom

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Bourses AHTI - Histoire des télécommunications et de l'informatique
by "Batiz-Lazo, Bernardo (shī fu)" 31 Dec '10

31 Dec '10

Might be of interest to members Happy New Year Bernardo Bangor University ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: *Blog de la AMHE* <no-reply(a)wordpress.com <mailto:no-reply@wordpress.com>> Date: 2010/12/26 Subject: [New post] Bourses AHTI - Histoire des télécommunications et de l'informatique To: oekonomie(a)gmail.com <mailto:oekonomie@gmail.com> <http://blogdelaamhe.wordpress.com/author/oekonomie/> Bourses AHTI - Histoire des télécommunications et de l'informatique <http://blogdelaamhe.wordpress.com/2010/12/26/bourses-ahti-histoire-des-tele…> *Manuel Bautista <http://blogdelaamhe.wordpress.com/author/oekonomie/>* | 26/12/2010 at 21:31 | Categories: Becas, premios y ofertas de trabajo / Scholarships, prizes and job offers <http://blogdelaamhe.wordpress.com/?category_name=becas-premios-y-ofertas-de…> | URL: http://wp.me/pmJoZ-o7 Cher(e)s collègues, Veuillez trouver ci-dessous l'appel à candidatures de l'Association pour l'histoire des télécommunications et de l'informatique, pour son programme de bourses d'études, année 2010-2011. Date limite de dépôt des dossiers: 31 janvier 2011. Cordialement, Léonard Laborie Chargé de recherche au CNRS, UMR Irice *Leonard Laborie* leonard.laborie Bourses d’études universitaires de l'AHTI Année 2010-2011 L'Association pour l’histoire des télécommunications et de l’informatique (AHTI) offre pour l'année 2010-2011 des bourses visant à soutenir des étudiants en Master ou Doctorat, travaillant, au moins partiellement, sur l'histoire des télécommunications, de l'informatique ou de l'électronique, en France ou à l’étranger. Si l'approche historique est privilégiée, des travaux d'autres disciplines sont également recevables : géographie, sociologie, économie, sciences de la communication, gestion, archivistique… Les langues acceptées pour la réalisation du travail sont le français, l'anglais, l'allemand, l'espagnol et l'italien. Un résumé de dix pages, en français, est exigé pour tous les travaux non-francophones. Les projets sont sélectionnés sur dossier par le conseil scientifique de l'Association. Le dossier de candidature doit comporter un curriculum vitae mentionnant les coordonnées complètes du candidat et un projet scientifique. Ce dernier doit comprendre : une présentation du projet et de ses problématiques, une bibliographie et si possible un état des sources. Le dossier sera accompagné d'une lettre de motivation du candidat et d'une lettre de recommandation provenant de son directeur de recherches. Les dossiers doivent être adressés par courrier électronique à l'AHTI au plus tard pour le 31 janvier 2011: ahti Association pour l'Histoire des Télécommunications et de l’Informatique 46, rue Barrault 75013 PARIS tél 01 45 81 81 26 Courriel : ahti http://www.ahti.fr <http://www.ahti.fr/> <http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/blogdelaamhe.wordpress.com/1495/> <http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/blogdelaamhe.wordpress.com/1495/> <http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gofacebook/blogdelaamhe.wordpress.com/1495/> <http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gotwitter/blogdelaamhe.wordpress.com/1495/> <http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/blogdelaamhe.wordpress.com/1495/> <http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/blogdelaamhe.wordpress.com/1495/> <http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/blogdelaamhe.wordpress.com/1495/> WordPress WordPress.com <http://wordpress.com> | Thanks for flying with WordPress!

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CFP: special issue of IEEE Software on "Climate Change: Software, Science and Society"
by Paul Edwards 28 Dec '10

28 Dec '10

Please forward widely. I'm a co-editor on this special issue; happy to answer any questions about scope. - Paul Edwards IEEE Software Special Issue on Climate Change: Software, Science and Society Submission Deadline: 8 April 2011 Publication (tentative): Nov/Dec 2011 A vast software infrastructure underpins our ability to understand climate change, assess the implications, and form suitable policy responses. This software infrastructure allows large teams of scientists to construct very complex models out of many interlocking parts, and further allows scientists, activists and policymakers to share data, explore scenarios, and validate assumptions. The extent of this infrastructure is often invisible (as infrastructure often is, until it breaks down), both to those who rely on it, and to interested observers, such as politicians, journalists, and the general public. Yet weaknesses in this software (whether real or imaginary) will impede our ability to make progress on what may be the biggest challenge faced by humanity in the 21st Century. This special issue of IEEE Software will explore the challenges in developing the software infrastructure for understanding and responding to climate change. Our aim is to help bridge the gap between the software community and the climate science community, by soliciting a collection of articles that explain the nature and extent of this software infrastructure, the technical challenges it poses, and the current state-of-the-art. We invite papers covering any of the software challenges involved in creating this technical infrastructure, but please note that we are not soliciting papers that discuss the validity of the science itself, or which take sides in the policy debate on climate change. We especially welcome review papers, which explain the current state-of-the-art in some specific aspect of climate software in an accessible way, and roadmap papers, which describe the challenges in the construction and validation of this software. Suitable topics for the special issue include (but are not restricted to): - Construction, verification and validation of computational models and data analysis tools used in climate science; - Frameworks, coupling strategies and software integration issues for earth system modeling; - Challenges of scale and complexity in climate software, including high data volumes and throughputs, massive parallelization and performance issues, numerical complexity, and coupling complexity; - Challenges of longevity and evolution of climate models codes, including legacy code, backwards compatibility, and computational reproducibility; - Experiences with model ensembles and model inter-comparison projects, particularly as these relate to software verification and validation; - Meta-data standards and data management for earth system data, including the challenge of making models and data self-describing; - Coordination of cross-disciplinary teams in the development of integrated assessment and decision support systems; - The role of open science and usable simulation tools in increasing public accessibility of climate science and public participation in climate policy discussions; - Case studies and lessons learned from application of software engineering techniques within climate science. Manuscripts must not exceed 4,700 words including figures and tables, which count for 200 words each. Submissions in excess of these limits may be rejected without refereeing. The articles we deem within the theme's scope will be peer-reviewed and are subject to editing for magazine style, clarity, organization, and space. Be sure to include the name of the theme you are submitting for. Articles should have a practical orientation, and be written in a style accessible to software practitioners. Overly complex, purely research-oriented or theoretical treatments are not appropriate. Articles should be novel. IEEE Software does not republish material published previously in other venues, including other periodicals and formal conference/workshop proceedings, whether previous publication was in print or in electronic form. Questions? For more information about the special issue, contact the Guest Editors: Steve Easterbrook, University of Toronto, Canada (sme(a)cs.toronto.edu) Reinhard Budich, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Germany (reinhard.budich(a)zmaw.de) Paul N. Edwards, University of Michigan, USA (pne(a)umich.edu) V. Balaji, NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, USA. (balaji(a)princeton.edu) For general author guidelines: www.computer.org/software/author.htm For submission details: software(a)computer.org To submit an article: https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/sw-cs ————————————————— Paul N. Edwards, Professor of Information and History Director, UM Program on Science, Technology & Society A Vast Machine: Computer Models, Climate Data, and the Politics of Global Warming (MIT Press, 2010) Terse replies are deliberate (and better than nothing) University of Michigan School of Information 3439 North Quad 105 S. State Street Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1285 (734) 764-2617 (office) (206) 337-1523 (fax) pne.people.si.umich.edu

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UK Resources
by Roger Johnson 23 Dec '10

23 Dec '10

Colleagues James Sumner has done us a great service by compiling his list. I would like to propose two items for his list both linked to Andrew Booth at Birkbeck College, London University. I have published a paper this year about him Andrew Booth - Britain's Other "Fourth Man" by Roger G Johnson in History of Computing - Learning from the Past, Proceedings of IFIP 9.7 HC 2010 edited by Arthur Tatnell published by Springer, IFIP ACT 325, 2010 pp.26-37. Short History of the School of Computer Science and Information Systems at Birkbeck College, May 2008, Birkbeck College, pp32. This contains a number of photos and extended description of Booth's contribution as a computer pioneer and also his contribution to the academic community and the founding of the BCS. Good wishes Roger Johnson

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Re: [SIGCIS-Members] Members Digest, Vol 6, Issue 15
by Dag Spicer 22 Dec '10

22 Dec '10

I have updated my blog to reflect recent events at CHM. See: http://www.sigcis.org/blog/578 Only a few more weeks until opening--Jan 10, 2001... Or 01.10.11 Dag

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Computer History Entertainment
by David Greelish 22 Dec '10

22 Dec '10

Hi everyone, If you have never checked out any of the shows that I produce, please consider checking one or more out over the holidays. I just posted the new Retro Computing Roundtable podcast today. Find it here - http://bit.ly/iazQ2S with links to the others at the top of the page. There is also - "Stan Veit's History of the Personal Computer" audiobook podcast & the Classic Computing Show video podcast. I'm like the Leo Laporte of computer history podcasts! Well, OK, so I'm not as professional, and I don't have the years of radio and television experience, nor the equipment, or the money . . . OK, OK, I stink compared to Leo, I'm nothing like him! ; ) They're good shows. Have a great holiday season. Best, David Greelish, Computer Historian Classic Computing The Home of Computer History Nostalgia http://www.classiccomputing.com Classic Computing Blog Classic Computing Show video podcast "Stan Veit's History of the Personal Computer" audiobook podcast Retro Computing Roundtable podcast Historical Computer Society Classic Computing Expo 1.0 - planning for sometime late 2011!

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more blog posts
by Chris McDonald 22 Dec '10

22 Dec '10

Dear SIGCISers, I've put up several more blog posts at http://www.sigcis.org since I last mailed the list, and Marie Hicks has added one as well. I probably won't write another until after the New Year. For others also on break, enjoy your holiday! Chris McDonald

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UK resource guide now completed -- from Jame Sumner
by Thomas Haigh 20 Dec '10

20 Dec '10

[Forwarded from James Sumner -- james.sumner(a)manchester.ac.uk.] Dear listmembers The full version of "History of computing in the UK: a resource guide" is now up on the SIGCIS site, joining Tom Haigh's more general resource guide and Chigusa Kita's Japanese listing. Please take a look: http://www.sigcis.org/britain Suggested additions and corrections are very welcome -- as are comments on the arrangement and scope. Putting together this kind of finding aid always involves a lot of subjective decisions about what to include and how to present it. For the record, my ground rules have been - to offer starting-points for researchers, rather than trying to be comprehensive - to follow the shape of the literature, rather than trying to give balanced coverage to areas where not much has been written - to focus on secondary sources, listing primary sources only when they're particularly rewarding and/or the secondary source base is particularly light - not to exclude anything purely on the grounds that it's difficult to access. I hope I've managed to come up with something most people will find useful. Thanks again to everyone who has contributed material so far! Best James On 17/12/2010 18:57, Thomas Haigh wrote: > Hello James, > > Did you try to send the message from the new account? I don't remember > seeing it... > > Tom > > -----Original Message----- > From: James Sumner [mailto:james.sumner@manchester.ac.uk] > Sent: Sunday, December 05, 2010 9:14 AM > To: Thomas Haigh > Subject: Re: Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender > > Good idea. Page has been updated; I'll announce it to the list now. > > Best > James > > On 01/12/2010 21:17, Thomas Haigh wrote: >> OK. I added this address to the list, but turned off mail delivery for it > so >> it should be good for sending but will not fill up with extra copies of > the >> list messages. >> >> Tom >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: James Sumner [mailto:james.sumner@manchester.ac.uk] >> Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2010 3:44 AM >> To: Thomas Haigh >> Subject: Re: Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender >> >> Hi Tom >> >> Sorry -- I'd forgotten this detail. But I doubt I can get anything done >> to fix it at this end. I'll drop a line to IT services, whose typical >> approach to anything non-obvious is to reassign it to someone I can't >> contact directly and ignore it forever. >> >> There's james(a)jbsumner.com , I suppose -- I try not to use this much, >> but it will do the job. Please set it up as accepted. >> >> Thanks! >> James >> >> On 30/11/2010 22:19, Thomas Haigh wrote: >>> Hello James, >>> >>> What I recall finding when we checked before is that this was a case of >> your >>> email server being unable to find the sigcis.org domain or communicate >> with >>> the SMTP receiver running on it (failing on RCPT as it tries to establish >>> the recipient) and therefore refusing to transmit the message. >>> >>> It is not that the SIGCIS listserv receiving the message and rejecting it >>> for some reason. That makes it much harder to fix, as it's a problem that >> is >>> taking place in the interaction between the two servers that is for some >>> reason only afflicting your email server and maybe a few others. >>> >>> I am cc'ing Brent to see if he has any ideas. >>> >>> As a workaround do you have another email account you can use for SIGCIS? >> I >>> can manually add it as an accepted sender to both lists. >>> >>> Tom >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: James Sumner [mailto:james.sumner@manchester.ac.uk] >>> Sent: Sunday, November 28, 2010 3:07 PM >>> To: Thomas Haigh >>> Subject: Fwd: Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender >>> >>> Tom, >>> >>> This is evidently a persistent problem. Checking my mail archives shows >>> that I haven't been able to get a message through since July. >>> >>> Please could you forward the message? >>> >>> Thanks >>> James >>> >>> -------- Original Message -------- >>> Subject: Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender >>> Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2010 21:04:09 +0000 >>> From: Mail Delivery System<Mailer-Daemon(a)tranquility.mcc.ac.uk> >>> To:<james.sumner(a)manchester.ac.uk> >>> >>> This message was created automatically by mail delivery software. >>> >>> A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its >>> recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es) failed: >>> >>> exec(a)sigcis.org >>> SMTP error from remote mail server after RCPT > TO:<exec(a)sigcis.org>: >>> host mailstore1.secureserver.net [72.167.238.201]: >>> 550 #5.1.0 Address rejected exec(a)sigcis.org >>> >>> ------ This is a copy of the message, including all the headers. ------ >>> >>> Return-path:<james.sumner(a)manchester.ac.uk> >>> Received: from rankine.its.manchester.ac.uk ([130.88.25.196]) >>> by tranquility.mcc.ac.uk with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) >>> (Exim 4.69 (FreeBSD)) >>> (envelope-from<james.sumner(a)manchester.ac.uk>) >>> id 1PMoPm-000A6r-2u >>> for exec(a)sigcis.org; Sun, 28 Nov 2010 21:04:06 +0000 >>> Received: from [82.152.251.77] (port=4690 helo=[10.0.0.11]) >>> by rankine.its.manchester.ac.uk with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) >>> (Exim 4.69) >>> (envelope-from<james.sumner(a)manchester.ac.uk>) >>> id 1PMoPl-0004YS-Tr >>> for exec(a)sigcis.org; Sun, 28 Nov 2010 21:04:05 +0000 >>> Message-ID:<4CF2C3C4.8020902(a)manchester.ac.uk> >>> Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2010 21:04:04 +0000 >>> From: James Sumner<james.sumner(a)manchester.ac.uk> >>> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.12) >>> Gecko/20101027 Thunderbird/3.1.6 >>> MIME-Version: 1.0 >>> To: exec(a)sigcis.org >>> Subject: UK resource guide again >>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed >>> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit >>> X-Authenticated-Sender: James Sumner from ([10.0.0.11]) >> [82.152.251.77]:4690 >>> X-Authenticated-From: James.Sumner(a)manchester.ac.uk >>> >>> Dear all >>> >>> As (repeatedly) promised, a revised version is up as a draft -- not >>> publicly visible -- at >>> http://www.sigcis.org/node/113 >>> >>> Comments welcome. Do we think this is now in a fit state to be promoted >>> to the membership? (If so, could someone please tell me how to make it >>> appear as a link from the main site?) >>> >>> Best >>> James >>> >> >

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Faculty position in Social Computing at UM School of Information
by Paul Edwards 20 Dec '10

20 Dec '10

please forward widely! late job announcement - review of applications begins soon Faculty Position in Social Computing Rank: Assistant Professor The University of Michigan's School of Information (SI) seeks a tenure-track assistant professor in the field of social computing. Social computing can be defined as computing about social relations and computing in support of new forms of social interactions. Its applications include: the analysis and design of online communities; social media and networking; user-contributed content; and new frontiers such as crowdsourcing, collective intelligence and new forms of virtual organizations. A successful candidate will be passionate about interdisciplinary work and could be trained in psychology, economics, sociology, computer science, informatics, or other areas in the social or technical sciences. The crucial characteristic is that the candidate be focused on questions related to understanding patterns of human interactions using computational techniques, or designing and evaluating technologies that enable new forms of interaction, or understanding the role of social media in society. Current SI faculty successfully pioneered the development, application and analysis of many of the underlying techniques used in social computing technologies such as: recommender systems; reputation systems; prediction markets; social network analysis; online communities; and systems for computer-supported cooperative work. For more information about SI research and activities related to social computing, see http://misc.si.umich.edu. SI is home to a dynamic and vibrant research and teaching program, with 35 FTE faculty, 49 doctoral students, and 380 students in its professional program, the Master of Science in Information. In partnership with other units, we recently launched a new undergraduate informatics major. SI is internationally recognized for its research strengths in social informatics, information economics and management, network analysis and text mining, human computer interaction, digital archives, cyberinfrastructure, digital preservation, and information seeking, sharing and use. More about the School, its vision, and its activities can be found at the School's website: si.umich.edu Founded in 1817, the University of Michigan has a long and distinguished history as one of the first public universities in the nation. It is one of only two public institutions consistently ranked among the nation's top ten universities. The University has one of the largest health care complexes in the world and one of the best library systems in the United States. With more than $1 billion in research expenditures annually, the University has the second largest research expenditure among all universities in the nation. The University has an annual budget of more than $1.4 billion and an endowment valued at more than $7.57 billion. Qualifications: Ph.D. (or nearing completion) in a relevant area, such as psychology, economics, sociology, computer science, informatics, or other areas in the social or technical sciences Demonstrated potential for successful teaching at the undergraduate and graduate level Demonstrated potential for high scholarly impact A strong commitment to teaching, interdisciplinary research, and cultural diversity For more information or to apply: please visit http://si.umich.edu/about-SI/social_computing.htm and click "Apply Now" at the bottom of the page. Review of applications will begin January 1 and continue until the position is filled. Applications received before Jan. 13 will be most likely to be reviewed. ————————————————— Paul N. Edwards, Professor of Information and History Director, UM Program on Science, Technology & Society A Vast Machine: Computer Models, Climate Data, and the Politics of Global Warming (MIT Press, 2010) Terse replies are deliberate (and better than nothing) University of Michigan School of Information 3439 North Quad 105 S. State Street Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1285 (734) 764-2617 (office) (206) 337-1523 (fax) pne.people.si.umich.edu

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Faculty position in Digital Environments/Digital Humanities at UM School of Information
by Paul Edwards 20 Dec '10

20 Dec '10

please forward widely! late job announcement - review of applications begins soon Faculty Position in Social Computing Rank: Assistant Professor The University of Michigan's School of Information (SI) seeks a tenure-track assistant professor in the field of social computing. Social computing can be defined as computing about social relations and computing in support of new forms of social interactions. Its applications include: the analysis and design of online communities; social media and networking; user-contributed content; and new frontiers such as crowdsourcing, collective intelligence and new forms of virtual organizations. A successful candidate will be passionate about interdisciplinary work and could be trained in psychology, economics, sociology, computer science, informatics, or other areas in the social or technical sciences. The crucial characteristic is that the candidate be focused on questions related to understanding patterns of human interactions using computational techniques, or designing and evaluating technologies that enable new forms of interaction, or understanding the role of social media in society. Current SI faculty successfully pioneered the development, application and analysis of many of the underlying techniques used in social computing technologies such as: recommender systems; reputation systems; prediction markets; social network analysis; online communities; and systems for computer-supported cooperative work. For more information about SI research and activities related to social computing, see http://misc.si.umich.edu. SI is home to a dynamic and vibrant research and teaching program, with 35 FTE faculty, 49 doctoral students, and 380 students in its professional program, the Master of Science in Information. In partnership with other units, we recently launched a new undergraduate informatics major. SI is internationally recognized for its research strengths in social informatics, information economics and management, network analysis and text mining, human computer interaction, digital archives, cyberinfrastructure, digital preservation, and information seeking, sharing and use. More about the School, its vision, and its activities can be found at the School's website: si.umich.edu Founded in 1817, the University of Michigan has a long and distinguished history as one of the first public universities in the nation. It is one of only two public institutions consistently ranked among the nation's top ten universities. The University has one of the largest health care complexes in the world and one of the best library systems in the United States. With more than $1 billion in research expenditures annually, the University has the second largest research expenditure among all universities in the nation. The University has an annual budget of more than $1.4 billion and an endowment valued at more than $7.57 billion. Qualifications: Ph.D. (or nearing completion) in a relevant area, such as psychology, economics, sociology, computer science, informatics, or other areas in the social or technical sciences Demonstrated potential for successful teaching at the undergraduate and graduate level Demonstrated potential for high scholarly impact A strong commitment to teaching, interdisciplinary research, and cultural diversity For more information or to apply: please visit http://si.umich.edu/about-SI/social_computing.htm and click "Apply Now" at the bottom of the page. Review of applications will begin January 1 and continue until the position is filled. Applications received before Jan. 13 will be most likely to be reviewed. ————————————————— Paul N. Edwards, Professor of Information and History Director, UM Program on Science, Technology & Society A Vast Machine: Computer Models, Climate Data, and the Politics of Global Warming (MIT Press, 2010) Terse replies are deliberate (and better than nothing) University of Michigan School of Information 3439 North Quad 105 S. State Street Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1285 (734) 764-2617 (office) (206) 337-1523 (fax) pne.people.si.umich.edu

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