Forwarding this from the WITH list.
Best,
Mar
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Marie Hicks, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, History of Technology
Illinois Institute of Technology
Chicago, IL USA
mhicks1(a)iit.edu | mariehicks.net | @histoftech
Programmed Inequality: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing
www.programmedinequality.com
Begin forwarded message:
From: "Lara Freidenfelds" <Lara(a)post.harvard.edu>
Date: February 7, 2019 at 9:16:47 AM EST
To: <with(a)lists.whitman.edu>
Subject: [with] review of Rankin, A People's History of Computing
Reply-To: with(a)lists.whitman.edu
Hello WITH! I published a review of Joy Rankin’s A People’s History of Computing at Nursing Clio today: https://nursingclio.org/2019/02/07/take-back-the-net-joy-rankins-a-peoples-…. It’s an excellent book, and accessibly written. I encourage you to check it out if you have not read it yet.
Yours,
Lara
Lara Freidenfelds, Ph.D.
lara(a)post.harvard.edu
www.larafreidenfelds.com
@larafreidenfeld (twitter)
The Modern Period: Menstruation in Twentieth-Century America
Hello all,
While I was updating (just now) the "web extras" page
https://history.computer.org/annals/dtp/
that goes with the two special issues of the Annals on desktop
publishing, it occurred to me that some people on this list may be
interested in the web page listing oral histories of some of the
leaders/presidents of the IEEE Computer Society over the years: see
https://history.computer.org/leaders/
This "leaders" oral history project of the IEEE Computer Society History
Committee was led by then committee chair Jeff Yost. The project is now
"complete", i.e., these were all the people currently available to be
interviewed.
Best regards, Dave
Dear All,
I have the pleasure to announce the publication of a volume on the
history and philosophy of programming systems, edited by Liesbeth De Mol
and Giuseppe Primiero.
https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783319972251
The volume collects contributions to the third HaPoP symposium in Paris
(http://hapoc.org/events/hapop3/schedule) Freely accessible drafts of
the introduction and of the chapter I authored can be found on HAL (see
links in the table of contents.)
Table of contents
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Liesbeth De Mol and Giuseppe Primiero: Programming Systems: in Search of
Historical and Philosophical Foundations, p. 1-12 (see also:
https://hal.univ-lille3.fr/hal-01674676)
Rabia Arif et al.: Validity and Correctness Before the OS: the Case of
LEO I and LEO II, p. 15-47
Maarten Bullynck: What Is an Operating System? A Historical
Investigation (1954–1964), p. 49-79
(see https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-01541602)
Troy K. Astarte et al.: Formal Semantics of ALGOL 60: Four Descriptions
in their Historical Context, p. 83-152
Julian Rohrhuber: Sans-Papiers as First-Class Citizens, p. 153-185
Stephen Kell: Unix, Plan 9 and the Lurking Smalltalk, p. 189-213
Warren Toomey: Unix: Building a Development Environment from Scratch, p.
215-231
Naveen Sundar Govindarajulu et al.: Ethical Operating Systems, p.
235-260
Gaël Duval: From Sovereign Operating Systems to the Sovereign Digital
Chain, p. 261-271
Robin K. Hill: Elegance in Software, p. 273-286
best wishes,
Maarten Bullynck
Département de mathématiques & histoire des sciences
Université Paris 8
