June 2021 - Members - lists.sigcis.org

2021 Mahoney Prize nominations
by Elizabeth Petrick 10 May '22

10 May '22

Hello everyone, It's time for the 2021 Mahoney Prize for outstanding article in the history of computing and information technology, broadly conceived. Articles published in 2018, 2019, or 2020 will be considered. Self-nominations and nominations of others are both welcome. Please email a copy of the article to members of the prize committee, listed here: https://www.sigcis.org/mahoneyprize Deadline is May 1, 2021. Best, Liz ------------- Elizabeth Petrick Associate Professor Department of History Rice University http://elizabethpetrick.com/

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IBM and Algol
by David Nofre 24 Jun '21

24 Jun '21

Dear colleagues, My apologies for this self-promotion but I thought that those interested in the history of programming languages may want to know that I have just published an article in /Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences/ which explores the complex relationship of IBM with the Algol community in Europe and in the US during the early 1960s : https://online.ucpress.edu/hsns/article-abstract/51/3/379/117357/The-Politi… Best, David Nofre https://www.davidnofre.com/

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Alan Turin in £50 note
by Bernardo Batiz-Lazo 23 Jun '21

23 Jun '21

These notes are hardly seen on a daily basis (no further comment on the dead of cash please) but in case you missed it while the topic is trending in Twitter UK. Best wishes Bernardo (Northumbria) Alan Turing Bank of England issues the £50 note featuring wartime codebreaker and computer science pioneer Alan Turing on the anniversary of his birth https://twitter.com/bankofengland/status/1407564164600680448 -- ================== Twitter @BatizLazo Cash and Dash: How ATMs and Computers Changed Banking By Bernardon Batiz-Lazo (Oxford University Press, 2018) https://global.oup.com/academic/product/cash-and-dash-9780198782810?cc=gb&l… The Book of Payments: Historical and Contemporary Views on the Cashless Society Edited by Bernardo Batiz-Lazo and Leonidas Efthymiou (Palgrave, 2016) http://www.palgrave.com/de/book/9781137602305 Technological Innovation in Retail Finance: International Historical Perspectives Edited by Bernardo Batiz-Lazo, J. Carles Maixé-Altés, and Paul Thomes (Routledge, 2011) http://www.taylorandfrancis.com/books/details/9780415880671 Home page: https://researchportal.northumbria.ac.uk/en/researchers/bernardo-batizlazo(… Working papers: http://ideas.repec.org/e/pba14.html

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14th CIFAS Summer School in Ethnographic Research Methods
by Renzo Taddei 21 Jun '21

21 Jun '21

*A few seats are still available. Apologies for cross-posting. Please distribute to potentially interested people. Thank you.* 14th CIFAS Summer School in Ethnographic Research Methods July 19 to 30, 2021 – 7 PM to 9:30 PM (EDT time) The Comitas Institute for Anthropological Study (CIFAS) is pleased to announce the 14th CIFAS Summer School in Ethnographic Research Methods. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this edition of the summer school will take place online. The goal of the summer school is to offer training in the foundations and practice of ethnographic methods. The faculty works closely with participants to identify the required field methods needed to address their academic or professional needs. The summer school is suitable for graduate and undergraduate students in social sciences and other fields of study that use qualitative approaches (such as education, communication, cultural studies, health, social work, development studies, consumer behavior, among others), applied social scientists, professionals, and researchers who have an interest in learning more about ethnographic methods and their applications. The social isolation measures adopted across the planet due to the current pandemic have made digital ethnography, in all its variations, an option of choice for researchers who previously did not consider it. The summer school program was reformulated, devoting more time to the discussion of digital methods and the interface between ethnography and the field of digital humanities. Program: - Class 1 (Jul 19): Foundations of ethnographic research - Class 2 (Jul 20): Theory and practice: social theories in the field - Class 3 (Jul 21): Research design; ethics - Class 4 (Jul 22): Data generation techniques - Class 5 (Jul 23): Planning the logistics of field research - Class 6 (Jul 26): Digital ethnography - Class 7 (Jul 27): Ethnography in interface with Social Network Analysis and other trends in the digital humanities - Class 8 (Jul 28): Visual ethnography; ethnography in specific fields of activity (applied social sciences, health, social service, environmental studies, public policy design, business, and others) - Class 9 (Jul 29): Principles of organization and indexation of field data - Class 10 (Jul 30): Analyzing field data; qualitative analysis software packages: basic principles The total workload of the course is 25 hours. In this edition of the summer school, the option of earning credits is not available. The tuition fee is US$ 1,200. Applications online at https://cifas.us/field-school/ For more information, please write to renzo.taddei(a)cifas.us.

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A New Timeline of Modern IT
by Research 14 Jun '21

14 Jun '21

Archives of IT offers a new timeline of the industry that has flourished since the invention of the stored program digital computer - see https://archivesit.org.uk/contributions/timeline/ Timelines can be dangerous - summarising stories but sometimes oversimplifying complex relationships between events and threads. Our focus is on the personality of the industry and its social impact, so we have tried to illustrate, rather than summarise, the progression of the industry and its effect our lives over 70 years in a dozen major changes. We would like to hear from scholars, researchers and followers of the history of information systems * Are these the events that best summarise what IT and telecoms has done for us? Is there a better set? and * Which was the decade of greatest change? See https://archivesit.org.uk/contributions/90s-revolution/ True or false? Any views welcomed by reply to this email address or via our website Tom Abram Director - Archives of IT research(a)archivesit.org.uk www.archivesit.org.uk<http://www.archivesit.org.uk/> > Subscribe<https://archivesit.org.uk/sign-up/> to our e-newsletter > Follow us on Twitter @ArchivesIT<https://twitter.com/ArchivesIT> > Please support us at www.giveasyoulive.com/join/ait<http://www.giveasyoulive.com/join/ait> Registered Charity No: 1164198 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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Research findings from Archives IT
by Research 08 Jun '21

08 Jun '21

New research on oral history of industry leaders at Archives of IT, suggests strong links between Formative Years' experience and career outcomes See the findings at https://archivesit.org.uk/research-projects/ This informal study on a sample of data suggests potential for further studies and we welcome contact from researchers interested in using the full collection Tom Abram, Director Archives IT

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Internet Histories Vol. 5, Issue 2 now available online
by Asger Harlung 08 Jun '21

08 Jun '21

To whom it may concern The editors of Internet Histories are pleased to announce that Volume 5, Issue 2, June 2021 is complete, and available online. Below, please find an overview of contents. Please also consider submitting an article to the journal, more information about submission can be found here http://www.tandfonline.com/action/authorSubmission?journalCode=rint20&page=…. This information is sent out as BCC email to contacts and messageboards specified by the editors. It is not a newsletter, but a direct email with information that we hope will be of interest. Kind regards on behalf of the Internet Histories editorial team, Asger Harlung, Editorial Assistant, Internet Histories Internet Histories, Volume 5, Issue 2, June 2021 URL: https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rint20/5/2 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Contents: Articles Networks of power. Analysing the evolution of the Danish internet infrastructure Sofie Flensburg & Signe Sophus Lai Against technocratic authoritarianism. A short intellectual history of the cypherpunk movement Enrico Beltramini Forensic approaches to evaluating primary sources in internet history research: reconstructing early Web-based archival work (1989–1996) James A. Hodges A field comes of age: tracking research on the internet within communication studies, 1994 to 2018 Cornelius Puschmann & Christian Pentzold The instrumentalised user: human, computer, system Scott Kushner Google’s Post-IPO Development: risks, rewards, and shareholder value Paško Bilić & Toni Prug Interview “I am an engineer and therefore a radical”: an interview with Lee Felsenstein, from Free Speech Movement technician to Homebrew Computer Club moderator Julie Momméja Book Review If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future by Jill Lepore, Liveright Publishing Corporation, New York, 2020. Hardcover, pp. 432, ISBN: 978-1-63149-610-3, $28.95 Dan M. Kotliar

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Zotero Plugin for the Computer History Museum Archive
by Bo An 04 Jun '21

04 Jun '21

Dear all, There is now a Zotero translator that allows adding archival entries directly from Computer History Museum's collections to Zotero along with the attachments. If you don't see the Zotero browser plugin icon light up (for books, software, and, audio- & video-recordings), you might need to update the Zotero client or the Zotero Connector browser plugin first. Let me know if you find any problems and hope it can make it a bit easier for fellow researchers to work with this enormous archive. Best, Bo

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