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Fwd: [with] review of Rankin, A People's History of Computing
by M. Hicks 07 Feb '19

07 Feb '19

Forwarding this from the WITH list. Best, Mar ______________________ Marie Hicks, Ph.D. Associate Professor, History of Technology Illinois Institute of Technology Chicago, IL USA mhicks1(a)iit.edu | mariehicks.net | @histoftech Programmed Inequality: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing www.programmedinequality.com Begin forwarded message: From: "Lara Freidenfelds" <Lara(a)post.harvard.edu> Date: February 7, 2019 at 9:16:47 AM EST To: <with(a)lists.whitman.edu> Subject: [with] review of Rankin, A People's History of Computing Reply-To: with(a)lists.whitman.edu Hello WITH! I published a review of Joy Rankin’s A People’s History of Computing at Nursing Clio today: https://nursingclio.org/2019/02/07/take-back-the-net-joy-rankins-a-peoples-…. It’s an excellent book, and accessibly written. I encourage you to check it out if you have not read it yet. Yours, Lara Lara Freidenfelds, Ph.D. lara(a)post.harvard.edu www.larafreidenfelds.com @larafreidenfeld (twitter) The Modern Period: Menstruation in Twentieth-Century America

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IEEE Computer Society Leaders oral history project
by Dave Walden 05 Feb '19

05 Feb '19

Hello all, While I was updating (just now) the "web extras" page https://history.computer.org/annals/dtp/ that goes with the two special issues of the Annals on desktop publishing, it occurred to me that some people on this list may be interested in the web page listing oral histories of some of the leaders/presidents of the IEEE Computer Society over the years: see https://history.computer.org/leaders/ This "leaders" oral history project of the IEEE Computer Society History Committee was led by then committee chair Jeff Yost. The project is now "complete", i.e., these were all the people currently available to be interviewed. Best regards, Dave

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Book on programming systems
by Maarten Bullynck 04 Feb '19

04 Feb '19

Dear All, I have the pleasure to announce the publication of a volume on the history and philosophy of programming systems, edited by Liesbeth De Mol and Giuseppe Primiero. https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783319972251 The volume collects contributions to the third HaPoP symposium in Paris (http://hapoc.org/events/hapop3/schedule) Freely accessible drafts of the introduction and of the chapter I authored can be found on HAL (see links in the table of contents.) Table of contents ----------------- Liesbeth De Mol and Giuseppe Primiero: Programming Systems: in Search of Historical and Philosophical Foundations, p. 1-12 (see also: https://hal.univ-lille3.fr/hal-01674676) Rabia Arif et al.: Validity and Correctness Before the OS: the Case of LEO I and LEO II, p. 15-47 Maarten Bullynck: What Is an Operating System? A Historical Investigation (1954–1964), p. 49-79 (see https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-01541602) Troy K. Astarte et al.: Formal Semantics of ALGOL 60: Four Descriptions in their Historical Context, p. 83-152 Julian Rohrhuber: Sans-Papiers as First-Class Citizens, p. 153-185 Stephen Kell: Unix, Plan 9 and the Lurking Smalltalk, p. 189-213 Warren Toomey: Unix: Building a Development Environment from Scratch, p. 215-231 Naveen Sundar Govindarajulu et al.: Ethical Operating Systems, p. 235-260 Gaël Duval: From Sovereign Operating Systems to the Sovereign Digital Chain, p. 261-271 Robin K. Hill: Elegance in Software, p. 273-286 best wishes, Maarten Bullynck Département de mathématiques & histoire des sciences Université Paris 8

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SHOT panel on gender and software/programming
by Elizabeth Petrick 31 Jan '19

31 Jan '19

Hello SIGCIS, I'm looking to put together a session for this year's SHOT on Gender and Software/Programming. I'm taking a wide view of the topic and would love a panel that considers very diverse aspects of both gender and software. To give you an idea of where I'd like to go with this, I potentially have two papers so far: 1. I'm going to discuss Adele Goldberg's role at PARC and her work on the intersection of education and programming languages with Smalltalk. 2. I have a proposal from a colleague on the role of gender in the Leisure Suit Larry video game series. If anyone is interested in giving a paper as part of the panel or, alternatively, might like to be commentator, please let me know. Best, Liz ________________________ Dr. Elizabeth Petrick Assistant Professor Federated History Department New Jersey Institute of Technology Cullimore Hall 324 elizabethpetrick.com

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Re: [SIGCIS-Members] Book on programming systems
by Troy Astarte (PGR) 29 Jan '19

29 Jan '19

Dear list, You can find the draft of the paper from Cliff and I which was published as a Newcastle University TR at Cliff’s website: http://homepages.cs.ncl.ac.uk/cliff.jones/publications/NU-TRs/CS-TR-1498.pdf Best, Troy Astarte On 28 Jan 2019, at 12:47, Maarten Bullynck <maarten.bullynck(a)kuttaka.org<mailto:maarten.bullynck@kuttaka.org>> wrote: Dear All, I have the pleasure to announce the publication of a volume on the history and philosophy of programming systems, edited by Liesbeth De Mol and Giuseppe Primiero. https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783319972251 The volume collects contributions to the third HaPoP symposium in Paris (http://hapoc.org/events/hapop3/schedule) Freely accessible drafts of the introduction and of the chapter I authored can be found on HAL (see links in the table of contents.) Table of contents ----------------- Liesbeth De Mol and Giuseppe Primiero: Programming Systems: in Search of Historical and Philosophical Foundations, p. 1-12 (see also: https://hal.univ-lille3.fr/hal-01674676) Rabia Arif et al.: Validity and Correctness Before the OS: the Case of LEO I and LEO II, p. 15-47 Maarten Bullynck: What Is an Operating System? A Historical Investigation (1954–1964), p. 49-79 (see https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-01541602) Troy K. Astarte et al.: Formal Semantics of ALGOL 60: Four Descriptions in their Historical Context, p. 83-152 Julian Rohrhuber: Sans-Papiers as First-Class Citizens, p. 153-185 Stephen Kell: Unix, Plan 9 and the Lurking Smalltalk, p. 189-213 Warren Toomey: Unix: Building a Development Environment from Scratch, p. 215-231 Naveen Sundar Govindarajulu et al.: Ethical Operating Systems, p. 235-260 Gaël Duval: From Sovereign Operating Systems to the Sovereign Digital Chain, p. 261-271 Robin K. Hill: Elegance in Software, p. 273-286 best wishes, Maarten Bullynck Département de mathématiques & histoire des sciences Université Paris 8 _______________________________________________ This email is relayed from members at sigcis.org, the email discussion list of SHOT SIGCIS. Opinions expressed here are those of the member posting and are not reviewed, edited, or endorsed by SIGCIS. The list archives are at http://lists.sigcis.org/pipermail/members-sigcis.org/ and you can change your subscription options at http://lists.sigcis.org/listinfo.cgi/members-sigcis.org

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AJN Science Communication Awards
by Chuck House 25 Jan '19

25 Jan '19

Many of you know that I’ve been involved for a couple of years with the Novim Group based at the Kavli Institute of Theoretical Physics at University of California Santa Barbara, as director of their AJN Science Communication awards. Last year we honored John Ioannidis and Byron Reeves at Stanford, Maria Klawe of Harvey Mudd College, and Alan Alda. Nominations are now open for the 2019 Awards which will be presented at Stanford on April 24. Nominations are open until March 1. Description of the several awards, pictures and bios of last year’s awardees, and a nomination form are available at https://www.novim.org I’d really appreciate your consideration of possible nominees. Best regards, Chuck House 805-570-6706

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ACM History Fellowship Competition--Deadline April 1, 2019
by Jeffrey Yost 22 Jan '19

22 Jan '19

Dear Colleagues, The link below provides an announcement to the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) 2019 fellowship competition for research projects on or centrally related to ACM history. The ACM History Committee runs this program, which has resulted in 28 fellowships awarded since the start of this fellowship program in 2009. Many of these awards have gone to scholars (graduate students to senior scholars) in the SHOT and SIGCIS communities. The submission deadline for applications is April 1, 2019. http://history.acm.org/public/public_documents/acm_history_fellowship_annou… Best, Jeff Jeffrey R. Yost, Ph.D. Director, Charles Babbage Institute Research Professor, Program in the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine 222 21st Avenue South University of Minnesota Minneapolis, MN 55455 612 624 5050 Phone 612 625 8054 Fax

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Book announcement: GAMING THE IRON CURTAIN out Dec 18 on MIT Press
by Jaroslav Švelch 17 Jan '19

17 Jan '19

Dear colleagues, I have mostly been just a lurker on this list, mainly because I have never been to a SHOT conference and don’t know most members in person. This might change next year, as I’m planning to come to Milan. However, I would like to announce the release of my book Gaming the Iron Curtain: How Teenagers and Amateurs in Communist Czechoslovakia Claimed the Medium of Computer Games. The book tells a social history of computer games in 1980s Czechoslovakia in seven chapters, starting with technology policies and hardware manufacturing, and ending with activist games about the 1988-89 demonstrations that led up to the Velvet Revolution. Along the way, I peek into paramilitary youth clubs, arcades on wheels, and bedrooms and kitchens of computer enthusiasts. I also dicuss informal software distribution, gaming fanzines, DIY joysticks, illegal arcade machine manufacturing, ports and conversions, and some very local computer game genres. I’m hoping the book will be of interest not only to game scholars, but also to historians of computing and technology in general. Also, it has cool photos! The book is coming out December 18 with MIT Press in the Game Histories series: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/gaming-iron-curtain If you’d like to ask for a review copy, please contact David Ryman at MIT Press: dryman(a)mit.edu Best, Jaroslav An official summary follows: ================================================ GAMING THE IRON CURTAIN How Teenagers and Amateurs in Communist Czechoslovakia Claimed the Medium of Computer Games Jaroslav Švelch https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/gaming-iron-curtain ================================================ Summary ------------------ Aside from the exceptional history of Tetris, very little is known about gaming culture behind the Iron Curtain. But despite the scarcity of home computers and the absence of hardware and software markets, Czechoslovakia hosted a remarkably active DIY microcomputer scene in the 1980s, producing more than two hundred games that were by turns creative, inventive, and politically subversive. In Gaming the Iron Curtain, Jaroslav Švelch offers the first social history of gaming and game design in 1980s Czechoslovakia, and the first book-length treatment of computer gaming in any country of the Soviet bloc. Švelch describes how amateur programmers in 1980s Czechoslovakia discovered games as a medium, using them not only for entertainment but also as a means of self-expression. Sheltered in state-supported computer clubs, local programmers fashioned games into a medium of expression that, unlike television or the press, was neither regulated nor censored. In the final years of Communist rule, Czechoslovak programmers were among the first in the world to make activist games about current political events, anticipating trends observed decades later in independent or experimental titles. Drawing from extensive interviews as well as political, economic, and social history, Gaming the Iron Curtain tells a compelling tale of gaming the system, introducing us to individuals who used their ingenuity to be active, be creative, and be heard. ------------------ Jaroslav Švelch, Ph.D. New media and digital games scholar (http://svelch.com) Postdoctoral fellow, University of Bergen Games and Transgressive Aesthetics project: http://gta.b.uib.no/ Assistant professor, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University, Prague (on leave) ________________________________________________________ My book GAMING THE IRON CURTAIN: How Teenagers and Amateurs in Communist Czechoslovakia Claimed the Medium of Computer Games Coming out December 2018 with MIT Press, https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/gaming-iron-curtain Phone: +420 773 988 425 --- Tato zpráva byla zkontrolována na viry programem Avast Antivirus. https://www.avast.com/antivirus

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SHOT Milan panel
by Jonathan Coopersmith 17 Jan '19

17 Jan '19

Any interest in a panel on ICT (broadly defined) pushing lawmakers to create policy? The goal would be to give some historical context to the ongoing efforts to create government regulation/oversight of AI, digital data, &c. This recent presentation by Edward Felten, the director of Princeton's Center for Information Technology Policy, was his call for action. https://media.neurips.cc/Conferences/NIPS2018/Slides/Felten_NeurIPS_2018.pdf Jonathan Jonathan Coopersmith Visiting Professor School for the Future of Innovation in Society Arizona State University Tempe, Arizona Professor Department of History Texas A&M University College Station, TX 77843-4236 979.739.4708 (cell) 979.862.4314 (fax) Latest article: https://theconversation.com/what-fax-machines-can-teach-us-about-electric-c… *FAXED. The Rise and Fall of the Fax Machine* (Johns Hopkins University Press) is the co-recipient of the 2016 Business History Conference Hagley Prize for best book in business history.

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IBM History
by James Cortada 16 Jan '19

16 Jan '19

I am delighted to inform you that my book IBM: The Rise and Fall and Reinvention of a Global Icon will be published by MIT Press in early March. As many of you already know, this history goes from the 1880s to the present and represents decades of research on the managerial, technological, economic, and business issues you and I study. MIT Press is offering a 30% discount on orders received before March 10th. To take advantage of that use Code IBM30 and order from Mitpress.mit.edu. I want to publicly thank the many dozens of you who have either helped, encouraged, or cajoled me into writing this large book. Regards, Jim [image: 0-1.jpg] -- James W. Cortada Senior Research Fellow Charles Babbage Institute University of Minnesota jcortada(a)umn.edu 608-274-6382

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