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Wes Clark obit in NY Times
by Dave Walden 28 Feb '16

28 Feb '16

The obit, written by the NYT computer columnist John Markoff, is on line at http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/28/business/wesley-a-clark-made-computing-pe… . Presumably it is also in the print edition of the paper.

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“Please Read the Article”? Please Cite Women Academics.
by Meryl Alper 25 Feb '16

25 Feb '16

Hi all, Over the weekend, journalist Fred Kaplan published an article in the New York Times, entitled "'WarGames' and Cybersecurity's Debt to a Hollywood Hack" ( http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/21/movies/wargames-and-cybersecuritys-debt-t…) The core argument -- that WarGames culturally influenced the Reagan administration's cyberpolicy -- sounded a great deal like communication scholar Stephanie Ricker Schulte's work. When I brought this reference to Kaplan's attention on Twitter, he was super dismissive and minced my words. So, naturally, I wrote a blog post about the incident, situating it within a broader trend of tech journalists (mostly men) minimizing the work of academics (mostly women), and capitalizing on this sin of omission in promoting their own books and other works: https://merylalper.com/2016/02/22/please-read-the-article-please-cite-women… I'm really interested to know the thoughts of this community, both as one that knows the history of cyber law/policy inside and out, but one with many members committed to egalitarian principles. Best, Meryl -- *Meryl Alper* Assistant Professor Department of Communication Studies Northeastern University Holmes 217 m.alper(a)neu.edu merylalper.com

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CHM News - New Blog on Supercondutivity-based Computing
by Dag Spicer 25 Feb '16

25 Feb '16

This great capsule history of superconductor-based computing was just published in IEEE Spectrum by CHM's Director for Software History David Brock. http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/hardware/will-the-nsa-finally-build-its-… Enjoy! 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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Wes Clark obituary by Evan Koblentz
by Dave Walden 25 Feb '16

25 Feb '16

See http://www.techrepublic.com/article/wesley-a-clark-legendary-computer-engin… -- 12 Linden Road, East Sandwich, 02537 landline=508-888-7655; cell=774-205-3203 website=walden-family.com

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CHM Archives Update - Community Memory Archive now open to researchers
by Dag Spicer 24 Feb '16

24 Feb '16

Anyone studying the origins and development of online communities and social networking may find our collection of the Community Memory Archives to be of interest. Now that processing is complete, the collection is now open to researchers! Archivist Bo Doub describes the Community Memory project and archive in this week’s blog: http://www.computerhistory.org/atchm/community-memory-precedents-in-social-… 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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ENIAC in Action
by Dag Spicer 23 Feb '16

23 Feb '16

Just fyi: When you order EIA from Amazon, it quotes a long (4+ week) delivery time. However my experience with several separate orders indicates that it will actually arrive in only 3 days. Best, Dag

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Wes Clark, RIP
by Dave Walden 23 Feb '16

23 Feb '16

I have heard this evening that Wes Clark (TX-2, etc.) died this morning.

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Sean Lennon, Steve Jobs, and an Apple ][e, photographed by Andy Warhol
by Joly MacFie 23 Feb '16

23 Feb '16

yep https://www.facebook.com/seanlennon/photos/a.10151257927369431.485138.54386… -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Joly MacFie 218 565 9365 Skype:punkcast -------------------------------------------------------------- -

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a few mechanical notes on doing interviewing via Skype
by Dave Walden 22 Feb '16

22 Feb '16

Hi, There is a note, hopefully self explanatory, on this topic at http://history.computer.org/pubs/2016-02-walden-skype-interviews.pdf While most of this short note may be old hat to many history researchers, my note may be of interest to a few people. It also can't hurt to remind you again that the following exists: http://history.computer.org/ Dave

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the digital sublime
by Luke Fernandez 20 Feb '16

20 Feb '16

Can anybody on this list recommend some articles or books about the digital sublime? In _The Technological Sublime_ David Nye documents how Americans have had sublime and "essentially religious" reactions to technology since their confrontation with the railroad. However, Nye's book doesn't trace the American encounter with computers. Moreover, the history ends in 1993 so one is left wondering whether the sublime is a category of experience that can be used to describe how 21st century Americans react to digitalized spaces. Are our aesthetic and emotional reactions to computers similar to the sublime reactions that Nye claims we've had when we've looked at dams, bridges, and the Apollo space mission? Or are our reactions to these technologies so different that they resist conflation with digital ones? In Vincent Mosco's _The Digital Sublime_ there's a pretty good attempt to apply Nye's framework to cyberspace. But this book which was published in 2005 in now itself ten years old and predates much that might be said about, say, the mobile revolution or Web 2.0. Hence my query. Sincerely, Luke http://lfernandez.x10host.com/me2/index.html

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