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William J. Kenan Endowed Chair Tenured Professor in Media Industries and Digital Technologies
by Carlin Wing 24 Aug '26

24 Aug '26

Dear all, I am pleased to share that Intercollegiate Media Studies at the Claremont Colleges is conducting a search for a senior colleague with a research focus in media industries and digital technologies. The position will be housed at Scripps College but will have a strong intercollegiate focus. You can find a full description of the position linked here <https://www.scrippscollege.edu/hr/faculty/william-j-kenan-endowed-chair-ten…> . We welcome applications from candidates who are currently at the ranks of full or advanced associate. Review of applications will begin Sept 25 and continue until the position is filled. Please feel free to reach out with questions if you are considering applying. All my best, Carlin Wing Associate Professor of Media Studies Scripps College

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CHSTM Computing Working Group (Sep 10)
by Kye Palider 23 Aug '26

23 Aug '26

Dear all, I am pleased to share that the Consortium for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine (CHSTM) is hosting a new working group this year on the history of computing. It is a place to share your research and engage in discussion on the history of computing. All meetings are online and occur monthly on every second Thursday at 12:00-13:30 EDT (EST after daylight savings). The working group is open to all scholars from graduate students to faculty, as well as those working in computing-related disciplines. We have our first meeting scheduled for Sep 10 at 12:00-13:30 EDT where Honghong Tinn will present her Island Tinkerers: Innovation and Transformation in the Making of Taiwan's Computing Industry (MIT Press, 2025), with a focus on Chapter 10. We are excited and grateful to have such a piece for our inaugural meeting, as it will engage many themes that we intend to explore at the working group, such as global histories of computing, a grassroots historiography, and hobbyist cultures. To join, please follow this two-step process: 1. Register an account at CHSTM: https://www.chstm.org/user/register 2. Click request membership on the computing working group page: https://www.chstm.org/group/history-computing You may also find more information about the working group on its page (the second link above) where we will post meeting information as it becomes available (more to come soon). To submit your work for an upcoming meeting, please either email me at <kye.palider(a)mail.utoronto.ca>, send a message to conveners via the computing working group page -> Membership -> Email group conveners, or submit through the CHSTM's call for paper proposals<https://www.chstm.org/news/call-working-group-papers-2026-2027> (where you may submit to multiple working groups for consideration). We welcome research at any stage of development. Lastly, please spread the word about the working group to any interested parties. We are a growing community and welcome not just historians of computing, but those working on modern computing and society, those working in the computing industry, or simply anyone with an interest in computing! All my best, Kye Palider On behalf of the conveners

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CHM Lecture: AI Chips & The Silicon Gold Rush
by Dag Spicer 19 Aug '26

19 Aug '26

Hello SIGCIS Friends, Lecture at the Computer History Museum next week — August 27, 2026. 7:00 p.m. Pacific time. Topic: "The Silicon Gold Rush: How AI is Driving the Development of New Chips.” Panel discussion with: Bill Dally, Chief Scientist, NVIDIA. Norm Jouppi, Google Fellow. Dave Patterson, (Moderator), 2007 CHM Fellow and Pardee Professor of Computer Science Emeritus at UC Berkeley. Description: AI chips are the new frontier of computing: companies once known only for software—Google, Amazon, Meta, Microsoft—are now designing their own silicon to gain efficiency, control costs, and optimize large-scale model training and inference. The implications extend far beyond technology. These in-house chips influence global data-center architectures, supply-chain strategy, and national competitiveness in a field now seen as geopolitically essential. The resulting competition influences global datacenter design, supply chains, and national strategies, marking a major new chapter in the evolution of advanced computing and AI. In-person attendance is SOLD OUT but ONLINE streaming is still available here: <https://computerhistory.org/events/the-silicon-gold-rush/> [chm_live_gold-rush_chm_website-blank_924x551.jpg] The Silicon Gold Rush<https://computerhistory.org/events/the-silicon-gold-rush/> computerhistory.org<https://computerhistory.org/events/the-silicon-gold-rush/> Enjoy! Dag ----- Dag Spicer Senior Curator Computer History Museum Editorial Board, IEEE Annals of the History of Computing ACM History Committee 1401 N. Shoreline Blvd. Mountain View CA 94043 “History is a vast early warning system.” — Norman Cousins, American journalist (1915-1990). Join our Mailing List here: https://info.computerhistory.org/subscribe

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CFP: Deterritorializing Artificial Intelligence: East Asia as Method
by Gao, Xinyue 13 Aug '26

13 Aug '26

Dear SIGCIS members, I am writing to share the CFP for “Deterritorializing Artificial Intelligence: East Asia as Method,” a two-day symposium to be held at Washington University in St. Louis on February 12–13, 2027. The symposium rethinks the history and present of artificial intelligence beyond US-centered narratives, exploring how AI has been imagined, translated, built, and contested through transpacific circulations of knowledge, labor, capital, and infrastructure. We invite interdisciplinary perspectives on the histories, politics, media cultures, and alternative theories of intelligence and automation that emerge when East Asia is placed at the center of the conversation. Selected participants will receive travel support, three nights of accommodation, and meals. Abstracts of approximately 300 words are due by September 1, 2026, and may be sent to eastasia-ai(a)wustl.edu<mailto:eastasia-ai@wustl.edu>. The full CFP is available on H-Net here: https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20153172/call-papers-deterri… Please feel free to share this announcement with colleagues, students, and others who may be interested. Best, Xinyue Gao Ph.D. Candidate, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures Washington University in St. Louis

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FW: A referral question on Soviet humanities-computing archives
by thomas.haigh＠gmail.com 02 Aug '26

02 Aug '26

Received this query, but do not recall seeing anything about the history of Soviet humanities computing. If you have any leads, please respond directly to Василий Глущенко <admiral.vasily(a)gmail.com> Tom Thomas Haigh Professor & Chair, UWM History Department Chair, IEEE Computer Society History Committee Director, ACM History Committee Turing Awards Project See more at www.tomandmaria.com/Tom -----Original Message----- From: Василий Глущенко <admiral.vasily(a)gmail.com> Sent: Monday, July 27, 2026 4:37 PM To: thomas.haigh(a)gmail.com Subject: A referral question on Soviet humanities-computing archives Dear Professor Haigh, My name is Vasiliy Glushchenko. I am a historian completing a Candidate of Sciences dissertation at the Institute of World History of the Russian Academy of Sciences on the history of the digitisation of ancient Greek and Latin texts from the 1940s to the present. I also work as a programmer at the Ivannikov Institute for System Programming of the Russian Academy of Sciences. I am trying to locate archival or oral-history evidence for a narrow but persistent gap in the history of computing: Soviet and Eastern European computing centres and information projects that supported libraries, bibliographic retrieval, linguistics, text corpora, or humanities institutes. The existing literature has given me a strong starting point for general Soviet computing and projects such as OGAS. What remains difficult to identify are the people and records documenting the institutional space between Academy of Sciences computing centres, scientific-information organisations such as VINITI or INION, and early work with machine-readable texts. Could you recommend one or two historians, oral-history collections, or archival fonds in which this overlap has been studied or documented? A single person or collection would be enough. I am not looking for a general introduction to Soviet computing, but for a concrete route into the history of text-oriented and humanities-related applications. If this question falls outside your immediate work, a referral to someone within the SIGCIS, IEEE history, or Computer History Museum communities would already be extremely valuable. Best wishes, Vasiliy Glushchenko Institute of World History, Russian Academy of Sciences Ivannikov Institute for System Programming, Russian Academy of Sciences

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Fwd: Open curator position at Computer History Museum
by DCBROCK 29 Jul '26

29 Jul '26

> > >> Begin forwarded message: >> >> From: DCBROCK <dcb(a)dcbrock.net> >> Subject: Open curator position at Computer History Museum >> Date: July 29, 2026 at 11:36:18 AM EDT >> To: members(a)sigcis.org >> >> We have an open position for a curator at the Computer History Museum. >> >> I hope that people from our SIGCIS community will consider applying. >> >> Please do share with anyone who you think might be a great fit! >> >> https://computerhistory.org/jobs/curator/ >> >> Application instructions in the listing. >> >> Best wishes, >> >> David >> >> +++++++++++++++ >> David C. Brock >> dcb(a)dcbrock.net >> 40 Russell Street, Greenfield, MA 01301 >> Mobile: 413-522-3578 >> Pronouns: he, him, his >> >> >> >> >> >

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Mailing List Migration Completed
by Gregor Zurowski 21 Jul '26

21 Jul '26

Hi Everyone: The mailing list migration is complete now, and you can continue to post messages as usual. I have also updated the menu entries to the subscription options [1] and the archive [2] on the SIGCIS website with the new links. We have put redirect rules in place to prevent old archive links from breaking. Some of the old links should already redirect to the new archive (for example, links to the first message in a thread [3]), but we found an issue with links to reply messages, and expect to resolve this shortly. Now that the mailing list software has been upgraded and the list has been rehosted, we will look into the issues around new user signups and send out an update in the coming days. Thanks, Gregor [1] https://lists.sigcis.org/mailman3/lists/members@lists.sigcis.org/ [2] https://lists.sigcis.org/archives/list/members@lists.sigcis.org/ [3] http://lists.sigcis.org/pipermail/members-sigcis.org/2026-July/009120.html

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Mailing List Migration Scheduled
by Gregor Zurowski 16 Jul '26

16 Jul '26

Hi Everyone: As previously announced, we will migrate the existing mailing list to a new service provider and upgrade the mailing list software to a newer version (from Mailman 2 to Mailman 3). The migration is scheduled for: Sunday, July 19, 2026, at 6am UTC (2am EDT). We will take a snapshot of the current mailing list data on Saturday, July 18, the day before. The snapshot will be the source for the migration. To ensure no messages are lost, please don't post over the weekend (starting on Saturday) until we confirm the process is complete. We have also been working on not breaking existing links to messages in the archive. The new provider offered to host a list of redirects on their server, mapping from the old to the new URL scheme. We expect that the majority of links will be preserved this way, but this will be implemented after the migration. Thanks, Gregor

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Job opening//Senior Digital Producer//Computer History Museum
by DCBROCK 09 Jul '26

09 Jul '26

Dear List, The Computer History Museum is hiring a Senior Digital Producer. I hope that this might appeal to someone in SIGCIS, or aligned with it. https://computerhistory.org/jobs/senior-digital-producer/ Here’s part of the job description that I would think would most appear to this community: Develop and produce digital features and storytelling projects that highlight CHM's collections, exhibitions, programs, research, and technology initiatives. Combine text, images, video, collection materials, interactive elements, and other media to create engaging online experiences. Translate complex technology, historical, and institutional content into clear and compelling stories for broad public audiences. As with the other job listings that I’ve been sharing, I’m not directly involved with the hiring for this role, but would be happy to chat with anyone from this list who might be interested. You could reach out to me at dbrock(a)computerhistory.org <mailto:dbrock@computerhistory.org> Best wishes, David

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History
by Dag Spicer 06 Jul '26

06 Jul '26

Bold mine. Dag [lonnieb.jpg] On the Fourth of July, the White House released a 162-page report attacking the Smithsonian for how it tells the story of America: a "radical, activist ideology.” The museum’s secretary, in contrast, gave a measured and sobering response. As reported by The Hill and confirmed by CNN, the White House Domestic Policy Council published the document on the 250th anniversary of this country's founding. It accuses the leadership of the National Museum of American History of treating the American story "as a political instrument to divide, dispirit, and discourage our citizens." The findings it hangs this on include too little attention to the founders, educational materials on gender, and, in the report's words, a crusade against "whiteness.” Here is the thing the report leaves out. The Smithsonian is not the president's to command. Congress created it in 1846 as a trust, not an executive agency, and by long legal precedent it does not answer to White House directives or executive orders. Trump has been pressuring it for a year anyway, because the federal government funds two-thirds of its budget, and money is the lever he actually has. Lonnie Bunch is the historian who runs it, the first Black American to lead the Smithsonian in its 180-year history. He did not issue a careful non-response. He went on CNN and made the case for exactly the kind of history the report wants gone. "History is really about ambiguity, complexity, nuance, debate," he said. "In many ways, history is as much about today and tomorrow as it is about yesterday. And this is one of those moments to use yesterday to help shape today.” Consider what the report actually is. An administration that spent all week insisting it loves America more than anyone instructing a museum on which parts of America it is allowed to show the public. They called complexity divisive. A museum's job is to tell the whole story. Bunch just told them he intends to keep doing it. +++++++ Dag ----- Dag Spicer Senior Curator Computer History Museum Editorial Board, IEEE Annals of the History of Computing ACM History Committee 1401 N. Shoreline Blvd. Mountain View CA 94043 “History is a vast early warning system.” — Norman Cousins, American journalist (1915-1990). Join our Mailing List here: https://info.computerhistory.org/subscribe

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