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SHOT T&C editor search
by Thomas Misa 09 Apr '18

09 Apr '18

Dear colleagues, Would you please circulate this CFP for the Editor-in-Chief of SHOT’s flagship journal Technology and Culture. https://www.historyoftechnology.org/call-for-proposals-editor-in-chief-for-… <https://www.historyoftechnology.org/call-for-proposals-editor-in-chief-for-…> Nominations for possible candidates are sought by the search commitee (pls contact any of the “voting members” listed on the web page above, including (it happens) yours truly. Best regards, Tom ============================ Call for Proposals: Editor-in-Chief for Technology and Culture The Society for the History of Technology (SHOT) is seeking candidates to be the next editor-in-chief of its flagship journal Technology and Culture. The editor’s primary responsibility is to sustain and enhance the journal’s preeminence in the history of technology. The editor is responsible for creating and supervising an effective editorial team, ensuring responsive relations with the officers and membership of SHOT and the journal’s publisher, managing the journal’s relationship with the host institution, coordinating the electronic publication of Technology’s Stories, and conducting appropriate outreach. SHOT is conducting an open search for the new editor-in-chief. Candidates should possess wide knowledge of the history of technology, a distinguished record of scholarly contributions, and willingness to actively cultivate diverse perspectives in this interdisciplinary field. Successfully running a scholarly journal is a complex task involving intellectual, editorial, institutional, and managerial responsibilities. Candidates should discuss their experience for this position. As an international society, SHOT welcomes proposals from outside North America. Candidates must submit detailed plans for hosting the journal’s editorial offices at a new home institution. The editorial office has typically consisted of the editor-in-chief, managing editor, a part-time editorial assistant, and book review editor. These functions might be structured in various ways. SHOT has the financial capacity to provide partial but not full support of the editorial offices, so the editor-in-chief will need to mobilize additional resources. The relationship between the editor’s home institution and SHOT will be formalized through a signed contract. The successful candidate will gradually assume responsibilities beginning early in 2020 so as to take full responsibility for production of the journal beginning with the January 2021 issue. During the transition year 2020, the incoming editor will work closely on journal production and manuscript peer review with the present editor-in-chief, Suzanne Moon. The publication queue of completed peer-reviewed manuscripts is roughly one full year of quarterly issues. The initial term of service is five years. Complete proposals are due 15 December 2018. The committee welcomes and encourages early conversations with potential candidates as well as nominations of potential candidates. A detailed document describing the editorial duties will be posted on the SHOT website. Proposals—electronic copies of all documents (pdf required)—should be sent via email to the search committee chair. Each proposal must include: Statement of editorial vision and intellectual agenda (roughly 750 words) Summary CVs (maximum 3 single-spaced pages for editor-in-chief; 1 page for other members of editorial team) Detailed plan for new editorial team, including specific discussions of office space, computing facilities, financial resources, and book-review editorship (minimum 1000 words) Evidence of committed support from host institution (signed letters of support from department chair, supervisor, dean, and/or other institutional officers) with willingness, if chosen, to proceed to formal contract with SHOT Successful proposals will address these significant issues in scholarly publishing: Challenges to traditional scholarly publishing of “open access” models; Evolving relationships with the journal’s publisher; Expanding audiences for the journal; Connections to SHOT’s website and social-media initiatives; Relation of journal and SHOT to interdisciplinary and humanities scholarship. Finalist candidates may be asked for additional materials and should respond promptly. [See website for further particulars including search committee members]

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Book Announcement: Lebhafte Artefakte. Heinz von Foerster und die Maschinen des Biological Computer Laboratory
by Jan Müggenburg 09 Apr '18

09 Apr '18

I am very happy to announce that Konstanz University Press (an imprint of Wallstein Verlag) has published my book „Lebhafte Artefakte. Heinz von Foerster und die Maschinen des Biological Computer Laboratory“ <http://www.wallstein-verlag.de/9783835391031-jan-klaus-mueggenburg-lebhafte…>. The book is in German, but an English translation is already in planning (for more information on the book, please find an English abstract below). I would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone from sigcis who has helped me with their contribution over the years! With best regards from Lüneburg Jan Müggenburg Dr. Jan Müggenburg Leuphana Universität Lüneburg Institute of Culture and Aesthetics of Digital Media http://www.leuphana.de/jan-mueggenburg.html <http://www.leuphana.de/jan-mueggenburg.html> ***** Lively Artifacts. Heinz von Foerster and the Machines of the Biological Computer Laboratory The title »Lively Artifacts« sounds paradox, since we are still used to reserve the concept of »life« to objects from nature. However, my work on the Biological Computer Laboratory (BCL) shows how during the 1960s it became possible to stage the »liveliness« of machines as an effect of institutional and research political contexts. In this way, the director of the laboratory, the Austrian physicist Heinz von Foerster, pioneered a research program that is unparalleled in the history of science of the 20th century. While in the early stages of cybernetics the ›computer‹ only served as a metaphor and model, research with actual machines was conducted at the BCL. This book portrays this development en detail, but contextualizes it with an eye on culture, philosophy, and politics. The BCL was housed at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign from 1958 to 1976. Its research focus was the construction of »biological computers« that were supposed to be modeled after examples from nature. This resulted in »artificial sensory organs«, »neuronal networks«, and »self-organizing automata«; remarkable prefigurations of contemporary robots and computer programs from the realm of artificial intelligence. The book at hand presents an integral examination of the research conducted at Foerster’s laboratory. For this purpose, large parts of the literary remains of the BCL at the University of Illinois Archives were exploited. In addition to this, further archival material was consulted; especially from the Heinz von Foerster Archive, which is located at the Institut für Zeitgeschichte at the University of Vienna. Not least, oral history interviews were conducted, complementing the existing oral history of the laboratory where necessary. Methodologically, this work combines the approach of Historical Epistemology from the area of the history of science and the approaches of Media Archeology from the area of media studies. By means of these approaches, this book not only researches the historical conditions under which the BCL-machines would be recognized as »biological computers« but also their function as scientific media of the production of knowledge. Hereby, this work first arrives at the conclusion that the perception of the BCL-machines as »biological computers« was mainly dependent upon their institutional and research political contexts. Secondly, the impression of »liveliness« as the result of subjective interpretations is being critically examined. The »lively artifacts« of the BCL were constructed, in order to be received, observed, and interpreted in a particular way; they were supposed to appear »lively« in the eye of the beholder. In this spectator-dependency of the BCL-machines, this book recognizes one motive for the further development of Foerster’s laboratory of the late 1960s: from cybernetics to a »second-order cybernetics«. Dr. Jan Müggenburg Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter Leuphana Universität Lüneburg Institut für Kultur und Ästhetik Digitaler Medien Universitätsallee 1, C5.320 21335 Lüneburg Fon: 04131 6771647 E-Mail: <>mueggenburg(a)leuphana.de <mailto:mueggenburg@leuphana.de> http://www.leuphana.de/jan-mueggenburg.html <http://www.leuphana.de/jan-mueggenburg.html>

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Call for Papers workshop (in German): Computerised Diagnostics, Therapy und Care
by Sesing, Rudolf 09 Apr '18

09 Apr '18

Dear members of SIGSIS, attached is a Call for Papers to our planned workshop in November 2018: Wer (oder was) versorgt uns(ere) Patienten? Computerisierung von Diagnostik, Therapie und Pflege The workshop will be in German language. Best regards, Rudolf Seising

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Re: [SIGCIS-Members] Members Digest, Vol 38, Issue 2
by Winifred Poster 08 Apr '18

08 Apr '18

Bernard, These are amazing images -- thank you for sharing. Seems parallel to the history of women in cybersecurity that I outline a bit in this article in Nature: http://rdcu.be/J11Q It has picture of the ENIAC women in computer programming, for instance, but also other cases of women's involvement as "code girls" for decoding, encryption, etc., over the last century. There are great examples from the history of the telephone as well. Venus Green covers women as early commercial telephone operators, and Elizabeth Cobb has a recent book on the "hello girls" of WWI, as military communications officers for Signal Core. Your picture of the air traffic controller reminds me of Lucy Suchman's work in this area, when she studied them in the 1990s. You might ask her if there were women in her fieldwork. Would love to continue the conversation, Winnie Poster _______________________________________ Dr. Winifred R. Poster International Studies/International Affairs Program Washington University, St. Louis Campus Box 1085 One Brookings Drive St. Louis, MO 63130 www.winifredposter.com wposter(a)wustl.edu (backup: wrposter(a)gmail.com) On Thu, Apr 5, 2018 at 3:33 PM, <members-request(a)lists.sigcis.org> wrote: > Send Members mailing list submissions to > members(a)lists.sigcis.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://lists.sigcis.org/listinfo.cgi/members-sigcis.org > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > members-request(a)lists.sigcis.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > members-owner(a)lists.sigcis.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Members digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Postwar radar operators, electronic screens, and gender > (Bernard Geoghegan) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2018 15:25:38 +0200 > From: Bernard Geoghegan <bernardgeoghegan2010(a)u.northwestern.edu> > To: <members(a)lists.sigcis.org> > Subject: [SIGCIS-Members] Postwar radar operators, electronic screens, > and gender > Message-ID: <9DA083BD-9AF0-4377-90A8-C070FD00615E(a)u.northwestern.edu> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > Dear Members, > > > > Does anyone happen to have any primary or secondary source references on > the role of gender in defining the radar operator and other users of > electronic interfaces/screens of the 1950s and 1960s? At first I thought > that these devices and this work were conceived with male users in mind. > Photographs and films of operators of SAGE-type systems mostly depict male > soldiers. However, I?ve run across two popular articles from the mid 50s > that seem to show women-identifying users working as radar operators. I > wonder if they?re typical, if they reflect a broader diversity of > ?operators? of the emerging electronic interfaces of the period: > > > > https://books.google.se/books?id=oN0DAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA112&lpg= > PA112&dq=volscan+radar&source=bl&ots=VCDYA-8THX&sig= > tTkxbof6EM5YSrARAEIJ-dnWMy4&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiw9cy3m6PaAhXQZpoKHXsmA > z4Q6AEILzAB#v=onepage&q=volscan%20radar&f=false > > > > http://www.rfcafe.com/references/popular-electronics/radar-tames-wild- > blue-yonder-popular-electronics-november-1956.htm > > > > This being a key site where early theories of HCI and ?man-computer > symbiosis? are worked out, I?m trying to figure out what role gender?marked > or unmarked?played in the design of particular kinds of interfaces, > conceptions of certain kind of users. Thanks for any feedback you can offer. > > > > Best, b > > > > -- > > Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan > > Senior Lecturer in the History and Theory of Digital Media > > www.bernardg.com > > > > Department of Digital Humanities > > King's College London > > The Strand Building > > Room S3.08 > > WC2R 2LS > > > > Office: +44 (0)20 7848 4750 > > Cell: +44 (0)75 7713 9098 > > > >

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Postwar radar operators, electronic screens, and gender
by Bernard Geoghegan 05 Apr '18

05 Apr '18

Dear Members, Does anyone happen to have any primary or secondary source references on the role of gender in defining the radar operator and other users of electronic interfaces/screens of the 1950s and 1960s? At first I thought that these devices and this work were conceived with male users in mind. Photographs and films of operators of SAGE-type systems mostly depict male soldiers. However, I’ve run across two popular articles from the mid 50s that seem to show women-identifying users working as radar operators. I wonder if they’re typical, if they reflect a broader diversity of “operators” of the emerging electronic interfaces of the period: https://books.google.se/books?id=oN0DAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA112&lpg=PA112&dq=volscan… http://www.rfcafe.com/references/popular-electronics/radar-tames-wild-blue-… This being a key site where early theories of HCI and “man-computer symbiosis” are worked out, I’m trying to figure out what role gender—marked or unmarked—played in the design of particular kinds of interfaces, conceptions of certain kind of users. Thanks for any feedback you can offer. Best, b -- Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan Senior Lecturer in the History and Theory of Digital Media www.bernardg.com Department of Digital Humanities King's College London The Strand Building Room S3.08 WC2R 2LS Office: +44 (0)20 7848 4750 Cell: +44 (0)75 7713 9098

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Fwd: Repeated Call for Proposals for SHOT Annual Meeting 2018
by Andrew Russell 03 Apr '18

03 Apr '18

Dear colleagues - Please see below for a message from SHOT, which is extending the submission deadline for the 2018 annual meeting until April 10. I know of a couple of SIGCIS-related sessions that already have been submitted; but if you have been sitting on the fence, or discouraged because you missed the March 31 deadline - now is your chance! I want to draw your attention to 3 different ways to participate: 1. If you have an idea for a panel, and want to sound out interest, feel free to send a note to the list! 2. If you’d like assistance identifying scholars who could be fellow panelists, chairs, or commentators, I would be happy to assist, just send me a note. 3. Finally, please note SHOT’s calls for open panel submissions (for a list of panels see https://www.historyoftechnology.org/annual-meeting/2018-shot-annual-meeting…) as well as SHOT’s interest in unconventional sessions (roundtables, “you write, I present,” and more). Over the years we’ve seen a marked increase in SIGCIS members and topics on the main SHOT program, and I hope that continues in St. Louis. Finally: as usual, we will be holding a Sunday SIGCIS conference immediately following the SHOT conference, on Sunday October 14. The conference theme and call for papers will be issued within a few weeks - stay tuned! All the best, Andy > Begin forwarded message: > > From: Society for the History of Technology <shot.secretariaat(a)tue.nl> > Subject: Repeted Call for Proposals for SHOT Annual Meeting 2018 > Date: April 3, 2018 at 4:38:58 PM EDT > To: arussell(a)arussell.org > Reply-To: shot.secretariaat(a)tue.nl > > > > > > > > > EXTENDED DEADLINE > Call for Proposals > Annual Meeting 2018: St. Louis, Missouri, US > 11-14 October 2018 > > > April 3, 2018 > > Dear SHOT Members, > > I have just heard from the Program Committee that we have a considerably lower number of proposals than usual in all categories for the annual meeting in St Louis this year. > > Of course, for many reasons, Philadelphia was especially popular. All the same the annual meeting remains the main venue where we can meet as a community. In addition this is SHOT's 60th anniversary and it would be sad not to celebrate it with a bang. > > I remind you too that next year we meet in Milan, Italy, a wonderful venue but probably rather less accessible than a local site for those graduate students, and even some more senior scholars, who are based in the U.S. > > So do please submit a proposal to SHOT St Louis this year if you have not already done so. The deadline for submissions has been extended to April 10 to enable as many people as possible to tax the energies of the Program Committee to the full! > > Sincerely yours, > > John Krige, President 2017-8 > Visit the conference page on the SHOT website and submit a proposal <https://www.historyoftechnology.org/annual-meeting/2018-shot-annual-meeting…> > > > > > > > Call for Proposals > Annual Meeting 2018: St. Louis, Missouri, US > 11-14 October 2018 > > > The SHOT Program Committee is pleased to issue the Call for Papers and Sessions for the SHOT 2018 Annual Meeting to be held 11-14 October, 2018 in St. Louis, Missouri, US. > > SHOT is an interdisciplinary and international organization concerned not only with the history of technological devices and processes but also with technology in history and society. We explore the production, circulation, appropriation, maintenance and abandonment of technology under specific historical circumstances. And we scrutinize the epistemic, economic, social, cultural and political conditions of this development. Our approaches are informed by a broad concept of technology encompassing knowledge resources, practices, artifacts and biofacts (artifacts in the realm of the living). Accordingly, the Committee invites paper and session proposals on any topic in a broadly defined history of technology, including topics that push the boundaries of the discipline. > > SHOT is committed to a policy of diversity. In addition to intellectual quality, we warmly welcome proposals that reflect diversity in their line-up of speakers, in particular with regard to career level, gender, and geography. The Program Committee will prioritize proposals that make a conscious effort to increase diversity by fulfilling these criteria: for example, proposals that include at least one female speaker, and speakers at different stages of their professional careers, with different institutional affiliations and/or different nationalities. > > To pay tribute to the venue of the 2018 annual meeting -St. Louis, the Gateway to the West- we want to encourage proposals that engage topics related to a broadly-interpreted theme of "Gateways: Passages, Openings, and Enclosures in the History of Technology." > > St. Louis is uniquely situated in the United States, both geographically and historically. Known as "the Gateway to the West," St. Louis played key roles in the Louisiana Purchase and westward expansion. St. Louis remained a major transport and manufacturing center, where a rich agricultural hinterland, transformed by modern monoculture, connects with transportation links from river to road, rail, and air. This multi-dimensional story makes St. Louis a natural focus for scholarly analysis of the many ways technology impacts, and is impacted by, place, space, and culture. The pre-industrial, industrial, and postindustrial history of the region, from Native American Cahokia mounds to the African-American experience in suburban Ferguson, also suggests topics further analyzing technology, power, and democracy, race, gender, and ethnicity. > > > For the 2018 meeting > the Program Committee welcomes proposals of three types: > > Traditional sessions of 3 or 4 papers, with a chair and a commentator. EXTENDED DEADLINE: April 10, 2018. > Unconventional sessions: Sessions with formats that diverge in useful ways from the typical 3 or 4 papers with comment. These might include round-table sessions, workshop-style sessions with pre-circulated papers, and poster sessions (poster proposals should include a description of the content and the visual material they will use in the poster. Individuals whose posters are accepted must be available to talk about them in a lunch/evening slot to be decided by the program committee). > The Program Committee encourages other creative formats that could facilitate communication, dialogue and audience involvement. A variety of new presentation formats are appearing in the academic arena. This year we want to explore a new type of session at SHOT: "you write, I present."Authors will submit a paper to the discussant in advance as usual, but it will be the paired discussant who presents for the author and comments on the paper, with authors on-site to respond to comments, take questions from the audience, and join overall discussions. This "flipped" presentation format is intended to facilitate clear paper writing and deep engagement between writer and reader. In this type of panel, one paper is usually paired with one presenter/discussant, or alternatively, the paper-givers can present and comment on one another's papers in the same panel. EXTENDED DEADLINE: April 10, 2018. > > Join an open session proposal: Open Sessions descriptions, along with organizer's contact information, are listed on the SHOT website. Individual scholars who want to join a proposed panel from the Open Sessions list, please contact the organizer for that panel, not the Program Committee. In order to give the session organizer sufficient time to select proposals and assemble the final panel, the deadline for submitting your paper proposal to the organizer is April 8, 2018. Open Session organizers will then assemble full panel sessions and submit them to SHOT by the EXTENDED DEADLINE of April 10, 2018. > > Proposals for individual papers: Proposals for individual papers will be considered, but the Program Committee in general will give preference to pre-organized sessions (traditional, unconventional, or open sessions). Those scholars who might ordinarily propose an individual paper are encouraged to propose Open Sessions themselves or to join an Open Session. EXTENDED DEADLINE April 10, 2018. > ***Please note: All pre-organized panels should include a chair and discussant(s) in their final proposal. > > > SHOT and The Program Committee look forward to a vigorous, enthusiastic, and intellectually stimulating annual meeting in St. Louis! > > > Visit the conference page on the SHOT website and submit a proposal. <http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001jlpLzVkcSgxkan95TF96VZ967rWagRR38OSppCls9b0p…> > > > > Sincerely, > > Sonja Beekers > > Stichting History der Techniek > Assistant to SHOT Secretary, J. 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Mahoney Prize Nominations - Due: April 30
by Jason Gallo 03 Apr '18

03 Apr '18

The Mahoney Prize recognizes an outstanding article in the history of computing and information technology, broadly conceived. The Mahoney Prize commemorates the late Princeton scholar Michael S. Mahoney, whose profound contributions to the history of computing came from his many articles and book chapters. The prize consists of a $500 award and a certificate. For the 2018 prize, articles published in the preceding three years (2015, 2016, and 2017) are eligible for nomination. The Mahoney Prize is awarded by the Special Interest Group in Computers, Information, and Society (SIGCIS) and is presented during the annual meeting of our parent group, the Society for the History of Technology. The deadline for submission for the 2018 Mahoney Prize is *April 30, 2018*. To nominate an article, send an electronic copy to all three committee members using the email address below. All questions should be directed to the 2018 Mahoney Prize Committee Chair, Dr. Melanie Swalwell <melanie.swalwell(a)flinders.edu.au>. *2018 Mahoney Prize Committee:* *Jeffrey R. Yost* (term ends 2018) Charles Babbage Institute University of Minnesota 211 Andersen Library 222 21st Avenue South Minneapolis, MN 55455 USA yostx003(a)umn.edu *Melanie Swalwell, 2018 Committee Chair* (term ends 2019) Screen and Media Flinders University GPO Box 2100 Adelaide SA 5001 Australia melanie.swalwell(a)flinders.edu.au *Erica Robles-Anderson* (term ends 2020) Department of Media, Culture, and Communication New York University 239 Greene St, 8th Floor New York, NY 10003 erica.robles(a)nyu.edu

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Computer History Museum Prize Nominations - Due: April 30
by Jason Gallo 03 Apr '18

03 Apr '18

The Computer History Museum Prize is awarded to the author of an outstanding book in the history of computing broadly conceived, published during the prior three years. The prize of $1,000 is awarded by SIGCIS, the Special Interest Group for Computers, Information and Society. SIGCIS is part of the Society for the History of Technology. In 2012 the prize was endowed in perpetuity through a generous bequest from the estate of Paul Baran, a legendary computer innovator and entrepreneur best known for his work to develop and promote the packet switching approach on which modern networks are built. Baran was a longtime supporter of work on the history of information technology and named the prize to celebrate the contributions of the Computer History Museum to that field. *2018 Call for Submission* Books published in 2015-2017 are eligible for the 2018 award. Books in translation are eligible for three years following the date of their publication in English. Publishers, authors, and other interested members of the computer history community are invited to nominate books. Please note that books nominated in previous years may be nominated again, provided they have been published in the timeframes specified above. Send one copy of the nominated title to each of the committee members listed below, with a postmark no later than *April 30, 2018.* For more information, please contact Andrew Russell <arussell(a)arussell.org>, SIGCIS Chair. Current information about the prize, including the most recent call and a list of previous winners, always may be found at http://www.sigcis.org/chmprize. *2018 Prize Committee Members* - Hallam Stevens (2018 Chair) School of Humanities, Nanyang Technological University 14 Nanyang Drive #05-07 Singapore 637332 - Janet Abbate Dept. of Science, Technology and Society Virginia Tech Northern Virginia Center 7054 Haycock Road Falls Church, VA 22043 USA - Rebecca Slayton Department of Science & Technology Studies Morrill 320 Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 USA

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Facebook Live tomorrow (Wednesday)
by Ceruzzi, Paul 30 Mar '18

30 Mar '18

Greetings: I believe that one is allowed to do a modest amount of self-promotion on this Listserv. If so, I will let you know that tomorrow, Wednesday, at 12:30 PM ET (1630 GMT) I will be doing a "Facebook Live" presentation on the work of Margaret Hamilton, one of the programmers of the Apollo Guidance Computer, and now a Lego Action Figure. You've probably all seen that famous photo of her standing next to a pile of computer print-out. We collected some of the binders 25 years ago, and I hope to explain a little about what's printed on those pages. The material is now at our Archives in Chantilly, Virginia. https://airandspace.si.edu/collection-objects/apollo-flight-guidance-comput…. I am not Facebook-savvy, but I assume you go to the "National Air and Space Museum Smithsonian Institution" page at 12:30 tomorrow, and it should come up. You will also see that on Saturday we are having an event to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the screening of "2001, a Space Odyssey." I hope to have some posts to Facebook or the NASM blog about HAL, my favorite computer. I am aware that the timing for this is not the best, but we scheduled this months ago, long before the recent Facebook mess happened. The irony is that Tom & I had a discussion about Facebook not long ago, where I predicted that something like this was going to happen (did I get that right Tom?) My feelings about Facebook & Twitter will have to wait for a separate post. Paul Ceruzzi

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Fwd: Call for Papers: SHOT 2018 Graduate Student Workshop
by Colin K Garvey 29 Mar '18

29 Mar '18

Hi all — would appreciate it if you could forward this one widely throughout your networks… Thanks! > Begin forwarded message: > > From: Society for the History of Technology <shot.secretariaat(a)tue.nl> > Subject: Call for Papers: SHOT 2018 Graduate Student Workshop > Date: March 28, 2018 at 05:53:16 EDT > To: garvec(a)rpi.edu > Reply-To: shot.secretariaat(a)tue.nl > > > > > > > > > Call for Papers: > SHOT 2018 Graduate Student Workshop > Annual Meeting 2018: St. Louis, Missouri, US > 11-14 October 2018 > > > SHOT is pleased to issue the Call for Papers for the Graduate Student Workshop at the SHOT 2018 Annual Meeting to be held 11-14 October, 2018 in St. Louis, Missouri, US. > > SHOT invites applications from graduate students to present short papers: > (up to 10 pages, 1.5-spaced) at an intensive workshop embedded in the formal SHOT conference. The workshop will provide graduate students with an opportunity to develop their presentation skills and to receive extensive feedback on their work from several established scholars. > > This is an excellent chance to become familiar with SHOT's scholarly community before presenting a first official paper at a later SHOT conference as a candidate for the Robinson Prize. <http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001ggZ23Fw1u6Oit9rcPNeUnYggwr74mmwxqRP-v2-BKQsY…> While the Grad Student Workshop will be listed on the SHOT conference program, the specifics of participants' presentations will not. This is done to ensure the Workshop is a safe space for graduate students to confidently present their work. Accepted students will nevertheless be eligible to apply for travel funding. > > The workshop will be on a morning or afternoon session during the annual meeting, which runs October 11-14. Each graduate student will present her or his paper, with or without slides, and be invited to comment on other papers as appropriate. The workshop will be mediated by Colin Garvey (RPI) and several other scholars. > > Proposal Format: One page in total, comprising name, contact, affiliation, paper title, and an abstract of up to 300 words. > > Submission Instructions: Submit proposals to this form <http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001ggZ23Fw1u6Oit9rcPNeUnYggwr74mmwxqRP-v2-BKQsY…>, and email them to Colin Garvey at garvec(a)rpi.edu <mailto:garvec@rpi.edu> with "Graduate Student Workshop" in the subject line. > > ***The deadline for proposals is April 27th, 2018 *** > > While we will try to accommodate all submissions, space and time are limited. > > > SHOT and The Graduate Student Committee look forward to a vigorous, enthusiastic, and intellectually stimulating annual meeting in St. Louis! > > Sincerely, > > Sonja Beekers > > Stichting History der Techniek > Assistant to SHOT Secretary, J. Korsten > > > > Society for the History of Technology, Sonja Beekers, SHOT, Eindhoven, 5600 MB Netherlands > SafeUnsubscribe™ garvec(a)rpi.edu <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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