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New video
by Dag Spicer 23 Mar '12

23 Mar '12

We have just posted an interesting historical video to YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coHRMgXW0T0 The video shows four 'firsts' in computing relating to computer aided instruction, computer aided design, flight simulation and digital voice packet transmission. CHM thanks computing pioneer Danny Cohen for this donation. Enjoy! Dag -- Dag Spicer | Senior Curator | Computer History Museum Editorial Board | Annals of the History of Computing 1401 N. Shoreline Blvd. | Mountain View CA 94043 Tel: +1 650 810 1035 | Fax: +1 650 810 1055 Revolution: The First 2000 Years of Computing Visit in person or online! http://www.computerhistory.org/revolution/ Twitter: @ComputerHistory FB: facebook.com/computerhistory

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Fwd: MEDIA: Journalist interview request about technological progress and "The Hunger Games"
by Janet Abbate 22 Mar '12

22 Mar '12

Would anyone care to talk to a journalist about this? I'm swamped right now (and also have not seen/read the Hunger Games). Best to contact him directly if you're interested. best, Janet Begin forwarded message: > From: Jeremy Hsu <jhsu(a)livescience.com> > Date: March 21, 2012 3:57:29 PM EDT > To: "abbate(a)vt.edu" <abbate(a)vt.edu> > Subject: MEDIA: Journalist interview request about technological progress and "The Hunger Games" > > Dear Janet, > > I'm writing an article about the sci-fi series "The Hunger Games" and its depiction of technological progress in a future dystopian North America, and I was hoping you might be willing to be interviewed on the subject of "uneven" technological progress. Your colleague, Barbara, recommended that I contact you about this. > > For some background, "The Hunger Games" series depicts a society with futuristic technologies such as advanced bioengineered creatures, hovercraft and force fields, along with modern technologies such as nuclear weapons, automatic rifles and high-speed trains. But the same society is also still dependent upon familiar energy sources such as coal, and is missing some critical telecommunications innovations (notably the Internet). The story's dystopian society is ruled by a "Capitol" city that enjoys the latest technologies and luxuries, even as the surrounding "Districts" contain people living in fairly impoverished conditions (such as the coal miners of District 12). > > Some "Hunger Games" fans have openly wondered about the apparently "uneven" technological development, even given the story's background of disruptive climate change and a past rebellion that was put down by force. At one point, a character laments the loss of certain past technologies - such as high-flying planes, military satellites, cell disintegrators, drones, and biological weapons with expiration dates - which seems a bit odd given that their society does have certain advanced technologies. > > If that sounds interesting at all to you, just let me know when might be a good time to talk before the end of the week -- thanks in advance! > > Just FYI, InnovationNewsDaily is a TechMediaNetwork website that looks at futuristic trends and technologies. We syndicate directly to news partners such as Yahoo! News and MSNBC, and also make our stories available to others such as Discovery News, Scientific American, Huffington Post and Fox News. > > Jeremy Hsu | Senior Writer > > InnovationNewsDaily | www.innovationnewsdaily.com > jhsu(a)techmedianetwork.com| office: (212) 703-5860 | twitter: @ScienceHsu > > 150 Fifth Avenue, 9th floor, New York, NY 10011 > InnovationNewsDaily is a TechMediaNetwork Inc. brand. ©2011 | www.techmedianetwork.com > >

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historiography of IS
by Bernardo Batiz-Lazo 22 Mar '12

22 Mar '12

Might be of interest Seizing the Opportunity: Towards a Historiography of Information Systems Date: 2012 By: Nathalie Mitev (ISIG - Information Systems and Innovation Group - Department of Management - London School of Economics and Political Science) François-Xavier De Vaujany (DRM - Dauphine Recherches en Management - CNRS : UMR7088 - Université Paris IX - Paris Dauphine) URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hal:journl:halshs-00671690&r=his Historical perspectives are only timidly entering the world of IS research compared to historical research in management or organization studies. If major IS outlets have already published history-oriented papers, the number of historical papers - although increasing - remains low. We carried out a thematic analysis of all papers on History and IS published between 1972 and 2009 indexed on ABI and papers indexed in Google ScholarTM for the same period. We used a typology developed by theorists Usdiken and Kieser (2004) who classify historical organisation research into supplementarist, integrationist and reorientationist approaches. We outline their links with the epistemological stances well known in IS research, positivism, interpretivism and critical research; we then focus on their differences and historiographical characteristics. We found that most IS History papers are supplementarist descriptive case studies with limited uses of History. This paper then suggests that IS research could benefit from adopting integrationist and reorientationist historical perspectives and we offer some examples to illustrate how that would contribute to enriching, extending and challenging existing theories. Keywords: IS history; historiography; historical methods; historical organization theory -- ================== Twitter @BatizLazo Technological Innovation in Retail Finance: International Historical Perspectives Edited by Bernardo Batiz-Lazo, J. Carles Maixé-Altés, Paul Thomes http://www.taylorandfrancis.com/books/details/9780415880671 Home page: http://www.bangor.ac.uk/business/staff/bernardo_batiz-lazo.en.php Working papers: http://ideas.repec.org/e/pba14.html

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EMAIL inventor controversy
by Dave Walden 20 Mar '12

20 Mar '12

If it hasn't already been noted to this list, Dave Crocker's Op Ed piece in the Washington Post was published this morning: http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/on-innovations/a-history-of-e-mail-c… Dave Crocker also says The emailhistory.org site is now public. Please suggest to folk that they take a look at it and that they subscribe to the discussion list: <http://emailhistory.org/mailman/listinfo/mailhist-discuss> The fickle reporter/editor of the Post decided not to publish the piece Tom Haigh worked hard on or two other piece she had people working on. My own less polished screed is at <http://walden-family.com/bbn/email-invention.html>http://walden-family.com/bbn/email-invention.html

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International Congress of HSTM, Manchester, July 2013
by James Sumner 20 Mar '12

20 Mar '12

Dear SIGCIS members I'm writing to draw your attention to the current call for themed sessions for ICHSTM, the International Congress of History of Science, Technology and Medicine, to be held in July 2013 here in Manchester. Full details are on the Congress website at http://www.ichstm2013.com/ ICHSTM happens every four years and is the largest meeting in the field, drawing around a thousand delegates and lasting a full week. Its constituency is more global than most, with strong participation from China, South America, India and Eastern Europe. The organisation behind it (for details of which, see http://sites.google.com/a/dhstweb.org/www/ ) is structured around international commissions for a variety of sub-disciplines, each of which contributes a "symposium" -- basically, a substantial themed speaker session or group of sessions, covering half a day or more. However, any organisation or (if they represent more than one country) group of people can propose a symposium -- and that, I hope, is where we come in. There is, at least at present, no formal commission representing history of computing and allied interests, whereas SIGCIS is the most active international community in the field. Putting together a SIGCIS session for Manchester would help to raise our profile among the wide range of subject communities present. It would also tie in nicely with Helena Durnova and Slawomir Lotysz's planned session on COMECON computing, which you may recall was announced on this list earlier this month. Their session has been submitted to ICOHTEC (the International Committee for the History of Technology), whose 2013 meeting will be very closely integrated with the Congress, sharing a venue, a single registration, and much of the central organisation. If we can pull together a SIGCIS session, I'll try to persuade the programme planners to run it consecutively with the COMECON session for the benefit of anyone planning a shorter trip. And, of course, I would be very pleased to see as many of you as possible in Manchester, and can promise a friendly environment and a fun programme -- we'll be making the most of the region's industrial culture with plenty of excursions, and we're currently in discussions towards special sessions debating the relationship between historians and science/technology policy and showcasing work to bring history to wider public audiences. The theme of the Congress is 'Knowledge at work'. Conveniently, it so happens that I'm the local committee representative who ended up with the job of explaining what on earth this means: I've put a list of suggested approaches on the site at <http://www.ichstm2013.com/call/>, but notice the customary "may include, but are not limited to" -- all suggestions are welcome. Possible SIGCISsy ideas might include: cultures of working (formal or informal) in IT production and use; the relevance of the fieldwork concept to our research; pure/applied boundary work and its relation to the shape of the computer science discipline; the history of debates over computer literacy in education; computing and craftsmanship. The deadline for symposium submissions is Monday 30 April. We don't, in fact, need detailed abstracts for all papers (there's a later call for these), but would need a schedule of committed participants with titles, and an overview of the session's theme and aims. If you're interested, please drop me a line soon with an indication of what you'd like to present on, and we'll take it from there. All best James

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travel grant for doctoral students
by Bernardo Batiz-Lazo 19 Mar '12

19 Mar '12

Tony Slaven workshop for doctoral students at the annual conference of the Association of Business Historians. Please note we have defined the field very broadly. The ABH is offering financial support to doctoral students. See details below and on its website (http://www.abh-net.org/) You can also follow us on tweeter @the_abh or facebook http://facebook.com/abhistorian Kind regards Bernardo (Bangor, GB) Association of Business Historians: New Tony Slaven doctoral workshop in business history This year ABH is holdings its first doctoral training workshop. This will take place on 5th-6th July, immediately preceding the 2012 ABH Annual Conference at Aston Business School. Participants will also be welcome to attend the Annual Conference. We very much hope that this will become an annual event and will provide an opportunity for doctoral students to discuss their research with other research students in business history-related disciplines in an informal environment. The workshop is open to all students undertaking research degrees in business history-related topics and it is hoped that both students in their initial year of registration and those at more advanced stages of their thesis research will find it of benefit. In addition to providing new researchers with an opportunity to discuss their work with other research students in the same discipline, the workshop will also include a session related to careers. Business history doctoral work is spread over a large number of departments and institutions and by bringing students from throughout the UK together for an annual workshop, we hope to strengthen links between students working on business history - related topics. For the purposes of the workshop `business history’ is interpreted broadly, and it is intended that students in areas such as financial history, agricultural history, not for profit organisations, government-industry relations, government policy towards trade and industry, the history of international trade and investment, accounting history, social studies of technology, and labour history will find it of interest. Students undertaking topics with a significant business history related element but in disciplines other than economic and business history are also welcome. A limited number of Tony Slaven scholarships are available, to contribute towards the travel, accommodation, and registration costs of attending the doctoral workshop and ABH conference. These will be awarded competitively prior to the workshop. First year students would be expected to present an overview of their research (with around 20-30 minutes for the presentation and a roughly equal time for discussion). Those at a more advanced stage of their thesis might wish to present a draft chapter, or focus on one particular section of their thesis. Participants would also be expected to act as discussant for one of the other papers to be presented. Students interested in attending the workshop and those wishing to apply for the Tony Slaven scholarship (for both the workshop and the ABH conference) should contact Prof. Peter Scott, IBS, Henley Business School at the University of Reading, Whiteknights, Reading, RG6 6UD (p.m.scott(a)reading.ac.uk) The application should comprise a short cv and an abstract (maximum four A4 sides of single-spaced typed text). This should include the names of the student’s supervisors; the title of their thesis; the university and department where they are registered; the date of commencement of their thesis registration, and an outline of their research. Students in their first year of registration may wish to focus on their thesis literature review and research plan. Students in subsequent years may also want to discuss one particular chapter or section of their thesis that they would like to present at the workshop. For full consideration, applications should be submitted prior to 15th May 2012. For further information, please contact Peter Scott at the above e-mail address. -- Bernardo Batiz-Lazo, FRHistS Athro Hanes Busnes ac Rheolaeth Bancio / Professor of Business History and Bank Management Ysgol Busnes Bangor Business School Prifysgol Bangor University Gwynedd LL57 2DG (Cymru / Wales) b.batiz-lazo [at] bangor.ac.uk Twitter @BatizLazo ffon / phone : +44 (0) 1248 388349 Home page: http://www.bangor.ac.uk/business/staff/bernardo_batiz-lazo.en.php Working papers: http://ideas.repec.org/e/pba14.html Blog: http://www.nephis.org

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Last chance & current status: CFP: SHOT 2012 Conference, 4-7 Oct in Copenhagen. Deadline 31 March.
by Thomas Haigh 17 Mar '12

17 Mar '12

Hello SHOT members, Below is a repeat for the call for possible participants in SIGCIS panel(s) for the main SHOT meeting I sent out last month. Two weeks left, so I'm sending it again in case we pick up any last minute additions. If people are interested I would need fairly worked out abstracts of their personal contributions by the end of next week to give us a full week to massage them together into one or more coherent panel proposals. Abstracts should include one paragraph on each of: topic, argument, evidence (sources), contribution to literature. They should target historians of technology with no necessary knowledge of or interest in history of computing. Here's what we have so far. My apologies to their contributors for not getting back to this quicker - between the "email inventor" frenzy and losing most of last week to the latest infection brought home by our baby from his first semester of daycare I've fallen behind with a number of things. . Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan has a "new project on technical media in the 19th c, albeit with reference to proto-computational automata." Sounds like he has some flexibility within that. . Ksenia Tatarchenko is thinking of "the Soviet computer education program developed by Ershov as an alternative vision of information society, thus fitting into the Cold War interactions theme and getting more feedback." . Giuditta Parolini is interested in looking at a collection of statistical tables, as, in Winner's terms, an artifact with politics. "I argue that due to the careful planning of the book and the copyright policy adopted by the authors, the collection of tables was not a neutral computing instrument, but could really be considered a political artefact whose implicit mission was the dissemination in experimental research of the statistical methods of analysis of variance and experimental design." So this might also fit with elements of a cold war theme. . Peter Sachs Collopy is interested in personal computing, possibly in organizing a separate session for the main meeting on this theme. The "politics of computing artifacts" theme could unite the first three, but if we can get a couple more I can go with two panels and look for another way to slice it. Tom From: Thomas Haigh [mailto:thaigh@computer.org] Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2012 3:16 PM To: 'members(a)sigcis.org' Subject: CFP: SHOT 2012 Conference, 4-7 Oct in Copenhagen. Deadline 31 March. Hello SIGCIS members, The dance of the heavens and progress of the Earth have brought us once again to that special time of year: the SHOT annual meeting call. Well, technically the "pre-call," as so far there's been a limited announcement with a promise of details to follow "By 13 February 2012." Below this message are pasted the current details from the SHOT website at <http://www.historyoftechnology.org/shot2012cfp.html> http://www.historyoftechnology.org/shot2012cfp.html. Note: this is NOT the call for the annual SIGCIS workshop, which usually takes place on the final Sunday of the conference. Our call will follow and will have a much later deadline. SIGCIS generally organizes one to three panel proposals for the main SHOT conference, and individual members sometimes also use the email list to put together panel proposals with SIG sponsorship. These proposals are reviewed like any others by the SHOT program committee. Sponsorship doesn't guarantee acceptance, but working with the SIG raises the chance of your paper being part of a coherent, relevant, and polished proposal. If you are interested in being part of such a panel please send me an informal expression of interest with a brief description of your possible contribution. I then try to find common themes to develop in the topics that could tie them together into a coherent looking proposal, and work with the authors to refine the individual abstracts to meet the expectations of historians of technology. SIGCIS members are also encouraged to develop their own panel proposals. These can also be sponsored by the SIG. Feel free to reply to the list ( <mailto:members@sigcis.org> members(a)sigcis.org) to find additional panel members. Certain things are common for history conferences but can confuse those from other disciplines. SHOT isn't usually as explicit about some things in its call as it could be. What you need to know: . Panels generally run for 90 minutes and consist of three panelists, a commentator, and a chair. Speakers get about 20 minutes each, with 10 for the commentator, 10-15 for questions, and the rest wasted. Most people now use PowerPoint. Many historians still read papers word for word. Some panels are proposed as a whole. Others are assembled by the program committee from papers submitted individually. . Reviewing is based on a one page abstract and one page cv, and thus is obviously not double blind. Usually about 1/3 of submissions are rejected, but you will never know why as you do not receive comments from the reviewers. Selection is done by the program committee members themselves, with program balance and session coherence a concern. Therefore the odds of being accepted are generally higher as part of a coherent panel than as an individual paper. . The full paper is never reviewed or published, but you are still expected to write out some version of it for the commentator to read prior to the meeting. The commentator is supposed to weave together useful common threads in the papers, add context where missing, and make suggestions on possible improvements. This role is known as a "discussant" in some disciplines. SHOT commentators generally err on the side of niceness, particularly versus some discussion I've seen in business schools. . All the chair does is to introduce the speakers, moderate the question period, and make sure that everything runs to time. It's a good way to get yourself onto the program if you don't have any new work to present. . Only one paper submission per person per year is allowed. SHOT discourages people from speaking two years running, but that rule does not apply this year because this is an "overseas" (i.e. not the USA) meeting. . Connecting your paper or panel to an official conference theme is helpful, but not usually essential. The East/West Cold War theme should be an easy one for many of us to address. . SHOT usually has travel money from the NSF and other sources to help graduate student presenters and those "between jobs." This is applied for separately after acceptance of your paper. Best wishes, Tom Haigh SHOT CALL FOR PAPERS, on SHOT WEBSITE AS OF FEB 16, 2012 Call For Papers: SHOT 2012: 4-7 October Copenhagen, Denmark Deadline for submissions: 31 March 2012 The Society for the History of Technology will hold its annual meeting in Copenhagen, Denmark from 4-7 October at the Copenhagen Business School. The Program Committee invites paper and panel proposals on any topic in the history of technology, broadly defined. The Committee welcomes proposals for individual papers or sessions, as well as works-in-progress from researchers at all levels (including graduate students, chaired professors, and independent scholars). It welcomes proposals from those new to SHOT, regardless of discipline. Multinational, international, and cross-institutional sessions are particularly encouraged. We especially encourage proposals from non-Western and Eastern-European scholars. Since this is a non-North American meeting, the Program Committee will permit scholars who presented at the 2011 Cleveland meeting to give papers in Copenhagen. It is SHOT's policy to relax its rule about not presenting papers at two consecutive meetings in order to attract as many people as possible to meetings outside of North America. For the 2012 meeting the Program Committee continues to welcome unconventional sessions; that is, session formats that diverge in useful ways from the typical three/four papers with comment. These might include round-table sessions, workshop-style sessions with papers that are pre-circulated electronically, or "author meets critics" sessions. We also welcome poster proposals for presentation in poster sessions. THE DEADLINE FOR PROPOSALS IS 31 MARCH 2012. DETAILED SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS WILL BE AVAILABLE BY 13 FEBRUARY 2012. SHOT 2012 SPECIAL THEMES While paper and session proposals on all topics are welcome, the Program Committee is especially interested in proposals that engage the following themes: I. Technology, sustainability, and environment. SHOT has a long history of analyzing how technologies have interfered with or shaped nature and our social or cultural environments. The search for sustainable technology solutions has recently become a main preoccupation of engineers, designers and tinkerers all over the world and is high on the political agenda too. Possible themes to address are: . Questions of scale: onsite, small- and community-scale technology as challenges for large-scale and centralized models of technology design, both in rural and new urban environments . Smart design: ecodesign and sustainable industrial or product design as evidence of smart solutions for an accountable handling of technology . Natural infrastructures: infrastructures as "natural" environments and nature (air, water, soil) as co-producers of large-scale infrastructures . More with less: new technologies and the search for efficiency in energy consumption or technologies of power saving in housing, transport, and communication II. Technology, East-West relations, and the Cold War. During the Cold War, Europe was one of the central laboratories for experimentation with ideological and political regimes, which deeply affected traditional paths of knowledge and technology transfer in Europe. While the history of the Cold War has mainly been told as a history of discontinuity and fragmentation, we would especially welcome papers and sections dealing with examples of successful co-operation or "hidden continuities" in inter-European technology transfer during the 20th century. General areas to be explored are: . Changing times: continuities and discontinuities in the transfers of knowledge and technology between Eastern and Western Europe and the rest of the world from the mid-19th century to the present . Negotiating identities: spaces and places of co-operation or confrontation before, during, and after the Cold War . Blurred boundaries: spill-over effects and holes in the Iron Curtain . Trading zone: Europe as symbolic battlefield and diplomatic playground for world hegemony . Chilling effects: Technologies at war & wartime technology . Secret stories: technologies of intelligence and espionage and their staging in popular media (comics, films, magazines, television & radio) . Competing Modernities: the uses of technology in a variety of economic development and modernization schemes Evaluation Criteria The Program Committee's highest priority in evaluating paper and panel proposals is scholarly excellence. General ground rules SHOT rules exclude multiple submissions (i.e., submitting more than one individual paper proposal, or proposing both an individual paper and a paper as part of a session). However, scholars may both propose a paper and serve as a commentator or session chair. Proposals for individual papers must include 1. a one-page abstract (maximum 600 words) 2. a one-page curriculum vitae, including current postal and e-mail addresses Proposals for complete sessions must include 1. a description of the session that explains how individual papers contribute to an overall theme (300 words max) 2. the names and paper titles of the presenters 3. for each presenter, a one-page summary (maximum 600 words) of the paper's topic, argument(s), and evidence used 4. for the commentator, chair, and each presenter: one-page c.v., with postal and e-mail addresses * Please note that in general we discourage panels with more than three papers. **Please indicate if a proposal is sponsored by one of SHOT's special interest groups. DETAILED SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS WILL BE AVAILABLE BY 13 FEBRUARY 2012 For more information please see the Society's <http://www.historyoftechnology.org/annual_meeting.html> Annual Meeting Webpage. For general questions about the Society, please email SHOT Secretary <mailto:shotsecy@virginia.edu> Bernie Carlson <mailto:shotsecy@virginia.edu> .

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FW: computer security history
by SIGCOS＠bobf.frankston.com 14 Mar '12

14 Mar '12

-----Original Message----- From: Tom Van Vleck [mailto:thvv@multicians.org] Sent: Monday, March 12, 2012 12:38 To: Bob Frankston Subject: Re: [SIGCIS-Members] computer security history The history of computer security has been extensively studied. have them start with http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/history/ Many "historians" are only interested in information that is in hardbound books, preferably written by other "historians." Most of these books pick some story, and then pick facts that support the story. z/OS is a descendant of CP/CMS. Googling suggests z/OS probably has been hacked, just not in the world view of guys from Compuware. The phrase "digital pearl harbor" belongs to the History of Hype which is also worth studying, but is only tangentially related to computer security. On Mar 11, 2012, at 10:40 PM, Bob Frankston wrote: > Multics again ... perhaps I should also forward this to Jerry Saltzer > > -----Original Message----- > From: members-bounces(a)sigcis.org [mailto:members-bounces@sigcis.org] On > Behalf Of William McMillan > Sent: Sunday, March 11, 2012 18:04 > To: members(a)sigcis.org > Subject: Re: [SIGCIS-Members] computer security history > > Jon, et al. > > There might be some value in looking into the history of Multics, the > IBM System/360, and DEC VAX/VMS. These were systems built from the > ground up with security in mind, even at the hardware level for > address-space protection. > > I'm sure there are other good cases, but these come to mind. > > I believe that Peter J. Denning's work on operating systems would also > be related. > > We had a mainframe guy from Compuware come in recently to talk to > students about current mainframes, which amount almost totally to the > IBM z Systems, descendants of the 360/370. When someone asked about > security, he said forget about it. No one's ever hacked a z System. > > There's this whole, heavy-duty, bullet-proof world of hyper-secure > systems, and then the swamps and tangles most of us live in that > evolved from Unix, MS-DOS, the 8086, the Mac OS and other jury-rigged > OSs and hardware architectures. > > - Bill > > On 3/11/12, Jon Lindsay <jrlindsay(a)ucsd.edu> wrote: >> Hello all, >> I have the feeling that the history of computer security, from hacking >> techniques to the evolution of the information security industry to >> fearmongering over cybersecurity, is a somewhat understudied area. I have >> seen some work on the development of government policy and threat framing >> (i.e., by Myriam Dunn Cavelty) but I'm less aware of anything on the >> evolution of the technical and industrial dark arts. If there is some good >> work out there, I would love to see it. >> Bonus points if you can tell me when the awful phrase "digital pearl >> harbor" first appeared! >> Cheers, >> Jon >> > _______________________________________________ > 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 >

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Who invented email?
by Elizabeth Feinler 14 Mar '12

14 Mar '12

Ray Tomlinson then at Bolt, Beranek and Newman in Boston is usually given credit for inventing email. However, Dick Watson, then at SRI International in Menlo Park, CA worked on the first email protocols at about the same time. Doug Engelbart's NLS system had email capabilities in the 70s. In my opinion the REAL inventor of email was John Vittal, then at Bolt, Beranek, and Newman also. In the 70s he wrote the program MSG that was widely used and widely copied across the Internet. It had almost all of the features that email programs have today. He got sick of maintaining it and it morphed into MM that was jointly maintained by a number of folks at Stanford and SRI. It was a freebie available to anyone who wanted to install it, and ran first on the DEC 10s and 20s, but was widely copied. BBN also had a commercial product called Hermes - not sure of timeframe; late 70s early 80s. Like most programs on the early Internet, many people contributed ideas to enhance the original. Regards, Elizabeth Feinler former PI for the NIC

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Re: [SIGCIS-Members] Members Digest, Vol 21, Issue 12
by Roberts, Sarah T 13 Mar '12

13 Mar '12

Well, I reached out to the Callie Crossley Show on Facebook and Twitter and included the URL to the WaPo retraction. We'll see what happens. --Sarah > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2012 13:18:21 -0400 > From: Dave Walden <dave.walden.family(a)gmail.com> > To: members(a)sigcis.org > Subject: [SIGCIS-Members] Email "inventor" on Callie Crossley on WGBH > Message-ID: <4f5e2fe2.68c4b60a.4722.4f9d(a)mx.google.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed > > >> http://www.wgbh.org >> http://www.wgbh.org/programs/The-Callie-Crossley-Show-855?MM=1 > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2012 23:31:39 -0400 > From: Dave Walden <dave.walden.family(a)gmail.com> > To: members(a)sigcis.org > Subject: [SIGCIS-Members] Email "inventor" on Callie Crossley on WGBH > right now > Message-ID: <4f5ec0a9.46033c0a.63c4.ffffa69a(a)mx.google.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed > > >> Here is a link to that segment >> >> http://www.wgbh.org/programs/The-Callie-Crossley-Show-855/episodes/Mon-3121… --- S a r a h T. R o b e r t s Doctoral Candidate and Fellow, Information in Society Graduate School of Library and Information Science (GSLIS) http://www.lis.illinois.edu/people/students/sarah-roberts-phd-student University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign http://www.lis.illinois.edu/academics/programs/phd/infosociety Blogging periodically at http://illusionofvolition.com

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