August 2016 - Members - lists.sigcis.org

Job opening at National Air and Space Museum
by Ceruzzi, Paul 03 Aug '16

03 Aug '16

Full-time, curatorial job opening. https://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/446445000 Paul E. Ceruzzi Curator, Division of Space History National Air and Space Museum MRC 311, PO Box 37012 Smithsonian Institution Washington, DC 20013-7012 www.ceruzzi.com<http://www.ceruzzi.com> ceruzzip(a)si.edu<mailto:ceruzzip@si.edu> 202-633-2414

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CHM Fellows - Your voice matters!
by Dag Spicer 02 Aug '16

02 Aug '16

Hello SIGCIS friends, Just a quick reminder that our 2017 Computer History Museum Fellows nominations are closing in a few weeks. The CHM Fellow Awards, held each year in the Spring, are a way to honor those who have built the computing and technology infrastructure of our world but who often are invisible to history. We especially encourage nominations of candidates from traditionally under-represented communities. The Nomination Form is here: http://www.computerhistory.org/fellowawards/_media/docs/fa-nomination-form.… If you have any questions about the process, please email us at: nominations(a)computerhistory.org<mailto:nominations@computerhistory.org> Full details on the Awards, including selection criteria are here: http://www.computerhistory.org/fellowawards/nominations/ Thanks everyone — we greatly appreciate your support! Dag -- Dag Spicer Senior Curator Computer History Museum Editorial Board, IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 1401 North Shoreline Boulevard Mountain View, CA 94043-1311 Tel: +1 650 810 1035 Fax: +1 650 810 1055

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Seymour Papert has died
by Dave Walden 02 Aug '16

02 Aug '16

See http://news.mit.edu/2016/seymour-papert-pioneer-of-constructionist-learning… Papert was one of the co-inventors of the Logo programming language. My memory is that his group of Logo people was located at 545 Technology Square in Cambridge, MA, among the Project MAC (later LCS) groups of MIT computing research people.

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