Hello all,
I'm working on a computer history micro-exhibit, and we are having some
trouble picking good artifacts. Maybe some museum-minded people on this
list or collectors might be able to advise.
At this point, my team has divided our artifacts into a few sections:
memory, storage, processors, and networks. The first three are pretty much
finished or already exist but need slight tweaking. For networks, however,
I'm on our 5th or 6th big re-concepting and keep running into the same
problem: a lack of good objects to tell a story.
The idea is to explain the basic structure of the internet and how
computers sending information differs from a phone connection. However,
while most of the other sections show change over time through objects (ex.
the processors section shows an IBM 704 tube rack, IBM Standard Modular
System chips, a TI integrated circuit, and an Intel 486 processor),
networking artifacts don't furnish much physical proof for a basic concept
in the same way.
We currently have some old modems and have decided that those are pretty
uninteresting. The artifact we are happy about is an IBM network
controller. We have thrown around ideas like showing different kinds of
cables but it felt too much like a hardware store display.
If anyone has worked on something similar, or has seen something
inspirational (the Science Museum's awesome Information Age exhibit comes
to mind), I would appreciate some guidance!
Sincerely,
Mikey McGovern <https://cambridge.academia.edu/MikeyMcGovern>
Dear colleagues,
Those with an interest in computing in the Nordic countries may note that Springer has just published the proceedings from the fourth History of Nordic Computing conference. The conference took place in Copenhagen in August 2014. The proceedings consist of 37 full papers, including ones by SIGCIS members Per Lundin and J. Carles Maixé-Altés (and maybe someone else whom I have missed).
The proceedings are available at
http://www.springer.com/us/book/9783319171449
or, for those who have Springer Link:
http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007%2F978-3-319-17145-6
Best regards,
Gustav
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Hi all,
The following note was posted on SHOT-Asia Network by Francesca Bray. Notice the early deadlines!
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Francesca Bray<https://www.facebook.com/francesca.bray.5?fref=nf>
Yesterday at 5:49am<https://www.facebook.com/groups/165579264697/permalink/10154155690639698/>
DEADLINES for SHOT 2016: Dear all, just an informal heads-up that the deadlines for proposing papers and panels for SHOT 2016 in Singapore will be coming up very soon. As yet to be finalised but it looks like 1 Oct 2015 for proposals for open panels, and 15 Dec 2015 for proposals for other formats including routine panels, round tables, individual papers, etc. Please pass this information on!
Regards,
-Ramesh
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Ramesh Subramanian, Ph.D.
Gabriel Ferrucci Professor of Computer Information Systems
Quinnipiac University
Hamden, CT 06518.
Phone: 203-582-5276
Email:rameshs@quinnipiac.edu
Web: http://www.quinnipiac.edu/about/directory/faculty-detail/?Dept=16&Person=23…
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Fellow, Yale Law School - Information Society Project
New Haven, CT 06511
Email: ramesh.subramanian(a)yale.edu
Web: http://www.law.yale.edu/intellectuallife/9841.htm
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Subject: [SIGCIS-Members] SIGCIS 2015 Workshop (draft) program
Dear colleagues -
The draft program for our SIGCIS 2015 Workshop is now posted at http://www.sigcis.org/workshop15. We meet this year on Sunday, October 11, in Albuquerque, New Mexico. As you can see, we have a large and rich set of papers this year!
I’m also very happy to announce that Nathan Ensmenger from the University of Indiana has agreed to be our keynote speaker.
We will update the program with abstracts of all papers, as well as room information when it becomes available.
All the best,
Andy
PS - if you’re so inclined, you can follow SIGCIS on Twitter - https://twitter.com/SIGCIS - and on Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/SIGCIS
First Call For Participation
HaPoC 2015: 3rd International CONFERENCE on
the HISTORY and PHILOSOPHY of COMPUTING
October 8-11, 2015, Pisa, Italy
http://hapoc2015.di.unipi.it <http://hapoc2015.di.unipi.it/>
*** Early Registration until September 6, 2015 ! ***
This is an invitation to attend the 3rd International Conference on
the History and Philosophy of Computing (HaPoC 2015). The conference
brings together researchers interested in the historical developments
of computers and their sciences, as well as those reflecting on the
sociological and philosophical issues springing from the rise and ubiquity
of computing machines in the contemporary landscape. The conference is
composed of 30 research presentations, with no parallels sessions, and 6
invited talks from renowned experts in the relevant fields.
The conference will take place in Pisa, the cradle of Italian
computer science: here the first Italian computers were designed in the
mid-Fifties and the first Master course in informatics was established
in 1969. The Museum of Computing Machinery (Museo degli Strumenti per
il Calcolo), part of the University of Pisa, shows some artefacts
from the early days of Italian CS, as well a selection of personal
computing machines. Besides its artistic attractions, among them the
world-famous leaning tower, during the days of the conference Pisa
will host the Internet Festival, devoted to all the aspects of the net
(http://www.internetfestival.it)
Invited speakers
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Nicola Angius, Universita' di Sassari
Lenore Blum, Carnegie Mellon University
David Alan Grier, IEEE & George Washington University
Furio Honsell, Universita' di Udine
Pierre Mounier-Kuhn, CNRS & Universite' Paris-Sorbonne
Franck Varenne, Universite' de Rouen
Visit http://goo.gl/ubgl2E
<http://hapoc2015.sciencesconf.org/resource/page/id/5> for a list of the
abstracts.
Accepted Talks
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The list of accepted abstracts can be found at _http://goo.gl/BTJsTC_
Venue
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The conference will take place in Pisa, at the Museum of Computing
Machinery. Additional information can be found at http://goo.gl/APJPff
<http://hapoc2015.sciencesconf.org/resource/page/id/3>
Registration information
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Registration is required to attend. You may find all the information
concerning the registration fee at http://goo.gl/j0mZMV
Grant Application
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By registering for membership to the HaPoC commission you can apply
for a grant of up to 400 EUR which can be used to partially fund
your participation to HaPoC 2015.
Applications should be sent before August 15.
All information available at: http://www.hapoc.org/node/124
Dear colleagues -
The draft program for our SIGCIS 2015 Workshop is now posted at http://www.sigcis.org/workshop15. We meet this year on Sunday, October 11, in Albuquerque, New Mexico. As you can see, we have a large and rich set of papers this year!
I’m also very happy to announce that Nathan Ensmenger from the University of Indiana has agreed to be our keynote speaker.
We will update the program with abstracts of all papers, as well as room information when it becomes available.
All the best,
Andy
PS - if you’re so inclined, you can follow SIGCIS on Twitter - https://twitter.com/SIGCIS - and on Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/SIGCIS
