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Motherless Brooklyn: Moses' Overpasses
by Luke Fernandez 14 Mar '20

14 Mar '20

Just an FYI that in Netflix/Edward Norton's recently released movie Motherless Brooklyn there's a passing reference to Robert Moses's infamous NYC low overpasses. Which, of course, is of obvious interest to any of us who like to teach Winner's "Do Artifacts Have Politics?" I neglected to note exactly where in the movie it is....about half way through I'm guessing..... Best, Luke

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Tony Sale Award 2020
by Martin Campbell-Kelly 13 Mar '20

13 Mar '20

Nominations are invited for the 2020 Tony Sale Award for Computer Conservation. The award, which is open to any individual or group anywhere in the world, recognises achievements in computer conservation or restoration. The Award was established in 2012 in memory of computer conservation pioneer Tony Sale, who rebuilt Colossus, the World War II code-breaking computer. The Award is managed by the Computer Conservation Society, a special interest group of the British Computer Society, and sponsored by CDW UK. The closing date for nominations is 30th June 2020. Presentation of a £1000 cash award and trophy will be made in London on the afternoon of 19th November 2020. The winner will also receive travelling and accommodation expenses to attend the Awards Ceremony in London and give a presentation. Full details and the entry form can be found at: http://www.sale-award.org/ Martin Campbell-Kelly -- Martin Campbell-Kelly, Dept of Computer Science University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, U.K. voice: +44 24 7667 3963 email: m.campbellkelly(a)gmail.com -- Sent from Gmail Mobile

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Call for Nominations-2020 Dibner Award for Excellence in Museum Exhibits
by Benjamin Gross 06 Mar '20

06 Mar '20

Dear colleagues, I am pleased to announce that nominations are open for the Society for the History of Technology's Dibner Award for Excellence in Museum Exhibits. The Dibner Award was established in 1985, through the generosity of Bern Dibner, to recognize excellence in museums and museum exhibits that interpret the history of technology, industry, and engineering to the general public. Winning exhibits, in addition to being well designed and produced, should raise pertinent historical issues. Artifacts and images should be used in a manner that interests, teaches, and stimulates both the general public and historians. The award consists of a plaque and up to $1,000 to cover expenses for a member of the design team to accept the award at the SHOT awards banquet. Exhibits are eligible for this award if they have been open to the public for no more than 24 months before the deadline for nominations on April 15, 2020. The Society especially encourages nominations from local and regional historical societies. Please note that virtual exhibits are not eligible for the award and nominations for traveling and short-term exhibits must be received at least two months in advance of the exhibit's closing date. Further information about the prize, including nomination forms, a list of past recipients, and the members of the Dibner Award Committee can be found on the SHOT website: https://www.historyoftechnology.org/about-us/awards-prizes-and-grants/the-d…. Should any questions arise while completing the nomination form, please feel free to contact me or any other member of the Dibner Committee. Sincerely, -Ben Gross Benjamin Gross, PhD Vice President for Research and Scholarship Linda Hall Library of Science, Engineering and Technology 5109 Cherry Street Kansas City, Missouri 64110 816.926.8718 grossb(a)lindahall.org<mailto:grossb@lindahall.org> www.lindahall.org<http://www.lindahall.org/>

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[please forward] abstract review open for IFIP Histories of Computing in Asia
by Christopher Leslie 05 Mar '20

05 Mar '20

Dear Colleagues, IFIP’s Working Group 9.7 is pleased to announce two updates: we have formed our Program Committee and Springer-Nature has accepted our proposal to publish a proceedings volume of selected, edited papers. Although the CoVID-19 coronavirus travel restrictions are daunting, our plan is to meet at the South China University of Technology (SCUT) in Guangzhou, China, from 4 to 8 December 2020 unless further developments require an adjustment. Our biannual meeting will be dedicated to the histories of computing in Asia. As previously announced, the Program Committee is willing to review extended abstracts from anyone who wishes feedback before submitting a draft paper. For information on how to submit your abstract for an optional review, fill out the form on our website (http://ifipwg97.org/workshops/hca2020/ <http://ifipwg97.org/workshops/hca2020/>). If you do not wish to submit an abstract, you may still submit a draft paper before June 1. Please feel forward to anyone who might be interested, and let me know if you have any questions. Chris Leslie Christopher Leslie, Ph.D. Lecturer, School of Foreign Languages, South China University of Technology Chair, IFIP Working Group 9.7 - History of Computing ********* HCA 2020: Second Call for Papers HISTORIES OF COMPUTING IN ASIA SOUTH CHINA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY GUANGZHOU • DECEMBER 2020 Our proposed workshop will bring together international and Chinese academic researchers, public historians, and industry professionals who are interested in the history of computing. The Program Committee now welcomes the submission of extended abstracts from those researchers who would like comments on their projects before submitting a full paper. THEMES The theme of conference will be histories of computing in Asia, with a particular emphasis on contextualizing China’s success in computing. The program committee will consider any paper in line with this theme, but we are particularly interested in topics such as: China, Asia, and Beyond. The rapid rise of Chinese computing: electronic computing and the three phases of Chinese manufacturing: introduction, digestion, re-innovation computing innovations by Chinese professionals, both within the PRC and by overseas Chinese in other countries antecedents to business models like the sharing economy, e-payments, and online shopping that led to success for Alibaba, Tencent, and others computing in the Asian republics of the former USSR (such as Kazakhstan) Internationalism. Frameworks that foster multinational cooperation and innovation: computing on the silk road, and along the modern belt and road standards, protocols, and diplomacy machine translation, global English, and language plurality Science and Technology Studies. History and philosophy of technology, from east to west: theoretical and ideological responses to computing case studies of equitable technological development insights from feminist, masculinity, and gender studies linguistic analysis in the history of computing, computing’s contributions to linguistics Pedagogy. Teaching the history of computing in or about Asia to: engineering students business, humanities, and social science students high school students employees or the general public Public History and Imagination. Remembering and presenting histories of computing: images of computing in literature, film, and television computing in/with/for the arts and humanities preserving and presenting the history of computing inside and outside of Asia REVIEW PROCESS Academic and amateur historians, computing and informatics professionals, archivists, and museum curators are welcome to submit papers for this workshop. Following our typical practice, we will ask for full papers for anonymous peer review by our Program Committee. Accepted papers must be revised according to the comments of the peer reviewers. In order to provide for a lively discussion at the workshop, we will distribute draft papers to participants in advance. After the workshop, authors will have the chance to incorporate feedback from the audience before preparing their final versions. These will be considered for inclusion in the volume of edited, selected papers, which will be published by Springer-Nature in the IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology series. The official language of the workshop and the printed proceedings is English. IMPORTANT DATES Before 31 March 2020: Optional submission of extended abstracts (500–1500 words and bibliography) for review by the Program Committee 1 May to 1 June 2020: Draft papers accepted for consideration by the Program Committee 1 September 2020: Comments from Program Committee, decisions, and invitations sent to authors 4 November 2020: Collection of papers, revised based on reviewer comments and using Springer template, for distribution to workshop participants 4 December 2020: Participants arrive in Guangzhou, China 13 January 2021: Revised papers due for consideration in proceedings volume, which will be published by Springer in the IFIP AICT series. For instructions on how to submit your extended abstract or draft paper, please fill out the form at http://ifipwg97.org/workshops/hca2020/ Enquires in advance of your submission may be addressed to the chair of the working group, Christopher Leslie, at <chrisleslienyc(a)hotmail.com>.

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Histories of AI: A Genealogy of Power, Summer School Applications
by Dick, Stephanie A 04 Mar '20

04 Mar '20

Dear SIGCIS Colleagues, Please see the below open call for a Summer School associated with the Cambridge University Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar “Histories of AI: A Genealogy of Power<https://www.hps.cam.ac.uk/about/research-projects/histories-of-ai> (organized by Richard Staley, Sarah Dillon, Jonnie Penn, Mustafa Ali, Matt Jones, and myself). The Summer School will be July 12 – 18, 2020 at Cambridge. Some travel and accommodation funding will be available. Ruha Benjamin<https://www.ruhabenjamin.com/>, Wendy Chun<https://www.sfu.ca/communication/team/faculty/wendy-chun.html>, Ulises A. Mejias<https://blog.ulisesmejias.com/>, and Kalindi Vora<https://fri.ucdavis.edu/people/kalindi-vora> will keynote the event. Applications are due March 16. See below for more information about the Seminar and the Summer School itself. If the project resonates with your work, please consider applying! All my best, Steph -- Stephanie A. Dick Assistant Professor History and Sociology of Science University of Pennsylvania sadick(a)sas.upenn.edu<mailto:sadick@sas.upenn.edu> https://www.sas.upenn.edu/~sadick/ CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS OPEN CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS * WHAT: 2020 Summer School on the Histories of AI: A Genealogy of Power<https://www.hps.cam.ac.uk/about/research-projects/histories-of-ai> (A Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar) * WHEN: 12 -18 July 2020 * WHERE: University of Cambridge, United Kingdom * OTHER: Travel and accommodation funding available. Closing date 16 March. The University of Cambridge is hosting a Mellon Sawyer Seminar on Histories of AI: A Genealogy of Power from May 2020-April 2021. The Seminar is co-hosted by the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, and the Faculty of English. Sawyer Seminars support comparative research on the historical and cultural sources of contemporary developments. This Seminar aims to develop an international interpretive community capable of offering a structural, historical perspective on the promises and problematics of AI and machine learning. This new community will include participants from a variety of fields and backgrounds including activists, AI practitioners, artists, citizens, critical theorists, decolonial scholars, historians of science and technology, and scholars of race, gender, and disability studies. We will engage in critical and comparative research, from antiquity to the present, on the historical and cultural sources of contemporary developments in AI technologies to investigate their entanglement in systems of politics, power and control. Four themes will guide our considerations: hidden labour, encoded behaviour, cognitive injustice and disingenuous rhetoric. These themes direct our inquiry without narrowing the contributions we plan to support. Full details of the Seminar, including its intellectual aims and rationale, are available here<https://www.hps.cam.ac.uk/about/research-projects/histories-of-ai>. The Seminar’s activities include a week long Summer School at Homerton College, Cambridge, for 30 participants, with arrival and a welcome dinner on Sunday 12 and meeting from Monday 13 to Saturday 18 July 2020. We are opening applications to participate in the Summer School. Accommodation and subsistence is provided for all participants from Sunday 12 to Saturday 18 July inclusive. Participants in full-time employment would ordinarily be expected to cover their own travel costs, although some stipends are available on a needs basis. Travel bursaries will be available to a small number of UK and international students. The following keynotes are confirmed (alphabetically): * Ruha Benjamin<https://www.ruhabenjamin.com/> * Wendy Chun<https://www.sfu.ca/communication/team/faculty/wendy-chun.html> * Ulises A. Mejias<https://blog.ulisesmejias.com/> * Kalindi Vora<https://fri.ucdavis.edu/people/kalindi-vora> Each day of the Summer School will include a variety of sessions including a workshop on participant research comprising short papers and discussion, seminars on core literature selected from across historical periods and/or critical theories, a keynote lecture, and a focused session on relevant disciplinary theories and methods. We aim to foster the intellectual development of research in this field, creating a cross-disciplinary toolkit that engages the histories of AI. Applying to participate will involve indicating the relevance of your research to the aims of the Seminar, and offering practical suggestions of how you might contribute to the Summer School's activities, for instance by delivering a short paper, leading a core text seminar, offering relevant theories and or methods training, or other suggested contributions or activities. You will find this call for participants on our website, here<https://www.hps.cam.ac.uk/about/research-projects/histories-of-ai/activitie…>. And to register your interest in participating in the Summer School, please download and complete this application form<https://www.hps.cam.ac.uk/documents/research-projects/hoai-summer-school>. Deadline for Applications: 16 March 2020 Email us at: hoai(a)hermes.cam.ac.uk<mailto:hoai@hermes.cam.ac.uk> To receive information about the seminar, subscribe to the HoAI email list: https://lists.cam.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/hps-hoai Please forward this call!

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Internet Histories, Volume 4, Issue 1, March 2020 is now available online
by Asger Harlung 02 Mar '20

02 Mar '20

To whom it may concern, The Editorial Staff of Internet Histories is pleased to announce, that Internet Histories, Volume 4, Issue 1, March 2020 is now available online. The issues is titled: Legacy systems: Internet histories of the abandoned, discontinued and forgotten - and may be accessed at this URL: https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rint20/4/1 This new issue contains the following articles: Introduction Legacy systems: internet histories of the abandoned, discontinued and forgotten | Open Access Michael Stevenson & Anne Helmond Articles >From closed world discourse to digital utopianism: the changing face of responsible computing at Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility (1981–1992) | Open Access Megan Finn & Quinn DuPont Rethinking legacies in internet history: Euronet, lost (inter)networks, EU politics | Open Access Niels Kerssens The narratives we inherit: the local and global in Tomsk’s internet history Polina Kolozaridi & Dmitry Muravyov Recovering the web’s unclaimed legacy of academic text standards: SGML, HTML, and the misremediation of quotation Rudolf Ammann Cookies: a legacy of controversy Meg Leta Jones The historical trajectories of algorithmic techniques: an interview with Bernhard Rieder | Open Access Michael Stevenson & Anne Helmond Book Reviews Digital Football Cultures: Fandom, Identities and Resistance edited by Stefan Lawrence and Garry Crawford, London: Routledge, 2019, 210 pp., £115, (hardback) ISBN: 978-0-8153-6020-9 Helena Byrne History in the age of abundance? How the web is transforming historical research , by Ian Milligan. McGill-Queen's University Press (2019). ISBN: 978-0-7735-5697-3 Max Kemman PhD Kind regards on behalf of the editors, Asger Harlung Editorial Assistant, Internet Histories

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2020 Bernard S. Finn IEEE History Prize
by Andrew Russell 02 Mar '20

02 Mar '20

(Forwarded on behalf of Paul Israel) The Bernard S. Finn IEEE History Prize is awarded annually to the best paper in the history of electrotechnology—power, electronics, telecommunications, and computer science—published during the preceding year. Any article published in a learned periodical or collection of essays is eligible if it treats the art or engineering aspects of electrotechnology and its practitioners. The article must be written in English, although the journal or periodical in which it appears may be a foreign language publication. The prize consists of a cash award of $1,000 and a certificate. In addition, IEEE will provide a travel subsidy ($750 domestic, $1,000 international) to allow the winner to attend SHOT’s annual meeting, and SHOT will waive the basic registration and awards-banquet fees for the winner. The deadline for submissions is 15 April 2020. Please email a copy of the paper to Paul Israel <pisrael(a)taep.rutgers.edu <mailto:pisrael@taep.rutgers.edu>> The webpage for the award is https://www.historyoftechnology.org/about-us/awards-prizes-and-grants/the-b… <https://www.historyoftechnology.org/about-us/awards-prizes-and-grants/the-b…> With thanks, Paul -- Paul Israel Director and General Editor Thomas A. Edison Papers Rutgers University 44 Road 3 Piscataway, NJ 08854-8049 phone: 848-445-2711 cell: 732-213-1761 fax: 732-445-8512 email: pisrael(a)taep.rutgers.edu <mailto:pisrael@taep.rutgers.edu> http://edison.rutgers.edu/ <http://edison.rutgers.edu/>

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[CfA EASST/4S Prague] Other Indigenous “Knowledge Engineering” Systems: Designing and operating knowledge technologies at scale in emerging worlds
by Yoehan Oh 28 Feb '20

28 Feb '20

Dear list members, Apologies for cross-posting. Please take into consideration submitting your abstract to the open panel session at the EASST/4S conference in Prague, August 2020, "Other Indigenous “Knowledge Engineering” Systems: Designing and operating knowledge technologies at scale in emerging worlds." The upcoming EASST/4S conference 2020, the joint conference of the annual European Science and Technology Studies (STS) conference and the worldwide major annual STS conference, will be held in Prague, August 18-21, 2020 (official website: https://www.easst4s2020prague.org/) If you have any question, feel free to contact me (ohy(a)rpi.edu) If you might, hopefully, find this interesting to others in your networks, please share it with them. Key dates and the CfA are as the following: KEY DATES 29 February 2020: Deadline for abstract submission: 15 April 2020: Notification of acceptance of all abstracts TITLE *Other Indigenous “Knowledge Engineering” Systems: Designing and operating knowledge technologies at scale in emerging worlds *(*Open panel 131*) ABSTRACT Some scholars in digital humanities and critical internet and digital technologies studies have asked for bringing critical concerns about race, gender, postcoloniality, and other inequal power structures to their field (Nakamura 2013; Noble et al. 2016; McPherson 2013; Posner 2016; Risam 2018; Benjamin 2019). One way to address those concerns is illuminating technically-inventive subjectivities, by appreciating and thus empowering them through conceptualizations they deserve. STSers have conceptualized them and their artifacts as “Black vernacular technological creativity,” “techno-vernacular creativity,” (Fouché 2006; Gaskins 2019), “innovation from below” (Williams 2018), “ethnocomputing,” (Petrillo 1994; Tedre et-al. 2006; Eglash 1999), “postcolonial computing,” (Irani et-al. 2010; cf. Burrell 2012), and “black software” (McIlwain 2019); historians of computing have studied information architectures, hardware, and software in the Middle East, Latin America, East Asia, Midwestern U.S., and (post-)communist contexts (Bowker 1994; Medina 2011; Tinn 2018; Rankin 2018; Švelch 2018; Biagioli et-al. 2019). To further these conceptualizations, this panel will focus on less resourceful worlds’ captures of knowledge technologies, predominated by a few resourceful countries’ R&D communities like U.S., Canada, some Western Europe countries, China, and Japan: Knowledge discovery by data, Data engineering, Semantic technologies, and Search engines, etc (Collins 1987; Forsythe 1993). Questions to be addressed are: How indigenous, aboriginal, vernacular, decolonial, de-ColdWar, or less capitalistically/settler-colonially exploitative the knowledge engineering practices at scales by technical actors in the underrecognized/emerging worlds can be? Which speculative, experimental, or empirical cases can we dig into as the Indigenous “Knowledge engineering” Systems (Watson-Verran et al. 1995; Brereton et-al. 2015; Chamunorwa et-al. 2018)? KEYWORDS: knowledge engineering, knowledge technologies, technological agency, indigenous knowledge systems, emerging worlds THREE CATEGOREIS: Big Data; Information, Computing and Media Technology; Postcolonial/Decolonial STS CONVENORS: Yoehan Oh, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Wish you a happy new year. Best, Yoehan REFERENCES * Acker, Amelia, and Joan Donovan. 2019. "Data craft: a theory/methods package for critical internet studies." *Information, Communication & Society *22(11): 1590-1609. * Aouragh, Miriyam, and Paula Chakravartty. 2016. "Infrastructures of empire: towards a critical geopolitics of media and information studies." *Media, Culture & Society *38(4): 559-575. * Benjamin, Ruha. 2019. *Race after technology: Abolitionist tools for the new Jim Code. *John Wiley & Sons. * Biagioli, Mario, and Vincent Antonin Lépinay, eds. 2019. *From Russia with Code: Programming Migrations in Post-Soviet Times. *Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press. * Bowker, Geoffrey C. 1994. *Science on the Run: Information management and industrial geophysics at Schlumberger, 1920-1940. *MIT press. * Brereton, Margot, Paul Roe, Ronald Schroeter, and A. Lee Hong. 2015. "Indigenous knowledge technologies: Moving from knowledge capture to engagement, reciprocity and use." In *At the Intersection of Indigenous and Traditional Knowledge and Technology Design, *edited by Nicola Bidwell and Heike Winschiers-Theophilus, 239-258. Informing Science. * Burrell, Jenna. 2012. *Invisible Users: Youth in the Internet cafés of urban Ghana. *MIT Press. * Chamunorwa, Michael Bosomefi, Heike Winschiers-Theophilus, and Tariq Zaman. 2018. "An Intermediary Database Node in the Namibian Communities Indigenous Knowledge Management System." In *Digitisation of Culture: Namibian and International Perspectives, *edited by Dharm Singh Jat, Jürgen Sieck, Hippolyte N'Sung-Nza Muyingi, Heike Winschiers-Theophilus, Anicia Peters, and Shawulu Nggada, 99-117. Singapore: Springer, * Collins, Harry M. 1987. "Expert systems and the science of knowledge." In *The social construction of technological systems: New directions in the sociology and history of technology, *edited by Wiebe E. Bijker, Thomas P. Hughes, Trevor Pinch, 329-348. MIT Press. * Ebner, Susanne. 2019. “Hierarchies of Knowledge: Usage of a Chinese Media App in Rural Tamil Nadu” presented at the 2019 Annual Meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science, New Orleans, U.S. * Eglash, Ron. 1999. *African fractals: Modern computing and indigenous design. *Rutgers University Press. * Forsythe, Diana E. 1993. "Engineering knowledge: The construction of knowledge in artificial intelligence." *Social studies of science *23(3): 445-477. * Fouché, Rayvon. 2006. "Say it loud, I'm black and I'm proud: African Americans, American artifactual culture, and black vernacular technological creativity." *American Quarterly *58(3): 639-661. * Gaskins, Nettrice R. 2019. “Techno-Vernacular Creativity and Innovation across the African Diaspora and Global South.” In *Captivating Technology: Race, Carceral Technoscience, and Liberatory Imagination in Everyday Life, *edited by Ruha Benjamin, 252-274. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press. * Irani, Lilly, Janet Vertesi, Paul Dourish, Kavita Philip, and Rebecca E. Grinter. 2010. "Postcolonial computing: a lens on design and development." In *Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on human factors in computing systems, *ACM. 1311-1320. * Kita, Chigusa, and Hyungsub Choi. 2016. "History of computing in East Asia." *IEEE Annals of the History of Computing *38(2): 8-10. * McIlwain, Charlton. 2019. *Black Software: The Internet and Racial Justice, from the AfroNet to Black Lives Matter. *Oxford University Press, USA. * McPherson, Tara. 2013. “US operating systems at mid-century: The intertwining of race and UNIX.” In *Race after the Internet, edited by Lisa Nakamura and Peter Chow-White, *27-43. Routledge. * Medina, Eden. 2011. *Cybernetic revolutionaries: Technology and politics in Allende's Chile. *MIT Press. * Nakamura, Lisa, and Peter Chow-White, eds. 2013. *Race after the Internet. *Routledge. * Noble, Safiya Umoja. 2018. *Algorithms of Oppression: How search engines reinforce racism. *NYU Press. * Noble, Safiya Umoja, and Brendesha M. Tynes. 2016. *The intersectional internet: Race, sex, class, and culture online. *Peter Lang International Academic Publishers. * Petrillo, Anthony. 1994. “Ethnocomputers in Nigerian Computer Education.” Paper presented at the 31st Annual Conference of the Mathematical Association of Nigeria (March 1994). * Philip, Kavita, Lilly Irani, and Paul Dourish. 2012. "Postcolonial computing: A tactical survey." *Science, Technology, & Human Values *37(1): 3-29. * Posner, Miriam. 2016. “What’s Next: The Radical Unrealised Potential of Digital Humanities.” In *Debates in the digital humanities 2016, *edited by Matthew K. Gold and Lauren F. Klein, 32-41. University of Minnesota Press. * Risam, Roopika. 2018. *New Digital Worlds: Postcolonial Digital Humanities in Theory, Praxis, and Pedagogy. *Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press. * Snow, Jackie. 2018. “We’re in a diversity crisis”: Cofounder of Black in AI on what’s poisoning algorithms in our lives.” *MIT Technology Review *(Feb 14, 2018). * Stöckelová, Tereza, and Jaroslav Klepal. 2018. "Chinese Medicine on the Move into Central Europe: A Contribution to the Debate on Correlativity and Decentering STS." *East Asian Science, Technology and Society. *12(1): 57-79. * Rankin, Joy Lisi. 2018. *A People's History of Computing in the United States. *Harvard University Press. * Stevens, Hallam. 2019. "Digital Infrastructure in the Chinese Register." *Made in China Journal. *4(2): 84-89. * Švelch, Jaroslav. 2018. *Gaming the Iron Curtain: How Teenagers and Amateurs in Communist Czechoslovakia Claimed the Medium of Computer Games. *MIT Press. * Tedre, Matti, Erkki Sutinen, Esko Kähkönen, and Piet Kommers. 2006. "Ethnocomputing: ICT in cultural and social context." *Communications of the ACM *49(1): 126-130. * Tinn, Honghong. 2018. "Modeling Computers and Computer Models: Manufacturing Economic-Planning Projects in Cold War Taiwan, 1959–1968." *Technology and culture *59(5): S66-S99. * Watson-Verran, Helen, and David Turnbull. 1995. "Science and other indigenous knowledge systems." In *Handbook of Science and Technology Studies, *2nd edition, edited by Jasanoff, S., G. E. Markle, J. Peterson, and T. Pinch, 115-139. Sage. * Williams, Logan D. A. 2018. *Eradicating Blindness: Global Health Innovation from South Asia. *Palgrave Macmillan. -- Yoehan Oh Ph.D. Student Department of Science and Technology Studies Rensselaer Polytechnic institute 110 8th Street Troy, NY 12180 USA e-mail: ohy(a)rpi.edu ; yoehan.oh(a)gmail.com phone: (518) 368-1257 pronoun: he/him

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Additional new finding aid from the Computer History Museum
by David C. Brock 27 Feb '20

27 Feb '20

The Computer History Museum is also delighted to let the list know of another recently processed collection in our archives, with a complete finding aid. It too was made possible through a grant from the National Archive’s National Historical Publications and Records Commission: Access to Historical Records program. The collection is Frank da Cruz’s materials on Kermit, a file transfer protocol and software package developed at Columbia University in the 1980s and after: https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102721894 If you have any questions about this collection, and/or are interested in using it, start by contacting us here: https://computerhistory.org/collection-requests-contact-form/ +++++++++++++++ David C. Brock dcb(a)dcbrock.net 40 Russell Street, Greenfield, MA 01301 Mobile: 413-522-3578 Skype: dcbrock Twitter: @dcbrock Pronouns: he, him, his

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CNC e-book: Mastering Tolerances for Machined Parts
by Jonathan Coopersmith 27 Feb '20

27 Feb '20

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