November 2019 - Members - lists.sigcis.org

Special Issue on Machines and Mathematics
by Maarten Bullynck 15 Nov '19

15 Nov '19

Dear members of SIGCIS, I am happy to announce the publication of a special issue of Revue de Synthèse (vol 139: 3-4, 2018) on "Mathematics and Machines", edited by Liesbeth De Mol, Marie-José Durand-Richard and myself . The issue looks at the interactions between mathematics and manual, analogue or digital computation and focuses on the period before and after World War II. I attach our English translation of the introduction, explaining the topic and outlining the articles of the special issue. The issue itself is online here: https://brill.com/view/journals/rds/139/3-4/rds.139.issue-3-4.xml (While access to the issue is restricted, some of the articles can be found in preprint form on HAL-SHS Archives Ouvertes, https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/ notably nrs. halshs-01541616 and hal-01814822) CONTENT: VOL 139: 3-4, 2018: SPECIAL ISSUE: "MATHÉMATIQUES ET MACHINES", ed. by Liesbeth De Mol, Maarten Bullynck and Marie-José Durand-Richard * Liesbeth De Mol, Maarten Bullynck and Marie-José Durand-Richard _Introduction: Mathématiques et machines_ (pp.235-239) * Maarten Bullynck _Programming Men and Machines. Changing Organisation in the Artillery Computations at Aberdeen Proving Ground (1916-1946)_, (pp. 241-266) * Allan Olley _A Task that Exceeded the Technology: Early Applications of the Computer to the Lunar Three-body Problem_ (pp. 267-288) * Marie-José Durand-Richard _De l'analyseur différentiel à l'ordinateur : le parcours de Douglas R. Hartree (1897-1958)_ (pp. 289-326) * Loïc Petitgirard _Machines analogiques et mathématiques des systèmes dynamiques. Le groupe de « Dynamique théorique » de Théodore Vogel à Marseille (France), 1948-1964_ (pp. 327-360) * Liesbeth De Mol and Maarten Bullynck _Making the History of Computing. The History of Computing in the History of Technology and the History of Mathematics_ (pp. 361-380) * _Des mathématiques, des machines et des hommes_ (Review section, pp. 419-432) best wishes, Maarten Bullynck Département de mathématiques & histoire des sciences & UMR 8533 IDHE.S Université Paris 8

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Call for Members Interested in Small-Scale Research Projects Focusing on Individuals Associated with the Birth & Development of the UK IT and Telecommunications Industry
by helen＠archivesit.org.uk 14 Nov '19

14 Nov '19

Dear Members Archives of IT (AIT) maintains a digital archive of oral histories of the UK IT and Telecommunications industry: see https://archivesit.org.uk/. We offer funding for small-scale social, industrial and economic research projects using the archive and seek partners (individuals or institutions) who bring academic rigour and credibility to undertake the work. If you are interested in finding out more please respond to this email. Many thanks Helen From: Helen Carter, Administrative Director - Archives of IT - Registered Charity No: 1164198 Please Note: I am in the office on Tuesday from 9.30am - 3.00 pm and on Thursday and Friday from 9.00am - 4.00pm T: +44 (0)1279 600 345<tel:%2B44%20%280%291279%20600%20345> E: helen(a)archivesit.org.uk<mailto:helen@archivesit.org.uk> W: www.archivesit.org.uk<http://www.archivesit.org.uk/> @ArchivesIT<https://twitter.com/ArchivesIT> [AITlogo] Capturing the past, inspiring the future Support Us Using www.giveasyoulive.com/join/ait<http://www.giveasyoulive.com/join/ait> or Donate Here<https://mydonate.bt.com/charities/archivesofit> This e--mail is confidential and may be privileged. It may be read, copied and used only by the intended recipient. If you have received it in error, please contact the sender immediately by return e-mail. Please then delete the e-mail and do not disclose its contents to any person.

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book on Weizac
by lidemol 14 Nov '19

14 Nov '19

Dear all, the following book on Weizac by Leo Corry just came out and I thought that it could be of interest to some on this list! Leo Corry, WEIZAC: An Israeli Pioneering Adventure in Electronic Computing (1945-1963). Heidelberg, Springer Verlag (2019) https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030257330 with best wishes, Liesbeth

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UCSD job ad?
by Ross, Robin 14 Nov '19

14 Nov '19

Dear Society for the History of Technology's Special Interest Group, I have taken over a UCSD job recruitment for JPF02161 Assistant Professor: Society and Ethics in Data Science. I was told that it was published on your website/at your organization. Do you have documentation of the published ad placed mid-July 2019 that you can send to me? It was requested by either Jennifer Neri, Dianna Frett or Brittany Hewitt from UCSD. Thank you, Robin Ms. Robin Ross<mailto:rlross@ucsd.edu>, AP Analyst Department of Communication<http://communication.ucsd.edu/> 858-534-0234, MC0503, MCC 131, [she/her/hers] Work schedule: M-F 9:30a - 6:00p

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Internet Histories, Volume 3, Issue 3-4, September - December 2019 available online
by Asger Harlung 12 Nov '19

12 Nov '19

Internet Histories, Volume 3, Issue 3-4, September - December 2019<http://url310.tandfonline.com/wf/click?upn=u-2BGpmJjK6GMwjtTW1XoK4vgZn1TWMF…> is now available online. https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rint20/3/3-4<https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rint20/3/3-4?fbclid=IwAR1AE2RLddJ3tlEjM5g1A…> One article in this double issue is offered as Open Access: This new issue contains the following articles: Introduction Introduction: Internet histories and computational methods<https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Furl310.tandfonline.com%2Fwf%2Fc…> Niels Brügger & Ian Milligan Pages: 199-201 | DOI: 10.1080/24701475.2019.1675405 Articles Internet histories and computational methods: a “round-doc” discussion<http://url310.tandfonline.com/wf/click?upn=u-2BGpmJjK6GMwjtTW1XoK4vgZn1TWMF…> Niels Brügger, Ian Milligan, Anat Ben-David, Sophie Gebeil, Federico Nanni, Richard Rogers, William J. Turkel, Matthew S. Weber & Peter Webster Pages: 202-222 | DOI: 10.1080/24701475.2019.1639352 Herding the ‘Performing Elephants:’ Using Computational Methods to Study Usenet<https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Furl310.tandfonline.com%2Fwf%2Fc…> Avery Dame-Griff Pages: 223-244 | DOI: 10.1080/24701475.2019.1652456 Conversation pieces: On recounting new media art mailinglist cultures<https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Furl310.tandfonline.com%2Fwf%2Fc…> Michael Dieter, David Gauthier & Marc Tuters Pages: 245-274 | DOI: 10.1080/24701475.2019.1674580 Semantics of the internet: a political history<https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Furl310.tandfonline.com%2Fwf%2Fc…> | Open Access Maximilian Hösl Pages: 275-292 | DOI: 10.1080/24701475.2019.1656921 Experimenting with computational methods for large-scale studies of tracking technologies in web archives<https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Furl310.tandfonline.com%2Fwf%2Fc…> Janne Nielsen Pages: 293-315 | DOI: 10.1080/24701475.2019.1671074 2014 not found: a cross-platform approach to retrospective web archiving<https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Furl310.tandfonline.com%2Fwf%2Fc…> Anat Ben-David Pages: 316-342 | DOI: 10.1080/24701475.2019.1654290 “Standardising by running code”: the Signal protocol and de facto standardisation in end-to-end encrypted messaging<https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Furl310.tandfonline.com%2Fwf%2Fc…> Ksenia Ermoshina & Francesca Musiani Pages: 343-363 | DOI: 10.1080/24701475.2019.1654697 The Evolution of Internet Routing: Technical Roots of the Network Society<http://url310.tandfonline.com/wf/click?upn=u-2BGpmJjK6GMwjtTW1XoK4vgZn1TWMF…> Bradley Fidler Pages: 364-387 | DOI: 10.1080/24701475.2019.1661583 Book Reviews Weaving the Dark Web: Legitimacy on Freenet, Tor, and I2P<http://url310.tandfonline.com/wf/click?upn=u-2BGpmJjK6GMwjtTW1XoK4vgZn1TWMF…> John Schriner Pages: 388-390 | DOI: 10.1080/24701475.2019.1623002 Book Review, Fenwick McKelvey. 2018, Internet Daemons. Digital Communications Possessed, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 320 pp<https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Furl310.tandfonline.com%2Fwf%2Fc…> Francesca Musiani Pages: 391-393 | DOI: 10.1080/24701475.2019.1611241 GPS, by Paul Ceruzzi, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA., 2018<https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Furl310.tandfonline.com%2Fwf%2Fc…> Christophe Lécuyer Pages: 394-395 | DOI: 10.1080/24701475.2019.1629192 The SAGE handbook of web history<https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Furl310.tandfonline.com%2Fwf%2Fc…> Edited by Niels Brügger and Ian Milligan. Reviewed by Max Odsbjerg Pedersen and Helle Strandgaard Jensen, Aarhus University Max Odsbjerg Pedersen & Helle Strandgaard Jensen Pages: 396-399 | DOI: 10.1080/24701475.2019.1657643 Book Review En construction, la Fabrique française d’Internet et du Web dans les années 1990, Ina, coll. Etudes & Controverses<https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Furl310.tandfonline.com%2Fwf%2Fc…> (Under Construction, The French Web and Internet Factory during the 1990s) by Valérie Schafer, 2018. ISBN: 978-2-86938-2534, 139 pp. 12€ Sophie Gebeil Pages: 400-403 | DOI: 10.1080/24701475.2019.1672952 The archived web: doing history in the digital age<http://url310.tandfonline.com/wf/click?upn=u-2BGpmJjK6GMwjtTW1XoK4vgZn1TWMF…> by Niels Brügger, MIT Press: Cambridge, MA, 2018. 185 pp., ISBN 978-0-262-03902-4, £25.00. Gareth Millward Pages: 404-406 | DOI: 10.1080/24701475.2019.1673058 - - - - Thanks to reviewers Thanks to reviewers<https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Furl310.tandfonline.com%2Fwf%2Fc…> Pages: 407-408 | DOI: 10.1080/24701475.2019.1677399 Kind regards Asger Harlung e-Learning Consultant, MA Project Coordinator NetLab Editorial Assistant, Internet Histories Mail: asger(a)cc.au.dk<mailto:asger@cc.au.dk> Web: http://pure.au.dk/portal/en/asger@cc.au.dk Netlab: http://netlab.dk<http://netlab.dk/en/> School of Communication and Culture, Netlab Aarhus University Helsingforsgade 14, building 5347 8200 Aarhus N Tel.: 8715 0000 (switchboard) Mail: asger(a)cc.au.dk<mailto:asger@cc.au.dk>

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PHR: Special Issue: Making the Pacific, Making Japanese-U.S. Relations
by Colin Kelley Garvey 07 Nov '19

07 Nov '19

Members of SIGCIS -- I would like to share with you my article "Artificial Intelligence and Japan’s Fifth Generation: The Information Society, Neoliberalism, and Alternative Modernities,”<https://phr.ucpress.edu/content/88/4/619> part of a special issue of Pacific Historical Review that may be of interest. UC Press is making it free for a limited time. https://phr.ucpress.edu/content/88/4?current-issue=y All the best, Colin Shunryu Garvey ------- Postdoctoral Fellow Human-Centered AI Institute<https://hai.stanford.edu> Center for International Security & Cooperation<https://cisac.fsi.stanford.edu> Stanford University 616 Jane Stanford Way Encina Hall, 2nd Floor Stanford, CA 94305 USA (650) 725-9132 shunryu(a)stanford.edu<mailto:shunryu@stanford.edu>

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