December 2016 - Members - lists.sigcis.org

A 3D-printed Curta!
by Brian Randell 08 Dec '16

08 Dec '16

Hi: See https://t.co/f8pSU9GUa5 Cheers Brian Randell — School of Computing Science, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU EMAIL = Brian.Randell(a)ncl.ac.uk PHONE = +44 191 208 7923 URL = http://www.ncl.ac.uk/computing/people/profile/brianrandell.html

1 0

Announcing NYCDH Week 2017
by Kimon Keramidas 05 Dec '16

05 Dec '16

NYCDH <http://nycdh.org/> is happy to announce the 2nd Annual NYCDH Week, February 6-10, 2017. Taking place at institutions throughout the city, NYCDH Week gives individuals across the region who are interested in digital humanities an opportunity to learn new techniques and skills, meet new people, and make new connections. Following last year’s highly successful inaugural event, NYCDH Week 2017 begins on February 6 with a kickoff gathering at the CUNY Graduate Center. The day-long event features speakers, round tables, lightning talks and networking sessions. The rest of the week will consist of a diverse selection of free workshops hosted at a wide range of institutions across the city, including: Bard Graduate Center, Columbia University, CUNY Graduate Center, Fordham University, New York Public Library, NYU, Pratt Institute, and Rhizome. Inaugural NYCDH Award We are also happy to announce the inaugural NYCDH Award. This award will be given to an individual who has made a significant contribution to digital humanities in the region. The NYCDH Award winner will make the keynote speech at the kickoff gathering. Nominations are open to all, with the final selection made by the NYCDH Steering Committee. All nominations must be made by end of day, on December 21. If you would like to make a nomination please submit your name on this form: Link <https://goo.gl/forms/cWf1akzGEL9VD7w32> Workshops NYCDH Week's series of wide-ranging workshops are open to everyone. They are FREE and offered across the city. Workshops are made possible by members of the NYCDH community who are willing to offer their time to teach and help organize each session. Volunteer to teach a workshop! Graduate students, librarians, faculty, museum workers, independent scholars, tech companies and others are welcome to become part of our programming. To sign up to teach a workshop please use this form: Link <https://goo.gl/forms/NVB4TrrBcqV6vuaJ2>. Last year NYCDH Week included 24 workshops with more than 400 attendees. For a list of the those workshops, see the DH Week website <http://dhweek.nycdh.org/>. For any questions regarding NYCDH Week please contact Kimon Keramidas: kimon.keramidas(a)nyu.edu <mailto:kimon.keramidas@nyu.edu> Cheers Kimon Keramidas Kimon Keramidas, Ph.D. Associate Director and Clinical Assistant Professor of Digital Humanities John W. Draper Interdisciplinary Master’s Program in Humanities and Social Thought New York University 14 University Place New York, NY 10003 E kimon.keramidas(a)nyu.edu <mailto:kimon.keramidas@nyu.edu> P 212-998-3691 T @kimonizer <http://twitter.com/kimonizer> W http://kimonkeramidas.com <http://kimonkeramidas.com/> The Interface Experience: Forty Years of Personal Computing Exhibition <http://www.bgc.bard.edu/gallery/gallery-at-bgc/past-exhibitions/the-interfa…> | Web <http://interface-experience.org/> The Interface Experience: A User’s Guide Winner of the 2016 Innovation in Print Design Award from the American Alliance of Museums <http://www.aam-us.org/> Buy Book <http://store.bgc.bard.edu/the-interface-experience-a-users-guide-by-kimon-k…>

1 0

cfp "computers and futures"
by Dick van Lente 05 Dec '16

05 Dec '16

Computers and futures: expectations of a future with computers in X countries, 1945-1975 CfP for SHOT, 26-29 October 2017 v2 Dick van Lente After World War II, scientists, policy makers and intellectuals in many countries claimed that their societies were entering a new era, which would be shaped by technologies that had been developed during the war, especially digital computers. MIT, for example, devoted its 100th birthday symposium in 1962 to 'computers and the world of the future.' This session explores what kinds of future society were expected to emerge as a consequence of the application of computers in all kinds of activity; how such future expectations were explained to the general public; and to what extent such projections were similar and different in a number of countries. The period to be studied is that of mainframes, before the coming of the pc and the internet, because the cultural dimensions of the later period have already been studied much more than the mainframe era. The aim of the session is to explore, and begin to explain, to what extent a powerful new technology evoked similar expectations in countries with different political, economic, and cultural structures, and to what extent these expectations differed. The focus is on popular culture (illustrated magazines, newspapers, popular movies and so on), but since experts were important in shaping the public image of computers and of the future, the 'high culture'-part of the story (Wiener, C.P. Snow, Jungk, and so on) is important as well. Please send your proposal to vanlente(a)eur.nl by January 31. Appropriate proposals will be grouped into one or more sessions and submitted to the program committee for the SHOT conference, 26-29 October 2017 in Philadelphia.

1 0

Call for papers: HaPoC 2017, Brno, 4-7 October 2017 (deadline: 15 May 2017)
by Helena Durnová 02 Dec '16

02 Dec '16

Dear colleagues, below please find the Call for papers for the 4th international conference on the history and philosophy of computing. Please, feel free to spread the call. Kind regards, Helena link to the announcement: http://hapoc.org/node/199 -------------------------------- The DHST/DLMPS commission for the History and Philosophy of Computing www.hapoc.org invites all interested researchers to the 4th International Conference on History and Philosophy of Computing (HaPoC) Brno, 4-7 October 2017 In their societal impact, computers have grown way beyond their roots in mathematics and logic. Their ubiquity since the late 20th century has increased the number and impact of several of the original questions raised by early computer scientists and practitioners: questions about their expected and intended behaviour, as Alan Turing did when asking whether machines can think; questions about their ontology, as John von Neumann did when asking what the computer and the human brain have in common; questions about their role in performing human tasks, as Norbert Wiener did when asking whether automatic translation is possible. With new technologies, the need for rethinking formal and technological issues is crucial. The computerisation of our lives can hardly leave anyone without opinion. HaPoC’s appeal to historical and philosophical reflection is an invitation to all: designers and manufacturers, computer practitioners, users and artists, logicians and mathematicians, and with the increasing ubiquity of the machine every citizen, with her own experience of the computer. HaPoC conferences aim to bring together researchers exploring the various aspects of the computer from historical or philosophical standpoint. With Nathan Ensmenger we may say that facts do not change, but our understanding of them does. The series aims at an interdisciplinary focus on computing, rooted in historical and philosophical viewpoints. The conference brings together researchers interested in the historical developments of computing, as well as those reflecting on the sociological and philosophical issues springing from the rise and ubiquity of computing machines in the contemporary landscape. Past editions of the conference have successfully presented a variety of voices, resulting in fruitful dialogue between researchers of different backgrounds and characteristics. Celebrating the revolutionary exhibition Computer Graphic held in Brno in the spring of 1968, HaPoC emphatically extends the invitation to its fourth international conference to reflections on computers and art. For HaPoC 2017 we welcome contributions from logicians, philosophers and historians of computing as well as from philosophically aware computer scientists and mathematicians. We also invite contributions on the use of computers in art. As HaPoC conferences aim to provide a platform for interdisciplinary discussions among researchers, contributions stimulating such discussions are preferable. Topics include but are not limited to: - History of computation (computational systems, machines, mechanized reasoning, algorithms and programs, communities of computing and their paradigms,...) - Foundational issues in computer science and computability (models of computability, Church-Turing thesis, formal systems for distributed, cloud and secure computing, semantic theories of programming languages, ...) - Philosophy of computing (computer as brain / mind, epistemological issues, ...) - Computation in the sciences (computer experiments and simulations, computer-aided systems for teaching and research, ...) - Computer and the arts (temporality in digital art; narration in interactive art work, speculative software, programming as a deferred action, computing and affect, performativity of code, eristic of HCI, ...) We cordially invite researchers working in a field relevant to the main topics of the conference to submit a short abstract of approximately 200 words and an extended abstract of at most a 1000 words (references included) through EasyChair at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hapoc2017 Accepted papers will be presented in 30 minute slots including discussion. Abstracts must be written in English. Please note that the format of uploaded files must be in .pdf. Submissions without extended abstract will not be considered. Deadline for paper submission: 15 May 2017 Notification of acceptance: 15 July 2017 Conference fee: EUR 150 A limited number of grants will be available. The conference will be preceded by a special workshop on the reception of Hilbert's axiomatic method in Eastern Europe on 3 October (Tuesday) – organized by Mate Szabó Accompanying cultural programme will include the remake of the 1968 Brno exhibition Computer Graphic (featuring Frieder Nake and others), the first computer art exhibition in Eastern Europe, preceding Cybernetic Serendipity by several months, Live coding performance (inspired by the Exhibition Computer Graphic), the concert Exposition of New Music (contemporary music), and field recordings of Brno (student project).

1 0

ACM History Committee --> 2017 research in ACM history
by Thomas J. Misa 01 Dec '16

01 Dec '16

Hi all, Please note this year's call for proposals, with a deadline of 15 February 2017, for support of research projects in ACM history. This year is an open call, not connected specifically to a workshop or other special event. Best, Tom Misa =============================================== ACM History Committee 2017 Program for Research in ACM History The Association for Computing Machinery, founded in 1947, is the oldest and largest educational and scientific society dedicated to the computing profession, and today has more than 100,000 members around the world. The ACM History Committee will support research projects related to ACM’s professional and educational activities and/or to ACM’s rich institutional history including its organization, publications, SIG activities, and conferences. We will support up to four projects with awards of up to $4,000 each. Successful candidates may be of any rank, from graduate students through senior researchers. To Apply: Applicants should send a 2-page CV as well as a 500-word project description that [a] describes the proposed research; [b] identifies the importance of specific ACM historical materials, whether traditional archival collections or online historical materials (oral histories, digitized conference papers, ACM organizational records, et al.); [c] discusses project outcomes (e.g. journal article, book or dissertation chapter, teaching resource, museum exhibit, website); [d] outlines a timeline for completing the project; [e] expresses willingness to write a one-page blog entry during the project and, on completion, to promptly report project results. In preparing a proposal, applicants should examine the document “ACM Research Materials” posted at <history.acm.org/content.php?do=links> as well as “Sources for ACM History,” CACM 50 #5 (May 2007): 36-41 <doi.acm.org/10.1145/1230819.1230836>. Other research materials relating to ACM history may also be used. Applicants should include a short letter of endorsement from their institution or an external scholarly reference. Proposals are due by 15 February 2017. Proposals should be submitted as a single pdf-format document to <history-webmaster(a)acm.org>. Notification of awards will be made within six weeks. Since 2009 ACM HC has supported 22 research projects. Results include the recent edited volume Communities of Computing: Computer Science and Society in the ACM (ACM Books 2016; DOI 10.1145/2973856 <http://books.acm.org/titles#tab227> and https://www.amazon.com/Communities-Computing-Computer-Science-Society/dp/19…) ACM HC also sponsors workshops in oral history methods and archiving practices.

1 0