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NSA releases 1982 Grace Hopper lecture
by Eileen Buckholtz 26 Aug '24

26 Aug '24

NSA just released the 1982 Grace Hopper lecture. https://www.nsa.gov/Press-Room/Press-Releases-Statements/Press-Release-View… eCheers, Eileen -- Eileen Buckholtz Queens of Code <https://www.facebook.com/queensofcode> Inspiring True Stories from NSA's Computing Women MIT Press, April 2025 https://www.queensofcode.com https://www.facebook.com/queensofcode

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1982 NSA Grace Hopper lecture - a challenge in accessing?
by Jonathan Coopersmith 26 Aug '24

26 Aug '24

https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2024/jul/10/grace-hopper-lost-lectur… Where's MacGyver when really needed? Stay sane, Jonathan Jonathan Coopersmith Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science Professor Emeritus Department of History Texas A&M University College Station, TX 77843-4236 979.739.4708 (cell) David Thompson, "Commercial Space Trailblazer, <https://aerospaceamerica.aiaa.org/departments/commercial-space-trailblazer/> " *Aerospace America* June 2024 "Technological obsolescence, <https://www.nationalacademies.org/news/2023/05/technological-obsolescence>" National Academy of Engineering *Perspectives* May 23, 2023 Preserving space archives: https://www.toboldlypreserve.space/

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Fwd: Old SI Publications
by JC tamu 22 Aug '24

22 Aug '24

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ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories: Editorial Assistant Needed
by Laine Nooney 21 Aug '24

21 Aug '24

*ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories* is currently seeking an Editorial Assistant. The Editorial Assistant will work closely with the Managing Editor to execute all elements of the journal’s editorial process in a timely and professional manner. Estimated workload is 5-8 hours per month, with the higher volume occurring during our publication schedule (June/July and November/December). This is an unpaid, volunteer-based service role intended for a professional academic. As this is an unpaid role, a PhD in a related field and secured employment is preferred. Job responsibilities include assisting the Managing Editor with the following tasks: - handling general correspondence with authors and reviewers - sending copy out for peer review and following up on reviewer timelines - processing copy through ROMchip’s online submission system, and between authors and our freelance copy editor - formatting copy for online publication - drafting our biannual newsletter/issue announcements - drafting social media posts based on provided templates - attending monthly Editorial Group meetings and updating the agenda - additional editorial tasks deemed appropriate by the Managing Editor *Submission Guidelines* Please send your application to Henry Lowood [lowood(a)stanford.edu] as a single PDF with 3 sections: 1. A letter of intent outlining your interest and relevant experience (1 pg max) 2. CV 3. Name, affiliation, and email for two references Material due by September 30, with interviews to follow in mid-late October. Anticipated start by late November/early December 2024; 6 month trial period to start. -- Laine Nooney <http://www.lainenooney.com/> Associate Professor | MCC <http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/mcc/> @ NYU <http://www.nyu.edu/> | they/them Managing Editor | ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories <https://romchip.org/index.php/romchip-journal> | Join our Newsletter <http://eepurl.com/crCul1> -Need to make an appt? Click, don't email: https://calendar.app.google/V9ZuMRWEKnnUBdQ56 -Probably typed by voice recognition, so please cherish typos

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New Book: Oral history of Gamergate’s aftermath — out today
by David Wolinsky 13 Aug '24

13 Aug '24

Hello all, I’m a former Onion and NBC editor turned documentary researcher, oral historian, and now author. While I’m not an academic, Stanford has recognized the significance of my independent oral history work on Gamergate, which has officially become a book as of today: The Hivemind Swarmed <https://www.beacon.org/The-Hivemind-Swarmed-P2122.aspx>. For the past 10 years, ever since Gamergate began, I’ve been on an odyssey to make sense of it by interviewing everyone humanly possible — a quest I’ve pursued whenever my schedule as a scraping-by freelancer would allow. I’ve conducted over 500 interviews, bringing together a group of interdisciplinary narrators from all over the world. Most of these interviews have been made available online as time allowed (this project has been only me) at Don’t Die <https://nodontdie.com/>. Stanford houses everything <https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/13768655> I haven’t been able to find time to transcribe, polish, etc. from the last decade. THE HIVEMIND SWARMED, an oral history exploring Gamergate’s aftermath, examines where we are today as a result, and what has (or hasn’t) changed in videogame industry and culture. It represents stories from 90 additional narrators, and where they think the whole debacle got us. I believe this book could serve as a valuable resource for scholarship or classroom instruction, offering a comprehensive and diverse perspective on a pivotal moment in digital culture. If you need a quick refresher on Gamergate, The Week <https://theweek.com/culture-life/what-was-gamergate-and-why-are-we-still-ta…> just ran a good overview of why it still matters, and Wired <https://www.wired.com/story/gamergates-legacy-lives-on-in-attacks-against-k…> has a pretty timely update on how what it set in motion continues to live on. Sincerely, I hope my book helps people. And just wanted to make you all aware! https://www.beacon.org/The-Hivemind-Swarmed-P2122.aspx ///// “Out of the transient and ephemeral effluvia of the internet comes something ivied, revelatory, permanent. Bravo.” —Ken Burns, filmmaker Description: *An incisive oral history that brings together the voices of major figures in gaming, tech, media, and politics to reflect on the long shadow of Gamergate* With *The Hivemind Swarmed*, oral historian and documentary researcher David Wolinsky invites readers to sit in on a series of urgent, intimate conversations between some of the most distinguished voices across entertainment industries and media as they reflect on the longstanding impact of Gamergate. What went wrong, and what can we learn from Gamergate to help us build a more equitable online world? The backstory: 10 years ago, a disgruntled software developer named Eron Gjoni posted online to accuse his ex-girlfriend, game developer Zoë Quinn, of sleeping with game critics in exchange for positive reviews. He offered no evidence to back up his claims. However, his posts were picked up by extremists in the gaming community who built a vicious online movement targeting women, minorities, and progressive voices. Rallying under the hashtag #gamergate, they sent their victims round-the-clock death and rape threats. Game companies, for the most part, declined to take action as their female employees were harassed out of their jobs. The FBI launched an investigation but found “no true threat.” Gamergate holds the grim distinction of being the first modern online harassment campaign. It arguably served as a model for the alt-right movement that would help propel Donald Trump to the White House. And it highlighted a toxic media culture—not just in gaming, but in film, TV, journalism, and more—in which leaders, through their passivity, took the side of the oppressor. Now, 10 years later—in the wake of #MeToo, Charlottesville, the Trump years, and the January 6 insurrection—the questions discussed here are more important than ever.

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The fake chess-playing automaton/the mysterious Peruvian abacus
by herbert.bruderer＠bluewin.ch 08 Aug '24

08 Aug '24

Dear all: To this day, it is unknown how the Inka calculated with their mysterious abacus, the Yupana. Perhaps of interest to you: Bruderer, H. (2024). How did the Inka Calculate? The Yupana, a Mysterious Peruvian Abacus. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13174318 https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.13174317 Bruderer, H. (2024). Yupana, ein rätselhafter peruanischer Abakus. Wie haben die Inka gerechnet? Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13175212 https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.13175211 And: The fake chess-playing automaton: Technical Marvels, Part 5: Chess Automatons – Communications of the ACM Chess robots, from a fake automaton to a world champion-defeating program. Best wishes, Herbert Bruderer -- Bruderer Informatik Seehaldenstrasse 26 Postfach 47 CH-9401 Rorschach Switzerland Telefon +41 71 855 77 11

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New book: Neural Networks (Dhaliwal, Lepage-Richer & Suchman)
by Lepage-Richer, Theo 04 Aug '24

04 Aug '24

Hello all, Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal, Lucy Suchman, and myself recently published a book titled *Neural Networks <https://meson.press/books/neural-networks/> *(UMinnesota Press/meson press), which is now in open access! It offers a critical examination of the figure of the neural network as it mediates neuroscientific and computational discourses and technical practices, and could thus (I hope!) be of interest to some of you. Merci, T. -- Théo Lepage-Richer, PhD SSHRC/FRQ-SC Postdoctoral Fellow Institute of Communication, Culture, Information and Technology University of Toronto

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book on modular synthesis
by Ezra J Teboul 04 Aug '24

04 Aug '24

Hello SIGCIS members, a few months ago we published the first english language academic collection on modular synthesis. It includes chapters with musicologists, engineers, artists, musicians, historians and cultural scholars. As the overall perspective of the book focuses on the cultural role of computing, information and electronic technologies in artistic communities, I thought it may be of interest to you and/or your students: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/10.4324/9781003219484/modular-synt… If anyone has questions about it or is interested in reviewing the collection, please feel free to reach out. With my best, Ezra J. Teboul, ph.d. Postdoctoral fellow, Carleton University / Ingenium Museums, Hugh Le Caine project

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New book from a new member
by Ira H. Chinoy 29 Jul '24

29 Jul '24

Hi, all … Although I have followed this list for years, I am now a new member and wanted to alert you to my new book: Predicting the Winner: The Untold Story of Election Night 1952 and the Dawn of Computer Forecasting. The book is both an account of what the title describes - including historical context, what followed, and a thought experiment about the way forward from the chaos on and after election night 2020 - plus what I’ve called the story of the story, an account of the treasure hunt that ranged all across the country for the primary source materials I needed to create this book. There are more details on Amazon, of course - about me and the book - at https://a.co/d/cBHrvhp I have also engaged in a variety of activities to spread the word since the book has been written for a general audience: — most recently I gave a talk at the Computer History Museum: https://youtu.be/eCw2_qFSNmo — I was the guest on a Politico Tech podcast: https://go.umd.edu/PoliticoPodcast — I was interviewed for a story about the book on a PBS website: https://www.nextavenue.org/predicting-the-president/ — I wrote an op-ed for the Dallas Morning News: https://go.umd.edu/DallasOpEdpdf - And I gave the keynote address for the Joint Journalism and Communication History Conference: https://ajha.wildapricot.org/https/ajha.wildapricot.org/page-18265/ The book built on a PhD dissertation that won the annual media history dissertation award from the American Journalism Historians Association. Apologies for all the self promotion here. Since I am not known to those on this list - and since I come from the world of journalism rather than the world of computing (though in an earlier life I was director of data journalism at the Washington Post), I thought these details might be needed to attract your interest. There is even a blurb for this book by a notable member of this group, Paul Ceruzzi, who was helpful to me early on in my research. Thanks for your time, Ira Chinoy, PhD Associate Professor Emeritus Philip Merrill College of Journalism University of Maryland https://merrill.umd.edu/directory/ira-chinoy ichinoy(a)umd.edu

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New books announcement!
by Meg Leta Jones 26 Jul '24

26 Jul '24

Happy summer friends! I've got two new books that I'm very happy to share with this community, which has been important to the development of both: *The Character of Consent: The History of Cookies and Future of Technology Policy <https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262547949/the-character-of-consent/>* from MIT Press tells the history of digital consent through the lens of the familiar cookie. *Feminist Cyberlaw <https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520388543/feminist-cyberlaw> *from University of California Press is an edited volume exploring how gender, race, sexuality, disability + class shape cyberspace and the laws that govern it. Please consider taking a look as you dust off those syllabi or cram in a bit more poolside reading. Meg ----- Meg Leta Jones, J.D., Ph.D. Provost's Distinguished Associate Professor Communication, Culture & Technology <https://cct.georgetown.edu/> Center for Digital Ethics <https://digitalethics.georgetown.edu/> Founding Faculty Ethics Lab <https://ethicslab.georgetown.edu/> Faculty Fellow Science, Technology, & International Affairs <https://sfs.georgetown.edu/academics/undergraduate/majors/stia/> Core Faculty Institute for Technology Law & Policy <https://www.law.georgetown.edu/tech-institute/> Faculty Advisor Georgetown University Meg.Jones(a)Georgetown.edu MegLeta.com <http://megleta.com/> <http://megleta.com/books>

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