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February 2021

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introducing moderator Shreeharsh Kelkar
by Irish, Sharon Lee 01 Feb '21

01 Feb '21

Greetings SIGCIS, As I mentioned in my message yesterday, we “old" SIGCIS moderators have been joined by three new moderators, Troy Astarte, Shreeharsh Kelkar, and Alexander Mirowski. In the coming months, one “old” moderator will team up with a newbie to moderate the list. I am glad to partner with Shreeharsh Kelkar for the next couple of months and wanted to formally introduce him to the list. Shreeharsh finished his PhD in 2016 at MIT in History, Anthropology, and Science, Technology, and Society (HASTS) and has been working as a Lecturer at UC-Berkeley in Interdisciplinary Studies since. He uses historical and ethnographic methods to understand how new computing infrastructures of humans, algorithms, software, and data (or “AI”) are changing labor, work practices, and expertise. His work has been published in many journals including New Media and Society and Theory and Society. He is currently working on a manuscript tentatively titled "Reinventing Expertise: Technology Reformers and the Platformization of Higher Education.” The book describes how reformers are transforming institutions through the new practices of “data science” and “design thinking” and argues that these practices reconfigure our notions of what an expert does. To read more, see http://www.shreeharshkelkar.net Welcome, Shreeharsh, and thank you for helping out! Sharon Sharon Irish Research Affiliate School of Information Sciences University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign https://sharonirish.org/

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Milestones in Analog and Digital Computing: English edition
by herbert.bruderer＠bluewin.ch 01 Feb '21

01 Feb '21

"Milestones in Analog and Digital Computing", English edition (3rd edition) Dear colleagues: I would like to let you know that the English edition of my book "Milestones in Analog and Computing" has been published: https://www.springer.com/de/book/9783030409739 The book encompasses over 2000 pages and includes more than 700 illustrations (88% in color) and 150 tables. Bruderer, Herbert: Milestones in Analog and Digital Computing, Springer Nature Switzerland AG, Cham, 3rd edition 2020, 2 volumes, 2113 pages, 715 illustrations, 151 tables, https://www.springer.com/de/book/9783030409739 The book also deals with related areas such as mathematics, astronomy, surveying, time measurement, automatons, robots, looms, and writing machines. Both volumes were translated by an US physicist. German edition: Bruderer, Herbert: Meilensteine der Rechentechnik, De Gruyter Oldenbourg, Berlin/Boston, 3. Auflage 2020, Band 1, 970 Seiten, 577 Abbildungen, 114 Tabellen, https://www.degruyter.com/view/title/567028?rskey=xoRERF&result=7 Bruderer, Herbert: Meilensteine der Rechentechnik, De Gruyter Oldenbourg, Berlin/Boston, 3. Auflage 2020, Band 2, 1055 Seiten, 138 Abbildungen, 37 Tabellen, https://www.degruyter.com/view/title/567221?rskey=A8Y4Gb&result=4 Best wishes, Herbert Bruderer -- Bruderer Informatik Seehaldenstraße 26 Postfach 47 CH-9401 Rorschach Switzerland

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