Len Shustek was will receive the ACM Distinguished Service Award
<https://www.hpcwire.com/off-the-wire/acm-recognizes-visionaries-changed-wor…>
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*Leonard Jay Shustek*, recipient of the *ACM Distinguished Service Award* for
the establishment and success of the Computer History Museum, the world’s
leading institution in exploring the history of computing and its impact on
society. Shustek has helped bring to the world the story of how the
greatest innovation of our time has come to be. In 1995, after retiring
from the network diagnostic company he co-founded, Shustek began teaching
computer architecture at Stanford University. He soon realized that
students were as interested in computer history as they were in computer
architecture. Instead of returning to Stanford, he began a quest that would
ultimately lead him to acquire a group of artifacts from The Computer
Museum in Boston, with an eye toward forming a new computer history museum
in the heart of Silicon Valley.
Today, thanks to the leadership, vision and tenacity of Shustek, the
Computer History Museum (CHM) is acknowledged as the world’s most important
museum chronicling the rise of computing and its impact on society. With a
staff of 75 serving 200,000 visitors each year, CHM has realized Shustek’s
founding goal of an organization that would be “built to last.” CHM is
housed in a complex comprised of a 119,000-square-foot building for
exhibits and hands-on labs; a 25,000-square-foot climate-controlled
warehouse for papers and artifacts; and a new 50,000-square-foot research
center for scholars and archival work. Throughout the museum’s growth and
development, Shustek has engaged in a range of activities, from leading the
museum in raising $125 million to tracking down vintage code related to
operating systems no longer in use.
For the general public, signature exhibitions like “Revolution” translate
the history of computing into an experience that the average person can not
only appreciate, but enjoy. For the computing field, CHM’s role as the
world’s major repository of artifacts and historic preservation allows
innovators to access the past, in order to move into the future.
*The ACM Distinguished Service Award
<http://awards.acm.org/distinguished-service> is presented on the basis of
value and degree of services to the computing community. The contribution
should not be limited to service to the Association, but should include
activities in other computer organizations and should emphasize
contributions to the computing community at large.*
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Hi, all -
Does anyone know if the SIGCIS talks have made it to the CHM YouTube channel - or somewhere else - yet?
With thanks,
Sarah
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S a r a h T. R o b e r t s, P h. D.
Assistant Professor
University of California, Los Angeles
Department of Information Studies
Graduate School of Education & Information Studies
https://is.gseis.ucla.edu/
Blogging periodically at
http://illusionofvolition.com
The SIGCIS Conference Organizing Committee is delighted to announce the CFP
for the 2017 SIGCIS Conference immediately following SHOT (previously known
as the SIGCIS Workshop). Details below. This CFP can also be reviewed at
meetings.sigcis.org.
Please distribute widely!
*MEASURE, MODEL, MIX: COMPUTER AS INSTRUMENT*
2017 SIGCIS Conference
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | October 29, 2017
*Proposal Due Date: June 30, 2017 *
*KEYNOTE SPEAKER*
Joanna Radin <http://history.yale.edu/people/joanna-radin> | Department of
History, Yale University
*THEME*
Computers are instruments of action. They are made to measure, model, and
mix; count and aggregate; save and surveil; pick, parse, and select; and in
a world of embedded systems, they are even designed to listen, wait, and
relay. In many instances, these actions involve the computational
transformation of other social and technological processes—from software
that compiles the census to the suites of code assisting in the digital
manipulation of sound and image. In other cases, computers register and
create information at scales and speeds we have only begun to grasp:
artificial intelligence, machine learning, and “big data” in all its local
forms. And while often leveraged as democratizing, computers have long been
known to amplify structural inequality, map over difference, and jettison
“noise” that cannot be translated into a specific form of information.
Measure, Model, Mix invites scholars and independent researchers across the
disciplinary spectrum to explore the historical conditions of computation.
How have bureaucratic, scientific, and aesthetic computational instruments
eroded, produced, and reproduced biopolitical and epistemological
realities, past and present? What are the historical foundations of
computing’s contemporary capacity to recognize information? How have
cultures, subcultures, political systems and identity groups mobilized
computational techniques for their own ends?
The annual SIGCIS Conference begins immediately after the regular annual
meeting of our parent organization, the Society for the History of
Technology [SHOT]. We welcome submissions from: the histories of
technology, computing, and science; science and technology studies; studies
of women, gender, and sexuality; studies of race, ethnicity, and
postcoloniality; film, media, and game studies; software and code studies;
network and internet histories; music, sound studies, and art history; and
all other applicable domains.
*SUBMISSION FORMATS*
SIGCIS welcomes proposals for individual 15-20 minute papers, 3-4 paper
panel proposals, works-in-progress (see below), and non-traditional
proposals such as roundtables, software demonstrations, hands-on workshops,
etc.
*WORKS-IN-PROGRESS*
We are pleased to announce a new format for the 2017 SIGCIS Works in
Progress (WiP) session. This year, participants will not deliver
presentations on their WiP, and there will not be an audience. Instead, the
session will serve as a workshop wherein participants will discuss the
works in small group sessions.
We invite works in progress—articles, chapters, dissertation
prospectuses—of 10,000 words or less (longer works must be selectively
edited to meet this length). We especially encourage submissions from
graduate students, early career scholars, and scholars who are new to
SIGCIS. Authors who submit a WiP will also commit to reading (in advance)
two other WiPs, discussing them in a very small group setting, and
providing written feedback on one of those WiPs. Scholars who would like to
participate in this session without submitting their own WiP are certainly
welcome; we ask that they commit to reading (in advance) at least two of
the WiPs.
Submissions for WiP only require a 350-400 word abstract, but applicants
should plan to circulate their max-10,000-word WiPs no later than October
8, 2017. Scholars who would like to be a reader of WiPs, please email a
brief bio or 1-page CV, along with your areas of interest and expertise, to
Gerardo Con Diaz [condiaz(a)ucdavis.edu]
*SUBMISSION PROCEDURE*
Submissions are due June 30, 2017. Applicants should download, fill out and
follow the instructions on the application cover sheet at
http://meetings.sigcis.org/call-for-papers.html. All submissions will
require:
- 350-400 word abstract (full panel proposals should additionally
include a 300-word panel abstract in addition to 3-4 paper abstracts)
- 1-page CV or resume
Please Note: Individuals already scheduled to participate on the main SHOT
program are welcome to submit an additional proposal to our workshop, but
should make sure that there is no overlap between the two presentations.
However, SIGCIS may choose to give higher priority to submissions from
those not already presenting at SHOT. Questions regarding submission
procedure should be sent to Kera Allen [kera.allen(a)gatech.edu]
*TRAVEL AWARD*
The top financial priority of SIGCIS is the support of travel expenses for
graduate students, visiting faculty without institutional travel support,
and others who would be unable to attend the meeting without travel
assistance. The submission cover sheet includes a box to check if you fall
into one of these categories and would like to be considered for an award.
These is no separate application form, though depending on the volume of
requests and available resources we may need to contact you for further
information before making a decision.
Any award offered is contingent on registering for and attending the SIGCIS
Conference. Please note that SHOT does not classify the SIGCIS Conference
as participation in the SHOT annual meeting, therefore so acceptance by
SIGCIS does not imply eligibility for the SHOT travel grant program. Details
of available awards are at http://www.sigcis.org/travelaward.
*SIGCIS CONFERENCE ORGANIZING COMMITTEE*
Laine Nooney <http://www.lainenooney.com/>, Georgia Institute of Technology
(SIGCIS Vice-Chair of Meetings)
Andrew Russell <http://www.arussell.org/>, SUNY Polytechnic Institute
(SIGCIS Chair)
Stephanie Dick <https://hss.sas.upenn.edu/people/stephanie-dick>,
University of Pennsylvania
Gerardo Con Diaz <https://www.condiaz.com/>, University of California, Davis
Joy Rankin <http://joyrankin.com/>, Michigan State University
Kera Allen
<https://hts.gatech.edu/people/person/e2f55e07-937a-571a-a4f8-c32c87fef19d>,
Georgia Institute of Technology (Conference Assistant)
Nabeel Siddiqui <http://nabeelsiddiqui.net/>, College of William and Mary
(Conference Assistant)
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Laine Nooney
www.lainenooney.com
DM <http://dm.lmc.gatech.edu/> @ LMC <http://lmc.gatech.edu/> @ GT
<http://www.gatech.edu/>
Assistant Professor
Dear Colleagues,
Please note that there will be several tracks of interest to this group at
the IFIP World Congress in Poznan, Poland in September 2018. Full papers on
the theme "This Changes Everything" are due in January 2018.
The working group I am affiliated with, History of Computing, will sponsor
one of the themes:
THIS CHANGED EVERYTHING
In the history of computing, who were the important people and what were
the important devices that deserve recognition as fulcrums that “changed
everything”? In the development of computers as well as the study of
history more generally, we also know that the more things change, the more
they sometimes stay the same. What shifts in the history of computing were
portrayed as changing everything but on closer analysis reveal deeper
continuities? How do these lessons give us insight into future invention
and innovation in computing?
All papers along this theme will be considered. However, as we proposed at
the New York conference last year, the following three topics might be
particularly fruitful given the location:
- The bomba and the collaboration between Poland and England in World
War 2
- The international history of software engineering, on the occasion of
the 50th anniversary of the NATO meeting in Garmisch, Germany that was the
"first" software engineering conference
- Work on the history of computing in eastern Europe more generally.
A broader CFP. which includes the other tracks from TC9, follows. I hope
you will considering being a part of this event and sharing the CFP among
your networks.
Chris Leslie
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13th IFIP TC9 Human Choice and Computers Conference:
”This Changes Everything”
In conjunction with the World Computer Congress
17th-21st September 2018 in Poznan, Poland
Conference Chairs: David Kreps, Kai Kimppa, Louise Leenen, Charles Ess
<http://www.hcc13.net>
This Changes Everything. Many of us likely associate this phrase with Steve
Jobs’ introduction of the iPhone in 2007. But there are clearly other
candidates for the ”This,” e.g., the oncoming bioinformatics redesign of
species or the fourth industrial revolution of artificially intelligent
robots. But ”This” is also, without question, the greatest challenge of our
age: climate change.
The conference invites both academics and practitioners in the field of
ICTs and Society to take stock of their engagements, review their focus,
and assess what and how each and every one of us might be able to
contribute to the transformations needed (and already beginning) in local,
regional, national and international contexts, towards becoming diverse,
environmentally and socially conscious, and thriving communities.
We welcome submissions that speak directly and less directly to the
conference theme. “This Changes Everything” implicates both climate change
and the interrelated global challenges most central to the Working Groups
of TC9 and its National Society representatives, including the UN
Sustainable Development Goals. Submissions are also welcome, not just to
the General Conference Track on change, but to the other foci of the Track
Themes. (For complete track descriptions, please see the extended CFP on
the conference website, <http://www.hcc13.net>.)
Themes:
- Societal implications, effects and impacts of artificial intelligence
- Track Chairs: Diane Whitehouse and Christopher Zielinski (WG9.2)
- Including critical issues beyond the ICT context in codes of
conduct/ethics - Track Chairs: Kai Kimppa and Penny Duquenoy (SIG9.2.2)
- Our digital lives - Track Chairs: Petros Chamakiotis and Brad McKenna
(WG9.5)
- This changed everything - Track Chair: Christopher Leslie (WG9.7)
- Gender in ICT - Track Chairs: Sisse Finken, Christina Mörtberg and
Johanna Sefyrin (WG9.8)
- ICT and sustainability - Track Chairs: Thomas Lennerfors and Per Fors
(WG9.9)
- Climate risk, cyber-security, and the dark web - Track Chair: Louise
Leenen (WG9.10)
- Privacy, data protection, and automation - Track Chair: Taro Komukai
(Japan National Representative)
- ICT and an inclusive society - Track Chairs: Hossana Twinomurinzi and
Jackie Phahlamohlaka (South Africa National Representative)
Submissions:
Full papers are invited that address the Conference Theme, or any of the
above Track Themes. All papers will be subject to double-blind review.
Authors of accepted papers will be invited to revise their work in keeping
with reviewers’ comments prior to formatting, and inclusion in the
Programme and Proceedings. Travel, accommodation and all other details will
be posted when available at http://www.hcc13.net/
Submissions will be through Springer OCS Website, with proceedings
published in the AICT Springer Book series immediately prior to the
conference.
Important dates:
- Full paper deadline: 15th January 2018
- Reviews and revisions during February, March, and April, 2018.
- Final papers: 30th April, 2018.
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Christopher S. Leslie, Ph.D.
Co-Director and Lecturer, Science and Technology Studies
Faculty Fellow in Residence for Othmer Hall and Clark Street
Chair, IFIP History of Computing Working Group 9.7
NYU Tandon School of Engineering
5 MetroTech Center, LC 131
Brooklyn, NY 11201
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