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Meet NFL CIO Gary Brantley + Sports Technology and Innovation symposium (Smithsonian Institution, October 21-22)
by Hintz, Eric 13 Oct '24

13 Oct '24

Hi SIGCIS friends - if you're in Washington, DC next week, meet the National Football League's Chief Information Officer Gary Brantley and enjoy our Sports Technology and Innovation symposium! Free food, beer, and wine! Registration is free but required. Cheers! Eric S. Hintz (hintze(a)si.edu<mailto:hintze@si.edu>) PROGRAM: Innovative Lives with Gary Brantley (SVP and CIO, National Football League) SYMPOSIUM: Sports Technology and Innovation 21-22 October 2024 Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation<https://invention.si.edu/> National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution Washington, DC USA FREE Registration (Innovative Lives with Gary Brantley): https://www.eventbrite.com/e/innovative-lives-gary-brantley-tickets-1013998… FREE Registration (Symposium): https://www.eventbrite.com/e/sports-technology-and-innovation-new-perspecti… Meet the National Football League's Chief Information Officer Gary Brantley and join the Smithsonian's Lemelson Center for a FREE two-day symposium in Washington, DC that explores the intersection of invention, technology, and sports! MONDAY OCT 21, 2024 SESSION 1: WHO CHANGES THE GAME? EMBRACING AND RESISTING INNOVATION Ryan Murtha (Minnesota State Univ) "From Resistance to Acceptance: Tracking Changes in How We Respond to Sporting Innovation" Amy Sue Bix (Iowa State University) "Muggle Sports Innovation: Adapting Snitches, Bludgers, and Other Quidditch Technologies for Real-Life Play" John A. Alic, (retired, Office of Technology Assessment, US Congress) "Grassroots Innovation: Wrenching and Racing after World War II" Moderator: Eric S. Hintz, Lemelson Center, Smithsonian Institution SESSION 2: INNOVATION AND TECHNOLOGIES OF THE ATHLETIC BODY Natalie Kupperman (Univ. of Virginia) "Femtech in the Post-Roe Era: Implications for Women Athletes' Health Monitoring" Sarah Barnes (Canadian Museum of History) "Investigating the New Frontier of Human Performance: Sleep Inventions and Innovations in Sport" Jaime Schultz (Pennsylvania State University) "Innovating Gymnastic Bodies: An Ode to Simone Biles" Moderator: Rachel S. Gross (Univ. of Colorado Denver) Evening Event: Innovative Lives with Gary Brantley (SVP and CIO, National Football League). In conversation with Dan Kaufman, managing director for sports technology at Sports Business Journal. TUESDAY OCT 22, 2024 SESSION 3: SITES OF SPORTS INNOVATION Jesse Ritner (University of Texas at Austin) "Avalanche!: Reimagining Skier Snow Relationships" Sherri Sheu (Science History Institute) "The Co-Development of Synthetic Turf and Natural Grass" Scott Kushner (Univ. of Rhode Island) "Enclosing Sport: Mass Athletic Spectacle and the Pressure to Perform" Moderator: Tolga Ozyurtcu (University of Texas at Austin) SESSION 4: REINVENTING BASEBALL: A TRADITION OF INNOVATION Natalie L. Smith (East Tennessee State Univ.) and Christopher Barnhill (Belmont Univ.) "Understanding How a Sport Organization Becomes Innovative: An Organizational Culture Analysis of the Savannah Bananas" Evan D. Brown (Columbia University) "Scientific Baseball: Experimenting with Labor" Luke L. Mao (University of New Mexico) "Technology, Authenticity, and Fans' Sentiment: A Case Study of the Automated Ball-Strike System" Moderator: Matt Bowers (University of Texas at Austin) Accessibility: The National Museum of American History welcomes visitors of all ages and abilities. Accommodations are available upon request; please email nmahprograms(a)si.edu<mailto:nmahprograms@si.edu>. Recordings? Yes - shortly after the events, captioned recordings will be posted to the Lemelson Center YouTube channel<https://www.youtube.com/user/LemelsonCenter>. Media inquiries: Laura Havel, Public Affairs Specialist, Lemelson Center, HavelL(a)si.edu<mailto:HavelL@si.edu>

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Pointers for Intro-Level History(ies) of Computing
by Eric Kaltman 09 Oct '24

09 Oct '24

Greetings, I'm gearing up to teach an inaugural 100-level undergraduate course on the history of computing in the History, Classics and Religion department at the University of Alberta this Winter. I've been reviewing the SIGCIS syllabus repository (thanks for having that available!) for potential readings, but also wanted to see if anyone on the list has had success with intro undergraduate history of computing recently. The most recent syllabus is from 2016, and I'm looking to find ways to integrate a range of topics that might be relevant to students (from brief histories of AI, innovation / maintenance, diverse representation, gender/queer theories of technology, etc.) I was also thinking of potentially including popular cultural representations / journalistic readings related to computing cultures (Kill It with Fire, Halt and Catch Fire [lots of fire apparently?]), but due to the limitations of life have not had any time to validate those less academic offerings. Any thoughts or advice would be greatly appreciated. I just moved back into a humanities department after spending five years teaching in computer science, so I'll be working to remember / relearn this with the students as well. Best, Eric -- Dr. Eric Kaltman, Assistant Professor Software History Futures and Technologies (SHFT) Group https://www.shft.group Media and Technology Studies / History University of Alberta

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Codebreakers 2025 tour
by Jonathan Coopersmith 07 Oct '24

07 Oct '24

FYI: https://wacphila.org/tour/espionage-intelligence-the-allied-secret-agents-c… Stay sane, Jonathan Jonathan Coopersmith Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science Professor Emeritus Department of History Texas A&M University College Station, TX 77843-4236 979.739.4708 (cell) David Thompson, "Commercial Space Trailblazer, <https://aerospaceamerica.aiaa.org/departments/commercial-space-trailblazer/> " *Aerospace America* June 2024 "Technological obsolescence, <https://www.nationalacademies.org/news/2023/05/technological-obsolescence>" National Academy of Engineering *Perspectives* May 23, 2023 Preserving space archives: https://www.toboldlypreserve.space/

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Fwd: Lien framaform
by Camille Paloque-Bergès 07 Oct '24

07 Oct '24

Dear Colleagues, This message is to inform you of the first session in the 2024-2025 academic year of the Socio-History of Informatics seminar <https://sohistinfo.github.io/>, a research seminar organized at the HT2S research center of the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers in Paris <https://technique-societe.cnam.fr/histoire-des-technosciences-en-societe-ht…>. The goal of this seminar is to explore new narratives in the long-term history of computing, with a focus on how computing intertwines with social, economic, political, and cultural issues. Every two months, we will invite a researcher in history and/or anthropology and sociology (with a historical or diachronic perspective) of computing to present their work. Website link : https://sohistinfo.github.io/english/ The first session will take place online and at CNAM in Paris on Monday, October 14, 2024, from 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM with Ksenia Ermoshina (Centre Internet et Société, CNRS) - *A "Sovereign Intelligence"? Infrastructures, Representations, and Geopolitics of Russian AI: A Comparative Approach*. Registration form: https://framaforms.org/inscription-seminaire-de-socio-histoire-de-linformat… *Summary of the presentation:* *As part of the ANR CulturIA project, this investigation focuses on the contemporary history of artificial intelligence and its socio-cultural aspects, particularly within the Russian-speaking world and its international relations. Marked by the war against Ukraine and economic sanctions, the field has undergone a restructuring both in terms of infrastructure and in terms of discourse and representations. The collective research, conducted in collaboration with Boris Melnichenko, follows Russians who create or use AI in exile as well as engineers working for large companies in Russia. In line with the spirit of Science and Technology Studies (STS), it remains attentive to code and infrastructure and describes the significant restructurings of technological projects in the context of a major geopolitical crisis. By comparing Russian machine learning and AI projects with similar initiatives from the United States and China, this research asks: can we speak of a “Russian AI”? Are there distinctive characteristics that define the ways of developing and discussing AI specific to Russia, despite the inevitable borrowing, influences, and transnational exchanges that shape this field?* *Future sessions:* - December 16, 2024, from 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM - Barbara Hof - University of Lausanne - February 10, 2025, from 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM - Cédric Neumann - CNAM, HT2S - April 1, 2025 - Marie-José Durand-Richard - CNRS-Paris 7 Denis Diderot, SPHERE - April 14, 2025, from 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM - Jaroslav Švelch - Charles University (Prague) - June 16, 2025, from 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM - Michael Homberg - University of Cologne The summary of each presentation will be communicated later. Each session will be held in a hybrid format at the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers, 2 rue Conté, 75003 Paris, in room 30-1-18 (Building 30, 1st basement level, Room 18). To facilitate the organization of the sessions, please register via this form: https://framaforms.org/inscription-seminaire-de-socio-histoire-de-linformat… A connection link (Big Blue Button) will be sent after registration to allow remote participation in each session. This research seminar will focus on the history of computing not for its own sake within the well-defined framework of the omnipotent computer and its pervasive environments, but through the study of situations where computing plays a pivotal role in the articulation of science-technology-society relations. In this way, the seminar aims to shed light on a socio-history of computing over the long term and in spaces expanded geographically as well as socially, culturally, politically, and economically. You can find a more detailed presentation of our approach (with the program of planned sessions) on the seminar website: https://sohistinfo.github.io/ Looking forward to seeing you there. Best regards, Mathilde Fichen (PhD student, HT2S), Adrien Tournier (PhD student, HT2S), and Camille Paloque-Bergès (Researcher, HT2S) for the seminar organization. -- Institutional email address : camille.paloque_berges(a)cnam.fr *Laboratory for the History of Techno-Sciences (HT2S), Conservatoire national des arts et métiers, 2 rue Conté, 75003 Paris, France

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A new book on writing computer and information history
by William Aspray 02 Oct '24

02 Oct '24

Some of you may be interested in a book that I edited, published by Rowman & Littlefield (as of last week, now part of Bloomsbury), entitled Writing Computer and Information History: Approaches, Reflections, and Connections. The e-book is already out, and the hardcover will launch June 14. The book includes chapters by 18 authors experienced in writing computer history or information history: Toni Weller, Thomas Haigh, James Cortada, Laura Skouvig, Geoffrey Bowker and John Leslie King, David Gugerli and Daniela Zetti, Shane Greenstein, Daniel Garcia Swartz and Martin Campbell-Kelly, Philip Doty and William Aspray, Valerie Schafer, Matthew Jones, Howard Rosenbaum, Greg Downey, and Liesbeth De Mol. Bill Aspray

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Democratic Surround book club - Sundays in San Francisco
by Lucas Gelfond 01 Oct '24

01 Oct '24

Hi SIGCIS! Some friends and I are looking to work through Fred Turner's book "The Democratic Surround" this month, hosting an in person book club at our apartment in Hayes Valley in San Francisco. We'll meet Sundays at 4pm starting October 13th , reading about a chapter per week. Thinking we also may screen a movie afterwards for those who want to join. Email lucas_gelfond(a)brown.edu if you're interested, friends are welcome + can send more info! Lucas Lucas http://lucasgelfond.online (310) 989-8334

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