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Collection of free IEEE Annals articles for SHOT -- limited time
by Thomas Haigh 17 Nov '11

17 Nov '11

Hello everyone, Sorting my papers from the recent SHOT conference I came across an insert from IEEE Annals of the History of Computing explaining that outgoing editor Jeff Yost had put together a special package of six recent articles to highlight the journal's "high quality content" to the broader history of technology community. They are available for a limited time at http://www.computer.org/portal/web/computingnow/shot-11. Five of the six authors chosen are active SIGCIS members, and three are current or former officers of the SIG. There is also a link for SHOT members to subscribe to Annals at a 25% discount to the regular $47 price for nonmembers: https://newton.computer.org/sssubs.nsf/application?openform&promocode=annals &disc=annals-shot11. If you are at a university your institution probably has online access to Annals via the IEEE Digital Library. However a changing selection of Annals articles is always available free online, with other interesting material at the "Computing Then" part of the IEEE CS website: http://www.computer.org/portal/web/computingthen. Tom

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Fwd: ACM History Committee awards . . . Early February 2012. Deadline
by Thomas J. Misa 17 Nov '11

17 Nov '11

> From: "Thomas J. Misa" <tmisa(a)umn.edu> > Date: November 16, 2011 9:13:18 PM GMT-04:00 > To: sigcis <"SIGCIS special interest group" <members(a)sigcis.org>> > Cc: Thomas Misa <tmisa(a)umn.edu> > Subject: ACM History Committee awards . . . Early February 2012. Deadline > > Dear colleagues, > > Please see the ACM History Committee competition announcement now posted. There are TWO key points --- first, that ACM-HC is keen on funding ACM-related topics. You need to make a case that your research project has a meaningful ACM connection. Many different types of projects have been funded in the past several years. > > Second, for those of you who have received ACM funding, please MAKE CERTAIN to report all meaningful results stemming from it . . . Could be conference papers, dissertation chapters, published chapters and/or journal articles. ACM-HC is quite results-oriented, so your full and prompt reporting of results to Mary Hall, chair of the committee, will do a lot for keeping this source of funding for work in the field. > > Thanks, Tom Misa > > http://history.acm.org/public/public_documents/acm_history_fellowship.php > > The Association for Computing Machinery, founded in 1947, is the oldest and largest educational and scientific society dedicated to the computing profession, and today has 100,000 members around the world. To encourage historical research, the ACM History Committee plans to make two types of awards. Travel grants of $2,500 support smaller projects, while a fellowship grant of $5,000 may support a larger or more demanding project. Projects should focus on ACM activities, including those of members, officers, and prize winners, or ACM's rich institutional history, including consideration of its organization, publications, SIG activities, and conferences. Successful candidates may be of any rank, from graduate students through senior researchers. The current and past winners of the fellowship can be found here. > > An announcement of 2012 call for fellowship proposals can be found here (also as a pdf-format document here). Proposals are due by 3 February 2012. > > Sent from my iPad

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SIGCIS workshop & SHOT photos now on Facebook
by Thomas Haigh 15 Nov '11

15 Nov '11

Hello everyone, We've uploaded around 60 photos from the recent SIGCIS workshop and other SIG events at the SHOT annual meeting to our Facebook page. If you have a Facebook account please "like" our page at http://www.facebook.com/SIGCIS so that you will be able to see our updates and stay in touch. The photos are also available via direct links viewable by anyone: Workshop photos at: http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.233609830036000.59331.1749879958981 84 <http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.233609830036000.59331.174987995898 184&type=3&l=a7c259d0ef> &type=3&l=a7c259d0ef SIGCIS session photos at: http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.233602770036706.59324.1749879958981 84 <http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.233602770036706.59324.174987995898 184&type=3&l=d1a5e85699> &type=3&l=d1a5e85699 SIG Lunch (& Annals) photos at: http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.233592190037764.59322.1749879958981 84 <http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.233592190037764.59322.174987995898 184&type=3&l=df17deab06> &type=3&l=df17deab06 I've tagged a few people in photos, but please pitch in to tag yourself or others you recognize. That helps to raise the SIGCIS profile in the social media world. (You can also untag yourself if you think a photo is embarrassing and don't want it to show up when people search for you - and if there's a photo of you that you really don't like then I can take it down completely). Finally, if you have any good photos you took yourself and would like to add them to the album then email me and I will attempt to give your Facebook account the necessary permissions. Best wishes, Tom

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CHM Prize 2011 Winner: Paul Edwards for A Vast Machine
by Thomas Haigh 10 Nov '11

10 Nov '11

Hello everyone, We will be following up soon with more news from out annual meeting & workshop last weekend. However, I did want to make sure that we make a timely announcement for those who could not be in Cleveland of the winner of our Computer History Museum book prize. This was awarded on Sunday for the third time, during our SIGCIS Workshop (http://www.sigcis.org/workshop11) Heres the announcement from the prize committee: The SHOT SIGCIS/Computer History Museum Prize is awarded this year to Paul N. Edwards' A Vast Machine: Computer Models, Climate Data, and the Politics of Global Warming (The MIT Press, 2010). This book was selected out of a set of more than 15 excellent candidates. Paul Edwards insightful, ambitious and theoretically-sophisticated study addresses hotly debated political issues of our time through a methodical historical analysis. It traces the construction of climate sciences over two centuries, from weather forecasts to highly mathematized simulation models, from local observation to worldwide networks. Epistemological reflections on the relationship between data and models are interwoven with the institutional and political narrative of the development of a global knowledge infrastructure, particularly in the context of the Cold War. Computers and telecommunications then made it possible not only to digitalize more data and process more elaborate models, but also to produce standard representations of the world. We trust that this book, written at a high level of historiographical quality for a wide, non-specialized readership, will find a large audience. Thanks to the 2011 prize committee: Pierre Mounier-Kuhn (Chair) -- CNRS & Université Paris-Sorbonne, Jennifer S. Light -- Northwestern University School of Communication, and Jonathan Coopersmith -- Texas A&M University. Links: Prize website: http://www.sigcis.org/chmprize Paul Edwards website: http://pne.people.si.umich.edu/ A Vast Machine page: http://pne.people.si.umich.edu/vastmachine/index.html At MIT Press: http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2 <http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=12080> &tid=12080 At Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Vast-Machine-Computer-Climate-Politics/dp/0262013924 Background: 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 $1000 is awarded by SIGCIS, the Special Interest Group for Computers, Information and Society. It is established through the generosity of an anonymous donor who wishes to honor the Computer History Museum. SIGCIS is part of the Society for the History of Technology. Previous winners: * 2009: Christophe Lécuyer <http://www.sigcis.org/node/89> , Making Silicon Valley: Innovation and the Growth of High Tech, 1930-1970 (MIT Press, 2006) * 2010: Atsushi Akera <http://www.sigcis.org/node/133> , Calculating a Natural World: Scientists, Engineers, and Computers During the Rise of U.S. Cold War Research (MIT Press, 2007) Congratulations go also to MIT Press, which published the first three books to win the prize. Best wishes, Tom

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CFP: ICA preconference on Historiograpy as Intervention, deadline Nov 15
by Thomas Haigh 10 Nov '11

10 Nov '11

Hello, I received the message below regarding an ICA preconference on "Historiography as Intervention: Communicating Across Geographies, Communities & Divides" from Ben Peters [mailto:bjpeters@gmail.com]. He asks me to tell you that "Inquiries on the pre-conference below should go to Travers Scott, <mailto:dscott3@g.clemson.edu> dscott3(a)g.clemson.edu." As I was reminded at the SIGCIS workshop over the weekend, a significant convergence is taking place between the historical communities concerned with communications history and the history of computing/IT. This is driven in part by the real-world convergence of the technologies from the 1970s onward, but I suspect that we'll also start to see hitherto neglected parallels emerging in studies of earlier eras as well. The push within the "information school" world to define a hybrid field of "information history" is another interesting chance to make new kinds of connections. In another generation or two it may seem odd to people that we ever thought of communications history and computing history as largely distinct. Tom ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Communication History Interest Group <communicationhistory(a)communicationhistory.org> Date: Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 3:35 PM Subject: [commhistlist] Reminder: CFP deadline approaching, ICA preconference To: discussion(a)communicationhistory.org (Mailing list information, including unsubscription instructions, is located at the end of this message.) Reminder: Submissions due Nov. 15 "Historiography as Intervention: Communicating Across Geographies, Communities & Divides" International Communication Association Preconference Sponsored by the Communication History Interest Group: Phoenix, May 24, 2012 [note corrected date] Historiography can engage in contemporary struggles and change the way we see the world and its possibilities. This ICA preconference aims to instigate intersections and encounters that can provoke collaborative interventions with issues facing our discipline, schools, communities, and countries. Proposals should present historiographic methods and/or historic data, theories or subject matter within a framework of social intervention by providing tools, offering insight or communicating information. Work should be from or of interest to historians and communication scholars. Innovative proposals for transdisciplinary, multimodal or media-based presentations (e.g., interactive digital archives, documentary screenings, database tours) are highly encouraged. Send abstracts of 300 words by November 15, 2011 to D. Travers Scott, dscott3(a)g.clemson.edu. Authors will be informed of decisions by December 15, 2011. Papers due May 1, 2012. Preconference will be at the conference hotel, the Phoenix Sheraton Downtown. Sponsored by the International Communication Association's Communication History Interest Group. Organized by D. Travers Scott, Clemson University, with Devon Powers, Drexel University. The following information is a reminder of your current mailing list subscription: You are subscribed to the following list: Communication History Discussion List using the following email: bjpeters(a)gmail.com You may automatically unsubscribe from this list at any time by visiting the following URL: http://www.communicationhistory.org/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi/u/commhistlist/ <http://www.communicationhistory.org/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi/u/%5Blist%5D/> If the above URL is inoperable, make sure that you have copied the entire address. Some mail readers will wrap a long URL and thus break this automatic unsubscribe mechanism. You may also change your subscription by visiting this list's main screen: http://www.communicationhistory.org/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi/list/commhistlist <http://www.communicationhistory.org/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi/list/commhistlist > If you're still having trouble, please contact the list owner at: communicationhistory(a)communicationhistory.org <mailto:communicationhistory@communicationhistory.org> The following physical address is associated with this mailing list: David Park Gustav E. Beerly Assistant Professor Department of Communication Lake Forest College 555 N. Sheridan Road Lake Forest, IL 60045-2399 Mailing List Powered by Dada Mail <http://www.communicationhistory.org/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi/what_is_dada_mail />

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Steve Jobs, The Lost Interview
by Hansen Hsu 10 Nov '11

10 Nov '11

Apparently the rest of an interview that Jobs did with Bob Cringely for his problematic 1995 documentary, "Triumph of the Nerds," has turned up and will be shown in entirety in selected theaters in limited engagement. I don't know what new information it will reveal, but it may be interesting to see nonetheless. http://www.stevejobsthelostinterview.com/

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slides from FastLane talk
by Thomas J. Misa 07 Nov '11

07 Nov '11

Thanks to all --- esp. Tom and Marie --- for the wonderful SIGCIS workshop yesterday. Several people asked me about slides from my talk, so I've posted them here. http://www.tc.umn.edu/~tmisa/papers/2011_SHOT_SIGCIS.pdf Best, Tom

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MIT Press: Platform Studies Series
by Thomas Haigh 04 Nov '11

04 Nov '11

Hello everyone, Below is a message relayed from Ian Bogost regarding the new MIT Press platform studies series. I like his book on the VCS a lot, and thanks to MIT Press one lucky bidder will be walking away with a copy at our auction tomorrow. (We'll also be auctioning his Persuasive Games and some related titles such as Code/Play and The Machinima Reader). In general it would be great to get the history of computing community more involved with the various new movements emerging such as "platform studies," "software studies," "critical code studies," "demoscene studies," etc. As historians we've rather under conceptualized software and haven't done much to probe it as a new and interesting kind of artifact. Likewise a historical perspective could strengthen these other fields. Tom > I'm hoping to make the SIGCIS community aware of a book series I co-edit at the MIT Press called Platform Studies, which invites books that investigate the relationships between the hardware and software design of computing systems and the creative or cultural works produced with those systems. I co-authored the first book in the series on the Atari VCS, and we have books out next year on the Amiga and the Wii. We're actively seeking new books and I have a suspicion that some of the SIGCIS folks might have projects that would be appropriate, as we're particularly interested in historical topics. Here are a couple links: > > http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/browse/browse.asp?btype=6 <http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/browse/browse.asp?btype=6&serid=172> &serid=172 > http://platformstudies.com > > Ian > > Ian Bogost, Ph.D. > Professor > Director, Graduate Program in Digital Media > > Georgia Institute of Technology > Digital Media/TSRB 320B > 85 Fifth Street NW > Atlanta, GA 30308-1030 > > ibogost(a)gatech.edu > +1 (404) 894-1160 (tel) > +1 (404) 894-2833 (fax)

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2010: SIGCIS's Year in Review
by Thomas Haigh 03 Nov '11

03 Nov '11

Dear SIGCIS members, I hope this end of year message finds you all well and in a relaxed holiday mood. SIGCIS has had another good year, reaching new heights on every measurable aspect of our activities. The number of members reached a new high (over 250), the number and quality of contributions to the email list was greater than ever before, we raised more money at our annual lunch with our book auctions and small than ever before ($1,486) and gave out more travel grants (www.sigcis.org/travelaward) to participants than ever before ($2,400). Our second annual workshop received more submissions than the first, and more people attended. The Mahoney Fund (www.sigcis.org/mahoney) holds its highest balance to date (over $8,000) after its best year of donations so far (at least $2,850). So does our operating account (around $3,500). For the most part, then, it was a year of consolidation and incremental growth. If something can be done annually for several years then it becomes a tradition, and perhaps the most crucial stumbling block is doing something twice. SIGCIS made the second Computer History Museum award (http://www.sigcis.org/chmprize) to Atsushi Akera for his book Computing a Natural World. The second SIGCIS Workshop, http://www.sigcis.org/workshop10, was a great success. See the full report at http://www.sigcis.org/node/13. We are already planning for next year's. SHOT's 2011 meeting is collocated with the IEEE Annals of the History of Computing editorial board meeting, as well as with several scholarly societies, and so we anticipate a particularly good turnout among the field's best known scholars. Despite our focus on institutional sustainability the SIGCIS team did launch several new projects. These fit with our philosophy of looking for simple, easy and low cost ways to strengthen the international scholarly community in history of computing. This year's breakout hit was the syllabus repository (http://www.sigcis.org/syllabi) It now holds around forty syllabi showcasing a broad range of approaches to teaching in the area. (Here's a new year resolution: if you have a new syllabus and are willing to share it please send a copy now to secretary(a)sigcis.org) Our team of international vice presidents added new resource guides for the history of computing in Britain (http://www.sigcis.org/britain) and Japan (http://www.sigcis.org/japan) We also added a new edition of Anne Fitzpatrick's Pioneers of Soviet Computing to the Member Contributions area (http://www.sigcis.org/contributions) Next year we will be looking for new ways to strengthen this part of the website. Another new initiative is currently unfolding. Behind the scenes we updated the site this year to use a current release of Drupal, fixing some glitches that had accumulated over the years. Our platform includes blogging and comment capabilities, and we have been experimenting with the best way to use it. Chris McDonald of Princeton and Marie Hicks of Duke have recently joined the SIGCIS executive committee (http://www.sigcis.org/node/6) and have taken special responsibility for this. Dag Spicer will also be blogging to keep us up to date with events at the Computer History Museum. You can see the latest from them at http://www.sigcis.org/blog. All SIGCIS members can login to post comments. If you would like your own blog on the site them please contact us. In the future we will be experimenting with ways to use blogs, wikis, and the email list together - for example by asking a question by email and then having answers accumulate on a blog page. Another good new year resolution: check your entry in our member directory at http://www.sigcis.org/members and make any updates needed by logging in at http://www.sigcis.org/user. Thanks to all of you who have contributed to SIGCIS over the past year, whether as email posters, organizers, donors, syllabus providers, bidders in the book auction, workshop attendees, or readers of our website and messages. If you have ideas on how to make 2011 another record breaking year for the SIG, or would like to get involved as a volunteer, then please get in touch. Happy holidays, Tom Haigh, SIGCIS chair www.tomandmaria.com/tom

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Program Highlights for SHOT/4S/HSS
by Thomas Haigh 03 Nov '11

03 Nov '11

Hello SIGCIS members, This year SHOT meets jointly with the History of Science Society and the Society for Social Studies of Science. That makes the 3 combined programs a daunting read – 4S alone has more than 1,000 participants. 4S got going with a plenary Wednesday night, and SHOT starts on Thursday evening. The first section below just lists the “official” SIGCIS events. This year we have two SIGCIS organized panels in the main conference, the SIG lunch on Friday, and a full day SIGCIS workshop with two plenary and four regular sessions on Sunday with a dinner afterwards. That’s followed by a much longer listing of events of interest to SIGCIS members in all three conferences. I’ve tried (although I will inevitably have missed some) to include all IT-related SHOT and HSS sessions. For 4S the primary focus is not history and the conference is enormous, meaning there are too many interesting panels on things like women and IT to include all those with no historical angle. However I tried to include a somewhat random selection of relevant non-historical panels there with an IT focus to give an idea of what’s going on there. Hope to see many of you there over the next couple of days. For those of you who can’t make it, I hope the material below whets your appetite for the exciting and diverse range of work going on within our community. Tom SIGCIS Sponsored Events: Friday, 4 November 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM SHOT: SIG on Computers, Information, and Society lunch - Erie Friday 2:00-3:30 SHOT 22. Geographies of Computing: Straddling the Divide Between the Global and the Local - Salon A Sponsored by the SIG on Computers, Information, and Society Organizers: Gerard Alberts and David Nofre (both University of Amsterdam) Chair & Commentator: Eden Medina (Indiana University) · Gerard Alberts (University of Amsterdam), David Nofre (University of Amsterdam), Mark Priestley · (University College London): From Local Practice to Common Knowledge: New Perspectives on the Emergence of Programming Languages, 1955-60 · Janet Toland (Victoria University of Wellington): Not All Links Are Equal: ICT Networks in New Zealand, 1985-2005 · Patryk Wasiak (Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung Potsdam): Hacking Across the Atlantic: HowYoung Hackers “Phreaked” Transatlantic Telephone Cables Saturday, 8:30-10:00 SHOT 28. Coded Narratives: Memory, Practice and Community in the History of Software - Salon F Sponsored by the SIG on Computers, Information, and Society Organizer: Thomas Haigh (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee) Chair: David Hemmendinger (Union College) Commentator: Thomas Haigh (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee) · Irina Nikiforova (Georgia Institute of Technology) [Robinson Prize Candidate]: ACM and Turing Prize Scientists: Defining the Art and Science of Computing, 1947-2008 · Hansen Hsu (Cornell University) [Robinson Prize Candidate]: NeXT History and Cocoa Community Memory · Joline Zepcevski (University of Minnesota) [Robinson Prize Candidate]: Complexity, Verification and the Rise of Object Oriented Programming ALL DAY SUNDAY SIGCIS WORKSHOP: CULTURES & COMMUNITIES IN THE HISTORY OF COMPUTING Salon B (includes both plenaries) Salon C 9:00-10:15 Opening Plenary: * "Designing and Using Cyberinfrastructure: Challenges and Opportunities for History" Keynote Address by <http://www.tc.umn.edu/%7Etmisa/> Thomas J. Misa, <http://www.cbi.umn.edu/> Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota 10:15-10:45 Coffee Break and Presentation of the Computer History Museum Award 10:45-12:15 Dissertations in Progress: Questions of Identity and Embodiment in Computing Communities Moderator: <http://www.iit.edu/csl/hum/faculty/hicks_marie.shtml> Marie Hicks, Illinois Institute of Technology * " <http://www.sigcis.org/workshop11/ellcessor> Disability Online: Policies, Practices, and Representations of the Embodied Use of New Media," <http://lizellcessor.org/> Elizabeth Ellcessor, University of Wisconsin-Madison * " <http://www.sigcis.org/workshop11/nikiforova> Careers and Achievements of the First Women Computer Scientists, 1960-1980," <http://www.prism.gatech.edu/%7Egtg939u/> Irina Nikiforova, Georgia Institute of Technology * <http://www.sigcis.org/node/291> "Dispatches from the Underground: Gendered Labour and Communications Technology in the remaking of London, 1870-1916," Katie Hindmarch-Watson, Johns Hopkins University (Short presentations of around 5 minutes each to introduce precirculated dissertation proposals, to be discussed by workshop participants) Paper Panel 1: Creating Culture through Materials and Methods Chair: <http://publichistorian.wordpress.com/> Suzanne Fischer, The Henry Ford Commentator: Alex Bochannek, <http://www.computerhistory.org/> Computer History Museum * " <http://www.sigcis.org/workshop11/kidwell> Preserving the Material Culture of Computing Communities," <http://americanhistory.si.edu/about/staff.cfm?key=12&staffkey=198> Peggy Kidwell, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution * " <http://www.sigcis.org/workshop11/november> Macromodules, Miniaturization, and the CPU's Brief Removal from the Black Box," <http://www.cas.sc.edu/hist/faculty/novemberJ.html> Joseph November, University of South Carolina * " <http://www.sigcis.org/workshop11/stachniak> Before the Web, there was the NABU Network," <http://www.cse.yorku.ca/%7Ezbigniew/> Zbigniew Stachniak, York University, Toronto (Three 20-minute presentations followed by a 10-15 minute comment and general discussion) 12:15-2:15 Lunch break (See program booklet for options) 2:15-3:45 Works in Progress: Why does the Study of How Communities are Formed Matter to the History of Computing? Moderator: <http://www.arussell.org/> Andrew Russell, Stevens Institute of Technology * " <http://www.sigcis.org/workshop11/subramanian> Murray Turoff and the Birth of Computer Mediated Comunications," <http://www.quinnipiac.edu/x1601.xml?School=BU&Dept=CS&Person=23345> Ramesh Subramanian, Quinnipiac University * " <http://www.sigcis.org/workshop11/toland_yoong> The Learning Region Restructured," <http://www.victoria.ac.nz/sim/staff/janet-toland.aspx> Janet Toland and <http://www.victoria.ac.nz/sim/staff/pak-yoong.aspx> Pak Yoong, Victoria University of Wellington * " <http://www.sigcis.org/workshop11/mounier_kuhn> From Universal Project to Sunken Culture: Algol in France," <http://www.sigcis.org/?q=node/52> Pierre Mounier-Kuhn, CNRS & Université Paris-Sorbonne (Short presentations of around 5 minutes each to introduce precirculated papers, to be discussed by workshop participants) Paper Panel 2: Insider and Outsider Communities in the History of Computing Chair: <http://sts.stanford.edu/slayton.html> Rebecca Slayton, Stanford University Commentator: Kevin Walsh, UC San Diego * " <http://www.sigcis.org/workshop11/mcgee> Big Red, White, and Blue: Communities of Policy and Computing in Mainframe-era Washington, DC," <http://www.virginia.edu/history/user/137> Andrew Meade McGee, University of Virgina * " <http://www.sigcis.org/workshop11/collopy> Computing, Video, and Radical Software," <http://hss.sas.upenn.edu/people/pcollopy> Peter Sachs Collopy, University of Pennsylvania * " <http://www.sigcis.org/workshop11/olley> Punched Card Table Libraries as a Communal Resource," <http://individual.utoronto.ca/fofound/ultima/whoSGD.html> Allan Olley, University of Toronto (Three 20-minute presentations followed by a 10-15 minute comment and general discussion) 3:45-4:05 Afternoon Coffee Break 4:05-5:30 Closing Plenary: Cultures & Communities in the History of Computing Moderator: <http://www.tc.umn.edu/%7Etmisa/> Tom Misa, <http://www.cbi.umn.edu/> Charles Babbage Institute * Alex Bochannek, <http://www.computerhistory.org/> Computer History Museum * <http://www.soic.indiana.edu/people/profiles/medina-eden.shtml> Eden Medina, Indiana University, Bloomington * <http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/people/person_details.php?PersonID=174> Nathan Ensmenger, University of Texas at Austin * <http://www.arussell.org/> Andrew Russell, Stevens Institute of Technology * <http://www.cbi.umn.edu/about/yost.html> Jeff Yost, Charles Babbage Institute (Short introductory statements from panelists of around 5 minutes each, to be followed by discussion between the panelists and audience of <http://www.sigcis.org/node/292> questions posed in advance by the panelists). Meet @6:15pm Walk from Marriott lobby to Strada restaurant. See program booklet for details. Other Relevant Items Note that the three conferences are in different hotels. 4S is in the Crowne Plaza, SHOT’s at the Marriott and HSS is at the Renaissance (appropriately enough). 4S 011. Mediating War after 1945 Thursday 8:30 to 10:00 am Crowne Plaza: Savoy Chair: Paul N. Edwards, University of Michigan Participants: · InfoWar 2.0: Mobilizing Surveillance via Interactivity. Marc Andrejevich, University of Iowa · Mediating the Enemy: Drone Networks as Technologies of Risk Management. Peter Asaro, New School University · Infrared, Or, the Algorithmic Production of Visual Knowledge. Carolyn Lee Kane, Hunter College, CUNY · Soviet Networks and the Collapse of the Cold War Digital Mindset. Benjamin Peters, University of Tulsa Discussants: Geoffrey Bowker, Santa Clara University Paul N. Edwards, University of Michigan 4S 040. Internet: Use, Appropriation and Control Thursday 10:30 to 12:00 pm Crowne Plaza: Newman Chair: Mikkel Flyverbom, Copenhagen Business School Participants: · Probing the Cloud: Rendering Publicly Visible Hidden Surveillance on the Internet Backbone. Andrew Clement, University of Toronto; Nancy Paterson, OCAD University; David J. Phillips, · University of Toronto Refracting the Self: Proana, Visual Culture and the Internet. · Stephanie Houston Grey, Louisiana State University From Online “Filter” to Web “Format”: Rethinking the Early Stabilization of the Blog. Ignacio Siles, Northwestern University · Testing Web Browser Compliance: Rhetorics of Standardization and Expertise. Nathan R. Johnson, University of Wisconsin‐‐Madison · Disclosure and Dialogue in the Internet Industry. Mikkel Flyverbom, Copenhagen Business School 4S 044. Skill, Labor and Identity in High‐Tech Occupations Thursday 10:30 to 12:00 pm Crowne Plaza: Boardroom Chair: Mary Ebeling, Drexel University Participants: · Born to Research: Recent Reassertions of Biological Bases for Scientific Talent. Amy E. Slaton, Drexel University · “Being Useful to Society”: Labor, Skills and Knowledge in Postindustrial Science. Mary Ebeling, Drexel University · Gender and Skill at the Dawn of Digital Computing. Janet Abbate, Virginia Tech · Gifted: Merit and Caste in the Making of Indian Technical Knowledge. Ajantha Subramanian, Duke University · Virtual Citizenship in the Global Age. Aneesh Aneesh, University of Wisconsin ‐ Milwaukee 4S 061. ICTs, Economics and Market Thursday 1:30 to 3:00 pm Crowne Plaza: Allen Chair: Isaac Quinn DuPont, University of Toronto Participants: · Our Knowledge Is Our Market: Commerciality and Materiality in Hackerspace and Hacklabs. Jeremy Hunsinger, Wilfrid Laurier University. · The Role of Gap‐analysis in the Procurement of Packaged Software. Alexander P. Kinney, Pennsylvania State University; Nicholas J Rowland, Pennsylvania State University · Media Publics: Modeling the Sociotechnical Network. Rachel O'Dwyer, Trinity College Dublin · Source Control: Competing and Complimentary Histories. Isaac Quinn DuPont, University of Toronto 4S 078. Latin America in the Global Cyberspace Thursday 3:30 to 5:00 pm Crowne Plaza: Van Sweringen Chair: Yuri V Takhteyev, University of Toronto Participants: · Future Tense: Information Work and Reform in Peru's “Innovation Classrooms." Anita Chan, University of Illinois · Free Software in Brazil: Politics and Practice. Yuri V Takhteyev, University of Toronto · The Charisma Machine: Discourses about OLPC from MIT to Paraguay. Morgan Ames, Stanford University · Orkut and Narratives about Violence in Rio de Janeiro. Dilton, Santos Maynard, Uinversidade Federal de Sergipe Friday: 8:30-10:00 SHOT 9. Superconductivity: From New Materials to New Devices - Salon A Organizer: Ann Johnson (University of South Carolina) Chair/Commentator: Trevor Pinch Cornell University · David Brock (Chemical Heritage Foundation): The Superconducting Cryotron, Materiality, and · Microcircuitry, 1954-64 · Cyrus Mody (Rice University): The Josephson Junction at IBM, 1968-83 · Ann Johnson (University of South Carolina): Superconductivity in the Field: Ford and the SQUID HSS: Friday, 9:00-11:45 New Views of the Antikythera Mechanism: A Geared Astronomical Computing Machine from the Second Century BCE Humphrey (3rd Floor) Chair: James Voelkel, Othmer Library of Chemical History 1. Albert Rehm and the Antikythera Mechanism, Alexander Jones, New York University 2. Ancient Greek Luni-Solar Calendars, John D. Morgan, University of Delaware 3. A Clockwork Bronze: The Calendar and ‘Olympiad Dial’ on the Antikythera Mechanism, Paul A. Iversen, Case Western Reserve University 4. The Planetary Extension for the Antikythera Mechanism: Statistics, Analysis and Reconstruction, Niels Bos, Kapteyn Astronomical Institute 5. Greek or Babylonian Solar Theory on the Antikythera Mechanism? *James Evans, University of Puget Sound 4S 101. Using ICTs Friday 8:30 to 10:00 am Crowne Plaza: Hanna Chair: Stephanie B Gokhman, University of Washington Participants: · Reliable Records and the Production of Scientific Credibility. Kathleen Fear, University of Michigan · Cybernetics as Apparatus and Assemblage. Alasdair McMillan, York University · Dimensions of Power: The Case within the Scientific Laboratory. Andrea Deyanira Beattie, Texas A&M International University; Marcus Ynalvez, Texas A&M International University · Marking Territory: Exerting Control over the Shape of Scientific Knowledge in Wikipedia. Stephanie B Gokhman, University of Washington; Jonathan Morgan, University of Washington; Behzod Sirjani, University 4S 109. The Fiction in the Science: The Intersection of Fiction and STS Friday 8:30 to 10:00 am Crowne Plaza: Boardroom Chair: David L Ferro, Weber State Univerity Participants: · Around the Techno‐scientist's Campfire: Science Fiction and the Undergraduate Engineer. David L Ferro, Weber State Univerity · Forensic Fictions: Science, Storytelling and Media Production. David Kirby, University of Manchester · Sex and Nobility: Fictional Love, Imagined Technology, and the Real Engineer. Joseph Pitt, Virginia Tech · Weird Tales to Weird Life: The Scientific Realization of Fictional Lifeforms. David Toomey, University of Massachusetts · Design Fiction: From Props To Prototypes. Julian Bleecker, Near Future Laboratory Discussant: Paul E. Ceruzzi, National Air & Space Museum Friday 10:30-12:30 SHOT 13. Controlling Territories, Crossing Boundaries: Information and Communication Technologies Between Authoritarianism and Democracy – Salon E Organizer: Léonard Laborie (CNRS) Chair/Commentator: Pascal Griset (Paris-Sorbonne University) · Paul Edwards (University of Michigan): Translating Science into Politics? Computer Models From Limits to Growth to Nuclear Winter · Léonard Laborie (CNRS): “Users who Wanted to Matter: The French Association of Telecommunication Users and the Democratization of (the Telephone in) France, 1969-75” · Simone Müller-Pohl (Freie Universitat): As Easy as Speech and as Free as Air: Henniker Heaton's Attempts at Democratizing Global Communication, 1883-1914 · Larissa Zakharova (EHESS): Communication Technologies Serving Authoritarianism? Mail, Telegraph and Telephone as Tools of Governing in the USSR (1922-64) Friday, 4 November 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM SHOT: SIG on Computers, Information, and Society lunch - Erie Friday 2:00-3:30 SHOT 22. Geographies of Computing: Straddling the Divide Between the Global and the Local - Salon A Sponsored by the SIG on Computers, Information, and Society Organizers: Gerard Alberts and David Nofre (both University of Amsterdam) Chair & Commentator: Eden Medina (Indiana University) · Gerard Alberts (University of Amsterdam), David Nofre (University of Amsterdam), Mark Priestley (University College London): >From Local Practice to Common Knowledge: New Perspectives on the Emergence of Programming Languages, 1955-60 · Janet Toland (Victoria University of Wellington): Not All Links Are Equal: ICT Networks in New Zealand, 1985-2005 · Patryk Wasiak (Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung Potsdam): Hacking Across the Atlantic: How Young Hackers “Phreaked” Transatlantic Telephone Cables The Long 1960s: Between Science and Counterculture HSS Friday, 1:30-3:30 Blossom (4th Floor) Chair: Marilyn Gaull, Boston University 1. A Search for Perspective: Project OZMA and the Drake Equation, Sierra Smith, James Madison University 2. Time, Physics, and Philosophy: The Discovery of CP Violation, Lisa Crystal, Harvard University 3. Popular Cybernetics and the Human Sciences in the Counterculture, Peter Sachs Collopy, University of Pennsylvania 4. The New Alchemy Institute: A Countercultural Alternative to Big Science, 1969-1980, Henry Trim, University of British Columbia 4S 143. The Dynamics and Consequences of ICTs Friday 1:30 to 3:00 pm Crowne Plaza: Hope Chair: Carmen James Schifellite, Ryerson University Participants: · The Rationalities Behind the Adoption of Cyberinfrastructure as Organizational Practices, Technical Infrastructures and Social Norms. Kerk F Kee, Chapman University; Larry D. Browning, Univ of Texas, Austin · Stabilizing Surveillance in Cloud Computing: Google's and Apple's OS's as Obligatory Passage Points. David J. Phillips, University of Toronto; Michael Murphy, U Toronto; Karen Pollock, U Toronto · Globalization with a Social Conscience? The World Wide Web Foundation through the Lens of ICT4D. Michael Dick, University of Toronto · Producing “Cocoa” Programmers at the “Big Nerd Ranch”. Hansen Hsu, Cornell University · The Impact of the World Wide Web on Normal and Revolutionary Science. Carmen James Schifellite, Ryerson University Saturday, 8:30-10:00 SHOT 28. Coded Narratives: Memory, Practice and Community in the History of Software - Salon F Sponsored by the SIG on Computers, Information, and Society Organizer: Thomas Haigh (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee) Chair: David Hemmendinger (Union College) Commentator: Thomas Haigh (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee) · Irina Nikiforova (Georgia Institute of Technology) [Robinson Prize Candidate]: ACM and Turing Prize Scientists: Defining the Art and Science of Computing, 1947-2008 · Hansen Hsu (Cornell University) [Robinson Prize Candidate]: NeXT History and Cocoa Community Memory · Joline Zepcevski (University of Minnesota) [Robinson Prize Candidate]: Complexity, · Verification and the Rise of Object Oriented Programming Saturday 10:30-12:30 SHOT 37. The Tao of Innovation - Salon G Chair & Commentator: David Hounshell (Carnegie Mellon University) · Augustin Cerveaux (University of Strasbourg): The Shift to Titanium Pigments at Du Pont – a study of “materials ontology” (1927-36) · Benjamin Gross (Princeton University): Computer Research and the Development of Flat-Panel Displays at RCA · John Laudun (University of Louisiana at Lafayette) [Robinson Prize Candidate]: The Invention of a Traditional Amphibious Boat: A History of the Crawfish Boat · Katherine Dykes (MIT): NASA and the MOD Wind Turbine Development Program: Important · Contribution or Colossal Failure? 4S 183. The Physicality of the Virtual Saturday 10:30 to 12:00 pm Crowne Plaza: Hanna Chair: Matt Burton, University of Michigan Participants: · "The Internet Is Here": The Virtuality of Online Communities in Physical Spaces. R. Stuart Geiger, UC‐Berkeley · The Multiplexing of Multi‐space: Attention, Spatiality and Protest in Online Social Networks. Morgan Daniels, University of Michigan · Crowd Theory From the Street to the Screen. Finn Brunton, University of Michigan · Embodying the Free Encyclopedia: Wikipedia’s Materiality in Myth and Practice. Andrew Famiglietti, Georgia Institute of Technology · Virtual Place Attachment and the Physical Place. Raz Schwartz, Bar Ilan University Saturday, 12:30-2:00 SHOT: How to Give an Effective Academic Talk, Paul Edwards (University of Michigan) - Superior HSS Saturday, 12:00-1:15 A conversation with Fred Kronz of theNational Science FoundationHumphrey (3rd Floor) Come hear Dr. Kronz discuss in an informal setting the recent changes at the NSF, including the new data-management plans. 4S 194. STS Funding Opportunities at the National Science Foundation Saturday 12:15 to 1:15 pm Crowne Plaza: Owens Chair: Kelly Moore, National Science Foundation Saturday 2:00-3:30 SHOT 46. Expert Communities - Salon G Chair & Commentator: Ron Kline (Cornell University) · Erinn McComb (Mississippi State University): "It's Hip to Be Square": Individual Control, Masculinity, and Engineers within NASA, 1958-72 · Kevin Walsh (University of California San Diego) [Robinson Prize Candidate]: The Sons of Manhattan and the Winning of Supercomputer Access – The Tipping Point of National Security Decision Directive 189 · Søsser Brodersen, Ulrik Jørgensen, Andrés Valderrama (Technical University of Denmark): Environmental Engineering in Denmark · Lars Heide (University of Pennsylvania and Copenhagen Business School): Association for Computing Machinery as an Institutional Intermediary Between the Innovators, Producers, and Users in Shaping Mainframe Computers 4S 221. Narratives of Place in Communities of Exposure and Disaster Saturday 3:30 to 5:00 pm Crowne Plaza: Dolder Chair: Jody A Roberts, Chemical Heritage Foundation Participants: · Narratives of Toxics Mitigation at the IBM‐Endicott Site. Peter Little, Oregon State University Between Philly, Ambler and a Hard Place: Grids, Flows and Competing Place Narratives in Toxic Remediation. Raoul Lievanos, UC Davis; Jody A Roberts, Chemical Heritage Foundation · Cornucopia, Dystopia, Home: Placing Environmental Justice in California’s San Joaquin Valley. Jonathan K London, UC Davis · Not If, but When: Disaster Preparedness as Both Imagined and Situated Response. Natalie Danielle Baker, University of California, Irvine · After the Storm: Rebuilding a Sustainable Community. Heather Marsh, University of Maryland Saturday 9-Midnight 9-12 Midnight Hospitality Suite, sponsored by the History and Sociology of Science Department, University of Pennsylvania, Salons F and G SUNDAY: ALL DAY SUNDAY SIGCIS WORKSHOP – SEE ABOVE!!

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