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August 2011 - IBM PC Retrospective
by Dave Walden 08 Mar '11

08 Mar '11

Dear SIGCIS people, Please see the following request from Ron Vetter, editor of _Computer Magazine_. Can any of you help him or give him pointers to someone who might. Best regards, Dave >From: "Vetter, Ron" <vetterr(a)uncw.edu> >To: "dave(a)walden-family.com" <dave(a)walden-family.com> >CC: "Vetter, Ron" <vetterr(a)uncw.edu> >Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2011 16:31:29 -0500 >Subject: August 2011 - IBM PC Retrospective > >Hi Dave: > >I am following up to our phone converstation (yes, I should have done this >sooner) regarding the special issue of Computer that we are working on for >August 2011 -- the 30th anniversary of the IBM PC. > >We have identified two authors (Mark Dean, IBM and Gurbir Singh, Intel) who > have expressed interest in contributing to our special issue. Here are the >potential topics we discussed with them: > >1. History of IBM PC I/O buses: features, performance, impact on >industry (what capabilities were enabled when, such as graphics), >security, error detection, power dissipation, futures. > >2. IBM PC architecture legacies, such as ISA, VGA, serial/parallel >ports and protocols, keyboard controllers, x86-isms such as >segmentation, protection rings, cache flush instructions, 4 registers, etc. > >Because we have to carry this stuff forward from those early days, >they should make for good papers. > >What I need is another author who might be able to provide a >historical perspective. Can you help me find someone (perhaps just >forward this email to a few people you might know)? > >The author guidelines, etc are available at >http://www.computer.org/portal/web/peerreviewmagazines/computer In >summary, articles are typically between 4500 to 6000 words with each >figure counting as 250 words. References are typically limited to >12 (but we have some flexibilty here). > >Our editiorial calendar indicates that need to get articles >submitted by the end of March (or shortly thereafter). So the >timeline is kind of short. We can work with the authors on this -- >in fact, I will be happy to provide comments on early paper drafts >if that is desirable. > >Let me know what else you might need at this point. > >Ron > >Ron Vetter, PhD >Professor, Computer Science, UNC Wilmington >Editor-in-Chief, Computer, http://www.computer.org/computer >Co-founder, Mobile Education LLC, http://www.myMobEd.com >Email: vetterr(a)uncw.edu >Phone: 910-962-2160 (office) > 910-538-3523 (cell)

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Fw: EXTENDED DEADLINE (20th of March): CfP: "From Practice to Results in Logic and in Mathematics" in Philosophia Scientiae
by Sandra Mols 04 Mar '11

04 Mar '11

Dear colleagues, With apologies for cross-posting. Please find below a CfP related to explorations of practices in the formal sciences, construed rather broadly, extending towards mathematics, and also computing, and informatics, e.g. in relation to logic, and pure mathematics. We are, among others, interested in papers based on field work related to these practices, against the traditional stance exploiting papers and publications. Hoping that you will be interested in this CfP Best regards, Sandra Mols ---- Forwarded Message ---- From: Sandra Mols <Sandra.Mols(a)UNIV-NANCY2.FR> To: MERSENNE(a)JISCMAIL.AC.UK Sent: Fri, 4 March, 2011 11:34:11 Subject: EXTENDED DEADLINE (20th of March): CfP: "From Practice to Results in Logic and in Mathematics" in Philosophia Scientiae Dear colleagues, With apologies for crossposting. Please find below our extended (till March 20th, 2011) CfP for contributions dedicated to philosophical and knowledge making-focused exploration of practices in the formal sciences (broadly construed: mathematics, logic, etc.). Submissions - which will be peer-reviewed - ought to fit within a format of about 20 pages, and be in French or English, and, thematically, in the general themes described below and the agenda of Philosophia Scientiae. We are also, among others, looking for submissions exploiting field work studies, e.a. on mathematics, logic, mathematics and computers, etc. Details on the themes and format etc. can be found below in this e-mail. Looking forward to hear about your work and research. Best regards Sandra Mols, on behalf of the Editors ****************** CfP Contributions for a special issue of Philosophia Scientiae dedicated to the theme "From Practice to Results in Logic and Mathematics" (February 2012) Guest editors: Valeria Giardino, Amirouche Moktefi, Sandra Mols, & Jean Paul Van Bendegem Contact Person: Valeria Giardino: Valeria.Giardino(a)ens.fr Submission Deadline: March 1st, 2011, extended till March 20th, 2011 Acceptance Notification: June 1st, 2011 Web & Guidelines for authors: http://poincare.univ-nancy2.fr/PhilosophiaScientiae/?languageId=1 The PratiScienS research group, in collaboration with Prof. Jean Paul Van Bendegem, invites the submission of articles for a thematic issue of the journal Philosophia Scientiae dedicated to the role of practices in the establishment of results in logic and mathematics. We look for papers on how the concrete practices of mathematicians and logicians may influence the results of their enquiries and, more broadly, the definition of what counts as proof. We are also interested in papers proposing a methodological reflection on the difficulties that a critical analysis of such practices in logic and mathematics implies, and on issues related to the development of the appropriate exploratory conceptual tools. Case studies are welcome, though authors should make explicit what they consider as practices and how their papers are related to the practice-focused theme of this issue of Philosophia Scientiae. We are also strongly interested in papers linking the issue’s theme with those at the core of PratiScienS, that is, the issue of practices in their relations with the construction and validation of scientific knowledge. Therefore, we are also looking for this special issue for papers discussing practices and results in logic and mathematics in relation with PratiScienS’s main research topics: Wimsatt's concept of robustness and related, the role of tacit aspects, and the contingency vs. inevitability issue, as in the case of mathematics and logic. Manuscripts should be submitted in English or French, and prepared for anonymous peer review, and send as both pdf and word format if possible. Abstracts in French and English (200-300 words) should be included. Papers should be sent by e-mail to Valeria Giardino: Valeria.Giardino(a)ens.fr For more about the PratiScienS group and its research & activities: http://poincare.univ-nancy2.fr/PratiScienS/ About Philosophia Scientiae: Philosophia Scientiae is a peer-reviewed scientific journal. It publishes research relating to epistemology, history and philosophy of science,especially in the field of mathematics, physics, and logic, without excluding any other scientific field. It is published by Kimé Editions (Paris). or any further information: http://poincare.univ-nancy2.fr/PhilosophiaScientiae/Accueil/. -- Sandra Mols, PhD PratiScienS project, Université Nancy 2 http://poincare.univ-nancy2.fr/PratiScienS/ ------------------ "I do not like experts [...] They are our goalers. [...] Experts are addicts. They solve nothing! They serve whatever system hires them. They perpetuate it. When we are tortured, we shall be tortured by experts. When we are hanged, experts will hang us. Did you not read what I wrote? When the world is destroyed, it will be destroyed not by its madmen but by the sanity of its experts and the superior ignorance of its bureaucrats." Yakov Saveleyev, The Russia House by John le Carré, 1990

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U Minnesota --> history of technology visiting position
by Thomas J. Misa 02 Mar '11

02 Mar '11

Dear colleagues, Would you please bring this job announcement to the attention of anyone who might be interested in it? We had a recently announced retirement (Bob Seidel), resulting in this very late search authorization. There is /not/ any inside candidate. Many thanks, Tom Misa https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=42227 The University of Minnesota, Twin Cities campus, invites applications for a one-year temporary visiting faculty position beginning late August, 2011, with specialty in history of technology. Candidates should be prepared to teach undergraduate courses in Technology in American Culture (HSCI 3331) and Ethics in Science and Technology (HSCI 3401), plus an advanced course or graduate seminar in the history of technology that would complement the existing course schedule (possibilities include the environment, race, Asia, or Islam: see www.hstm.umn.edu) Candidates would also be expected to be an active member of the HSTM program and provide advice to graduate students in the history of technology. All requirements for the Ph.D. must be completed by August 1, 2011. The competitive salary includes full benefits. Applicants for this position /must/ go to http://employment.umn.edu/applicants/Central?quickFind=93232 to provide basic personal information. You may then either complete the entire application process on-line, or mail to the address below a letter of application with a description of your teaching and research interests, evidence of teaching ability, a CV, and selected publications or sample of writing. You should also arrange for three letters of recommendation to be sent to the same address. (E-mail: hst(a)umn.edu) Chair, Technology Search Committee Program in History of Science and Technology 108 Pillsbury Hall University of Minnesota 310 Pillsbury Drive S.E. Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455 USA Review of applications will begin March 16, 2011. Position is open until filled. The University of Minnesota is an equal opportunity educator and employer.

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Re: [SIGCIS-Members] Digital History and Humanities Boot Camp and THATcamp , European University Institute, Florence, Italy, 23-25 March 2011, **Last days support from CHNM, George Mason**
by Noiret, Serge 02 Mar '11

02 Mar '11

Deadline for registering is 15th of March >From March 23rd to 26th 2011 the Department of History and Civilisation of the European University Institute in Florence hosts THATCamp (The Humanities and Technology Camp), an important event in the field of Digital, Humanities, Social Sciences and History. (Badia Fiesolana, Via dei Roccettini 9, San Domenico di Fiesole - FI, http://www.thatcampflorence.org/location/ <http://www.thatcampflorence.org/location/> ) THATCamp Florence is organized in collaboration with the Fondazione Rinascimento Digitale and with several European scholarly institutions. THATcamp is a so-called "un-conference" promoted by the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University in Virginia, which is partner in organising this event for the first time in Italy. THATCamp Florence will be preceded by a BootCamp, consisting of introductory courses in the Digital Humanities, History & Social Sciences and provided by one or more teachers. Registered participants for THATCamp Florence will meet in several small and non hierarchic brainstorming sessions, each of which are coordinated by a tutor. THATCamp ateliers will be informal: the focus is on the exchange of ideas, solutions, tools, software, websites and digital practices in the humanities and social sciences, based on concrete needs. Participation is open to scholars from Italy and beyond and not limited to EUI members. All participants will meet at the beginning of the Camp on Wednesday March 23rd to create the programme. A first list of Ateliers for THATCamp is available at the following link: http://www.thatcampflorence.org/about. Other ateliers proposals from who register are still very welcome forTHATcamp ateliers writing to info(a)thatcampflorence.org. For the complete programme of the Boot Camp please visit: http://www.thatcampflorence.org/programme/ Who would like to attend the Boot Camp can eventually benefit of a small grant from the US Mellon Foundation through the Center for History and New Media, George Mason University, Virginia, Boot Camp project in Digital Humanities(http://thatcamp.org/go/fellowships/). Deadline to Apply is the 4th of March 2011 ! Registration for Boot Camp/THATCamp Florence is necessary and possible until the 15th of March 2011 (http://www.thatcampflorence.org/registration/) Accommodation in Florence are organized by the Travel Agency UNIVERSALTURISMO http://www.thatcampflorence.org/accommodation/ For further information please visit the THATCamp websitewww.thatcampflorence.org or contact Maria Caterina Cunsolo, THATCamp Florence Officer, info(a)thatcampflorence.org

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a few comments regarding copyright
by Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan 01 Mar '11

01 Mar '11

Hi Members, This is just a brief followup on my research into images & copyright, etc. The short answer is that it's very complicated and hard to find a definitive guide. For images it is especially complicated. In general, academic publishing seems to have a lot of leeway, but there's more grey area than black/white. In the end, my publisher provided the most concrete guidance. However, Ben Peters referred me to the guides produced by the Society for Cinema and Media Studies. This has some info: www.cmstudies.org/resource/resmgr/docs/scmsbestpractices4fairuseinp.pdf MIT Libraries also had some info: In general: http://info-libraries.mit.edu/scholarly/publishing/copyright-information-fo… For theses: http://info-libraries.mit.edu/scholarly/publishing/copyright-publishing-gui… Debbie Douglas of the MIT museum had this especially robust and helpful account, which in many ways was more concrete than what I found even on the "expert" websites: There is no single guide because "property rights" are very complicated to untangle. 1. There is the permission of the owner of the physical artifact that allows you to examine the "thing", and to make a picture of that "thing." Imagine you had donated your bicycle to a museum. As the owner of the bike, you can control who looks at it, touches it, takes pictures of it. BUT you do not own the patents, trademarks, copyrights associated with that bike. You could not grant the right to make a copy of the bicycle. 2. The second permission is from the maker/creator of the "thing." Or rather, the owner of the "intellectual" property rights. In this day, this can very complicated because sometimes the maker licenses other entities to make objects. The best guide to this is the Library of Congress' website which explains all things copyright (in the US) and the US Patent and Trademark Office which deals with patents and trademarks. Hope this helps someone out there. Best, Bernard Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan bernard(a)u.northwestern.edu Graduate Fellow, Mediale Historiographien, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar Doctoral Candidate, Screen Cultures, Northwestern University

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FW: a few comments regarding copyright
by Thomas Haigh 01 Mar '11

01 Mar '11

More useful advice below. Not sure if this went through Jim was having problems before and I dont see it in the list archives. Tom From: James Cortada [mailto:jwcorta@us.ibm.com] Sent: Monday, February 28, 2011 5:47 PM To: Thomas Haigh Cc: members(a)sigcis.org; members-bounces(a)sigcis.org Subject: Re: [SIGCIS-Members] a few comments regarding copyright Tom is absolutely correct. Publishers do not have uniform practices regarding permissions. It has been my experience that from when you have to get a group of these until your publisher is happy with the results can routinely run you 2-6 months. Some of the fancy academic book presses won't even start production until all these permissions are inhouse in writing and in your folder with the manuscript, illustrations, art work etc. Some tricks I have used to simplify the process. 1. I keep a spreadsheet in which I enter the name of the illustration, where in my book it is to go (e.g., chapter 3, centerfold), who probably owns the rights, and leave a couple of columns for logging when I asked for permission, when I got it, and a comments section. When you submit your book to production, send the spreadsheet along as they can use it as a tracking vehicle and to know the history by illustration one after the other. 2. Whenever possible, request permissions via e-mail as it is faster than letter writing. Expect every place you ask to send you a word or PDF document for you to fill out that is different than everyone else's--scan and faxing back is acceptable across North America and northern Europe, less so around the Mediterranean where they sometimes still require paper. Este es la vida. 3. Always ask for "unrestricted world rights" but keep it to one language because if you ask for all languages people start going crazy on you and cause delays. Unrestricted means that the owner of the image can use the image too even though you are publishing it. Codicil: ask your publisher what kind of permission they want as that varies too from one publisher to another and from one country to another. 4. Even though journals are a bit looser in their requirements, you will be surprised at how much of a problem this can be so assume the same problem exists. 5. Be very very nice to every archivist and librarian you ever meet because they can make steps 1 through 4 easy. I treat CBI's staff as some of the most important people in my life--ditto with the the IBM Archives' team--because they are, and not just because they really are nice people. Do the same! Hope this helps! PS Tom I never know if the siglist gets to everyone so if you don't think so, please send it along to our colleagues. Dr. Jim (James) W. Cortada IBM Institute for Business Value 2917 Irvington Way Madison, WI 53713 USA jwcorta(a)us.ibm.com 608-270-4462 Inactive hide details for "Thomas Haigh" ---02/28/2011 04:15:38 PM---On a pragmatic level there is another consideration. Due t"Thomas Haigh" ---02/28/2011 04:15:38 PM---On a pragmatic level there is another consideration. Due to 1970s copyright changes and subsequent r From: "Thomas Haigh" <thaigh(a)computer.org> To: <members(a)sigcis.org> Date: 02/28/11 04:15 PM Subject: Re: [SIGCIS-Members] a few comments regarding copyright Sent by: members-bounces(a)sigcis.org _____ On a pragmatic level there is another consideration. Due to 1970s copyright changes and subsequent retroactive extensions those of us working on the mid-20th century would often like to reproduce images such as advertisements. Most advertisements were not copyrighted when they first appeared, but received protection in the 1970s when fundamental changes were made to the system. In this case ownership lies with the company that placed the advertisement, not with the publication where it was placed. In many cases it is impossible to track down eventual owner of the intellectual property assets of a long-defunct business. Furthermore it's not uncommon for the current owner never to have heard of the company in question (a failed company is acquired by another company, which then fails and is acquired, by a firm that merges, etc.) Most publishers will accept evidence of a good faith effort to try to track down the copyright holder and receive permission to use the image in lieu of a signed permission form. Some will not, meaning that there is no way to use the image in question. The moral: start a long time ahead with the image permissions and find out in advance what the policy of your publisher is. No company is ever actually going to sue you for reproducing an image of a 1920s bookkeeping machine or a 1970s video terminal in a scholarly publication, so what matters is not the actual law but the opinion of the law held by your publisher's legal department. (As long as you're not calling them Nazi collaborators, I suppose, in which case probably best to have all the permissions signed first). Tom -----Original Message----- From: members-bounces(a)sigcis.org [mailto:members-bounces@sigcis.org] On Behalf Of James Sumner Sent: Monday, February 28, 2011 3:44 PM To: members(a)sigcis.org Subject: Re: [SIGCIS-Members] a few comments regarding copyright Thanks for sharing these with the list, Bernard. It's worth emphasising that the "fair use" concept, as focused on by the three sources linked below, is very specific to the United States. Britain, Canada and other Commonwealth countries have various different sets of provisions known as "fair dealing", which tend to be similar to US "fair use" but not as lenient. Best James On 28/02/2011 18:38, Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan wrote: > Hi Members, > > This is just a brief followup on my research into images & copyright, > etc. The short answer is that it's very complicated and hard to find a > definitive guide. For images it is especially complicated. In general, > academic publishing seems to have a lot of leeway, but there's more grey > area than black/white. In the end, my publisher provided the most > concrete guidance. > > However, Ben Peters referred me to the guides produced by the Society > for Cinema and Media Studies. This has some info: > www.cmstudies.org/resource/resmgr/docs/ > <http://www.cmstudies.org/resource/resmgr/docs/>*scms*bestpractices4*fairuse *inp.pdf > > MIT Libraries also had some info: > In general: > http://info-libraries.mit.edu/scholarly/publishing/copyright-information-for -mit-faculty/ > > For theses: > http://info-libraries.mit.edu/scholarly/publishing/copyright-publishing-guid e-for-students/reuse-of-figures-images-and-other-content-in-theses/ > > Debbie Douglas of the MIT museum had this especially robust and helpful > account, which in many ways was more concrete than what I found even on > the "expert" websites: > > There is no single guide because "property rights" are very complicated > to untangle. > > 1. There is the permission of the owner of the physical artifact that > allows you to examine the "thing", and to make a picture of that "thing." > > Imagine you had donated your bicycle to a museum. As the owner of the > bike, you can control who looks at it, touches it, takes pictures of it. > BUT you do not own the patents, trademarks, copyrights associated with > that bike. You could not grant the right to make a copy of the bicycle. > > 2. The second permission is from the maker/creator of the "thing." Or > rather, the owner of the "intellectual" property rights. In this day, > this can very complicated because sometimes the maker licenses other > entities to make objects. The best guide to this is the Library of > Congress' website which explains all things copyright (in the US) and > the US Patent and Trademark Office which deals with patents and trademarks. > > Hope this helps someone out there. > > Best, > Bernard > > > > Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan > bernard(a)u.northwestern.edu <mailto:bernard@u.northwestern.edu> > > Graduate Fellow, Mediale Historiographien, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar > Doctoral Candidate, Screen Cultures, Northwestern University > > > > _______________________________________________ > This email is relayed from members(a)sigcis.org, the email discussion list of SHOT SIGCIS. The list archives are at http://sigcis.org/pipermail/members/ and you can change your subscription options at http://sigcis.org/mailman/listinfo/members _______________________________________________ This email is relayed from members(a)sigcis.org, the email discussion list of SHOT SIGCIS. 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