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Fwd: [Ext] Why technology, sexuality, and labor were so intertwined in 19th century London
by Mar Hicks 13 Nov '20

13 Nov '20

Please see below for a new book likely to be of interest to many members. ______________________ Mar Hicks, Ph.D. Associate Professor of History of Technology Humanities Department Illinois Institute of Technology marhicks.com *Programmed Inequality: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing *www.programmedinequality.com ___________________________________________________________ *For students: *Do you want to schedule an appointment to talk to me during online office hours? Please use this link: https://calendly.com/marhicks ____________________________________________________________ ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: UC Press <enews(a)ucpress.edu> Date: Thu, Nov 12, 2020 at 5:37 PM Subject: [Ext] Why technology, sexuality, and labor were so intertwined in 19th century London To: MHICKS1(a)IIT.EDU <MHICKS1(a)iit.edu> [image: University of California Press] <https://weblaunch.blifax.com/listener3/redirect?l=1391746c-3711-4886-a971-5…> A rich historical case study of labor and exploitation in information and communication systems. [image: Wired World] <https://weblaunch.blifax.com/listener3/redirect?l=79dee22d-ffa2-444d-8501-b…> Serving a Wired World: London's Telecommunications Workers and the Making of an Information Capital <https://weblaunch.blifax.com/listener3/redirect?l=d794ad3b-091f-463c-8181-2…> by Katie Hindmarch-Watson November 2020 Hardcover: $29.95 288 pages 9 b/w illustrations <https://weblaunch.blifax.com/listener3/redirect?l=8f8022ee-50be-4c52-a4f7-7…> Read an Excerpt <https://weblaunch.blifax.com/listener3/redirect?l=0dec0ddc-d02f-42ed-8f35-c…> <https://weblaunch.blifax.com/listener3/redirect?l=a4b449a0-d745-4e07-b398-e…> Browse Related Titles <https://weblaunch.blifax.com/listener3/redirect?l=a71e1c65-2e3f-4bdd-bfcb-c…> Save 30% <https://weblaunch.blifax.com/listener3/redirect?l=7067e906-a8b0-474b-aaf4-a…> Enter code 20W2896 at check out About the Book *Serving a Wired World* is a history of information service work embedded in the daily maintenance of liberal Britain and the status quo in the early years of the twentieth century. As Katie Hindmarch-Watson shows, the administrators and engineers who crafted these telecommunications systems created networks according to conventional gender perceptions and social hierarchies, modeling the operation of the networks on the dynamic between master and servant. Reviews "Hindmarch-Watson has delivered a gem: a history that is deeply specific yet urgently relevant to our present technological moment." —Mar Hicks, author of *Programmed Inequality: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing* "With detailed and original stories of labor, gender, sexuality, and surveillance, this brilliant book is the cutting edge of a new wave of scholarship on class and labor." —Anna Clark, author of *Alternative Histories of the Self: A Cultural History of Sexuality and Secrets, 1762–1917* [image: Twitter] <https://weblaunch.blifax.com/listener3/redirect?l=36cef052-ec3a-4941-b5f6-6…> [image: Facebook] <https://weblaunch.blifax.com/listener3/redirect?l=c092390e-e397-4d97-bbc3-2…> [image: Instagram] <https://weblaunch.blifax.com/listener3/redirect?l=c970315a-a026-45d4-8791-0…> [image: YouTube] <https://weblaunch.blifax.com/listener3/redirect?l=d82cd611-1cd3-45c7-9f6e-e…> [image: LinkedIn] <https://weblaunch.blifax.com/listener3/redirect?l=4b365966-841b-4e57-a6c2-7…> University of California Press 155 Grand Avenue, Suite 400 | Oakland, CA 94612 <https://weblaunch.blifax.com/listener3/redirect?l=53201342-33e9-42df-9bc4-0…> Subscribe to eNews: www.ucpress.edu <https://weblaunch.blifax.com/listener3/redirect?l=f3e9b0ad-0474-4553-9527-c…> To ensure you receive these emails, please add enews(a)ucpress.edu <https://weblaunch.blifax.com/listener3/redirect?l=915b9f55-bceb-4f44-a45e-c…> to your address book. UC Press is concerned about your privacy. We do not rent, sell, or exchange email addresses. View Privacy Policy <https://weblaunch.blifax.com/listener3/redirect?l=6624774c-805c-42f9-bbda-c…>. © 2020 University of California Press. All rights reserved. This is a commercial message. If you would prefer not to receive further messages from this sender, please Click Here <https://weblaunch.blifax.com/listener3/unsubscribe?id=4aedb25d-2025-eb11-9a…> and confirm your request.

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Help expand access to historical software
by Kevin Driscoll 12 Nov '20

12 Nov '20

Hello SIGCIS, I'm writing on behalf of the Cyberlaw Clinic at Harvard Law School and the Software Preservation Network (SPN) to request your help seeking an exemption to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) that will expand off-site, on-line access to historical software from libraries and archives. A key outcome of this work will be to allow researchers to run old software in a browser or emulator without the need to physically travel to the collection. To realize this goal, the Cyberlaw Clinic is seeking stories from SIGCIS members about the value of this sort of off-site access for our research and teaching. For more details on the proposed exemption, see this one-page explainer: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-rrqwg9qDHgT9PYixmgLM64foCrpY4bM/view?usp=… Instructions for participation are included below. I hope that you will consider sharing your stories and experiences. The potential benefit to future scholars is tremendous. Sincerely, Kevin Driscoll U of Virginia -- Harvard Law School’s Cyberlaw Clinic is working with the Software Preservation Network to win new copyright regulations that would expand access to software in library collections. Specifically, we are asking the Copyright Office to expand exemptions relating to §1201 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (“DMCA”). You can read more about how the DMCA affects software here <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wE6s8cpJoaKJNJ9dJYw33nx4y-AFO5iTOo_ef71…> and learn about the rules already in place from this explainer <https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-rrqwg9qDHgT9PYixmgLM64foCrpY4bM/view?usp=…> . *We want your feedback about copyright and software access issues! *In 2018, our clinic successfully petitioned for a DMCA exemption that permits DRM circumvention and access “on the premises” of archives, libraries, and museums. This year, we are trying to expand this language so that archives, libraries, and museums can also facilitate *off-site* access to DRM protected programs. The stories and experiences of your community are critical to the success of our proposal. To this end, we need your help. Given the nature of SIGCIS members' work, we wanted to reach out to ask if you have been facing issues with off-site access to software recently and would be interested in a broader exemption. If that is the case, we'd love to hear from you. Our team is happy to record your story on the phone, via email -- whatever is easiest for you. If you are interested in contributing to this project via email, please reach out via email to ateitler.jd22(a)hlsclinics.org with responses to the below survey. We look forward to (hopefully) hearing from you soon! *** *Experiential Survey* Name: Institution (if applicable): Email Address: Software titles affected: Is this software still commercially available? How do off-site restrictions prevent or discourage preservation/teaching/research? How has your work been impacted by these regulations? Has COVID impacted your access to materials? Is there any additional information you would like to provide? (e.g. relevant links, screenshots, additional information about the software, other institutions you know of that have been similarly restricted, etc.)

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WEBINAR: Black Inventors and Innovators: New Perspectives (November 16–20, 2020)
by Hintz, Eric 11 Nov '20

11 Nov '20

Dear SIGCIS– We invite you to join the Lemelson Center’s week-long webinar series, Black Inventors and Innovators: New Perspectives. The SIGCIS community may especially enjoy presentations by software developer Tyrone Grandison (Session 3) and software-media scholars Charlton McIlwain and André Brock (both Session 5). Hope you can attend! ---Eric Hintz, Lemelson Center, Smithsonian Institution, hintze(a)si.edu<mailto:hintze@si.edu> Black Inventors and Innovators: New Perspectives A free week-long webinar series Convened by the Smithsonian’s Lemelson Center<https://invention.si.edu/> November 16, 17, 18, 19, and 20, 2020 | 1:00-2:30pm ET daily Registration: https://smithsonian.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_PTe1rHzsTG2FSaEHoTcb2w Details: https://invention.si.edu/black-inventors-and-innovators-new-perspectives The Smithsonian’s Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation<https://invention.si.edu/> invites you to attend our upcoming webinar series, Black Inventors and Innovators: New Perspectives<https://invention.si.edu/black-inventors-and-innovators-new-perspectives>. The program is free and open to the public and will convene daily November 16–20, 2020 from 1:00-2:30pm ET. This week-long program will draw renewed attention to historic and contemporary inventors of color and Black technology consumers, while discussing strategies for building a more equitable innovation ecosystem. Through presentations by an interdisciplinary group of thought leaders and engaged discussions with our online audience, this “state of the field” workshop will identify critical questions, seek out new case studies, and articulate theories, concepts and themes to inform the next generation of research, archival collecting, museum exhibitions, and invention education initiatives. Session 1: UNDERREPRESENTATION and INVISIBILITY Rayvon Fouché,<https://www.rayvonfouche.com/> Professor of American Studies, Purdue University Lisa D. Cook<https://lisadcook.net/>, Professor of Economics and International Relations, Michigan State University Moderator: Cathleen S. Lewis<https://airandspace.si.edu/people/staff/cathleen-lewis>, Curator, Space History Department, National Air and Space Museum Session 2: PIPELINES and PATHWAYS: INVENTION EDUCATION, TRAINING, and MENTORING Amy E. Slaton<https://amyeslaton.com/about-amy-e-slaton/>, Professor, Department of History, Drexel University James Holly, Jr.<https://education.wayne.edu/profile/es9525>, Assistant Professor of Urban Science, Technology, Engineering, & Mathematics Education, Wayne State University Moderator: Yolanda L. Comedy<https://www.linkedin.com/in/yolanda-comedy-0734487/>, Science and Technology Policy Consultant Session 3: BLACK INVENTORS and INNOVATORS at WORK Tyrone Grandison<https://www.tyronegrandison.org/press-kit.html>, Chief Technology Officer, Pearl Long Term Care Solutions Tahira Reid Smith<https://engineering.purdue.edu/ME/People/ptProfile?resource_id=74127>, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University Moderator: Monica M. Smith<https://americanhistory.si.edu/profile/509>, Head of Exhibitions and Interpretation, Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation, National Museum of American History Session 4: COMMERCIALIZATION and INSTITUTIONS Kara W. Swanson<https://www.northeastern.edu/law/faculty/directory/swanson.html>, Professor of Law and Affiliate Professor of History, Northeastern University Shontavia Johnson<https://shontavia.com/about/>, Associate Vice President for Entrepreneurship & Innovation, Clemson University Moderator: Crystal Marie Moten<https://www.crystalmoten.com/>, Curator of African American History, Division of Work and Industry, National Museum of American History Session 5: HOW HAVE BLACK INDIVIDUALS & COMMUNITIES EXPERIENCED TECHNOLOGY? Charlton McIlwain<https://www.nyu.edu/about/leadership-university-administration/office-of-th…>, Vice Provost for Faculty Engagement and Development, New York University André Brock<http://andrebrock.academia.edu/>, Associate Professor, School of Literature, Media, and Communication, Georgia Tech Moderator: Eric<https://invention.si.edu/eric-hintz> S. Hintz<https://invention.si.edu/eric-hintz>, Historian, Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation, National Museum of American History Accessibility: The National Museum of American History welcomes visitors of all ages and abilities. Real-time captioning (CART) will be provided for our online program. For other questions about accessibility, please email nmahprograms(a)si.edu<mailto:nmahprograms@si.edu>. Our Sponsor: The Smithsonian’s Lemelson Center gratefully acknowledges The Lemelson Foundation<https://www.lemelson.org/> for its generous support of the Black Inventors and Innovators: New Perspectives webinar series. Registration: https://smithsonian.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_PTe1rHzsTG2FSaEHoTcb2w

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PhD in Cultural Studies at GMU
by Alexander Monea 11 Nov '20

11 Nov '20

If you are interested in Cultural Studies, please consider applying for our PhD program at George Mason University. Our program is the oldest of its kind in the U.S.: a stand-alone, post-MA doctoral program providing interdisciplinary training in the traditions of cultural studies. We have fully funded graduate assistantships available for qualified applicants in Fall 2021, and call specific attention to our Graduate Inclusion & Access Scholarship <https://cehd.gmu.edu/students/student-engagement/student-success-blog/2018/…> Topicality is our watchword. We offer course work in gender, sexuality, race, biopolitics, globalization, science and technology, and political economy, as well as mass, visual, textual, and digital culture. Our faculty can support a broad range of research interests. Recent dissertations include research on: the Radical Faeries; Whole Foods; the business of “mindfulness;” the iconography around President Obama; the birth of the modern organ transplant industry; the current place of literature outside the academy; excessive policing; greeenwashing, and much more… Our student body is diverse and international. Our alumni have had notable success as researchers and instructors. For more information, please visit our website<https://to.gmu.edu/N1YyZ1> <https://to.gmu.edu/N1YyZ1> or contact our program’s interim director Roger Lancaster <rlancast(a)gmu.edu>. Thanks! Alexander Monea Assistant Professor English | Cultural Studies George Mason University

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What We Lose When We Lose Museums
by Brian Berg 10 Nov '20

10 Nov '20

>From *IEEE Spectrum*: What We Lose When We Lose Museums <https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/at-work/education/what-we-lose-when-we-…>By the time the pandemic ends, roughly one-third of U.S. museums may be gone. That would be a very bad thing. By Allison Marsh <https://spectrum.ieee.org/author/allison-marsh> and David C. Brock

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Cybersecurity Career Week talks
by Eileen Buckholtz 06 Nov '20

06 Nov '20

You might be interested in a week of free talks about cybersecurity--all free on the Nepris system. The Queens of Code are excited to be part of Cybersecurity Career week for the Cybersecurity Center for Education and Innovation. Sherri Ramsay and Lois Gutman will be featured speakers on Thursday November 12 at 11:00. https://ccei.nepris.com/Sessions/Session/Detail/75972 <https://ccei.nepris.com/Sessions/Session/Detail/75972?fbclid=IwAR2sNujxywAu…> The National Cryptologic Museum Foundation has scheduled an exciting week of Cybersecurity Chats for Middle & High School Students and Teachers Monday, November 9, 2020 12:00 pm - 12:45 pm - Diane Janosek, Commandant of the National Cryptologic School: Seize the Moment! Opportunities for Women in Cybersecurity. 1:00 pm - 1:45 pm - Debbie Plunkett, former Director, NSA's Information Assurance Directorate: The Mandate for More: Increasing Capacity in Cybersecurity Tuesday, November 10, 2020 11:00 am - 11:45 am - Young Professionals Panel: Moderator - Maria Marinelli, Co-Founder & CEO, Calibyr Corp; Panelists: Taylor Ownbey, Full-time student & full-time Cyber Lab Manager; Blair Banker, 2020 Purdue University Master's Program Graduate 1:00 pm - 1:45 pm - Developing the Workforce of the Future Panel: Moderator - Tony Sager, Center for Internet Security; Dr. Linda Singh, Major General (retired); Shirley Dominick, Co-Founder, Willing Warriors Thursday, November 12, 2020 11:00 am - 11:45 am - Queens of Code - Moderator - Eileen Buckholtz; Sherri Ramsay, Lois Gutman 1:00 pm - 1:45 pm - Purdue University Professor, Eugene Spafford Discovering the Interdisciplinary Nature of Cybersecurity Friday, November 13, 2020 12:00 pm - 12:45 pm - Sandi Roddy: Systems Security Engineering 1:00 pm - 1:45 pm - Women in Stem Panel: Lauren Nelson, President & CEO, NCMF; Elise Nelson, Raytheon; Margaret Wood, Wood Consulting To access the schedule and register, visit https://ccei.nepris.com/home/v4 <https://ccei.nepris.com/home/v4?fbclid=IwAR1U91Uc775gV_UgF2UgD4feCGomfDtJ0J…>

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Fwd: STIP Spring 2021 Internship Opportunities
by Jonathan Coopersmith 04 Nov '20

04 Nov '20

This might be of interest to some of your students. Stay sane, keep washing those hands, and practice social solidarity as well as physical distancing, Jonathan Jonathan Coopersmith Professor Department of History Texas A&M University College Station, TX 77843-4236 979.291.2925 (cell) 979.862.4314 (fax) Engineering elections: https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/telecom/security/engineering-principles… Racial disparities in waiting to vote: https://theconversation.com/it-takes-a-long-time-to-vote-141267 *FAXED. The Rise and Fall of the Fax Machine* (Johns Hopkins University Press) ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: The Wilson Center <stip(a)e.wilsoncenter.org> Date: Wed, Nov 4, 2020 at 3:30 PM Subject: STIP Spring 2021 Internship Opportunities To: Jonathan Coopersmith <j-coopersmith(a)tamu.edu> Having trouble? 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We recommend exploring our website to determine if your research interests align with current STIP programming around emerging technologies, i.e.: *5G • Artificial Intelligence • Big Data • Citizen Science • Cybersecurity • Disinformation • Marine Debris / Ocean Plastics • One Health • Open Science • Public Communication of Science • Serious Games* We offer two types of internships: graduate-level research and undergraduate-level research internships. Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the Wilson Center continues to closely monitor guidelines established by the CDC and other authorities surrounding COVID-19. *At this time, all internships will continue to be served remotely.* Internships are unpaid unless otherwise stated. Please find more details about our application process and internship opportunities on our website <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://click.everyaction.com/k/21193857/259933…> . <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://click.everyaction.com/k/21193858/259933…> The Serious Games Initiative Internship We are seeking a research intern for the Science and Technology Innovation Program's Serious Games Initiative, reporting to the Director of SGI. About the Program As a dominate form of media used by the average American, games have the power to make complex ideas accessible, allowing a direct experience to worth through the intricacies of policy problems. The Serious Games Initiative (SGI) was founded with one goal: to use games to engage the broader public in policy discourse. It is one thing to read about potential impact of policy solutions – it is another to live it. Since its founding, SGI has been a leader in the field of serious games. Under the umbrella of the Science and Technology Innovation Program, SGI is using games as a dynamic technology to communicate cutting edge research at the Wilson Center and beyond. The primary responsibilities of this internship would be: - Write or edit articles for either peer-reviewed or popular media, such as blog posts amplifying the applications of serious games for policy initiatives. - Conduct background policy research to support game development. - Support meetings for game-based working groups, conferences, and other events, gaining valuable project management experience. Successful applicants should: - Have a demonstrated background in policy or social science research, and a demonstrated interest in the positive impacts of games, such as serious games, game-based learning, or sociological orientations to game communities. - Excel at writing for mixed audiences, with particular preference given to candidates with background in writing academic and popular media (blog) styles. - Be detail-oriented. - Be able to work remotely. - Be enrolled in a degree program, recently graduated (within the last year) and/or have been accepted to enter an advanced degree program within the next year. This is an unpaid position available for 15-20 hours a week for undergraduate and graduate-level students. Applicants from any fields will be considered. 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Debunking the myth of individual genius
by Barbara B Walker 01 Nov '20

01 Nov '20

Hi, everybody, Hope everyone is safe and well. Here is an article on the importance of looking beyond the mythologies and cults of genius in the history of science and tech. https://undark.org/2020/10/22/the-fiction-of-individual-genius/ However, I would argue that in computer history as everywhere else in the history of science and tech, debunking is not enough – we must understand the reasons, cultures and process of cult-formation and myth-making that plays such an influential role in our understanding of the past. That’s something I’m exploring in an article on John von Neumann that I recently submitted for publication review (“Creation Myths”). Am also looking at the formation of political personality cults in a seminar I am teaching this semester. Barbara Walker Barbara Walker Associate Professor Department of History/308 University of Nevada, Reno Reno NV 89557

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Fwd: CCS - November 19th 2020 - The Origins of GENESYS, the General Engineering System
by Brian Randell 01 Nov '20

01 Nov '20

Hi: Here’s an announcement for the next Computer Conservation Society Zoom lecture - which you’ll see is open to all. Cheers Brian Randell Begin forwarded message: From: "BCS Computer Conservation Society" <ccsmem(a)lists.bcs.org.uk<mailto:ccsmem@lists.bcs.org.uk>> Subject: CCS - November 19th 2020 - The Origins of GENESYS, the General Engineering System Date: 31 October 2020 at 22:38:06 GMT Dear Fellow Members The next meeting of the Computer Conservation Society for the 2020/21 season is on Thursday 19th November via Zoom. The lecture will begin at 2.30PM with the Zoom session opening at 2pm. Our October meeting was attended by a record breaking 155 people. Our meetings are open to all free of charge so do pass on this invitation to others who may be interested in this meeting or other CCS activities. The title of the meeting is The Origins of GENESYS, the General Engineering System. Our speaker will be Brian Shearing. GENESYS, the GENeral Engineering SYStem, was commissioned by the Ministry of Public Building and Works in 1968. It was a way of writing and using engineering software that worked, without change, across all major mainframes of the day, something that unfortunately could not be said for software written in the various dialects of FORTRAN available then. The ministry also commissioned the establishment of the GENESYS Centre which opened in 1972 and was charged with promoting, teaching, developing and expanding the applications that ran under the system. The speaker was chief programmer of the team that built the central system. The seminar is the first of two, the second being next season, and explores what the system was like, what its influences were and how it came to be commissioned. The story begins in 1965 in 21 Portland Place ... Brian wrote his first program for a Ferranti Sirius computer in 1961, and he has never quite got over the excitement. His primary interests have always been compilers and operating systems, and he has written several of each. The compiler for GENTRAN, the programming language at the heart of GENESYS, was his first or as will become clear during the seminar, his first and second. His latest is for a novel concurrent programming language, still under development. As a software design consultant he has worked on trading systems, medical systems, and programs for highway design. He has lectured in Europe and the Americas, has had twelve papers published, and was on the Editorial Board of the John Wiley Journal, Software Practice and Experience for more than twenty years. He has given many talks to BCS branches, specialist groups and conferences, was Chairman of the Fortran Specialist Group for three years, has served on the Society's Technical Board, has represented it on BSI Programming Languages Committee IST/13, and was a member of the programme committee of the Advanced Programming Specialist Group for seven years. Please pre-register for the event. To do so, follow this linkhttp://www.computerconservationsociety.org/lectures/current/lecture.htm and click on the “Book” symbol. All registrants will be notified of the URL for the Zoom link in advance of the meeting. The programme for the 2020/21 season will be found athttp://www.computerconservationsociety.org/lectures/current/lecture.htm The National Museum of Computing have informed us of their new programme of online talks. These are free to TNMoC supporters and volunteers and £10.00 each otherwise. To book to attend, follow the link www.tnmoc.org<http://www.tnmoc.org/> and go to Events 12 November - Dr Ted Coles - Talk on Tunny & Colossus 15 November - Dr Andrew Herbert - Talk on EDSAC 30 November - Jerry McCarthy - Talk on the Polish Cryptomachine LACIDA 4 December - Peter Onion - Talk on Code 1960’s Back water 13 December - Peter Shiret - Talk on Mobile Network Evolution 1G -4G Good wishes Roger Johnson CCS London Programme Secretary Cheers Brian Randell

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