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graduate student research and volunteer opportunities to help with 30th anniversary of IEEE-ACM Supercomputer Conference
by Kevin Walsh 07 May '18

07 May '18

Hello all, We are seeking some graduate students in the history of computing to help both as compensated graduate student researchers and unpaid volunteers at the upcoming ACM/IEEE Supercomputer Conference in Dallas, November 11 - 16. Yes, the funding is modest, but the experience in invaluable. See https://sc18.supercomputing.org/ Specifically https://sc18.supercomputing.org/experience/studentssc/student-volunteers/ The graduate student researchers will be charged to carry out some research and categorize achievements in a review of conference technical program papers from 2012 - 2017. The research will be used to create content for some history displays at SC 18 during the conference from November 11 - 16 in Dallas. The selected graduate students will then apply this sprint orientation on high performance computing to carry out some oral history interviews at the conference, and help in the SC 30th Anniversary Booth, where will will have a Cray 1 on display. Each of the selected students will receive support funds of $2,800 to do the research during the Summer along with the cost of travel and hotel to attend and work at the conference in November The history students will join over 100 other international grad students in computer science for meals and social activities during the conference. All students will be in the same hotel block. Most meals for students are funded by the conference. This includes various conference celebrations for over 10,000 attendees, as well as the full conference technical program and exhibits. Apply as a volunteer and in your application, please indicate you are interested in working with the SC 30th Anniversary Committee as a graduate student in the history of computing. We will separate your applications from all the those students applying only to be volunteers to work at the conference. If interested, follow the directions outlined here - https://sc18.supercomputing.org/experience/studentssc/student-volunteers/ Graduate students in the history of computing that simply want to apply to volunteer (not work during the Summer) can also apply, and if selected you can help at the conference in November as assigned. The deadline to apply is June 15. Feel free to contact me with any questions. Regards, Kevin Walsh University of California, San Diego (858)822-3356 <(858)%20822-3356> kwalsh(a)ucsd.edu

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Public Program: Mac icon designer Susan Kare, May 8 at the Smithsonian's NMAH
by Hintz, Eric 03 May '18

03 May '18

Hi SIGCIS- I hope you'll indulge a bit of self-promotion for an upcoming public program that may be of interest. Susan Kare's icon and GUI design work is featured in the Silicon Valley section of our exhibition, Places of Invention<http://invention.si.edu/places-invention-exhibition-overview>, and the SIGCIS community kindly helped workshop my work-in-progress paper on Kare<http://www.sigcis.org/files/Hintz.pdf> in Albuquerque (2015). Hope to see you on May 8! Best, Eric Hintz --- Innovative Lives: Susan Kare Presented by the Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation Graphic designer Susan Kare has been called the "the Betsy Ross of the personal computer," the "Queen of Look and Feel," the "Matisse of computer icons," and the "mother of the Mac trash can." Kare is best known for designing the distinctive icons, typefaces, and other graphic elements that gave the Apple Macintosh its characteristic-and widely emulated-look and feel. Since then, Kare has spent the last three decades designing user interface elements for many of the leading software and Internet firms. If you have clicked on an icon to save a file or tapped your smart phone screen to launch a mobile app, then you have benefited from Kare's designs. Lemelson Center historian Eric S. Hintz will interview Kare about her fascinating career, followed by questions from the audience. Tuesday, May 8, 2018 6:30 p.m. - 8:30p.m. Wallace H. Coulter Performance Plaza, 1 West Smithsonian's National Museum of American History Constitution Avenue between 12th and 14th Streets NW Washington, DC Details: http://invention.si.edu/about/events/innovative-lives-susan-kare Tickets are FREE: register at https://innovativelives2018.eventbrite.com<https://innovativelives2018.eventbrite.com/> ====================== Eric S. Hintz, Ph.D. Historian, Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation National Museum of American History Smithsonian Institution MRC 604, P. O. Box 37012 Washington, DC 20013-7012 WORK: 202-633-3734 CELL: 610-717-7134 FAX: 202-633-4593 hintze(a)si.edu<mailto:hintze@si.edu> http://invention.si.edu<http://invention.si.edu/>

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Untold Origins of Cloud Computing / RISC History, and Computer Architecture
by Brian Berg 01 May '18

01 May '18

Hi, I have organized two talks in Silicon Valley with historical significance: On Tue, May 8, *The Untold Origins of Cloud Computing <https://californiaconsultants.org/event/the-untold-origins-of-cloud-computi…>* event will discuss the early time-sharing history of Tymshare, and will also include some discussion of how the ARPANET became today's Internet. These topics are included in a new book by the speaker. At a dinner meeting on Wed, June 13, David Patterson (recent Turing Award winner) will give an important talk titled *A New Golden Age for Computer Architecture* <https://californiaconsultants.org/event/annual-cnsv-dinner-meeting-a-new-go…>, which will include some important history of RISC. Full details below - advance registration required. _________________________ Brian A. Berg / bberg(a)StanfordAlumni.org Berg Software Design 14500 Big Basin Way, Suite F, Saratoga, CA 95070 USA Voice: 408.741.5010 / Cell: 408.568.2505 Consulting: Flash Memory/USB/Storage/Patents visit the Storage Cornucopia: www.bswd.com FMS Technical Chair: www.FlashMemorySummit.com <http://www.flashmemorysummit.com/> IEEE Milestone <http://www.ieeeghn.org/wiki/index.php/Milestones:List_of_IEEE_Milestones> Coordinator for Region 6 <http://www.ieee-region6.org/> IEEE SCV Section <http://www.ewh.ieee.org/r6/scv/> Past Chair / IEEE-CNSV <http://www.californiaconsultants.org/> Board Director IEEE Silicon Valley Tech History Committee <http://www.siliconvalleyhistory.com/> Chair * <https://californiaconsultants.org/event/intellectual-property-protecting-yo…>Tue, May 8, 7-9pm: <https://californiaconsultants.org/event/the-untold-origins-of-cloud-computi…>* <https://californiaconsultants.org/event/the-untold-origins-of-cloud-computi…> *The Untold Origins of Cloud Computing <https://californiaconsultants.org/event/the-untold-origins-of-cloud-computi…>* The Cloud has become ubiquitous. Long before today’s Cloud, though, another name was used when accessing someone else’s computer: time sharing. Born in the Cold War in the aftermath of the first Russian Atomic bomb, time-shared computers and networking appeared in the 1960s, became widespread in the 1970s and matured in the 1980s. Tymshare was an early time-sharing pioneer, deploying Tymnet as the first independent Cloud-based services network in early 1972 by way of a database running on an IBM 360 at the National Library of Medicine. From that humble beginning, Tymnet grew into a world-wide business-focused public data network, connecting remote terminal users to distant computer users for a wide range of computer applications. As the business model shifted from connecting a user to a computer to connecting together computers, though, Tymnet’s failure to adapt made it fall victim to the Internet. Based on his book The Tym Before … The Untold Origins of Cloud Computing <https://www.amazon.com/Tym-Before-Untold-Origins-Computing/dp/1973430185/>, *Nathan Gregory* will tell the story not only of Tymnet and Tymshare, but also of the development of the ARPANET into today’s Internet. Copies of the book will be available for sale, and there will be an author signing. *Nathan Gregory* held a variety of positions at Tymnet for over 12 years. He left Tymnet ahead of its MCI acquisition and went to MFS Datanet, where he helped build the ATM backbone that ultimately carried the Internet traffic of the new Commercial Internet. He then co-founded Northpoint Communications. Nathan now serves as CTO and Chief Scientist for a unique Internet Security company named Reprivata. He also writes about science fiction and genealogy, and published Securing the Network: F. Scott Yeager and the Rise of the Commercial Internet <https://www.amazon.com/Securing-Network-Yeager-Commercial-Internet/dp/15201…> in 2016. More info, including family tales and fiction short stories that are free to read, may be found here <http://www.chromosomequest.com/>. * <https://californiaconsultants.org/event/intellectual-property-protecting-yo…>Wed, June 13, 6-9pm: <https://californiaconsultants.org/event/annual-cnsv-dinner-meeting-a-new-go…>* <https://californiaconsultants.org/event/annual-cnsv-dinner-meeting-a-new-go…> *IEEE-CNSV Dinner Meeting: A New Golden Age for Computer Architecture <https://californiaconsultants.org/event/annual-cnsv-dinner-meeting-a-new-go…>* 6pm: event opens at China Stix, 2110 El Camino Real, Santa Clara, CA <https://www.google.com/maps/place/2110%20El%20Camino%20Real,%20Santa%20Clar…> (near Target store) 6:45: Chinese Banquet Dinner with one beer, wine or drink of your choice 7:30ish: Presentation PayPal pre-registration <https://californiaconsultants.org/event/annual-cnsv-dinner-meeting-a-new-go…> at $37 required In the 1980s, Mead and Conway democratized chip design, and high-level language programming surpassed assembly language programming. Together, these made instruction set advances viable. Innovations like RISC, superscalar and speculation ushered in a Golden Age of computer architecture, and performance increased annually by 60%. The ending of Dennard Scaling and Moore’s Law crippled this path, and microprocessor performance improved by only 3% in 2017! In addition to the poor performance gains of modern microprocessors, Spectre recently demonstrated timing attacks that leak information at high rates. This talk will address how the freeing of architects from the chains of proprietary instruction sets will provide opportunities in high-level, domain-specific languages and architectures, and how the demands for improved security will usher in a new Golden Age. Aided by an open-source ecosystem, agily developed prototypes will demonstrate advances and thereby accelerate commercial adoption. This should again allow rapid improvement as in the last Golden Age, but this time in cost, energy, and security as well as performance. What an exciting time to be a computer architect! *Dr. David Patterson* is a Professor Emeritus at UC Berkeley, a distinguished engineer at Google Brain, and Vice Chair of the Board of the RISC-V Foundation. His most successful research projects have been Reduced Instruction Set Computers (RISC), Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks (RAID), and Network of Workstations (NOW). These projects helped lead to multi-billion dollar industries, seven books, and about 40 honors, including election to the National Academy of Engineering, the National Academy of Sciences, and the Silicon Valley Engineering Hall of Fame. David also shares the ACM Turing award, the IEEE von Neumann Medal, and the NEC C&C prize with John Hennessy, past president of Stanford University and co-author of two of his books. He received his A.B., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees from UCLA.

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Fwd: News: The Bombe arrives at TNMOC
by Brian Randell 01 May '18

01 May '18

Hi: Begin forwarded message: The Bombe arrives at TNMOC 1 May 2018 After more than ten hours of tense work, the Turing-Welchman Bombe arrived safely at The National Museum of Computing on Bletchley Park. With air lifts, wheel changes and extremely tight squeezes, the reconstruction of the extraordinary Enigma code-breaking machine edged its way into its new gallery that will soon be open to the public. The move was made possible thanks to the generous contributions of more than 500 individuals and organisations who donated more than £50,000 in a four-week Crowdfunder appeal ending in March to keep the Bombe on the Bletchley Park Estate. See the full story and photos here: http://www.tnmoc.org/Bombe-arrival Cheers Brian Randell — School of Computing Science, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU EMAIL = Brian.Randell(a)ncl.ac.uk<mailto:Brian.Randell@ncl.ac.uk> PHONE = +44 191 208 7923 URL = http://www.ncl.ac.uk/computing/people/profile/brianrandell.html

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Job opening at the National Museum of American History -- History of Computing
by Ceruzzi, Paul 27 Apr '18

27 Apr '18

________________________________ A full-time, permanent job opening at the NMAH in our field, broadly defined: https://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/498053400 Paul Ceruzzi

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Fwd: SHOT's Respectful Behavior Policy
by Andrew Russell 27 Apr '18

27 Apr '18

Hello SIGCIS - Those of you who are SHOT members should have received the note below, which announces SHOT’s new Respectful Behavior Policy. Special thanks to SHOT President John Krige for making this a priority for the organization, as well as to SIGCIS members Mara Mills and Lee Vinsel, who, as members of SHOT’s Executive Committee played key roles in the drafting of this Policy. I believe SHOT’s Policy is very much aligned with SIGCIS’s Statement of Community Values (https://www.sigcis.org/about_values) and since SIGCIS is an activity of SHOT, SHOT’s Policy applies to any activities conducted under the auspices of SIGCIS. Best regards, Andy > Begin forwarded message: > > From: Society for the History of Technology <shot.secretariaat(a)tue.nl> > Subject: SHOT's Respectful Behavior Policy > Date: April 26, 2018 at 6:23:41 PM EDT > To: arussell(a)arussell.org > Reply-To: shot.secretariaat(a)tue.nl > > > > > > > > > Respectful Behavior > > > April 27, 2018 > > Dear SHOT Members > > Attached please find SHOT's Respectful Behavior Policy, drawn up by a task force comprising John Krige (President), Mara Mills and Lee Vinsel, in consultation with the SHOT Executive Committee. > > Sincerely yours, > > John Krige > President, Society for the History of Technology (2017- 2018) > Kranzberg Professor > School of History and Sociology > Georgia Institute of Technology > > > > > > SHOT's Respectful Behavior Policy <http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=0013WxTwdIvoxNtiDw9mjwiie3fEXIudqb229mznE8XUoGw…> > > > > > > > > > > > Society for the History of Technology, Sonja Beekers, SHOT, Eindhoven, 5600 MB Netherlands > <https://visitor.constantcontact.com/do?p=un&m=001Xz26gWD0CDOi01mES8w44A%3D%…> > Forward this email <http://ui.constantcontact.com/sa/fwtf.jsp?llr=ieifeldab&m=1103106318472&ea=…> | About our service provider <http://www.constantcontact.com/legal/service-provider?cc=about-service-prov…> > Sent by shot.secretariaat(a)tue.nl <mailto:shot.secretariaat@tue.nl> in collaboration with > <http://www.constantcontact.com/index.jsp?cc=PT1130> > Try it free today <http://www.constantcontact.com/index.jsp?cc=PT1130>

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CFP: Archaeology and Information Research"
by James A Hodges 26 Apr '18

26 Apr '18

Apologies for cross-posting! *Information Research: an international electronic journal* *Special issue:* "Archaeology and information research" *Deadline:* June 30, 2018 Archaeology is a domain that has intersections with information research both as an empirical domain of investigation and as a perspective to inquire into how people interact with information. The relevance of discussing the links between the disciplines of information and archaeology relates to the increasing societal significance of cultural heritage around the globe. In archaeology, improved understanding of archaeological information work, knowledge creation and management processes has been acknowledged as being critical in managing and exploiting the escalating amounts of archaeological data from archaeological excavations conducted prior to land-use around the world. From a theoretical and practical perspective, archaeology brings together methodological perspectives ranging from the humanities to the natural sciences, and serves as an interesting showcase of the problems, challenges and opportunities related to inter- and multi-disciplinary domains of information practices. Finally, similar to multiple areas of humanities and social science research, archaeology has provided inspiration and functioned as a powerful metaphor in critical research in the information field. *Editors* Isto Huvila (Uppsala University), Marija Dalbello (Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey), Costis Dallas (University of Toronto), Ixchel M. Faniel (OCLC Research), and Michael Olsson (University of Technology Sydney) Deadline for submitting a full manuscript to the special issue is June 30, 2018. *Full information at:* http://www.informationr.net/ir/22-4/CfpArchaeology.html -- *james a. hodges* *phd candidate* *school of communication & information* *rutgers university* *james.hodges(a)rutgers.edu <james.hodges(a)rutgers.edu>* *+1 732.743.8971*

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IBM 610
by John Impagliazzo 25 Apr '18

25 Apr '18

Hi All, Allegedly, some consider the IBM 610 Auto-Point computer (1959) the ‘first personal computer’. http://www.columbia.edu/cu/computinghistory/plugboard.html Is this true – even slightly true?? John John Impagliazzo, Ph.D. Professor Emeritus, Hofstra University IEEE Life Fellow ACM Distinguished Educator

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Fwd: fixed-term teaching post at Dalhousie
by James Sumner 24 Apr '18

24 Apr '18

Hi – I don't know any specifics about this hiring, but saw it on another list and thought it was worth a crosspost. Cheers James -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: Limited term history and philosophy of science position at Dalhousie University Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2018 19:26:28 +0000 From: Stephen Snobelen <snobelen(a)DAL.CA> Reply-To: Stephen Snobelen <snobelen(a)DAL.CA> To: MERSENNE(a)JISCMAIL.AC.UK The Computer Science department at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia is advertising for a person to teach two survey courses "in the undergraduate Computer Science program on social, historical and philosophical perspectives on computers". This likely will include general history (and philosophy) of science depending on who is hired. It will also include teaching in either the Philosophy or History departments depending on the candidate. See the notice and the link to a longer form of the ad in pdf format here: https://blogs.dal.ca/academiccareers/2018/04/23/departments-of-philosophy-a… If anyone with an HPS background is interested in applying for this position, I'd be happy to talk to them if they contact me privately. I can provide background on the position. The HOST programme at King's College is on the same campus as Dalhousie and we are connected in various academic and administrative ways. Do note that the deadline for job applications is 22 May 2018. Stephen D Snobelen Associate Professor History of Science and Technology Programme University of King's College Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 2A1, Canada Graduate Studies Department of History Dalhousie University Halifax Tel (902) 422-1271, ext. 139 / Web www.ukings.ca <http://www.ukings.ca> www.newtonproject.sussex.ac.uk <http://www.newtonproject.sussex.ac.uk>/ www.isaacnewton.ca <http://www.isaacnewton.ca>/ www.isaac-newton.org <http://www.isaac-newton.org>

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PhD position in the history and/or philosophy of programming
by ldemol 24 Apr '18

24 Apr '18

Dear all, I am very happy to let you know that a PhD position is now available for anyone working in the history and/or philosophy of programming. The PhD will be supported by the ANR-funded project PROGRAMme (https://programme.hypotheses.org) and s/he will be a member of the research team of PROGRAMme. Attached you can find the detailed call. If you would have any more questions, please do not hesitate to contact me, with very best wishes, Liesbeth.

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