August 2021 - Members - lists.sigcis.org

Re: [SIGCIS-Members] Query about invention of wired networking
by Douglas Lucas 24 Aug '21

24 Aug '21

Hi Dennis, Thomas, Peter, and the SIGCIS list, Wow, thank you all for the helpful corrections and avenues to pursue! Thomas, I'll definitely read your "Actually" article and the books you recommend. Dennis, I'll check out the telegraph and signalling for sure. Peter, thanks for the information about the Eckert-Mauchly company. A little background about my project. From 2009 or so onward, I reported in person from multiple federal sentencing hearings pertaining to the hacktivism/transparency movement. For example, I reported for different venues from the sentencings of Jeremy Hammond, the PayPal 14, and most recently whistleblower Reality Winner [1]. I was also a talking head expert regarding the Stratfor emails in the documentary _The Hacker Wars_; some of my work in that regard was discussed here [2]. Over the years, people have suggested many times that I write a book based on those days, but of course it became apparent to me that audiences are too often far more interested in the personalities of sexy hacker heroes (Rolling Stone articles, for instance) than they are in challenging or philosophical topics that have greater impact on our world. Audiences might eat up heart-throb hackers but don't understand what computer software even is. I'm also interested in this global data commons project [3], but would like to understand it better in terms of computer science history. For those reasons, I've decided to learn more about computers _per se_, aiming to eventually create a book that does include the "hacker heroes" but also the historical and philosophical material required to understand our knowledge economy world better. (For what it's worth, I grew up on BBSes as a little kid in the late '80s and early '90s.) It was the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy that suggested to me _Computable Numbers_ as a starting place, and I'd taken some philosophy of mind courses in college, so I read Andrew Hodges' _Alan Turing: The Enigma_. I'm now reading Martin Davis' _The Universal Computer: The Road from Leibniz to Turing_ and trying to get a handle on the math/logic. I don't have any more definite plans as I'm mostly in the early stage of researching, and I tend to be a generalist autodidact who disregards commercial imperatives, pursues my curiosity, and takes a zillion years to finish anything. Thanks again for all the suggestions. I'm currently in an intensive CELTA certification course for teaching ESL, so I might not reply promptly to further messages, apologies. Doug Links: ------ [1] http://www.dailypublic.com/articles/08242018/reality-winner-sentenced-63-mo… [2] http://whowhatwhy.org/2013/12/04/whowhatwhys-douglas-lucas-on-leaked-privat… [3] https://www.getgee.xyz/

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Fwd: First Event in IFIP 60th Anniversary Future of Information Processing Event Series
by Schmitt, Martin 19 Aug '21

19 Aug '21

Dear Sigcis community, this year, the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) is celebrating its 60th anniversary with a series of events. The series is mainly organized by the German „Gesellschaft für Informatik“ (GI). I just wanted to let you know that the first event will take place on the 30th of August. It might be of interest for some of you here on the list, even though it does not follow a genuinely historic perspective. Rather, recent questions of software design and programming languages are discussed in a broader, long term view. Best, Martin Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter | Post-Doc | digital enthusiast Technische Universität Darmstadt Institut für Geschichte Fachgebiet Technikgeschichte Mail: martin.schmitt(a)tu-darmstadt.de<mailto:martin.schmitt@tu-darmstadt.de> Tel: +49 6151-16-57327 http://www.computerisierung.com<http://www.computerisierung.com/> & Assoziierter Wissenschaftler LEIBNIZ-ZENTRUM FÜR ZEITHISTORISCHE FORSCHUNG | POTSDAM Vice Chair IFIP WG 9.7 „History of computing" Zuletzt erschienen: Leslie, Christopher und Martin Schmitt (eds.): Histories of Computing in Eastern Europe, Cham: Springer International Publishing 2019 (IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology 549), https://www.springer.com/978-3-030-29159-4 Anfang der weitergeleiteten Nachricht: Von: Eduard Dundler <eduard.dundler(a)ifip.org<mailto:eduard.dundler@ifip.org>> Betreff: First Event in IFIP 60th Anniversary Future of Information Processing Event Series Datum: 19. August 2021 um 09:21:43 MESZ An: Ifip_ga <ifip_ga(a)ifip.org<mailto:ifip_ga@ifip.org>>, Ifip_memsocs <ifip_memsocs(a)ifip.org<mailto:ifip_memsocs@ifip.org>>, Ifip_wgoff <ifip_wgoff(a)ifip.org<mailto:ifip_wgoff@ifip.org>>, Ifip_tcoff <Ifip_tcoff(a)ifip.org<mailto:Ifip_tcoff@ifip.org>> Kopie: "Hatas, Kristina" <kristina.hatas(a)gi.de<mailto:kristina.hatas@gi.de>> Dear IFIP community and friends, the IFIP 60th Anniversary Future of Information Processing Event Series is kicking off on 30 August, 3-4.15 pm CET with the event “The Silent Revolution: Software as the Technological Fabric of Society<https://meetgi.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_GlQBHJd1RMufTiMma_Jw8A>”. The first event, organized by members of WG 2.1 and WG 2.8, will highlight the historical and increasingly important role software—and in this process IFIP—has played as a critical infrastructure for modern society, including the generally underappreciated role fundamental software theory and practice has played in making this possible ‘under the hood’. [cid:image001.png@01D7945A.851D33D0] The event will feature: * Greg Morrisett (Cornell Tech) * Julia Lawall (INRIA, secretary of TC2) * Jakob Rehof (TU Dortmund and Fraunhofer ISST) * Reinhard Wilhelm (Universität des Saarlandes and AbsInt) and will be moderated by * Fritz Henglein (University of Copenhagen and Deon Digital). The event will be hosted as a Zoom webinar. Registration is possible through the following link: https://meetgi.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_GlQBHJd1RMufTiMma_Jw8A About the session: Software has been at the center of a silent revolution: from an ancillary role to computer hardware, it has emerged as the technological fabric of a globally interconnected society. This has been fueled by generally unnoticed, yet visionary under-the-hood advances in software theory and practice at academic and industrial institutions, fostered by IFIP’s provision of long-term technical fora. In this session thought leaders from academia and industry will discuss the role and impact of principled design, methodology and implementation of high-level programming languages in this silent revolution. They will reflect not only on the increasingly severe demands on software safety, security and productivity in today’s systems, but also on advancing languages and their algorithmic calculi, formal verification, automated analysis and synthesis as under-the-hood facilitators of tomorrow’s artificially intelligent, data-driven, robotic, interconnected-device-based, decentralized and parallel systems. About the Future of Information Processing Event Series The Event Series consists of ten events in total, featuring IFIP experts and high-level guests discussing questions arising at the intersection of technology and the information society. The events be online panels of 75 minutes each consisting of short speeches, a moderated discussion and a Q&A with the audience. Recordings of the events will be made available on YouTube. Information and registration links for the following events will be available shortly on the IFIP 60th Jubilee Web Site<https://ifip.org/jubilee60/?r=events>. Best regards Eduard Dundler ======================================== General Secretary International Federation for Information Processing Tel.: +43 2236 73 616 10 Fax: +43 2236 73 616 e-mail: eduard.dundler(a)ifip.org<mailto:eduard.dundler@ifip.org> ========================================= [cid:ED79A4C0-5B87-4766-B650-CE943E98A6D5] Martin Schmitt Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter | Post-Doc | digital enthusiast Technische Universität Darmstadt Institut für Geschichte Fachgebiet Technikgeschichte Mail: martin.schmitt(a)tu-darmstadt.de<mailto:martin.schmitt@tu-darmstadt.de> Tel: +49 6151-16-57327 http://www.computerisierung.com<http://www.computerisierung.com/> & Assoziierter Wissenschaftler LEIBNIZ-ZENTRUM FÜR ZEITHISTORISCHE FORSCHUNG | POTSDAM Vice Chair IFIP WG 9.7 „History of computing" Zuletzt erschienen: Leslie, Christopher und Martin Schmitt (eds.): Histories of Computing in Eastern Europe, Cham: Springer International Publishing 2019 (IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology 549), https://www.springer.com/978-3-030-29159-4

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SIGCIS CONFERENCE 2021: Schedule and Registration Now Live
by Laine Nooney 13 Aug '21

13 Aug '21

Dear SIGCIS Community, I am pleased to announce schedule and registration information for our annual conference, SIGCIS 2021: Online Edition, from Sept 23-25. We have over 50 participants from across the globe giving presentations over the course of the conference's three days. Our keynote panel is called "Stack Trace: The Limits of History," and features Rayvon Fouché, Lisa Nakamura, Jason Edward Lewis + Lucy Suchman, moderated by Morgan Ames. We expect this to be a fantastic 3 days! You can check out the full program here: http://meetings.sigcis.org/ and register here: https://bit.ly/3jP1LPF This event is a single channel conference hosted on Zoom. Since participants are from across time zones, we'll be recording presentations and making them available to registered attendees and participants for two weeks after the conference. *You must register to receive the links to the conference and the recorded videos*. No registration with SHOT, our parent organization, is required. We're using Eventbrite to handle registration, and running registration as donation only, pay what you can. We provide tiered recommendations, but everyone should only pay what they feel capable of contributing. If you can't pay anything, shoot me an email and we'll make sure you're registered. Looking forward to seeing you all at the conference! --SIGCIS Meetings Organizing Committee Laine Nooney, New York University (SIGCIS Vice-Chair of Meetings) Stephanie Dick, University of Pennsylvania Morgan G. Ames, University of California, Berkeley Xiaochang Li, Stanford University

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CfA Fellowships and Working Groups at the Center for Advanced Internet Studies (CAIS)
by Esther Laufer 11 Aug '21

11 Aug '21

Are you studying the social, political, economic, media-related or cultural effects of digitalization? Do you want to concentrate exclusively on a project and are interested in interdisciplinary exchange? The Center for Advanced Internet Studies (CAIS) in Bochum, Germany, supports innovative projects that deal with the social opportunities and challenges of the digital transformation. Experts from academia and practice can apply for fellowships and working groups. The funding program is open to experts of all career stages, to all disciplines and areas of investigation, as well as to pure research and to projects that are more applied in orientation. The funding program is continuous. Apply now for fellowships and working groups starting from April 2022. Please follow the two-step application process: 1. Send an abstract of your project (max. 300 words) with letterhead and information on the desired time of implementation as a PDF to application(a)cais.nrw by 31 August 2021. 2. Submit the full proposal by 30 September 2021 via the application form on our website. For more information go to: www.cais.nrw/en/callforapplications/. If you have any questions, please contact esther.laufer(a)cais.nrw.

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Vin Cerf on Internet in space
by Jonathan Coopersmith 10 Aug '21

10 Aug '21

https://www.quantamagazine.org/vint-cerfs-plan-for-building-an-internet-in-… The JPL poster he is holding is available at https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/resources/682/space-tourism-posters/ Stay sane and keep washing those hands, Jonathan Jonathan Coopersmith Professor Department of History Texas A&M University College Station, TX 77843-4236 979.739.4708 (cell) 979.862.4314 (fax) Voting challenges: https://theeagle.com/opinion/columnists/texas-should-be-the-model-for-secur… Preserving space archives: https://www.toboldlypreserve.space/ International standards battles: https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/geek-life/history/lets-thwart-this-terr… <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/geek-life/h…> *FAXED. The Rise and Fall of the Fax Machine* (Johns Hopkins University Press)

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