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TOC: Spontaneous Generations, vol. 8 (2016): Science and Technology Studies and Social Inequality
by HAPSAT 20 Jun '16

20 Jun '16

Volume 8 of *Spontaneous Generations: A Journal for the History and Philosophy of Science,* has been published. The Editorial Board is pleased to announce the publication of the Journal's eighth issue, which features a Focused Discussion section devoted to the theme "Science and Technology Studies and Social Inequality." The journal is available via our website: http://spontaneousgenerations.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/SpontaneousGene… *TABLE OF CONTENTS* *FOCUSED DISCUSSION* STS and Social Inequality: Editor's ‎Introduction Christine V. Wood, Simon N. Williams ‎ Studying Science and Social Inequalities: Resurgences and ‎Divergences Steven Epstein ‎ ‎ ‎ Colorblind Science?: Perceptions of the Importance of Racial Diversity in Science ‎Research Kellie Owens ‎ ‎ ‎ Technology and Social ‎Inequality Caroll Pursell ‎ ‎ ‎ *ARTICLES* “What They Think of the Causes of So Much Suffering”: S. Weir Mitchell, John Kearsley ‎Mitchell, and Ideas about Phantom Limb Pain in Late 19th c. America Daniel Goldberg ‎ Maxwellian Electrodynamics Genesis and Development: Intertheoretic ‎Context Rinat Magdievich Nugayev ‎ *REVIEWS* Review: Nikolas Rose and Joelle Abi-Rached, Neuro: The New Brain Sciences and the ‎Management of the Mind Riiko Bedford ‎ Review: Thomas R. Dunlap, In the Field, Among the ‎Feathered Melissa Charenko ‎ ‎ ‎ Review: Cass R. Sunstein. Conspiracy Theories and Other Dangerous Ideas. Simon & ‎Schuster, 2014.‎ Ori Freiman ‎ A. Douglas Stone. Einstein and the Quantum: The Quest of the Valiant Swabian. ‎Princeton University Press, 2013.‎ Matthew Saul Leifer ‎ Roberts, Dorothy. 2011. Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-Create ‎Race in the Twenty-First Century. New York: The New Press.‎ Alka Vaid Menon ‎ Review of Peoples' Science: Bodies and Rights on the Stem Cell ‎Frontier Joan H. Robinson ‎ Review: Cold War Social ‎Science Mike Thicke ‎

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future research for someone
by Jonathan Coopersmith 14 Jun '16

14 Jun '16

yet another roadbump on the way to the internet of things or a demonstration of creativity and uncovering yet another vulnerable service? https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/06/06/somebody-keep… Jonathan Coopersmith Professor Department of History Texas A&M University College Station, TX 77843-4236 979.845.7151 979.862.4314 (fax) http://historynewsnetwork.org/blog/author/42 : latest post on Osama bin Laden and NASA is http://historynewsnetwork.org/blog/153671 * 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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Antikythera, revisited
by Evan Koblentz 14 Jun '16

14 Jun '16

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2016/06/14/the-w… I still say it's not a computer.

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CHM Update - New Oral History (Andreas Bechtolsheim)
by Dag Spicer 08 Jun '16

08 Jun '16

Just fyi, we just released this today… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjR7sRASjdo&feature=em-uploademail Best wishes, Dag -- Dag Spicer Senior Curator Computer History Museum Editorial Board, IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 1401 North Shoreline Boulevard Mountain View, CA 94043-1311 Tel: +1 650 810 1035 Fax: +1 650 810 1055

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Fwd: Colossus veterans see the making and breaking of Lorenz
by Brian Randell 06 Jun '16

06 Jun '16

Hi: Here is the press release describing the very pleasant event I attended last week at TNMOC, Bletchley Park. Cheers Brian Randell Begin forwarded message: From: Stephen Fleming <stephen.fleming(a)palam.co.uk<mailto:stephen.fleming@palam.co.uk>> Subject: Colossus veterans see the making and breaking of Lorenz Date: 6 June 2016 09:44:11 BST To: <brian.randell(a)ncl.ac.uk<mailto:brian.randell@ncl.ac.uk>> Reply-To: <stephen.fleming(a)palam.co.uk<mailto:stephen.fleming@palam.co.uk>> NEWS RELEASE The Breaking of Lorenz Colossus veterans see the whole process at The National Museum of Computing 6 June 2016 For the first time ever, all the equipment used in making and breaking Lorenz, Hitler’s most secret cipher, was demonstrated with re-enactors to an audience including Colossus Wrens at The National Museum of Computing (TNMOC) on 3 June 2016. Full story and photos here: http://www.tnmoc.org/news/news-releases/veterans-see-lorenz-end-ends With BBC News coverage here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-36446422 ITV coverage here (video at end): http://www.itv.com/news/anglia/2016-06-03/from-berlin-to-bletchley-home-of-… And Getty Images: http://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/operations-director-at-the-n… -- School of Computing Science, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU, UK EMAIL = Brian.Randell(a)ncl.ac.uk<mailto:Brian.Randell@ncl.ac.uk> PHONE = +44 191 208 7923 FAX = +44 191 208 8232 URL = http://www.cs.ncl.ac.uk/people/brian.randell

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One of the first books about Chinese women scientists in the U.S.: Chinese Dreams? American Dreams?
by Diane Gu 04 Jun '16

04 Jun '16

Chinese Dreams? American Dreams? The Lives of Chinese Women Scientists and Engineers in the United States By Diane Yu Gu Foreword by Sharon Traweek Abstract: Immigrant Chinese women scientists and engineers who study and work in the United States constitute a rapidly growing yet understudied group. These women's lived experiences and reflections can tell us a great deal about the current state of immigrant women scientists in the United States, how universities can help these women succeed, and about China's emergence as a global scientific and technological superpower. Chinese Dreams? American Dreams? is the first ethnographic study to document migrating Chinese-born women scientists' and engineers' educational experiences and careers in the U.S. It historically situates these women in current political, economic, and cultural contexts and examines the successful strategies they employ to survive discrimination, advance careers, establish networks, and promote transnational research collaborations during their educational and career journeys in the U.S. This study makes a valuable text for students, researchers, and policy makers in higher education, women's studies, science and engineering studies, as well as for faculty who teach future scientists and engineers. It also introduces new multicultural, intersectional, and feminist perspectives on these crucial issues of gender, ethnicity, nationality, and class, as they impact women's professional lives. Table of Contents: see attached Purchase on Amazon Publisher: Sense Publishers, May 2016 Click here for preview Click here for book website Request a desk copy: course-exam(a)sensepublishers.com About the Author: www.dianeyugu.com Diane Gu, Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles Author of Book "Chinese Dreams? American Dreams? The Lives of Chinese Women Scientists and Engineers in the U.S." www.dianeyugu.com

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Shiva's New Tag Team Partner
by Salem Elzway 03 Jun '16

03 Jun '16

Greetings everyone! Since the "Shiva Saga" seems to be our version of a "who is the father" soap opera, I thought this twist in the theater of absurdity is particularly interesting: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-06-03/the-other-tech-figure-who… Shiva tag teams with Hulk Hogan and Peter Thiel [Vince McMahon?] to Leg Drop Gawker off the top ropes? Too juicy! What a great start to the weekend! Salem -- *Salem Elzway* PhD Student Department of History University of Michigan (402)730-4775 salem.elzway(a)gmail.com

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New journal of interest — Internet Histories: Digital Technology, Culture and Society
by Paul N. Edwards 31 May '16

31 May '16

This new Taylor & Francis journal <http://explore.tandfonline.com/page/ah/internet-histories> is edited by Niels Brügger (Managing Editor), Gerard Goggin, Valérie Schafer, Megan Ankerson, and Ian Milligan (Review Editor). I’m on the editorial board; I expect that some of you are too, or soon will be. First issue in 2017 — consider a submission! The journal is casting a broad net: Contributions might include but not be limited to: • History of the internet and the web • Web histories • History of networks • Alternative, marginal, or subcultural histories • Feminist, queer, and disability histories • Local and regional internet histories • Gender and race studies of digital cultures • Histories of digital recording, production, distribution, file formats and sharing • Internet and digital music and sound histories • Infrastructure studies • National paths to digitalization • Telecommunications and computing convergence • History of code, protocols, services, interfaces, graphical representation and interactivity • History of online communities • History of digital uses, users and cultures • Internet governance, regulation and policy history • Historical cross-media studies • Pedagogy and teaching of internet histories • Methodological approaches to study digital and network histories • Histories of internet policy, law, and regulation Best, Paul ————————————————— Paul N. Edwards, Professor of Information <http://www.si.umich.edu/> and History <http://www.lsa.umich.edu/history/> Terse replies are deliberate <http://five.sentenc.es/>. Here's why! <http://emailcharter.org/> University of Michigan School of Information <http://www.si.umich.edu/> 4437 North Quad 105 S. State Street Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1285 Twitter: @AVastMachine <https://twitter.com/avastmachine> Web: pne.people.si.umich.edu <http://pne.people.si.umich.edu/>

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Workshop at Siegen U. "Beyond ENIAC: Early Digital Platforms & Practices" June 9-11.
by Thomas Haigh 31 May '16

31 May '16

Hello SIGCIS, Those of you in proximity to Northern Germany might be interested in an event Ive organized for Siegen University the weekend after next. It will be a cozy little workshop intended to reexamine the early history of electronic computing from new perspectives, and to explore the potential of this history to contribute to media studies and computer science. It also marks the start of my association with Siegen University, where Im supposed to be a visiting professor part time for the next few years in conjunction with its research training group Locating Media, its research center Media of Cooperation, and its new iSchool (a joint venture between computer science and media studies). Over the next few years I should be organizing events, contributing to research, and helping to integrate the history of information technology into the curriculum for the iSchool degrees. Details on the workshop are at www.tomandmaria.com/tom/Workshop16 <http://www.tomandmaria.com/tom/Workshop16> . Im also pasting the current program below. If you are interested in coming then let me know. As far as I know there is no registration fee, though you would have to pay for meals and accommodation if needed. Best wishes, Tom Title: Beyond ENIAC: Early Digital Platforms & Practices Dates: June 10-12, 2016 Location: Ludwig Wittgenstein House, Unteres Schloß 3, 57072 Siegen, Germany <https://www.google.de/maps/place/Ludwig+Wittgenstein+Haus,+Campus+Unteres+S chloss,+Universit%C3%A4t+Siegen,+Unteres+Schlo%C3%9F+3,+57072+Siegen/(a)50.873 4858,8.0196467,16z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x47bc1c921a7894a3:0xd8fc3f688116cc03> (map link) . Organizer: Thomas Haigh ( <mailto:thomas.haigh@gmail.com> thomas.haigh(a)gmail.com) Sponsor: Collaborative research center "Media of Cooperation" of <http://www.uni-siegen.de/start/index.html.en?lang=en> Siegen University. The publication of <http://www.eniacinaction.com/> ENIAC In Action: Making and Remaking the Modern Computer (Haigh, Priestley & Rope, 2016) provides an opportunity to showcase new work on the history of computing and explore the place such work within media studies and computer science, the two key components of Siegen Universitys new <http://ischool.uni-siegen.de/home/> School of Media and Information. During the workshop many of Europes leading scholars of computing history will present their latest research to each other and participate in a series of roundtable discussions structured to provide lively interdisciplinary engagement. Early work on the history of computing was carried out by computers scientists and pioneers. It focused on technical analysis of the computers of the 1940s and 50s. As the history of computing has matured as a scholarly field its focus has shifted to social and cultural analysis and to later time periods. The shift reduced computer scientist Donald Knuth to tears, shed because <http://www.tomandmaria.com/Tom/Writing/CACMKnuthTears.pdf> history was being dumbed down." Now a new generation of scholars is returning to explore the world of early digital platforms and practices, combining careful attention to materiality and technical concerns with the broader perspectives of scholarly history. This trend creates new opportunities to situate studies of the early digital within media studies, where scholars recognize that the modern world is mediated by the affordances of digital platforms, and within computer science where more scholars may come to share Knuth's sense that historical knowledge is the foundation of deep technical understanding. Friday June 10 1:00-4:00 Afternoon social event TBA 5:00-7:00 Roundtable discussion: "What does the history of IT have to say to media studies and computer science?" * Liesbeth de Mol, CNRS/STL, Université de Lille * Carolin Gerlitz, University of Amsterdam * Sebastian Gießmann, Siegen University * Thomas Haigh, University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee & Siegen University (Moderator) * Volkmar Pipek, Siegen University * Erhard Schüttpelz, Siegen University * Matti Tedre, Stockholm University 8:00 Dinner: Restaurant Bar (the name of the restaurant, not just a generic description). Löhrstraße 51, 57072 Siegen. <http://www.restaurant-bar.de/> http://www.restaurant-bar.de Saturday June 11 9:00 11:00 ENIAC in Action * Thomas Haigh, University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee & Siegen University: The Lost Labors of ENIAC * Mark Priestley: A History of ENIAC in Three Programs * Discussion 11:30 1:00 Roundtable: Origins of the Operating System * Gerard Alberts, University of Amsterdam * Maarten Bullynck, SPHERE, Paris 8 * Pierre Mounier Kuhn, CNRS & Paris-Sorbonne 1:00 2:30 Lunch, Wirtshaus am Oberen Schlos. Oberes Schloss 1, DE-57072 Siegen. <http://www.wirtshausamschloss.de/> www.wirtshausamschloss.de 2:30 4:30: Works in Progress Session * Liesbeth De Mol, CNRS/STL, Université de Lille, A Small History of Small Machines. * Ksenia Tatarchenko, Geneva University, The Computer Does Not Believe in Tears: Soviet Programming, Professionalization and Gendering of Authority. * Edgar Daylight & G. Primiero, Category Mistakes in Computer Science. * Mark Priestley, "The Origins of Programming Language Styles". 5:00-6:30 Public talk by Campbell-Kelly, University of Warwick, "The Evolution of Programming Practice on the EDSAC: Insights from the National Museum of Computing Replica Project" followed by discussion. 7:00 Dinner, Restaurant Münzwerk.Morleystr. 4, 57072 Siegen. <http://restaurant-muenzwerk.de/> http://restaurant-muenzwerk.de Sunday June 12: 9:00-11:00: Works in Progress Session * Tristan Thielmann, Siegen University, "Appresenting Digits: The ENIAC Display" * Pierre Mounier Kuhn, CNRS & Paris-Sorbonne, "Programming CUBA: The evolution from 'coding' to 'anguage' on the first French computer (1949-1955)" * Thomas Haigh & Mark Priestley, "What Was Colossus, and Why Should We Care?" * Matti Tedre, Stockholm University, title TBA 11:30-1:00: Round table: Computing and the History of Science * Edgar Daylight * Maarten Bullynck, SPHERE, Paris 8 * Ksenia Tatarchenko, Geneva University 1:00 to 2:30: Lunch, Wirtshaus am Oberen Schloss. Oberes Schloss 1, DE-57072 Siegen. <http://www.wirtshausamschloss.de/> www.wirtshausamschloss.de Informal post-lunch discussion of possible follow-up activities for those who can stay longer.

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"Secret German WW2 code machine found on eBay"
by Brian Randell 29 May '16

29 May '16

Hi: >From BBC News: A historic machine used to swap top secret messages between Hitler and his generals has been found languishing in a shed in Essex. Volunteers from The National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park used eBay to track down the keyboard of the Lorenz machine. It was advertised as a telegram machine and was for sale for £9.50. The museum, in Buckinghamshire, is now asking people to search for the motor, another key piece of the equipment. <snip> Full story at http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-36401663 The headline is misleading, but this article on BBC news about the Lorenz cipher machine that The National Museum of Computing has (on long term loan from the Norwegian Armed Forces Museum) and the teleprinter which was used with it, is otherwise good - and well-illustrated. The Lorenz cipher machine is to be formally unveiled at TNMOC on Feb 3, and the whole sequence, from encipherment of messages using the Lorenz, their interception by the Y service, through to code-breaking at Bletchley Park using the Colossus, and then deciphering messages using Tunny (Bletchley Park’s electro-mechanical equivalent of the Lorenz machine), demonstrated. I plan to be there. (The article mentions the museum’s interest in having a replica of the missing motor built - this seems a minor problem compared to building a replica Colossus! :-) Cheers Brian Randell -- School of Computing Science, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU, UK EMAIL = Brian.Randell(a)ncl.ac.uk<mailto:Brian.Randell@ncl.ac.uk> PHONE = +44 191 208 7923 FAX = +44 191 208 8232 URL = http://www.cs.ncl.ac.uk/people/brian.randell

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